westoque

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by westoque 4y ago
Related. I also have a similar experience when I worked as a contractor for [big ecommerce] for simply building a JavaScript loader that loaded ads on their ecommerce platform using JSONP. That ad loader got millions of views and pretty muc
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by westoque 5y ago
as an aside, i found this bit from the link for https://microsoft.github.io/react-native-windows : > Some build-time tools will send telemetry to Microsoft by default. can we please stop collecting telemetry by default an
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by westoque 5y ago
I am mostly a one man shop myself but I would encourage everybody to self host their authentication. With so many open source libraries, there’s no good reason why you should use an external provider. In most cases, if the app is relatively
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Show HN: Coinbowl – an ad maker similar to the Coinbase superbowl ad(coinbowl.app)
2 points by westoque 5y ago|0 comments
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by westoque 5y ago
This makes a good case for decentralization no? Imagine all those items in the blockchain, you can leave for years knowing you can retrieve them anytime. The only con at the point is if you lose your keys. Reminds me of some friends who had
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by westoque 5y ago
Not exactly a book but just read the "The Almanack Of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness" and it's full of great quotes and entries by Naval who is an entrepreneur now turned philosopher. Gives sound logic on how
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by westoque 5y ago
> It is extremely difficult to change a monolith’s technology or language or framework because all components are tightly coupled and dependent on each other. As a result, even relatively small changes can require lengthy development and
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by westoque 5y ago
Working on Pastly https://www.pastly.app Fastest way to mockup screenshots and share - Copy. Paste. Edit. Share. Still in beta but using Elixir/Phoenix/React. If anyone interested in partnering or working together plea
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by westoque 5y ago
Personally. I'm targeting the browser. Web applications have evolved so much that we now need access to more hardware to further improve our web apps. Imagine having direct access to GPU and other things, we can then be running full ap
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by westoque 5y ago
> We have learned that some data was exposed to the internet due to an error in a Twitch server configuration change that was subsequently accessed by a malicious third party. How could 1 "server" change give such a high cleara
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by westoque 5y ago
Isn't it ironic to use a REST API to send BTC vs say using what any cryptocurrency is intended for? To use their native APIs to transfer value. The aim of decentralization is to eliminate that third party but this puts it back. We&#x27
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by westoque 5y ago
> ² According to the raw unweighted data, we surveyed 1,296 teens in the US and 1,309 teens in the UK and asked them if they experienced a range of feelings or experiences in the past month ... then asked if the feeling started on Instag
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by westoque 5y ago
It took me awhile to find screenshots of how this looks like, so for others curious: https://wiki.mobian-project.org/doku.php?id=intro This website looks like it got put together by a bunch of hackers, which is fine, but to
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Grey Watch Dealer Vanished with Millions of Dollars in Inventory and Funding(watchcollectinglifestyle.com)
7 points by westoque 5y ago|2 comments
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by westoque 5y ago
Interesting to see so much development in crypto but within my tech and personal circles, no one still really uses it. It's still hard to use as it is to send payments vs traditional means with PayPal/Venmo. I also had friends tha
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An Open Letter to the Nigerian Government: Pursue a Bitcoin Standard(bitcoinmagazine.com)
3 points by westoque 5y ago|0 comments
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by westoque 5y ago
> Why does this matter? Why do you want this? How do you correlate what you're stating you want here with actual job performance? It matters to me because we want to be able to show that we can think through solutions. If we're
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by westoque 5y ago
The tech interview process is different for every company but it's definitely not broken. As a CTO, one of the things I look for is experience. You can look up all the "basic shit" you want but if we're talking about a s
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by westoque 5y ago
In our company, our interview process goes like: 1. Paper screening the candidate. Looking at resume to see if they have skills for the job on paper. If so go to Personality Screening. 2. Personality Screening is done by talking to them and
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by westoque 5y ago
No worries, valid point. I have ESL (English as Second Language) but noted.
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by westoque 5y ago
Disclaimer, I'm a CTO. Here's how I evaluate this if I was evaluating you: 1. I already have a salary budget already allocated for this role based on industry average for position and location (but location _could_ be irrelevant d
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by westoque 5y ago
It's not really about the user spying though, it's about the decision of making the user default of "yes, please track my usage so you can make your product better". I would rather have you ask the question first even th
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by westoque 6y ago
This is an oversimplification and Docker is easy from a basic usage standpoint like most tutorials are. The hard part is when you start configuring and configuring to your own requirements. What baseimage should you use? How about logging?
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by westoque 6y ago
> We can befriend you for years, and then bite off your arm just as you’re offering us a treat. We can’t help it. It’s the nature of the job. Something about this line irks me. I have a love-hate relationship with journalism because of t
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by westoque 6y ago
I hope we again see the value of using systems like Wordpress for it’s simplicity in getting a blog/website setup and easily modify content. Lately most of the modern marketing websites I see is built using gatsby and next.js. Having b
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by westoque 6y ago
thanks for correcting my mistakes :)
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by westoque 6y ago
yes! my path to "expert" was more in the lines of questioning my commonly used editing functions: 1. how to delete text inside a double quote and go to insert mode? - c+i+" 2. how to move to the end of line? - $ 3. how to del
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by westoque 6y ago
I agree with quantifying managers' performance is a bit harder than software engineers. Take it for what its worth but what I learned from Intels Andrew Groves book "High Output Management" book is that the output of a manage
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by westoque 6y ago
> What does bother me a bit is seeing managers who frankly use less of their brains getting paid as much or more. The statement "use less of their brains" does not necessarily do managers justice. Managers are good at (guess wh
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by westoque 6y ago
using macports wouldn't make it such that "more things will work". it's really about the applications now needing to be compiled in the ARM architecture. here are some examples: aom: https://github.com/Ho

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