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by vkjv 12y ago
Wow, I didn't think of it until I read your comment, but it would be super easy to add a switch to my fob! With little more than a cap, you can throw on a button that enables the feature on for a period of time then disables it again.
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by vkjv 12y ago
> "...developers without a formal education..." I think it's more about developers without experience. If you have experience doing something successfully, you are more likely to reach for the same tool set when doing it a
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by vkjv 12y ago
I've had some similar experiences as we've scaled from internal only applications a couple years ago, to handling thousands of requests a second at peak. 1. Event loop. Yep, always be careful not to block it. But, I think this is
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by vkjv 12y ago
This is indeed a great way to shim, but in case any readers aren't aware of the limitations: * NPM is unable to keep track of the version. This means no semver and that `npm install` re-installs the module every time. * Git sub-modules
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by vkjv 12y ago
While INTJ are most often associated with engineers, most engineers are not. INTJ is pretty rare, I think somewhere around 1%, which would make it only account for roughly 20% of engineers and scientists [citation needed]. Honestly, with mo
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by vkjv 12y ago
sigh $14 in components for a $100 product seems like a really tight margin and not exploitation to me. The tooling chain for these things (injection molding, etc.) is really expensive. Not that these are a great product, but I don't
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by vkjv 12y ago
I completely agree with this. It is often said that, "constraint drives creativity." Therefore, if everyone is bound by the same set of constraints, you limit the possible set of creativity.
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by vkjv 12y ago
I am looking forward to wide-scale HTTP/2 adoption. It means you can take something simple like gRPC ( http://www.grpc.io/ ) and suddenly scale it with commodity things like an HTTP load balancer.
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by vkjv 12y ago
I think like a lot of myths, there is a kernel of truth in the 10x programmer myth. The fact is, some problems are hard. Some problems are beyond the grasp of some developers. Even given unlimited time an individual may not ever accomplish
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by vkjv 12y ago
This. Most people, unsurprisingly, are quite nice. I think a lot of people would be willing to do this if they get high-speed service for free.
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by vkjv 12y ago
At risk of admitting tl;dr... how long do you have to find a job? For example, if I find a job programming 10 years after graduating from an accredited university, do I need to pay them?
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by vkjv 12y ago
I would far prefer a language that has parts that I need to avoid than one that is completely missing parts I really want.
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by vkjv 12y ago
Lots of indented function calls is just poor design. You get the same thing in Scala when you start dealing with lots of Futures inappropriately. Just choose a decent abstraction for callbacks. I prefer promises, but async.js does a good jo
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by vkjv 12y ago
This. A thousand times, this. It's a really good model for something that is I/O bound because it is easy to reason about. This makes the model perfect for events in the browser (both DOM events and XHR). It's not that Javasc
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by vkjv 12y ago
I see lots of comments from people saying that after years of usage they just recently bought a license. I'm curious what most people are using it for, since the license clearly states that you need to buy a copy for professional use.
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by vkjv 12y ago
While node.js is great at non-blocking IO, it's not great at the blocking kind. E.g., shuffling bytes. While you are correct that node.js is happily not blocking the main thread while reading from disk, once that returns it still needs
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by vkjv 12y ago
Out of curiosity, are these discrimination laws hard and fast in in the UK? At least, in the U.S., most of these laws explicitly only affect a company above a certain number of employees.
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by vkjv 12y ago
You can also type `gmail` and hit `ctrl+enter` which will auto add `www` and `.com`.
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by vkjv 12y ago
IMHO, like most patterns, the pattern is appropriate in some situations and not always an anti-pattern. It only becomes an anti-pattern when it is abused in situations where it is not appropriate. For example, how would you go about impleme
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by vkjv 12y ago
Could you maybe start serving 503 to googlebot after hitting a threshold?
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by vkjv 12y ago
Authentication should happen server side, but authentication need not happen at the time of delete. When deleting, you should be authorizing and validating, which can safely be done client side... but, if you are doing something server-si
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by vkjv 12y ago
You can do similar "magic" cache invalidation with Elasticsearch and the percolate feature. Each time you do a query and cache some transformation of the result, put that query in a percolate index. Then when you change a document
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by vkjv 12y ago
I saw similar red flags in other places. "Internally we expected that at worst 20% of people who had signed up to the newsletter would pre-order, and at best 50% of people on the list would convert into sales." I work for a brand
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by vkjv 12y ago
This appears to be improperly including the stars from repositories that you forked.
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by vkjv 12y ago
"You could develop a library in-house in a clean room and it could still infringe someone else's patent." IANAL, but, it is my understanding that if that's the case the patent wouldn't hold up to the novel requireme
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by vkjv 12y ago
He asks for his salary to be re-aligned with industry standards and in many cases they will oblige. In most cases, businesses are reasonable. They aren't going to volunteer to pay you more out of the goodness of their heart, but (most)
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by vkjv 12y ago
I use Mint 17 Mate Edition--Mate is the fork of Gnome 2. It just works and gives me a familiar interface. You might want to check out guake as a terminal and gnome do as a quicksilver replacement.
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by vkjv 12y ago
A more "lo-fi" attack vector: Many verify the user (for both free and premium) by last name and room number. Make a dictionary of a few common surnames and it's pretty easy to brute force combinations.
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by vkjv 12y ago
Peak utilization is more important than average.
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by vkjv 12y ago
I echo this sentiment. Full-stack means that you can support all aspects of the stack, and here's the key, that need to be supported by a dedicated person. For example, most people "out source" their network / system adm

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