tomg

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by tomg 6y ago
No one is forcing anyone else to be a landlord.
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by tomg 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2600:_The_Hacker_Quarterly
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by tomg 6y ago
I'm one of those people who live
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by tomg 6y ago
As someone considering leaving the web development industry after 12 years: JavaScript is a never ending grind. Callbacks, then Bluebird, then Promises, then a sync await. a new testing framework every six months. a new web framework every
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by tomg 7y ago
SEEKING WORK - NYC or Remote Full Stack Web Developer - Jack of all Trades 12 Years of Experience. Have worked with major brands (ebay, MLB, Red Bull, Playboy) and architected systems for startups. Portfolio / work history: https:&#x
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by tomg 7y ago
I believe HN will remain as it is, thanks to the behind-the-scenes work of the moderators. https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/th... https://drewdevault.com/2017/09/
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by tomg 10y ago
> A few weeks ago I was contacted by a recruiter from a fairly high-profile San Francisco-based startup — if I was interested in joining their team. Sure! Great! Could you please solve this algorithmic puzzle within half an hour? I faile
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by tomg 10y ago
Joining a Board Game Group or getting together with your own friends (and not just playing the same few games over and over) checks off many of these boxes and is a lot of fun!
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by tomg 10y ago
LIMIT / OFFSET should be avoided from day one for a realtime app. It's not too difficult to build a future proof solution, and in my experience you run into problems rather quickly if you're building a realtime system (user g
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by tomg 10y ago
> And today, I basically see the tech giants as colossal enemies. I think it's important to note that in-house voice recognition is simply the Nth iteration of a general trend away from privacy that has been going on for many many y
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by tomg 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_artificial_intellig...
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by tomg 11y ago
Security through obscurity is no security at all!
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by tomg 11y ago
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/buy-rent-calc...
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by tomg 11y ago
> After you sign something, it's not important if it's reasonable or not: you have to uphold it. This is simply not true. Trivial examples include a contract without consideration, or an apartment lease with clauses that attem
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by tomg 11y ago
The PA does not work for you, it works for FB. It has only FB's interest's in mind. You are not it's employer as you do not pay for it. It's not in FB's interest to make honest recommendations. If Bob's Burg
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by tomg 11y ago
Have an ad network buy products on my behalf? No thanks.
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by tomg 11y ago
"According to federal guidelines, the visas are intended for foreigners with advanced science or computer skills to fill discrete positions when American workers with those skills cannot be found ."
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by tomg 12y ago
For the web: https://readability.com/
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by tomg 13y ago
It's important in the context of your comment to remember that Mozilla Corporation is owned by the Mozilla Foundation, a 501(c)(3) with a political mission of extending an open internet. The Mozilla Foundation accepts donations and in
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by tomg 13y ago
Heh, yeah I mean people do get locked out though sometimes... gotta do the neighborly thing. Calling the LL / Calling the cops are a bit more of a nuclear option that I'm looking for; I just want to find out who's doing it so
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by tomg 13y ago
Someone's renting their place out on airbnb or similar in my building (in NYC) and it kinda sucks. Most people are just rude but otherwise uneventful, but some are noisy, some smoke outside my window, some can't figure out how tr
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by tomg 13y ago
lobste.rs seems like a good alternative, but you need a referral from a member to get in. Still worth browsing in read-only mode but it lacks any real discussions. [The sum of the comment count for all front-page articles on there is 15, t
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by tomg 13y ago
If you're at all familiar with the command line / Linux, then VPS could be an easy way to go if you don't expect a lot of traffic. Nginx is easy to configure for this kind of thing: http://stackoverflow.com/a
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by tomg 13y ago
I'm surprised the author isn't putting ads on the free version.
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by tomg 13y ago
Even a suspected terrorist deserves a trial. If they are guilty, if they are a terrorist, then they will be given the punishment they are due. The problem with deciding that suspected terrorists don't deserve the same rights is that t
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by tomg 14y ago
Thanks!
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by tomg 14y ago
I didn't see it in the chapter list, so probably not, but is there anything in your book about writing (good) tests?
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by tomg 14y ago
You can get rid of a huge amount of password-related frustration by using a good password manager (not the rinky-dink ones that browsers come built in with). I've been very satisfied with 1Password and I can't imagine going back to not usin
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The Social Network of One(onesocialnetwork.heroku.com)
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by tomg 14y ago
If anyone's wondering what the JS code in the .zip does: http://jsfiddle.net/N9TNy/

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