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Show HN: I revived yuiblog.com, Yahoo's defunct front end engineering blog(derek.io)
3 points by drgath 3mo ago|0 comments
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by drgath 4mo ago
That sounds amazing. Off-by-one disasters, time conversion problems, imperial instead of metric messups. Halt and Catch Fire & Mr Robot were great. We need more like that, and less like CSI:Cyber.
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by drgath 4y ago
Seems likely it’s all there. https://www.fdic.gov/news/press-releases/2023/pr23016.html > As of December 31, 2022, Silicon Valley Bank had approximately $209.0 billion in total assets and about $175.4 bill
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by drgath 4y ago
Have we yet deviated from FDIC rules? I don’t think so, even with what Yellen says. My limited understanding of the situation is that the assets to cover everything is there, they’re just tied up in long-term treasuries. From the FDIC’s sit
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by drgath 4y ago
ctrl+f “yql” and landed here. Was an amazing service for its time. Could even execute server-side JS in its engine (Rhino). Certainly the only E4X environment I ever coded in.
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by drgath 6y ago
Asking someone to spend $400+ just to upgrade equipment in order to support a service that doesn’t work well on the original equipment you sold them, takes some guts.
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by drgath 7y ago
In 15 years as a professional software engineer, I’ve never worked somewhere that wasn’t heavily using IRC, Hipchat, or Slack. The conversations are identical, the only thing that has changed is the service being used. As previous poster al
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by drgath 8y ago
To the same degree? I disagree there. I would never expect a full-stack engineer to be more proficient at front-end when compared to a FE specialist. You are expected to know some, but not to the same degree. That’s the reason they are spec
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Meetingbird is joining Front(blog.meetingbird.com)
1 points by drgath 8y ago|0 comments
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by drgath 8y ago
Reminds me of YQL, https://developer.yahoo.com/yql/ .
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by drgath 8y ago
They’re about to IPO. Doesn’t mean they’re profitable, but it does mean their finances are healthy enough that they can be publicly traded.
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by drgath 8y ago
> Being overworked is an excellent reason to hire. It shows that you are about to lose your team due to burn-out or extended sick leave. I took the original comment to imply that when employees are overworked, it is due to a failure in p
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What’s the next Bitcoin?(quid.com)
3 points by drgath 9y ago|0 comments
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by drgath 10y ago
Sling[1] is the closest we can get right now. Eventually, channel subscriptions will be available through something like an App Store and just as easy to manage as an recurring subscription app. [1] https://www.sling.com/
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by drgath 10y ago
The current state of the lawsuit isn't over the novelty of function, it's about the copyright of it. Also, very important to their argument is that this wasn't some random developer at Google who added it into Android, it wa
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by drgath 10y ago
Can anyone explain what prompted Six Flags to buy 100 of these, or what has everyone excited? First-aid vending machines aren't new, nor are these products that Six Flags doesn't currently sell. You can already buy some of this
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A Yahoo Employee-Ranking System Is Challenged in Court(nytimes.com)
4 points by drgath 11y ago|0 comments
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by drgath 11y ago
Many scientific studies confirm common sense. It's the process of turning assumptions into fact.
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by drgath 11y ago
> but I feel like the Open Source community could do itself a lot of favors by avoiding this kind of tone. To be accurate, that comment was from a security researcher at Google commenting on a closed-source software project. I agree tha
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Google no more? How this eclectic startup is reinventing search(upstart.bizjournals.com)
4 points by drgath 11y ago|1 comments
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by drgath 11y ago
Forget the specificity of Micky Mouse, as that character just represents Disney's brand. Do you really think a company should lose their brand after X years? Disney doesn't care about Steamboat Willy, they care about people sell
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by drgath 11y ago
Just to list a few of the valuable properties off-hand: Homepage, Mail, Search, Tumblr, Flickr, Finance, News, Sports, Fantasy sports (including daily fantasy). Some of the bigger ones are billion+ dollar properties. Others are hundreds o
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by drgath 11y ago
Entirely dependent on who decides to buy Y! Mail. Safe to assume it'll be around for a while though, since straight killing Y! Mail doesn't make much business sense.
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by drgath 11y ago
This can be answered by the question "Is Flickr profitable by itself?" If so, someone will certainly buy it. If not, who knows. My guess, someone will buy it and it'll languish for a year or two as the product strategy is d
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by drgath 12y ago
Despite the "wall" between the two organizations from a knowledge-standpoint, there isn't one from a financial standpoint. If you had ambitions to be a $100+ billion company (see: Uber), and think Google might eventually want
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by drgath 12y ago
In 1835, the New York Sun (a serious newspaper [0], 1833-1855) published some articles [1] describing alien civilizations on the moon that can be seen through a new telescope in South Africa. From Wired, > The Sun, ever the champion of
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by drgath 12y ago
That's pretty much the approach of Virgin Galactic. Reasons why it works for them, but not for NASA would have to be explained by someone more qualified. I do know that VG barely gets into LEO, whereas NASA's requirements are mu
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by drgath 12y ago
Seems far more likely that in 40k years, humans will have discovered the ability of interstellar travel. Heck, at that point we could go out and fetch Voyager 1 ourselves before it comes within 1.6 light years of AC+79 3888. If we can&#x27
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by drgath 12y ago
YUI did host its own blog, but it was shut down a few days ago. http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2014/08/25/weve-moved-to-tumblr/
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Google engineer: We need more Web programming languages(itworld.com)
2 points by drgath 12y ago|0 comments

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