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by tomlagier 5y ago
I really liked the first book and parts of the 2nd and 3rd, but man the 3rd book really threw me off the series. Just a really unsatisfying way to land a trilogy - all of the stress and torment that Fitz had gone through for a couple of tho
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The easiest way to integrate React with Wordpress(medium.com)
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by tomlagier 5y ago
Advertise. * Tap your network. Post on social, bug old coworkers, ask friends and family. Know what skills you are selling and at what price. * Build your brand. Create a website, LinkedIn, and social media accounts. Start blogging or posti
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by tomlagier 5y ago
> * if you want to buy a home, talk to a mortgage lender while still employed and see what the options are for self employed folks. When I last checked (years ago) you needed to have two years of self employment income to qualify for a
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by tomlagier 5y ago
Hmm, I'm doing this now & it's been a lot more of an informal process than the top comment. I'm still working with mostly startups who need extra bandwidth on their MVP. The reason I started is for the flexibility. I&#x27
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by tomlagier 5y ago
Obligatory: Not every company is in "that category" (hyperscale startups trying to churn out their MVP). Some places where clean code really matters: - The personal project where, if you can't figure out how you did something
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by tomlagier 6y ago
What is? I see quotes used this way in written communication fairly commonly.
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by tomlagier 6y ago
Oof. The number of 4b's I've had to deal with in my career... What are some techniques to use when you see this happening? I frequently try to get stakeholders to simplify and really identify the core problem / proposed solut
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by tomlagier 6y ago
> Many people believe it to be the future global reserve currency. Whether you agree with that or not, there's a non-zero probability of that becoming true. Mayyyybe. I don't think that's why most people are buying it, tho
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by tomlagier 6y ago
Isn't that true of any asset? Why is BTC better than, say, a bunch of emeralds?
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by tomlagier 6y ago
Here's mine: it doesn't seem socially useful if everyone holds a small amount of bitcoin and does nothing with it, particularly if all of those holdings are centralized on a small number of exchanges. I have no idea whether that i
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by tomlagier 6y ago
Honest question - does there need to be a value-based case for trading something? Does the SEC have a mandate for stopping purely speculative trades?
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by tomlagier 6y ago
The real bummer about this write-off is that it's binary based on the usage of the space - if you use it for _any_ non-business activities, you are unable to write it off. Compare to assets, where you write off the portion that you use
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by tomlagier 6y ago
This is a very good summary of the state of the front end.
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by tomlagier 6y ago
I think a trap that many software engineers fall into is interpreting "loose coupling" as "build things as far down the binding hierarchy as possible". You see this under various guises in the web world - "event-dri
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by tomlagier 6y ago
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by tomlagier 6y ago
This is a bit of confirmation bias, I think - successful newsletters have enough reputation that the reputation loss from low open rate or higher spam flag rate is offset. Newer newsletters don't have that reputation, so they are more
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by tomlagier 6y ago
Eh, beg to differ. There is certainly domain knowledge to be had, but the underlying principles behind any particular layer of the stack tend to be more similar than different across languages and frameworks. Everyone needs a database, auth
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by tomlagier 6y ago
> Bitcoin isn't digital cash This made me laugh. It's true, but the name literally means "digital cash".
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by tomlagier 6y ago
Doesn't that seem like a tautology? I think the metric needs to be "bugs per feature" rather than "bugs per release" - it seems obvious that more changes will be buggier than fewer changes.
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by tomlagier 6y ago
My last 3 consulting gigs have all had the same general issue - they went with the "quick to start up", scalable solutions and immediately smacked into a brick wall of complexity. These are 1 to 3 person eng teams that started wit
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by tomlagier 6y ago
> Would you trust your health information to a doctor with previous history of kickbacks, malpractice, lax HIPAA compliance? It's entirely possible that you do. An enlightening This American Life episode dives in to who gets to keep
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by tomlagier 6y ago
Was this effect achievable with Flash?
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by tomlagier 6y ago
Isn't this a problem with all voting? Even if you do it in a secluded booth, you could just take a picture with a discrete camera.
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by tomlagier 6y ago
Location: San Luis Obispo Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: React, Node, Rust, Java, Postgres. Focus on full-stack web applications. Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomlagier/ and http
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by tomlagier 6y ago
Article took quite a while to get to the point - TL;DR is a series of bulldozers, backhoes, and large rotary snowplows.
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by tomlagier 6y ago
I think it just depends on the number of subreddits. If 7,000 is 1% of subs, then it seems like a good investment. If it's 30%, then yeah, that's.. not great.
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by tomlagier 6y ago
My wife and I did this. We quit our jobs to travel for a year, got 6 weeks in before it was clear COVID wasn't going anywhere and we needed to return. We came back and decided that since we had a nice travel fund and no jobs we should
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by tomlagier 6y ago
Rural California is just as conservative as rural anywhere else. Vermont is the only state I can think of, maybe parts of Maine.
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by tomlagier 6y ago
Totally agree. I spent a lot longer (months!) on a very challenging real-world side-project, hoping that would be the ticket to a job. At the end of the day, it was the ~40-60 hours I put into Cracking the Code Interview that got me the FAA

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