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by yajoe 13y ago
At the bottom of the page I saw: > An initiative by Zapier 2013. Zapier is a company that makes money off sites having REST endpoints to push and pull data. It looks like Zapier would prefer that more sites have endpoints to accept push
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by yajoe 13y ago
Totally get the strategy, though I was writing PHP apps 10 years ago... I would be hard pressed to go back, especially after having touched YII last year. PHP is legacy today, right or wrong. My point is twofold: First, it's very impo
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by yajoe 13y ago
As a dev, completely get the need. Yes, most of my day-to-day job is making a small change or reproducing a bug locally, testing, and then deploying. Setting up that loop has been harder than I want to admit and is the reason I know maven,
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by yajoe 13y ago
I get the sense we're talking past each other. I don't disagree with a single thing you said; I just don't think that rolling your own adapter so you can swap out concrete frameworks is a silver bullet that fixes the couplin
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by yajoe 13y ago
With respect, the OP's experience matches anytime that you have dealt with legacy code. Heck, e-ink Kindle devices use Java 1.4. No generics, weird interop with JNI, and so many fewer plugins (think robust encryption, XSS checkers, e
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by yajoe 13y ago
Agreed. I'm very happy the OP is taking a risk, because, damnit, now is the time! I think the lesson is we all should be willing to ask "Are we truly happy with our lives?" and take the chance to answer without all of the e
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by yajoe 13y ago
I feel upvoting this and your other comments is insufficient for saying thank you to adding to the discussion. I know little about military tech, but you've hit the very few bits that I do know (grandfather was a career B-52 pilot) an
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by yajoe 13y ago
(Forgive a 5-year-old memory of one of many cases -- I probably have the numbers wrong) It went something like this: The director of engineering approved a log retention plan that kept access logs for 7 days or something. They wanted t
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by yajoe 13y ago
Edit: I was a PM on Exchange and Exchange Hosted Encryption for some time, so it looks like Lavabit tried to fight the government on whether they are required to release private keys. I've seen one other customer try to fight, and it
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by yajoe 13y ago
> If you need to be stealth so you don’t tip off competitors, you need to really re-think if you are building a long-term business... At the end of the day, being a startup in “stealth mode” happens when founders put too much value in i
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by yajoe 13y ago
Could not agree more. I lurked on HN for ~2 years before creating an account, also a 4-digit refugee from /. For the last 3 months I've been quietly mourning and seeking out a replacement for HN. It could be I'm no longer a
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by yajoe 13y ago
Could not agree more. Best of luck to the team, and I hope each finds happiness in their next ventures. To pile on with the challenges of using these types of metrics to describe the worthiness of a candidate, see a comment from more than
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by yajoe 13y ago
It's extremely complicated. One reason for keeping prices high this season is to prevent loan defaults from the farmers/producers in the fall. So one part of the federal government may spend another $40mil affecting the sugar ma
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by yajoe 13y ago
(I'm from Nebraska and you are from Iowa.) I've noticed a slight difference in how we in the midwest talk compared to how the west coast (Seattle and SFO) talk. In particular, I'm not perturbed by the writing style and I se
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by yajoe 13y ago
One important consideration: displacing the number of people who drive for a living in a community will be politically difficult. Ever notice how the vegas monorail stops short of the airport? We'll have to suffer a couple generation
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by yajoe 13y ago
companies like Google make an effort to store foreign users' data in foreign data-centers owned and operated by foreign subsidiaries. Can confirm that while working on the EU rollout for Office 365 a few years ago, this was certainly
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by yajoe 13y ago
I imagine the minority here is aware that Pandora now owns a radio station, and their goal is to use the radio station to get more favorable terms for licensing. (wsj story: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788
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by yajoe 13y ago
I've used linux for years (15? 20? get off my lawn... :) Thank you for posting this link! I never knew why the paths were what they were, I could only explain what to expect in each.
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by yajoe 13y ago
Huge SO fan, and I have no doubt that there is serious ongoing work at SO. Each of the items you listed sounds like it will improve someone's life and is not so simple with 5 years of legacy. Based on these descriptions I would bucke
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by yajoe 13y ago
Living in Seattle, I happen to hear through the grapevine that most of the top 100 apps are funded by Microsoft (it's a mix of contractors, in-house, and revenue-sharing agreements). Spot on. Recent, public example where it backfired:
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by yajoe 13y ago
Dude, you don't know anything about me and I don't know anything about you. One of the reasons for my original post was to prevent this thread from turning into an unnecessary flame war. I would ask that you consider, for a momen
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by yajoe 13y ago
(this post is crazy to watch -- so many strong opinions!) If you're like me, then you'd want to see some examples of craftsmanship to weigh the value of different opinions. Unfortunately, I can't provide links to these examp
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by yajoe 13y ago
I'm definitely not qualified to provide an opinion. My short summary: Backbone was tiring for me and my partner with all the files and code to set up each view. I also never liked putting templates in script tags -- it just felt dirt
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by yajoe 13y ago
I forgot to write LOC after 10k; my point was that each app took longer than a weekend to write and I had to deal with at least one wart in each framework.
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by yajoe 13y ago
Thank you for the excellent and succinct answer! > My question is then: why are people purposely choosing not to use the advantages of client side MVC code? I didn't understand this question (it seemed too obvious to me and felt l
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by yajoe 13y ago
As a gentle reminder, Fred Brooks said "there are no silver bullets" in software ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Silver_Bullet ). Even without knowing the details of this article, I believe it's unlike
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by yajoe 13y ago
That's fair, and you're right this is a community forum where we learn from each other. For example, just yesterday I learned about akka for the first time even though I've been writing event-driven Java and searching googl
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by yajoe 13y ago
I've spent a little bit more time talking with the photographer, and it absolutely seems related to prints. The problem is, in 5 years there will be 60", high-resolution color e-ink displays that you can hang on your wall and use
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by yajoe 13y ago
thanks. Is there a specific referral you could pass on?
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by yajoe 13y ago
I appreciate the value in acquiring rights and have accepted that while unfair in general, it is the accepted practice for photography. However, I just don't understand why copying files from a hard drive (whether the finished lightroo

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