Clobbersmith

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by Clobbersmith 4y ago
I've done a little bit of C++ in the last couple of years. Compared to pretty much any other common language out there the developer experience is full of pain. I can program C++ but why would I want to?
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by Clobbersmith 4y ago
I always interpret it to mean "if you're going to hate anybody, hate me". It's deflecting blame away from his staff. "Full responsibility" is a bad term for sure.
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by Clobbersmith 8y ago
At ~200k/job, why not just have the state give universal basic income to everybody in Racine? Don't like handouts? Have them dig a giant hole and fill it in afterwards.
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by Clobbersmith 8y ago
I was at Yahoo under Marissa and I have mixed feelings on the program. The first couple of years the people that got accepted as APMs were very good. The flipside was they all left a year in, after their first accelerated promo happened. As
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by Clobbersmith 8y ago
You forgot being able to buy a house. If you're content with renting forever it's not an issue, but if you ever want to buy you'd better hope that both you and your partner work in tech.
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by Clobbersmith 8y ago
This was the case when I graduated ~12 years ago, if anything the situation has got slightly better. When I graduated if I wanted to work in software my options were a bank or a consulting company. At least now you can get more stereotypi
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by Clobbersmith 8y ago
My counterpoint to the frequent "electron is worse than Hitler and aids combined": what's the alternative? Especially when it comes to commercial software where certain open source licenses are a non-starter and there just
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by Clobbersmith 8y ago
For sure. Flickr wasn't the only company Yahoo mismanaged.
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by Clobbersmith 8y ago
When I worked at Yahoo they never quite knew what to do with Flickr. I hope at the very least Flickr gets resources to develop the site/app/other priorities because they make some pretty neat stuff.
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by Clobbersmith 8y ago
Nice try, Pepsi.
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by Clobbersmith 9y ago
Rails. Rails was basically designed to write CRUD apps. You will 99% never get big enough where rails' downsides become a problem.
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by Clobbersmith 9y ago
Who wouldn't want to paint their walls Turdly brown?
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by Clobbersmith 9y ago
Is there a reason why the installer is in french? My preferred language is set to english.
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by Clobbersmith 9y ago
Taxes in California are comparable to taxes in Ontario.
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by Clobbersmith 10y ago
As somebody who grew up in Guelph, this doesn't surprise me. Few other places I've been to would have a CEO spending his own money to help out complete strangers.
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by Clobbersmith 10y ago
Yes with a but. I'm not convinced Trump fully understands what NAFTA entails. He talks a lot about the importing of goods manufactured in Mexico and the export of American jobs to Mexico, but to my knowledge he hasn't talked abou
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by Clobbersmith 10y ago
Slack also has an amazing UX, I haven't used a competing product that was as enjoyable to use. Yes I know this is subjective, but of the people I know that like Slack actually love it. Whereas I've never met somebody that loves
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by Clobbersmith 10y ago
Yahoo employee here, we have a 18 month retention period. After which data is, at the very least, anonymized. https://policies.yahoo.com/us/en/yahoo/privacy/topics/datast...
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by Clobbersmith 10y ago
Expedia uses scala now? That's crazy. I worked there about 5 years ago and I'd never have thought of Expedia as the kind of company to play around with Scala. We were in the middle of a Java migration at the time.
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by Clobbersmith 10y ago
How can something "just drop" over 16 months? I think it's amazing that solar is becoming more affordable, but a year and a half is hardly sudden.
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by Clobbersmith 10y ago
We use NodeJS pretty extensively at Yahoo for both front end and back end services and it works well. While some of the complaints are valid, it's not worth flipping tables over. Promises are standard in ES6 and it is "the way&qu
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by Clobbersmith 11y ago
I have to use Jive at work and I honestly hate it. There was a forced migration from email lists to jive and rather than continue the communication using Jive, the discussions just stopped. Enterprise social networks seem like a solution