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by Frencil 10y ago
> One gotcha is that you won't get any CSS this way, so all styling has to be done via SVG props. There actually is a way to bake stylesheets directly into the SVG in a way that at least Inkscape can read, but it's tricky. We
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EclipseTracks.org: visualizing Friday's total solar eclipse with Cesium(eclipsetracks.org)
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by Frencil 12y ago
Xively was one of the services we used as inspiration for Phant / data.sparkfun.com. Before they were Xively they were Pachube and things were easier to work with and free. Then Xively gobbled up Pachube and things got all business-y.
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by Frencil 13y ago
This is a bit of a false dichotomy here, as we do have occasional work from home which varies between positions and departments. That perk is a separate concern from the dog perk. I know of some employees who do choose to favor the former
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by Frencil 13y ago
In all fairness it used to be more of a waste of time (as mentioned in the post it got progressively worse and widely viewed as a waste of time) until the tribunal came along. Under that setup it's 30 minutes of 5 peoples' tim
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by Frencil 13y ago
This is perhaps one of the more succinct ways of summarizing our core reasons for the switch. There's a lot more to it than that, of course, but in a nutshell we saw the upcoming scaling of our data footprint and complexity and wanted
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by Frencil 13y ago
Inventory location is one of many, many problems our ERP system is tasked with. And we've looked at a lot of software packages over the years, both proprietary and open. In terms of open software the options are actually pretty limit
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by Frencil 13y ago
I presume you're recommending PostGIS because of the allusions to the inventory location problem. While better modelling of geo data would be nice it's kind of a different concern. For us inventory location isn't about where
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by Frencil 13y ago
These are all very good questions and underscore the need to come to an interview prepared to do no less. As a manager who frequently interviews developers nothing is more deflating than an applicant who, when asked if they have any questio
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by Frencil 14y ago
Amazing how the insides of these chips are composed of similar looking traces and microcomponents to the PCBs that house them on a larger order of magnitude.
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by Frencil 14y ago
I'm booked for a tour in April and had no idea it was scheduled to be shut down. What a stroke of luck! Here's hoping we get a more in-depth look than we would have during normal operation.
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by Frencil 14y ago
We had a similar situation several years ago with our site: http://www.sparkfun.com And this Chinese knock-off: http://www.geeetech.com/ Not only did they rip off our design but they also use a bunch of our product photos. We himmed and
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by Frencil 14y ago
The retail comparison is apples to oranges, in my opinion. Amazon is purely eCommerce, no brick-and-mortar, so the comparison is strongest when considering other eCommerce outfits. Consider a site like NewEgg. At ~250M annual revenue they'r
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by Frencil 14y ago
SparkFun Electronics (Boulder, CO) Looking for a full time web application developer. Debian/Nginx/PHP/MySQL stack with a dash of MongoDB. Heavily open source environment (SparkFun is a leading in Open Source Hardware) and our dev shop is j
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by Frencil 14y ago
Another excellent post by Rands. Much of his guidance on conducting 1:1s with developers I gleaned from his book Managing Humans. The note in this article on asserting "I will not be the next one to speak" is a great piece of advice though;
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by Frencil 14y ago
The number one rule for KickStarter is that it is NOT eCommerce. When a campaign operates on the mindset that it's a platform to sell goods, and when backers also operate on that same premise, both parties end up on the hook for something t