dexterchief

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by dexterchief 6y ago
I'm happy you're happy, but do you really need all that fancy file syncing/diff/resolution stuff? Wouldn't FTP have been enough? Vim over SSH? Seems like overkill. :P
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by dexterchief 9y ago
It feels like the constraints/expectations we face building in 2017 are different from those of 2004 (when Rails was created) or 2005 (when Django was created). Both of these predate the iphone (launched in 2007) and the dominance of m
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by dexterchief 10y ago
Location: Ottawa, Canada Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Node.js/Javascript(ES6/7), Ruby, Rails, TDD, GraphQL, React, React-Router, Postgres, NoSQL (MongoDB, ArangoDB), Docker, *nix, graph-databases
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by dexterchief 11y ago
Wikipedia has lots of disambiguation pages but somehow this idea has never made it into the search world. Perhaps the idea of a single text box that you can type "Michelangelo" into is not a good one. Tracking the user so you can
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by dexterchief 11y ago
Bill Blunden: "In this editorial he asserts that American spies are motivated primarily by the desire to thwart terrorist plots." Glen Greenwald: "In one sense, this blame-shifting tactic is understandable. After all, the CIA
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by dexterchief 11y ago
I think FSF could learn a lot from what Micah Lee is doing at the Intercept. He's been doing a bunch of articles that are a nice blend of why and how with a nice conversational feel. In terms of outreach and informing new generations o
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by dexterchief 11y ago
Because a blunt, rude, & brutal response to the observation that the community around the kernel is blunt, rude, & brutal is obviously the way to go...
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by dexterchief 11y ago
That would be cool. I'm not sure it would change much though. I know someone working with search data who recently tried out Neo4j with a test data set of 500,000,000 nodes and apparently was really disappointed with the results. I&#x2
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by dexterchief 11y ago
I think the idea with "native multi-model" is that Arango was explicitly designed to do k/v, documents and graphs rather than it being something that is bolted on afterwards.
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by dexterchief 11y ago
I've been using ArangoDB for a year now and I think they are definitely on to something cool. Having stumbled upon some really complex data a few times now, I am increasingly appreciating how amazing it is to model your data any way yo
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by dexterchief 12y ago
Fair point. Assume a vanilla Rails app, with RDS for the Database. Perhaps a configuration something like this: https://medium.com/@jatescher/how-to-set-up-a-rails-4-1-app-...
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Ask HN: What can a startup expect to spend on hosting?
2 points by dexterchief 12y ago|3 comments
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by dexterchief 12y ago
I second this. One for Rubyists coming from, say, Sinatra would be great. Or maybe focusing on the language transition separately from the tools/library transition: "the X things that will hurt your head transitioning from Y to Go
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by dexterchief 12y ago
By all means, unapologetically build your startup with C#/.NET. Every Linux/OSS based startup you will be competing with agrees with this recommendation.
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by dexterchief 12y ago
I took some classes with Marc-André Cournoyer ( http://classes.codedinc.com/ ) and really enjoyed the format he used of online video, 4 hours a day for two days. FWIW, I think what you are thinking of might be a good (better?
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by dexterchief 13y ago
Apparently this is done with Ruby/Rails... any chance this is going to find its way onto Github?
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by dexterchief 13y ago
That's true, they're now worse. They are now a patent troll both directly (with the money they are demanding, and getting, from Android manufacturers) and indirectly (see link to bloomberg below) and engage heavily in astroturfin
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by dexterchief 13y ago
Well how about that. I take back two or three things I said about the Canadian Government. :) Seriously I am really happy to see this kind of thing finally happen.
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by dexterchief 13y ago
If you could dig up that link to the study I would love to read it.
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by dexterchief 13y ago
This really makes no sense. Pointing to someone who is 5 years into learning the Microsoft ecosystem and who got their last software update two years ago is the worst possible way to prove you don't get "hammered" when you le
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by dexterchief 13y ago
Seems like a good moment for some Emma Goldman: "If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal."
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by dexterchief 13y ago
"The goal is to create a happy, healthy and capable person - not an impressive 5 year old" I totally agree with this. This is a life long project. What you are looking for has to come from within, it can't be imposed from without. If I coul
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Ask HN: What are the newest jobs you know of?
3 points by dexterchief 13y ago|4 comments
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by dexterchief 14y ago
For anyone interested in retro graphics programs, you should check out Wright Design. I wrote up a post about it and it includes a zip file of the actual program and tutorial files. I have always secretly hoped that someone would make an FO
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by dexterchief 14y ago
Relevant and hilarious. Good find!
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by dexterchief 14y ago
You are probably correct that what he did is probably unlawful (Canadian law is usually fairly close to US law), I disagree that it was unethical. In a general sense It's not difficult to find instances of behaviour that, while lawful are f
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by dexterchief 14y ago
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/01/21/engineers_cold_and_d... Suddenly everything makes sense. :) Seriously though, where are those stats coming from?
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by dexterchief 14y ago
There emphatically is not a worse motivation that being willing to do anything for money. Do something to ensure there is a little less tragedy in the commons. Please.
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by dexterchief 14y ago
Amen Brother. IE was/is broken on purpose to prevent web apps from competing with Microsoft's bread and butter desktops apps, IMO. MS is scared they losing IE's drag on the momentum of the web. This is forcing them to update IE so its at le
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by dexterchief 14y ago
Sorry to hear you had to fold up shop like that. It sounds like you have plenty of talents to fall back on but that probably doesn't remove any of the sting of having all your hard work swept away. That said, US Politicians have plenty of m

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