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by zedpm 12y ago
Ugh, open offices are toxic for development. Low cubicles are almost as bad, tall cubicles are almost tolerable. Barring private offices for everyone, my best experience was with a very large office occupied by my team (myself and two other
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by zedpm 12y ago
I read PG's original essay and ma.tt's, and while I agree that PG is talking explicitly about international, I disagree that ma.tt is doing the same, to the exclusion of domestic remote workers. He writes "If 95% of great pro
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by zedpm 12y ago
Remote does not necessarily imply international. There are over 300 million Americans who don't live in the Bay Area, so there are plenty of potential remote devs that are still in the US. Domestic remote devs are in the same or nearly
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by zedpm 12y ago
One of many benefits of living in a semi-rural area (western South Dakota) is easy access to truly high-quality foods like actual farm eggs. I've walked around the two farms I buy eggs from and I've seen the chickens wandering aro
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by zedpm 12y ago
>Recruit Outside Of Central Casting Good idea, start by being open to remote developers. I'm not going to relocate to SF, regardless of salary, equity, or how exciting the project is. I've worked remotely successfully for the b
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by zedpm 12y ago
The helmet really isn't the best place for a video camera anyway; I've ridden quite a bit with a GoPro and found that the chest mount gives the best view of the action.
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by zedpm 12y ago
I imagine the hurdle is simply the will to undertake the work. As the article notes, there are and have been various sources for caselaw. Parsing is of course painful, though XML is now available.
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by zedpm 12y ago
Providing open access to caselaw (and constitutions, statutes, and periodicals, and ...) is wonderful, but there's a lot of room left in the realm of legal-oriented computing and software. The big boys (Westlaw and LexisNexis) and the
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by zedpm 12y ago
Office apps on the Mac are automated using Scripting Bridge [1]. Applescript is one way to drive a scriptable app, but Python and other languages can also use the bridge. I built a substantial Word addin on the Mac in C# on Mono, using the
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by zedpm 12y ago
Have you looked at Stack Overflow Careers 2.0, specifically for jobs tagged with php [0]? Quite a few of the listings are for part-time positions, if you want something steady but not full-time. Do you check out the monthly Freelancing post
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by zedpm 12y ago
I'd love to hear more, if you're comfortable sharing, about the data structure you use for the log viewer. Either way, this looks like an excellent product; thanks for sharing.
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by zedpm 12y ago
Any security hole is of course concerning, but as a LastPass user, I'm not at all concerned about the two issues mentioned in this article. The two features in question are, IMHO, not part of a typical use case for the product.
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by zedpm 12y ago
I certainly agree that detailed git commit messages are important, but I don't think I'd be able to accomplish the same thing using them instead of a work log. My log includes details of discussions with teammates, outlines of fai
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by zedpm 12y ago
You've managed to break the first two rules in the commenting guidelines [1]; it seems you're in no position to advise anyone on appropriate commenting on HN. Profanity, insults, and personal attacks simply don't belong here.
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by zedpm 12y ago
At my first internship, many years ago, my supervisor suggested that I keep a work log. That habit has stuck with me since then, and it's proven to be extremely valuable. Some of the value comes from having date-stamped notes on previo
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by zedpm 12y ago
I probably should have started out my initial comment by saying thanks for building something and sharing it with the world. I didn't intend for my comments to sound overly critical or like an attack, though at least one individual see
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by zedpm 12y ago
I find your vitriol unwelcome and inappropriate for a discussion that could be and ought to be constructive. I could spend some time explaining my position and defending my previous comment to you, but you haven't earned that. I will n
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by zedpm 12y ago
This is interesting, but I can't help but wonder at the wisdom of writing C++ in this fashion. What's the use case for this? I perhaps naively think that the problem domains for C++ and Javascript are very different, and that this
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by zedpm 12y ago
Are the developer positions in-office only, or is full-time remote (in the US) an option?
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by zedpm 13y ago
There is absolutely an opportunity to hire talented people at affordable rates outside major urban areas. I just finished an eight year adventure growing a startup from nothing, and I did it remotely from South Dakota. In a few months I&#x2
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by zedpm 13y ago
The options are listed in order of increasing difficulty. Vault of Satoshi requires verification of users, which means sending them personal information and waiting for it to be processed. Once you've jumped through all the hoops, it&#
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by zedpm 13y ago
Well, if you literally mean cash in hand, you're going to have to do a bit of work. Much like with other crypto coins, you can sometimes find a local person who will do an in-person exchange[1]. Otherwise, you can use something like th
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by zedpm 13y ago
>The developers you want to hire are never applying to job listings. The are either gainfully employed, or directly contacting you because they have found your company and love what you do. This field is so saturated right now that the g
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by zedpm 13y ago
Very cool. People were really whinging about Linode's lack of metered billing the other day when the Linode CLI was posted. I just entered a ticket a few minutes ago and they've already updated my account to join the beta. The sup
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by zedpm 13y ago
The nice thing about being in the spiritual goods and services business is that you can make up the rules as you go. There's no way for any parties involved to prove the efficacy of their methods, nor to disprove the efficacy of their
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by zedpm 13y ago
$1850/year for the privilege of having extra hoops to jump through and extra lag introduced into the process of updating DNS? Where do I sign up? Seriously, there is potential value in having extra security steps surrounding DNS change
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by zedpm 13y ago
Oh yeah, I agree. I guess I failed to address that in my original comment, but the analysis is actually cool and it's a valuable submission.
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by zedpm 13y ago
I'd think twice before declaring victory; I don't see any reason to believe that the server is now "clean". If this had happened to me, I'd spin up a new VPS, configure it appropriately, then install my app and migr
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by zedpm 13y ago
Does the top comment in _every_ HN post have to be an argument, criticism, or complaint? If you don't find value in a given post, then just move on. I suspect a lot of folks had indeed never heard of this feature before now. I found th
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by zedpm 13y ago
I'm trying to understand if you can self-host the server-side piece of this. I've wanted to have a networked thermostat for a while, but all the ones I found connect to the vendor's server, which is silly. I'd like to be

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