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by ubertaco 7y ago
Consider the scaling factor for salaries; My salary is on the high end in my area, but would be on the low end of a living wage in the Bay Area. My salary is in the neighborhood of 120k; I'm a senior-level engineer with almost a decade
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by ubertaco 8y ago
Why in the world was Flipkart regexing for an "X is undefined" message? That seems as brittle as possible.
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by ubertaco 8y ago
This is really neat! I'm a big fan of Crystal-lang, and I dig the similarity in the sense of "let's start with Ruby-like syntax, and add more static structure". I can see the difference here as being that Bon appears to
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by ubertaco 8y ago
Yeah, I left a negative review for a startup where I worked, and it was the first review (I actually had to create an entry for the startup in order to leave the review). I tried to be balanced about the things that attracted me there in th
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by ubertaco 8y ago
This can also often mean that they intend to try to replace your actual family in terms of how your hours each day are spent, which for many is unacceptable, no matter how shiny-happy-euphemistic "like a family" may sound.
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by ubertaco 8y ago
I'm not so sure that's true. There's a library that has X number of users. The library authors release v2 of that library, and it's a total rewrite. If every single user of v1 adopted v2, then you'd still have X num
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by ubertaco 8y ago
Sync is good, but if they want to sway me away from either Firefox or Chrome, that sync needs to include syncing with a mobile browser. Otherwise it satisfies a 20% case for sync while missing the 80% case.
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by ubertaco 8y ago
A substantial one, really. I'd go so far as to say my "life as a hacker" (or, well, software developer) has a "place" in my life with God, rather than vice-versa. Full disclosure: the rest of this post is going to b
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by ubertaco 8y ago
Does there exist something along the lines of Typescript for Lua that adds optional type annotations and static analysis?
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by ubertaco 8y ago
Even syntactically, this looks a lot like if you took ReasonML, disallowed type annotations, did away with its ecosystem, and compiled to WebAssembly. Aside from the wasm compilation, I don't see why this exists.
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by ubertaco 8y ago
St. Simon's Island was a childhood vacation spot for me. I loved it. Having gone back just this year for the first time in over 20 years, I realized I like it even more now that I can enjoy the small-beach-town atmosphere and the deep-
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by ubertaco 8y ago
s/Marc Benioff/Donald Trump/ and you'd see that this is not a defense or an indicator of any sort of good intent, it's just an unrelated bit of trivia.
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by ubertaco 8y ago
Salesforce is a company that operates in Europe. They already have to comply with GDPR (and have already spent tons of dev time on scrambling to comply). They're ready for GDPR, and so they're probably betting they're ready f
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by ubertaco 9y ago
Oh wow, that takes me back. The section for NO$GMB even says: The Windows version is for Windows 95/98/NT/2000, it requires a rather fast computer (at least 66MHz suggested), it is including a typical windows user interfa
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by ubertaco 9y ago
Because any good developer should, when presenting a product in an international market, consider i18n (which involves more than just "translate from language A to language B").
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by ubertaco 9y ago
Shifting a schedule is one thing (in fact, I work on a shifted schedule on days I commute; from 6:45am or 7am to 3pm, due to bad local traffic); cutting your workday effectively in half is another. This article is touting "forget your
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by ubertaco 9y ago
I think you missed the part where those other, less-productive hours in my workday are spent in meetings with others. As in, that's part of my normal workday. And yeah, it may not be productive in the way I like, but it's necessar
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by ubertaco 9y ago
This is predicated on the idea that you're only really productive in the afternoon, and that the morning is just wasted time. I'm most productive in the mornings, and my productivity only takes a dive in the afternoon because that
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by ubertaco 9y ago
Just a note: Ecclesiastes is definitely not "a rant by an angry, elderly atheist that through some editorial oversight found its way into the Bible." Rather, it's a compiled lament by Solomon (Jewish king and son of the Jew
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by ubertaco 9y ago
Are there any good resources you'd recommend on learning how to effectively work with/search graphs?
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by ubertaco 9y ago
Worth noting: Quip's story and practices are definitely a bit different from your typical new startup, given that they are owned by (and provided the resources of) Salesforce. I work at a different company that Salesforce acquired, and
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by ubertaco 9y ago
One use-case I can see where this would come up: ancestry/genealogy websites. Someone's grandparents may have been born in the Soviet Union, not in the modern Ukraine, from a cultural-historical standpoint.
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by ubertaco 9y ago
It's like rain on your wedding day?
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by ubertaco 9y ago
It seems like it's like Tor, except instead of just paying my ISP, I also now get to pay more money to use this new POC protocol with a subset of Tor's features. Am I missing something?
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by ubertaco 9y ago
So they've changed yet another piece of core, defining OCaml syntax (the lack of C-parens everywhere) for the worse, obfuscating currying in the process. But that's just my opinion, I guess. I don't have to use it. I do find
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by ubertaco 9y ago
Sounds like San Francisco is exactly on pace, then.
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by ubertaco 9y ago
Yeah, my guess is there's a CMS mixup. The "Computers4Christians" distro described is a spin of Ubuntu with some preferences tweaked and some variation on preinstalled packages.
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by ubertaco 9y ago
I'm interested in what you think it would take to "[make] a competitive browser again" if not major performance improvements.
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by ubertaco 9y ago
An update on this: all employees' posters and signs that have been part of the office for years have been taken down, and replaced with photos of HQ-based employees marching in various LGBTQ Pride parades (which is pretty controversial
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by ubertaco 9y ago
Yes, but maybe not in a good way -- this is basically just a tabbed electron wrapper around various chat webapps.

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