westoque

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by westoque 7y ago
> Libra has no capacity for consumer protection mechanisms. You can replace Libra quote above with your favorite cryptocurrency and that pretty much sums up what I feel on the crypto space.
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by westoque 7y ago
I believe the 4 hour work week only works for brain intensive tasks where it needs significant mental effort to get things done so ample time for rest is needed to be “refreshed”. Meanwhile, if you’re building on shoes in a shoe factory, th
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by westoque 7y ago
AgencyMVP | Software Engineer | Dallas, TX | Fulltime | Onsite Agency MVP (Most Valuable Prospect) is a smart lead management system within the insurance industry that uses proprietary algorithms to rank leads, prospects, and insurance cust
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by westoque 7y ago
My takeaway here is the advice Garry said. Not really thinking much towards YC being a holy grail of incubator and doing everything to get in. Instead, it lets me rethink my ideas if I can put it into words that will be good enough for an i
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by westoque 7y ago
I used to be a believer in cryptocurrency, and I still it think it has practical applications, but not as currency. When my credit card got skimmed and the thief started to make unauthorized transactions, I was immediately informed of this,
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by westoque 7y ago
It does for me. Let me give you an example: You make an app using Ruby on Rails, keep developing it, and it keeps growing. You monitor your traffic and it gets bigger, now you add more servers to handle the traffic (it costs you $20/se
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by westoque 7y ago
Also, don’t forget... huge props to Chris McCord, the creator of the Phoenix Web Framework which is the main reason for me to completely come on board in the Elixir ecosystem.
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by westoque 7y ago
Interesting timeline. Whilst I love how it’s broken down, it just looks so much harder than just making a product and focusing on that. At least you don’t have to raise your price as often and not worry about not having enough contracts.
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by westoque 7y ago
The GitHub weekly popular projects/interests email has been getting me to discover some really good projects as of late.
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by westoque 7y ago
One thing often not discussed with remote work is the legal aspects of it. It’s easy to say you want to work for a company on the other side of the world. What if there’s a disagreement in the team and the employee goes rogue and puts the c
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by westoque 7y ago
> Given the amount of value open source provides to for-profit companies (with the open source maintainers rarely getting any reciprocal value from the companies that profit off them), why is it so alarming to think that these maintainer
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by westoque 7y ago
IANAL but I don't see a "Legal" or "Privacy Policy" in the app itself. Maybe someone in the know can say if it's required or not. I do skim through these document if they exist and I can't find it here. At
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by westoque 7y ago
I like the idea of funding an open source project so it's maintained. However, I don't like the choice that feross made here, which is ads. It's very intrusive to get shown ads while I'm working and focusing on a task, e
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by westoque 7y ago
Out of curiosity, is there a legal way to go after people that do these? e.g., File a police report?
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by westoque 7y ago
> Let's hope that people see it as a lesson and not somewhere they can bask in their confirmation bias all day While I agree that internet does teach critical thinking, it's also the the most dangerous. If you watch a video of
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The 101M Dollar Hack Law Suit [pdf](dd80b675424c132b90b3-e48385e382d2e5d17821a5e1d8e4c86b.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com)
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by westoque 7y ago
In light of vulnerabilities like these, I’m glad there are developers that spend time to make their apps more secure. Thus, making us all aware that issues like these are out there. Security is almost always just put off in exchange for fea
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by westoque 7y ago
Although I agree somewhat. I think the web wouldn't be what it is without JavaScript. Nothing is perfect and there will always be a compromise. At least there's a good layer of security/sandbox within the browser itself so at
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by westoque 7y ago
Not only that. I believe LinkedIn also harvests data from your calendar. I remember seeing LinkedIn notifications about the person I’m meeting without even asking for it. Kind of creepy and unwarranted unless they asked me to.
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by westoque 7y ago
Waiting for the moment where we actually find a habitable planet with intelligent life. Next thing you know, we'll be developing ways in order to communicate with them, not just observing them.
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by westoque 7y ago
I for one don't agree about hours in general, be it 30 hours or 40 hours per week. I like to think in goals, do we have to finish X this quarter? Break down the task into segments, and break it down more into weekly sprints. You can th
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by westoque 7y ago
I myself don't see the value of running a terminal in the editor. I see as an added complexity: did the makers of the editor code it the right? Is there any side-effects? Is the ENV correctly loaded? If adding an editor is simply savin
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by westoque 7y ago
I think there’s a middleground there that if you want to support these countries then there should be a framework for this (Flutter Lite?).. But if you want the complete feature set that is “bloated” but has good ux/ui support then tha
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by westoque 7y ago
I disagree. I think Ruby/Rails is a good example of this. They maximize on developer happiness but that doesn’t stop users from using a bloated rails app. Take a look at GitHub/GitLab as an example of a Rails app I guess?
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I don’t understand the obsession with small binaries and compiled packages. I care about usability and user experience. If it takes 5mb to have a smooth experience then I’m all for it. It’s funny how we now have fiber having 1GB/s inte
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by westoque 7y ago
I just had a conversation with a non developer person using Stripe and he told me that Stripe was the worst. I was shocked as a developer because I mentioned how Stripe was hiring the best people I know and was acquiring really good startup
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by westoque 7y ago
What's funny is we actually used YouTube as our "gauge" on what browsers to support. We also built the narrative that: "If YouTube doesn't work on this browser, then we will not support it"
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by westoque 7y ago
Yes. I believe "serverless" still has it's use cases. It's really good for small services and abstracting away some logic. It's really good for basic query and render (html/json) type apps. If you're doing
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by westoque 7y ago
It's not really the infrastructure that makes it Silicon Valley. In my 15 years of living here, it's the people. The concentration of tech companies here and talent is astounding! This is the only place where every week there&#x27
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by westoque 7y ago
Sorry if my response my sound naive, but can't anyone just clone/copy the code in GitHub Enterprise and compress and release anywhere if one wanted to?

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