electric_sheep

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Spotify puts hold on all new app submissions(community.spotify.com)
4 points by electric_sheep 9mo ago|0 comments
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Remembering GitHub's Office, a Monument to Tech Culture(wired.com)
3 points by electric_sheep 3y ago|2 comments
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by electric_sheep 4y ago
I remember listening to Charity Majors[1] talk about this on a podcast -- in the case of Honeycomb they have a "dogfood" cluster than monitors production, and a "kibble" cluster that monitors the dogfood. Cute, but it ge
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by electric_sheep 7y ago
I'll also plug https://www.protocols.io/ and https://codeocean.com/ here --- might be interesting platforms for folks concerned about reproducibility to have on their radar.
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by electric_sheep 8y ago
Way I see it is it's more than OK to not know things -- it's a necessary optimization. Engineering is all about tradeoffs, and skills development is no exception. Follow one path, forego another; dive deep, sacrifice breadth (and
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by electric_sheep 8y ago
What's your favored language? Because odds are good that it can compile to JS: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/list-of-langu...
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by electric_sheep 9y ago
Surely there must already exist some legal protections? I seem to recall certain professional (football? basketball?) players successfully suing EA Games over unauthorized use of their likeness.
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by electric_sheep 9y ago
Most webdevs that I know do. JS stack for sure appears to favor it.
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by electric_sheep 9y ago
Nope, our legal dept gave us the OK on the original license.
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by electric_sheep 9y ago
I would also hope for and expect this to be communicated ASAP from the NPM org to its users. @seldo, I understand that you don't want to disseminate misleading info, but an abundance of caution seems warranted in this case as my unders
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by electric_sheep 9y ago
Haha, this has been a well-trod rant of mine for years. Don't forget scorpions, vampire bats, great white sharks, and the world's top 4 deadliest jellyfish!
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by electric_sheep 9y ago
Are you speaking purely with regard to the swatting, and not to the scores of bomb threats? Regardless of the issues around policing, surely we can agree that this individual has caused tremendous societal cost, not just due to the disrupti
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by electric_sheep 9y ago
Why on Earth should people of conscience not be concerned with a self-perpetuating inheritance of power? That seems to be exactly what affirmative action programs are designed to counter-balance, so not understanding your criticism of them
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by electric_sheep 9y ago
It would be, wouldn't it. Silly I didn't realize that right off the bat. Can't imagine putting forward a proposal that wouldn't in essence be what you're doing, i.e. wrapping in JSX delimiters. Because attempting a
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by electric_sheep 9y ago
I'm guessing it's because JSX is XML-like and so parsers may require a single root element for each JSX "document". It's a good question though, hopefully someone from the React team might be able to comment.
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by electric_sheep 9y ago
Yeah, it seems like the decision to make the fragment a first-class JSX concept has a lot to do with portability between renderers. The post makes it clear you all have given this a lot of thought and care, and I appreciate that (even if it
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by electric_sheep 9y ago
As others have noted, you're assuming a natural optimization in labor markets that is unproven. It seems like you're arguing that the value proposition of paying 0.9x wages for an employee of 1.0x talent would cause companies to
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by electric_sheep 9y ago
Skipping the third beer is easy. Just jump straight into number four.
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by electric_sheep 9y ago
Yeah, what I can't fathom is what they even stand to gain by such a brazen move. They want to be a services company, not hardware. So why are they discriminating between $30 dongles rather than just making their streaming work on every
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by electric_sheep 9y ago
I see a few problems with this argument. 1. Market share matters, for what should be obvious reasons. Amazon is, in that regard, a far cry from your sole proprietorship fruit stand. 2. Amazon is much closer to Walmart than it is to Apple or
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by electric_sheep 9y ago
The React and Redux devs engage in more self-critique, and are more honest and open in the shortcomings of their approaches, than just about anyone I know of in web development. From the author of Redux: https://medium.com/@
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by electric_sheep 10y ago
Many of those patterns that you list aren't actually trends resulting from received wisdom -- they're dark patterns, known to be actively hostile to the user. Common wisdom regarding UX would vigorously contraindicate their use, b
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by electric_sheep 10y ago
Good timing on this post! I just got a new card and was baffled by how Netflix was able to update my account details before I was. Maybe I should be creeped out? But damn if it isn't convenient. (Who else finds themselves uttering this
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by electric_sheep 10y ago
As a fellow tech worker in MA, I'm curious what you mean. Can you elaborate on your "second class citizens" statement?
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by electric_sheep 10y ago
So, to sum up, "I have no regrets, except for the ruinous consequences of my actions." Well, okay. I'm amazed that he still gets to play like he's the smartest guy in the room, having so comically overplayed his hand.
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by electric_sheep 10y ago
I thought it was accepted wisdom at this point that software is people. Caring about people doesn't strike me as incompatible with caring about software --- indeed, for projects which demand collaboration between individuals (i.e. non-
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by electric_sheep 11y ago
Doesn't sound like a play against Uber -- seems more like a companion concept to self-driving cars, which would naturally be good candidates for commuter ride-sharing.
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by electric_sheep 11y ago
Indeed. > ...allows users to share rides to work and back I'm not sure how many people take Uber to and from work every day. I'd imagine it doesn't contribute to the bulk of ridership, though.