brendonjohn

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by brendonjohn 4mo ago
I’ve loved using deno. Full time for the last three months. Deno replaced a pnpm monorepo I was using.
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by brendonjohn 1y ago
Yes
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by brendonjohn 2y ago
Principal engineer for Loom here: Congrats on the beta launch. Super cool, I’m looking forward to trying it out. Welcome to the Thunderdome.
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by brendonjohn 4y ago
Hah, touché. To counterpoint, their success is probably correlated with consumer spending habits (If consumers don't spend, transactions aren't happening, Stripe isn't getting its commission) The case against Stripe probably
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by brendonjohn 4y ago
> the way of WeWork That's an unreasonable comparison. Stripe is not deeply tied to commercial office real estate.
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by brendonjohn 4y ago
I must be missing something here. On a donation of $10, their cut should be $0.75, given that's 7.5%.
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by brendonjohn 4y ago
I thought this was going to be a critique of Blinkist.
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by brendonjohn 5y ago
There's clearly been a lot of thought put into KubeSail, the platform & pibox provisioning service looks interesting. Have you had businesses try to make this part of an internal provisioning process? It looks like you're aimi
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by brendonjohn 6y ago
Assuming this is for Android, the APK would no longer be signed and would cause all login attempts to fail. Have a read about "SafetyNet Attestion API" for Android.
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by brendonjohn 6y ago
This is brilliant work, I'm hoping in part II we get to see it working against the API. I reverse engineered this in a production environment. It took approximately 7 months to build a scalable solution. The investigation on how to cre
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by brendonjohn 6y ago
This is a massive move, I read this as they are hoping to climb the value chain and are optimistic about transitioning into a company that competes for the the social media advertising dollars. After all, they own their content. Social medi
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by brendonjohn 6y ago
I currently work at Loom. I think it's worth mentioning, when they say it's remote, they actually mean remote and not just "you can work from home sometimes". I did the whole interview process from home in New Zealand an
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by brendonjohn 7y ago
> full-service dealers advertise their wares is through Snapchat or WhatsApp: Oh dear, just because a snap disappears doesn't mean a record doesn't exist. While Snapchat (I don't know about WhatsApp) says that they "
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by brendonjohn 8y ago
This probably sounds crazy... I think in the next ten years there will be a cultural shift away from carrying any form of electronics on yourself. That's including mobile phones and media devices.
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by brendonjohn 8y ago
I don't think a company should offer an interview if they're not willing to give proper feedback at the end of it. When interviewing candidates, I have been more than happy to give detailed feedback if they've asked me to giv
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by brendonjohn 8y ago
Speaking as someone that has stock options... how did your employee options get wiped out?
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by brendonjohn 9y ago
I should of said Helvetica-derivatives.
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by brendonjohn 9y ago
That really depends on what you're starting with. My one-liner didn't go into the care that this article went into, I couldn't do the topic justice.
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by brendonjohn 9y ago
Helvetica and its derivatives are beautiful, they're not boring.
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by brendonjohn 9y ago
Helvetica and you're done. ^ My one sentence guide to better typography.
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by brendonjohn 9y ago
> ...and certainly doesn't think of himself as a genius This is intellectual humility. He's obviously a genius in his own right.
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by brendonjohn 10y ago
Do you know what the connection between the two writers is? Seems to me that the quote is neither here nor there, but I haven't found anything solid to confirm who said what. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Stei
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by brendonjohn 10y ago
Yes, I like this. It's important to learn what react is and why it's good for handling state in a component before you start trying to build the routing of a full web app.
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by brendonjohn 10y ago
It took me over a week to grasp how routing would combine with redux, async, react and then server side rendering. We got there, but there just hasn't been a simple (to reason about) way to do this in javascript. Acknowledging that the
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by brendonjohn 10y ago
Using what humans have learnt from developing software as an analogy for how the universe operates is fine until you start expecting human-type exploits to also be present in the rules of physics. At that point you're basically hammeri
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by brendonjohn 10y ago
The time it takes to go into burnout is supposed to be the time it takes to restore yourself.
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by brendonjohn 11y ago
Lets use the vocabulary proposed by Rich Hickey. Wordpress is complex and is not simple . Wordpress is certainly easy if you have taken the time to learn Wordpress, but this understandably isn't the case for the honey bee entrepre
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by brendonjohn 11y ago
I have a friend that is considered incredibly intelligent. When he attended kindergarten he realised he was different from the other children and so deduced he must be an alien. Fortunately his hypothesis was just a phase.
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by brendonjohn 12y ago
thanks :D
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by brendonjohn 12y ago
I've briefly read through the paper and tried to trawl through google. Can someone explain to me or link me to something that explains what oblivious storage is?

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