eight_ender

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by eight_ender 2y ago
Was surprised this comment was this far down. I re-read the YC ask three times to make sure I wasn’t crazy. Dude wrote the whole article based on a misunderstanding.
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by eight_ender 4y ago
I wont mention what company, but where I work we've spent about 6 months now with an entire dev team hammering their heads against a wall trying to port our extension to MV3, because the alternative was to lose it entirely at the deadl
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by eight_ender 4y ago
I’d like to add RockAuto as a peer to McMaster. It’s auto parts, and somehow uglier than McMaster, but damn if it isn’t the fastest no nonsense website I’ve seen for parts. I can drill down to a specific part for a specific car in seconds,
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by eight_ender 6y ago
I'm totally fine with good enough if it keeps Google in check
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by eight_ender 6y ago
Exactly this
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by eight_ender 7y ago
Admitting I'm wrong or that I screwed up, and likewise praising others when they're correct or have ideas I agree with. You would not believe how much smoother everything at work is when you learn to recognize early the signs that
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by eight_ender 7y ago
They've yet to master their own 10nm process let alone 7nm. I don't doubt their processes outdo the competitors on actual die shrinkage but they've been having a hell of a time of it.
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by eight_ender 7y ago
That's more or less what Steam Greenlight was and one reason why I love it even if it goes by a different name now. I can pick up something interesting, play around with it, and then catch up on it's progress over years. I've
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by eight_ender 7y ago
I feel like Apple's approach to UI/UX is one half care and consideration for the current user and the rest is "training" for whatever they intend next. The design world at large gave them shit for excessive Skeuomorphism
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by eight_ender 7y ago
Performance and quality is something you can mentor. I work my ass off to make sure my devs have a plan to get better at their craft and learn from others. If they're not doing well I tell them immediately before it grows into a shitsh
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by eight_ender 7y ago
I wrote code like a madman and then went into management. I like management, but I understand what the author of this article was getting at. I had an identity crisis early on doing management. I liked to tell people what to do, because I h
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by eight_ender 7y ago
This starts out well outlining the problem then ends abruptly with "use this magical third party service to make your problems disappear" with no insight into how it's solving the problem.
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by eight_ender 8y ago
It's more nuanced than that. Nvidia can write the drivers but releasing them without the blessing of Apple blows away any chance of them getting that sweet GPU contract back. Nvidia doesn't have much of a real world application ou
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by eight_ender 8y ago
Anyone interested in this kind of local control should check out the Home Assistant project: https://www.home-assistant.io It allows you to corral all these IoT devices through a massive library of open source component plugins.
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by eight_ender 8y ago
I love reading about stuff like this. There's something magical about having an inspiration fire so hot you can't put it out without 6 hours of hard coding at an ungodly hour.
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by eight_ender 8y ago
Has Intel just outlawed any review website (gaming, enthusiast, etc) from ever posting benchmarks of their CPUs again? I feel like they didn't think this through.
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by eight_ender 8y ago
I went to reply to the parent but you just nailed it. Microsoft isn't after your open source project git user here, they're after the multitude of companies that are heavily invested in what Github offers on top of git. If I were
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by eight_ender 8y ago
There's no real alternative. You buy an iPad or Amazon tablet, and you get either iOS with the App Store or Amazon's weird Android fork and it's Amazon centric ecosystem. Google is being short sighted here. These are the oper
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by eight_ender 8y ago
The weird thing about the notch is that it's really obvious that Apple made a compromise due to constraints. They're likely to do some next level technology investment to get rid of it, and it's going to leave their competito
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by eight_ender 8y ago
I think it was a battle in the sense of "Amazon made Walmart pay a shitload and the Flipkart founders wanted the safest possible route to close because holy shit dat money"
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by eight_ender 8y ago
YES. Robbie for construction, Torx and Triple Square for cars. I've never had a problem with those three. Philips, Posi and Hex strip like crazy.
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by eight_ender 8y ago
Find a better place to work. I'm not sure what environment you're in but security and privacy would be an extremely valuable superpower on my team.
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by eight_ender 8y ago
I've felt imposter syndrome badly before, even while I was climbing ranks and getting excellent reviews. Now I manage developers and, while not a cure, the best I can do is constant feedback, and to urge them to find their "superp
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by eight_ender 8y ago
As someone who worked as a CTO at what I like to call a "zombie" startup I agree with the poster above me, and it hurts just to recollect the history. You can keep this shit up indefinitely. We're in a weird environment where
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by eight_ender 8y ago
I'm not sure it's fortunate coincidence, seems like Apple chose this path. As for greed, well, they're a corporation. That's a given. They're driven to profit by their very nature. If you need a phone you choose one
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by eight_ender 8y ago
I get where you're coming from, but I'm not sure that matters to me personally. Privacy and security are important to me, and that's what Apple is selling, so I'm going to buy. The more consumers support privacy as a sel
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by eight_ender 9y ago
Our entire company ran on GTalk for a while, then Slack landed like the Spanish Flu and the IRC++ like features pushed every other medium out, except for some, email. Hangouts was used in meeting rooms for a while but it was so horrendously
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by eight_ender 9y ago
Microsoft would have to provide a compelling reason to use their own app store and other services that would replace the Google ones. That's not to say it's impossible. Microsoft has been doing a lot of mobile development lately,
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by eight_ender 9y ago
This is the key. If you don't worry about actually falling asleep, and accept that even just lying down is going to be a benefit, you'll find yourself falling asleep more often than not. I do a 20 minute nap every day after work a
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by eight_ender 9y ago
I think it's really hard for him to act that way. He's a proven logistical and managerial genius but those qualities don't directly map to stagecraft.

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