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by trjordan 12y ago
It's not always about simple existence. I suspect they thought they could get away with doing something that's totally different -- but the reaction they saw way that their users wouldn't see it that way. They knew it existed
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I'm going to go out on a limb and guess freelancing on CyberCoder.
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I'm sure there are exceptions, and one of the big gotchas with all of this is that employers do all in their power to figure out what's a "reasonable" increase and not pay huge raises. If you're paid at a certain le
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I don't think it works that way. Workers aren't paid by the value they create to the company. That sets a ceiling, but the floor is set by the competitive market. How little can you pay somebody to take that job and do the work yo
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My favorite question: "Is the date slipping, or has it slipped?" What you really need to do is help the person setting the deadlines plan. There are things they're doing that are synchronized with finishing the project, and t
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So, I didn't downvote you, and I work at AppNeta. In fact, I spent a lot of time arguing for us to switch from a per-request pricing model to a per-host model. Reasons we did it: 1) Per-request is unpredictable. Paying 2x because you g
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"I will call you in the next 30 minutes or do you want to do this over email?" It certainly asks for time in the next 30 minutes, but you're free to do it async on a longer timeline.
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Yes, 100%. 10,000 hours does not mean you will be world class. 10,000 hours does not even mean you will be excellent. If you are world class, you almost certainly have put in your 10,000 hours. Not the other way around.
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It's not perfect, but what's a better way? There's a million people who could use this $100k to mine bitcoins, run personal servers, do scientific calculations, or more. Google isn't interested in those people: they want
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Crazy. There's all sorts of strange things that can go wrong over the wire, especially if you're operating at the wrong level of abstraction. http://www.appneta.com/blog/video-conferencing-analytics/
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I think the article exactly agrees with you. If you think that going on holiday will make things easier at work, you're probably wrong. Work is work, and taking a break from it doesn't make it not work. More importantly, if you ta
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MVC in a Reactive World(computationallyendowed.com)
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"Lew Cirne" anagrams to "New Relic". "Future Stack" anagrams to "Astute Fucker". I think the folks at New Relic just have a thing for anagrams.
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I think it's important to think of Pythonic as something that's subjective and evolving. The C examples given are idiomatic in C. The reason they're idiomatic is because they fit with a mental model that most of the C communi
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The claim from Verizon that still stands after this blog post is the fairness argument to peering. If you peer between symmetric networks, it's typically free. That's not the case here, so Verizon wants to be paid for the asymmetr
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Except, they're not laying off most of the staff. This email is, with 85% confidence, going to staff members who will not be fired. This is a notification that it's happening, that you're not going to be affected, and that th
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by trjordan 12y ago
8fit is currently erroring out for me, but you don't need a gym to get where you want to get. Not all non-gym bodyweight routines will work, but there are a few that use progressive overload and changing leverages to keep things "
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Marketing Must Build a Product(mumbledrantings.blogspot.com)
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Sure, in the short term. I generally find that understanding the system (or building abstractions that cover the complex system in sensible ways), you find ways to solve problems more elegantly. Put another way, in building an app, I always
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I used to write a bunch of ExtJS. The whole abstraction bothered me so much that I wrote a whole post about it. http://mumbledrantings.blogspot.com/2010/04/reaching-utopia-... The tl;dr version is that it's s
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I'd re-write these slightly: 1. Know your users. If you understand what they want, you can provide value or fun, and they'll both be well-recieved. 2. Know the problem you're solving. Starbucks was solving the problem of crea
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Nice, got it!
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High-level, I think that's a great message. Having moved out of engineering and into marketing, I like tools that don't force me to code. There's a pretty good correlation between "doesn't require a dev" and &q
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How to Easily Capture TCP Conversation Streams(appneta.com)
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Sass is a CSS extension language that helps remove redundancy and make CSS easier to work with. http://sass-lang.com/
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Well ... kind of. "'My own research suggests that first offers should be quite aggressive but not absurdly so', Galinsky says." Make the first offer, but only if you're pretty sure you know at least as much as the o
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Cool stuff! We actually use a similar setup [1], but with the additional hassle of figuring out how to handle hardware connections back to the app. Docker + Jenkins has definitely been a big win. [1] http://www.appneta.com/b
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Automated Testing of Hardware Appliances with Docker(appneta.com)
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In my experience, knowing tech in a tech world is useful. Knowing tech in a non-tech world is a burden, because it implies a focus on something that doesn't matter. I was a developer for the first 4 years of my career, but I've sp
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Profiling Python Using lineprof, statprof, and cProfile(appneta.com)
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