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by xal 14y ago
It's fine that they want to figure out what the internet means for them, as long as they are not going to try to impose those positions unto others. Given that they haven't even managed to will themselves into basic decency towards their ow
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by xal 14y ago
Right, this just sounds like a more extreme version of introverts who have learned to "act" extrovert in huge crowds. E.g. Nixon
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by xal 15y ago
there is actual research that shows that the CEOs overseeing most of the greatest raises of companies in the past 30 years are essentially clinically paranoid. Jim Collins wrote about it.
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by xal 15y ago
I think that's debatable based on geography. You point to nurses and teaching being precedents but that was only true in certain geographies. The low interest in of women in programming is a global phenomenon. It's important that we discuss
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Rob Pike on designing a concurrent lexer in Go(cuddle.googlecode.com)
2 points by xal 15y ago|0 comments
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by xal 15y ago
this seems to solve the same problem that ØMQ solves. Plus SDKs.
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by xal 15y ago
Splunk is one of the best pieces of software ever made. It's critical to almost everything Shopify does. It's pricy but easy to justify because it makes any ops and many dev tasks 10x easier and therefore there are some real savings in requ
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by xal 15y ago
It just happened. We started contacting them now but it was all word of mouth.
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by xal 15y ago
Almost all the funded hardware projects end up on Shopify afterwards. Including pebble. The "store" part is actually a tremendously complex software to do well, hardly a feature you add to an existing system.
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by xal 15y ago
8x life in prison for $1M in drug trafficking?
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by xal 15y ago
I agree with this. I chipped in 1k. I know it's not the goal of the project but I hope it lays the groundwork for an optional production mode compile run for coffee script that yields optimized and / or google closure compatible code.
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by xal 15y ago
Did you hear this? This was the sound of Seattle becoming the gravitational force to the best and brightest. Valve has been known for all this. They clearly think that now is the time to loot the rest of the truly great in the game industry
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by xal 15y ago
Apple is quite adamant on work weeks standards, however this is in direct conflicts with the workers (!!). In fact, workers at Foxcon and others have started preferring to work for other companies then Apple because they can't get the amoun
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by xal 15y ago
I have no horse in this race but It's very well known that Apple does indeed pick who bids lowest but: * They put severe requirements on the quality of the produce * They put severe requirements on secrecy * The they put severe requ
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by xal 15y ago
Just compile with the gcc go compiler and you are set. Running 32 bit on servers is just like running IE6 on desktops. It's time to upgrade. Also every language that uses a conservative GC behaves this way, it's not just a GO issue.
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by xal 15y ago
Creativity, resourcefulness and grit are the three main virtues of the best programmers in the world. He may be a 10/10 on all three which is just about unheard of.
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by xal 15y ago
no they make the best. That's why we are doing talent acquisitions regularly. These employees could be temporary (1-3 years based on earnout) but can do incredible things in that time if you let them.
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by xal 15y ago
you are joking - or at least I'm reading your comment like you are based on your second line. However, it's worth noting that if you'd have a job that Notch is willing to take and you are not hiring him into that role then it's practically
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by xal 15y ago
The TSA also fears a 300ml container of liquid but not 3 100ml containers and an empty 300ml one. What's new?
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by xal 15y ago
It's great to see what idiomatic code looks like in all these different languages. F# shines here.
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I have a business idea (shopify.com)
15 points by xal 15y ago|2 comments
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by xal 15y ago
it's possible to make this comparison but it's not binary, it's a scale. Porn is so much further down this lane then anyone else.
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by xal 15y ago
Heh, this is true. However, everyone always misunderstands why. I can speak to this from two perspectives. I worked in Porn early in my career and made the transition. I also actively try to recruit people with this background in a city whi
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by xal 15y ago
I love how many high level technologies are left to mature in the java environment and then are reintroduced on a level that's a lot closer to the kernel and the metal. ZeroMQ is another great example of the progression that started with AM
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Garbage collection in Ruby 2.0(patshaughnessy.net)
16 points by xal 15y ago|0 comments
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Sim City's new glassbox engine(shacknews.com)
2 points by xal 15y ago|0 comments
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Mitel Networks suing Facebook(news.priorsmart.com)
2 points by xal 15y ago|0 comments
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by xal 15y ago
Incentivizing people via money discounts to share via social networks is in direct violation to their the terms of services. It's very obvious why they don't want this kind of spam and they all enforce this hard. They will be shut down.
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by xal 15y ago
I respect that: The 67-year-old father of a newborn baby girl is taking things a bit easier these days, spending his time on his yacht, Athena, writing code and programming all things Apple.
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by xal 15y ago
TLDR: Chinese clone Shopify and put it on Github. CEO writes pull request to delete the entire project instead of a Cease & Desist.

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