0xcolton

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by 0xcolton 8y ago
Erlich, is that you?
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by 0xcolton 8y ago
Having worked as a frontend dev for a while, my observation is this - because the UI is closer to the user, and closer to the product side (for consumer-facing apps), it has faster iteration cycles, doubling or tripling the rate of technolo
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by 0xcolton 8y ago
Like all things, it depends. Your application architecture complexity is going to go way up, but your devops / sysadmin complexity goes to zero. I run a web hosting service, and while my application code is a bit more complicated now,
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by 0xcolton 9y ago
I'm happy to see this article posted here. Many people in technology seem so sure that AI is on some kind of path to singularity, and don't give respect to the deep controversy of that belief. Merely examining how the brain '
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by 0xcolton 10y ago
Keep positive man - as you know so much of product development is about feedback and iteration. I would really push your ex-interviewers or even the recruiting folks to share their exact thoughts on what didn't go well - even if you ha
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by 0xcolton 11y ago
I have the same feeling. When I was a less experienced programmer, I found coffeescript to be a great tool for helping me to write 'better-looking' code while avoiding the 'bad parts' of javascript. Later, I decided to f
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by 0xcolton 13y ago
Seriously? What arbitrary metric of cultural value is this guy using other than nostalgia? He makes a truly fascinating comparison, but like many of you have said, his statistics are dubious. Technology's influence on evolution /