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by unoti 9y ago
> Call me crazy but I don't think you need 100 engineers to recreate the front-end of Uber. Your sentiment is valid, but consider this: whenever you're working with a project with a ton of money on the table, it becomes possibl
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by unoti 9y ago
This issue isn't exclusively about big corps vs startups. There are parts of big established corps where they're growing so fast in new lines of business that it's essentially a startup in terms of the stage of process and sy
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by unoti 9y ago
> I ask whats going to happen when the building gets hotter quickly and get 10 different answers. You're right, and this is a common problem when you're in a leadership role. The information is imperfect. If this weren't t
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by unoti 10y ago
> The easy stuff is very easy, which is great, but when you want to do something somewhat complex it becomes arcane very quickly, usually requiring step-debugging through the code to figure out which framework method needs to be tweaked.
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by unoti 10y ago
What language are you wanting to program in that is awful on Windows? And regarding your other points, Windows scripting story has come a long way in the last few years. Your concerns sound like they come from many years ago and that maybe
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by unoti 10y ago
If I could zoom or scroll, I might be able to figure out where "allowing content to be read on a mobile device" fits in this very interesting matrix.
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by unoti 10y ago
Summary: pointless jobs exist because people are willing to PAY MONEY for them, says a professional anthropologist with only a slight hint of irony, while he muses about why people might not enjoy talking to him at dinner parties.
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by unoti 10y ago
the article references how little money nurses and teachers make. I did a good amount of medical training, and what you need to do to be an EMT is demanding, requiring as much or more raw memorization and practice than most things I'v
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by unoti 10y ago
There will always be someone at a lower level than you. As a systems programmer he pokes fun at UX people. It is indeed hilarious. But technology and science is all about collaboration and building on other people's work. Remember that
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by unoti 10y ago
Good for you. If you want to work at the circus, you've gotta jump through some hoops. It's true that for most jobs, most day-to-day work doesn't involve knowing standard algorithms and data structures. But being willing to
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by unoti 10y ago
Yeah, you do. You can't rely on your employer to continuously retrain you through your whole career. Show me an engineer with 10+ years of experience who refuses to ever learn anything away from work, and I'll show you somebody
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by unoti 10y ago
> If you are a good developer who sucks at whiteboard interviews, write open source code that everybody can see. Not good enough for me. My engineers need to be able to collaborate with customers, management, and each other. They need to
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by unoti 10y ago
The items on that list would be natural byproducts of simple humility, serenity of the mind, and the pursuit of excellence. These things are their own reward.
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by unoti 10y ago
You'd use a regular pressure cooker for things like cooking a roast or chili in 45 minutes instead of 4 hours.
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by unoti 10y ago
I'm not talking about manually implementing a virtual scrollable canvas. I'm talking about "make item 19 in that list box visible in the middle of It's display area." I agree that scrolling virtual spaces should be
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by unoti 10y ago
Imagine there's a scrollable list of items and you want to scroll one particular item into view when some event happens. Without smooth scroll the item just pops into view and the user may not see it happening. It's a usability i
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by unoti 10y ago
> However that "metaprogrammer" term is probably not so common. How are metaprogrammers called otherwise? What are their job titles? In places that use this approach the people filling that role are sometimes called Architects,
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by unoti 10y ago
If you need smooth scroll you can't rely on browser support and need to use a library or cook something up yourself. It's surprising how few browsers work with smooth scroll. Today it's basically only Firefox; not even Chrome
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by unoti 10y ago
> most data sources have many dimensions (for example, energy consumption, temperature, humidity etc.) as well as categorical data like current state (On, Off). The situation is even more difficult if the data is not a regular time serie
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by unoti 10y ago
> Is there really anything which AWS does not have the GCE does? Firebase is the killer here. AWS and Azure don't have it or anything comparable for realtime data. If they do, please tell me about it because I'd love to know ab
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by unoti 10y ago
I agree. But personally I'd be concerned about a team lead who thinks the make or break thing is whether a candidate engineer loves fondling their monads all day.
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by unoti 10y ago
I have a simple question. In the article they mentioned they had a concurrency issue with a timed buffer that they later neatly solved with go channels and goroutines. They said that they solved the problem in Scala by moving to the actor
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by unoti 10y ago
Leading teams to victory and accomplishing business objectives is an even more important litmus test, in my book. But different strokes for different folks I guess!
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by unoti 10y ago
I loved 6809. It's the design of th instruction set that I loved, its simple consistency. That and the fact that it had a SEX (sign extend) function, and two stacks.
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by unoti 10y ago
If you want a fun side project write a 6502 assembler. It's not nearly as hard as you might think! I wrote one in Python to be part of a game I was working on. I got it up and running in a day or so. It's something that improved m
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by unoti 10y ago
I created an online game called Mossms ( http://mossms.com ). It's a game where you breed critters, you raise the babies, and put them to work building little towns where they learn and work and play. Think The Sims plus Tam
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by unoti 10y ago
Surfacebook and Surfacebook pro are as good or better. The track pad is just as good as the one on the mac, and there's a touch screen as well. Plus it turns into a tablet.
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by unoti 10y ago
Summary: False growth mindset is praising the effort that doesn't lead to successful learning. We don't want to encourage people to redouble their efforts on strategies that aren't working. Growth mindset strategy replaces
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by unoti 10y ago
> But there's a huge swath of dev shops that never pay any technical debt back Engineers often talk about technical debt as if the codebase is the currency of the realm. It's not. Business Value is the currency of the realm
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by unoti 10y ago
No nonsense predictable pricing is what drove me to Rackspace years ago. Good for Amazon figuring this out.

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