wbharding

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   by wbharding 11y ago

   I'm writing this from Panama on a solo trip I'm on. I get more vacation time than my wife so tend to go on a couple solo vacations per year. It's great. I can work as much as I want, make my plans on the morning of each day,
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   by wbharding 12y ago

   Image Processing Engineer We're looking for a developer to help us continue to build the Background Burner in Seattle, WA. The Background Burner is a technology that embodies the adage that "the best way to predict the future is t
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   Is Gmail secure from its employees?(williambharding.com)

   4 points by wbharding 12y ago|0 comments
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   Friendship Development (2012)(drcstecker.blogspot.com)

   1 points by wbharding 12y ago|0 comments
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   by wbharding 12y ago

   Discouraging. Folks like "Masseuse" that most need to shape up are probably least likely to have the capacity to listen. Maybe it's because having wealth melts ones brain, or maybe a certain level of sociopathy is advantageou
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   by wbharding 12y ago

   Bonanza.com. Seattle, WA. http://www.bonanza.com Full-Stack Rails Developer We're looking for a full time, full stack Ruby on Rails developer to continually improve the user interface, performance, feel, and other aspects o
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   My startup failed, and this is what it feels like(medium.com)

   1084 points by wbharding 12y ago|252 comments
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   by wbharding 12y ago

   Last statements are endlessly fascinating things. I hope that by the time I die that tombstones will have flash storage built into them. You'll push a button on the tombstone and out pops a holograph that projects whatever message the
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   by wbharding 13y ago

   It's slightly more complicated than that.
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    Tired of ugly product images? Try Background Burner(pando.com)

    3 points by wbharding 13y ago|0 comments
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    "A programmer had a problem"(quora.com)

    1 points by wbharding 13y ago|0 comments
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    Moving the company to Hawaii every February? Doable(williambharding.com)

    1 points by wbharding 13y ago|0 comments
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    by wbharding 13y ago

    For sites that are not forums-first, I think the age of the online forum has pretty much come to an end, for exactly the reasons Pavlina explains. We ran our forums at Bonanza for about 4 years, and had millions of posts made to them. We sp
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    by wbharding 13y ago

    We didn't change our Ruby version. We changed as little as possible overall to make the comparison "apples-to-apples." Getting a performance increase during an upgrade would be a highly welcomed change in our world.
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    by wbharding 13y ago

    Thanks cheald. Will take a look at those. My problem with using the performance tracking tools in the past has always been that I get output like "100k string allocations," "3500 ActiveRecord objects instantiated," &quot
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    by wbharding 13y ago

    Thanks Aaron. I imagine I'll probably spend Thanksgiving weekend trying to dig further into what is newly slow on our 3.2.15. The trick with pinpointing a cause is that when I look at the data NR provides, every partial rendered and ev
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    Rails 3.2 Performance: Another Step Slower(williambharding.com)

    111 points by wbharding 13y ago|95 comments
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    by wbharding 13y ago

    So Firefox is now Chrome plus IE's back button? Doesn't seem like the most inspired way to differentiate your product.
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    by wbharding 13y ago

    I've read time and time again about musicians, actors, and directors that all slowly come to realize that reading the reviews about their product just isn't worth it. It's hard to reconcile this sentiment with the "cust
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    by wbharding 13y ago

    Also available, and newly made free: http://www.bonanza.com/background_burns Pros: Doesn't require the fg/bg coloring step needed here, just figures out your FG without intervention. Cons: Have to register for an account to access it cu
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    by wbharding 14y ago

    As a CEO/Founder running a business that is revenue-sensitive, my developer-side completely agrees with the "FYPM" attitude of OP. Every story I see about the supposed "tech talent crunch" makes me wince at the fact that the average web dev
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    My startup needs someone with a sexy voice(danshapiro.com)

    9 points by wbharding 14y ago|6 comments
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    by wbharding 14y ago

    What the blogosphere seemed to miss when getting all crazy about Instagram selling their pictures to businesses for advertising: what business in their right mind would want the bad press that would go along with exploiting Instagram users
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    by wbharding 14y ago

    Though I appreciate yet another author shining a light on the woes of the current patent system, I'd appreciate it a lot more if one of these patent stories actually tried to put some energy into explaining what actions concerned people mig
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    by wbharding 14y ago

    I dunno if "pandering" is the word I'd use to describe those who intentionally take on an attitude of openness and curiosity. The fact is, most of the older people I know (my parents, grandparents, etc) still listen to the music they were l
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    by wbharding 14y ago

    Bonanza.com (the site I've been building for about four years now) has become one of the largest non-eBay marketplaces by scooping up sellers like you & the OP. We're now up to 25,000 active sellers and 4 million listings by virtue of
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    by wbharding 14y ago

    Whether I'm still programming when I'm 50 (currently 33, programming for about 20 years), will depend on whether I have the same appetite for being wrong that I do today. To constantly program, you have to constantly learn, and to constant
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    Ubuntu's Unity: the dark side of simplicity(williambharding.com)

    1 points by wbharding 14y ago|0 comments