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The Right Harness Is All You Need(hkinsley.com)
4 points by bjclark 1mo ago|0 comments
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by bjclark 7mo ago
I work at a smallish public tech company and while this may be true at some companies, it's not true at all of them. We have almost no SaaS vendors. If we do have to buy software, we're almost only interested in On-Prem.
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by bjclark 10mo ago
Ruby’s performance has not been a bottleneck for multiple companies that have IPO’d and are worth billions of dollars.
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by bjclark 1y ago
I came here to say this! Ward taught me this when I paired with him every day when we worked together. It’s his, dare I say, mantra when starting a new feature.
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by bjclark 1y ago
Have you used gitlab every day in anger? I don't think you'd feel the same if you have.
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by bjclark 1y ago
You should actually read the paper. N size of 16. Only 1 of which had used cursor more than 40 hours before. All people working in existing code bases where they were the primary author.
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by bjclark 1y ago
You’re both focusing on “doing blackmail” and the real WTF is that it’s doing it seemingly out of a sense of self preservation (to stop the engineer from taking it offline). This model is going full Terminator.
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by bjclark 1y ago
As someone with an 18 yr old account here, this site turned into engineering LARPing much farther back than 2 years ago.
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by bjclark 2y ago
The BBC Micro keycaps were made by Comptec (mentioned in the article) in Gorton Modified. Source: I work at signature plastics and have seen the original tooling for it.
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by bjclark 2y ago
The author wrote a whole coffee table book called “Shift Happens”. But it was a one and done kickstarter.
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by bjclark 2y ago
Someone at Google actually got Apple to kill the Juno app on vOS because they decided to make this. Imagine that being your job.
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by bjclark 2y ago
Distributed startup founder here. We love Figma, keep in touch with Gather.town, and have been very happy with Flat.app for keeping us from Asana/Slack hell.
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by bjclark 2y ago
Piracy here means that you can sell 50k tickets to the same seat with a real valid rotating barcode.
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by bjclark 2y ago
And if you disbelieve this or want to see proof, check out Live Nations 10-k from 2015. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1335258/000133525816... "Ticketing. Our Ticketing segment is primarily
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by bjclark 3y ago
Zero to one is considered “R&D” and that’s what this entire thing is about.
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by bjclark 3y ago
99% of page views? Absolutely. Mr Beast absolutely has a YouTube contract and absolutely drives percentage points of traffic.
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by bjclark 3y ago
> Unless there's some kind option where youtube or twitch signs a contract with select creators and then hands them huge sums of cash upfront for the costs of future content production, or to license the creator's existing cont
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by bjclark 3y ago
When twitch was acquired by Amazon the rumor was that they were the single biggest AWS customer and they were going to go out of business because they didn’t have the cash to pay the bills. It would have been bad for AWS and Amazon was inve
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by bjclark 3y ago
I’m the founder and cto of a niche streaming platform. You don’t need to be google scale. You do need a different business model.
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by bjclark 3y ago
You’ve never heard of partnered twitch streamers or YouTube rev share?
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by bjclark 6y ago
> all documented in detail Thanks for the giggle.
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by bjclark 6y ago
The flaw in your logic is that "S3 is front-and-center the source of your business" is never true with AWS. To do anything in AWS there's at least 3 or 4 vaguely connected services, including IAM and RAM as a completely separ
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Amazon Data Pipeline Experience Report(b.patob.me)
2 points by bjclark 11y ago|0 comments
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by bjclark 12y ago
It's not a purse, it's a european carry-all.
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by bjclark 12y ago
Log off.
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by bjclark 13y ago
Huh?
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by bjclark 13y ago
Pretty glad Mapplethorpe only ever used prime lenses.
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by bjclark 13y ago
Don't buy a Ferrari unless you're going to race it in Formula 1.
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by bjclark 13y ago
Someone actually does interesting computer science in the field of ruby and it's crickets around here. Huh.
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by bjclark 14y ago
I moved here from a place in Colorado with 300 days of sunshine a year. Everyone said, upon hearing I was moving "You know it rains a lot there?". Buy a jacket. Go outside when it's nice, don't when it's not. Living your life by the weather

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