angelbob

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by angelbob 4y ago
And even if you think "not the fediverse," Twitter is still dead. Let's get to "long live" something .
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The Hundred-Year Programming Language(codefol.io)
2 points by angelbob 4y ago|1 comments
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by angelbob 4y ago
What do our oldest still-living langs have in common? What would it take for a programming language to make it to 100 years?
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by angelbob 5y ago
Disclaimer: I'm on the YJIT team. In general it's not a big change. You should only turn on YJIT for long-running jobs -- the prod Rails server, plus probably background workers if you have them. YJIT does nothing unless you turn
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by angelbob 7y ago
At least as of Ruby 2.6 I tried that and it really didn't work: http://engineering.appfolio.com/appfolio-engineering/2018/4/... It may work a bit better now, but it's still very much not tuned for
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by angelbob 7y ago
Earlier 2.6 versions of Ruby used 5 as the threshold. For a variety of reasons, that was way too low.
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by angelbob 7y ago
Nope, that's not what Bootsnap does. Bootsnap caches the pre-parsed .rb files as ISEQs (bytecode buffers.) It's conceptually a bit similar but not the same.
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by angelbob 9y ago
Weekly one-on-ones are pretty common in companies I've been part of, and GitHub has a lot of remote workers. Weekly one-on-ones seem more likely than not, in general.
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by angelbob 9y ago
This is very cynical, but not basically wrong.
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by angelbob 9y ago
Consider just-you personal retrospectives. Do them at the end of sprints or projects, and consider a weekly one. I do this both professionally and for personal stuff.
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by angelbob 9y ago
Where are you at geographically? I've never had good luck with the local recruiters in Silicon Valley, but maybe they're better in places with less info about market rates?
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by angelbob 9y ago
That's a very solid list of submissions. Every fourth-or-so submission has hundreds or thousands of points. If you feel that's not great... Dunno. You're using a different yardstick than I am. That looks a lot like people con
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by angelbob 10y ago
I got a raise of around $30,000 as a result (ish, hard to measure) of writing my technical book. I'm also sufficiently well-known that I'm unlikely to ever have trouble getting a Ruby job. That's hard to quantify exactly, but
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by angelbob 10y ago
At his price point, he'll probably get a continual trickle of customers. I sell a book called "Rebuilding Rails" -- not as successful as his, but I've also made a few tens of thousands of dollars, so not nothing. And I r
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by angelbob 10y ago
I got a 1099-K from Gumroad this year, as did my wife. I think they're changing that.
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by angelbob 10y ago
If they've prepared a counter at $140, there's a decent chance they're (quietly) allowed to haggle up to some larger number, say between $145 and $160 depending on how much they want you and how much they expect you to negoti
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by angelbob 10y ago
They do. But separating those two roles and having two different people make those decisions tends to result in less-than-optimal decisions. It's the same kind of problem as "let's have the tech done by engineers and the busi
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by angelbob 10y ago
Patrick had already spun down his consulting business before this happened -- I think before Starfighter started, even. It was lucrative, but not pleasant, and he made more enjoyable money working for himself.
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by angelbob 10y ago
Call/cc is actually used by Sinatra for its error handling. There's not a good way to get its syntax without doing it that way. (Is the syntax worth using call/cc? Eh, good question. But Sinatra's killer feature is, lite
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by angelbob 10y ago
If you read the article, there are a number of characteristics of Zika that make it a lot easier to vaccinate against. Also, apparently they do have vaccines against some strains of Dengue.
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by angelbob 10y ago
Cassandra, for instance, makes it possible to query your join-type tables in relatively manual chunks using slice queries. You have to do a lot more of it in the application so you wind up with weird partial failures... But at scale, weird
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by angelbob 10y ago
Sometimes this is very hard to do. This is in effect Twitter's core use case as well, with the list of accounts you follow. And it's a hard problem. Twitter spawned a huge wave of NoSQL to deal with this, and it's still not r
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by angelbob 10y ago
You're not wrong. But mostly we haven't collectively agreed that relational databases aren't great for highly-indexed rapid-update join tables. I think we will at some point. That's the primary original use case for a lo
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by angelbob 10y ago
Right, but they need criminal or treasonous intent, or gross negligence. "Broke the law" isn't enough, in the same way that old jaywalking charges don't generally get brought up against you, even if somebody can prove it
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by angelbob 10y ago
This story has a ridiculous amount of integrity. You did what was right, even when convention went the other way. Future investor reaction to it will tell us what they think of actually bucking convention to do the right thing.
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by angelbob 10y ago
Some of that is related to the article talking about differing nausea when synthetic imagery was different distances away -- it depends a lot on what you're looking at.
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by angelbob 10y ago
He's certainly right that in AR (where you literally don't mess with a lot of the scenery, sometimes most of it, because you use a transparent visor), these problems are often less severe. It's less of a "sufficiently sm
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by angelbob 10y ago
But then AR's going to have a similar motion problem when you're up close to synthetic imagery instead of only having a little bit of it as an overlay.
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by angelbob 10y ago
I do kind of wonder whether sock-puppet accounts were a significant factor. I wouldn't necessarily expect them to follow the same gender distribution as the folks abusing.
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by angelbob 10y ago
Presumably the highly unfair treatment of a whistleblower. Snowden gets a lot more publicity, but Manning's case wasn't well handled either.

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