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by esonderegger 5y ago
One of the things I rarely see mentioned when discussing career prospects of startups vs large corporations is how different their hiring filters are. If you are self-taught, lacking credentials, and don't live in a major market, it ca
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by esonderegger 7y ago
I suppose it depends on the method used for backup and restore. If you replace the entire graph.db directory with one from a backup, ids are kept intact. I was relying on this just yesterday. We use graphenedb for our production database an
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by esonderegger 8y ago
I feel like the pattern of "solve this puzzle, get an interview" has fallen out of fashion in the past few years. In 2012 I got an interview at facebook by solving a puzzle that involved adding weights to a recursive arrangement o
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by esonderegger 8y ago
Unfortunately, all of the programming jobs here are either in publishing (low pay) or government contracting (bureaucratic headaches). And while the cost of living is less than NYC and SF, it ain't exactly cheap either. Amazon's d
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by esonderegger 8y ago
My guess is they're the films described in the CustomFlix partnership announced here: https://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2007/nr07-122.... For all the helpful advice offered both here and on R
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by esonderegger 8y ago
I don't know why this popped up on the front page of HN today, but for anyone who enjoys the history of audio recordings, I highly recommend checking out UCSB's cylinder preservation and digitization project: http://cyl
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by esonderegger 8y ago
I spent a lot of time asking myself the question "would this company be successful if it had been started in St Louis?". On the one hand, they could offer an incredible salary to cost of living ratio. However, when I thought about
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by esonderegger 8y ago
I tried doing something very similar to this. It ended up being so draining I couldn't do it long-term. Specifically, I was in Washington DC and the startup I wanted to work for was in San Jose. My then-girlfriend (now fiancé) has the
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by esonderegger 8y ago
My video conference rig is a Micro Studio Camera 4K, Video Assist 4k, and Arduino shield all going into a Decklink card on an Ubuntu desktop machine. The Studio Camera, Video Assist and Arduino shield all get pretty hot, so I don't run
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by esonderegger 9y ago
If this works as described, it will be a lifesaver. I've been running nuts on Heroku for my Electron app and never got it fully working. (It was very good at being able to tell there was an update available, but performing the update w
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by esonderegger 9y ago
One (perhaps non-representative) data point: I have teammates who live in Villa La Angostura and Cordoba and I chat with them using Google hangouts every day. Their bandwidth has never been an issue for video chat.
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Fedex is using autonomous robots to essentially replace the mailroom clerk(qz.com)
3 points by esonderegger 9y ago|0 comments
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by esonderegger 10y ago
The auto-updater really isn't ready for prime time, sadly. I'd suggest waiting until https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/8106 is resolved before using it in your project.
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by esonderegger 10y ago
There are definitely designers who are going for pop by looking for a new font, but I've worked on a lot of projects where the designer just wanted a good, legible, sans-serif that looks the same everywhere. Who am I kidding, what they
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by esonderegger 10y ago
I tend to agree with you, but I think it's important to constantly be trying to understand where other people are coming from. They might not be so unreasonable; they just have different priorities than we do. Our idea of what a webpag
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by esonderegger 10y ago
Have none of you ever worked for a designer or marketing person who was unwilling to accept that a bit of text might wrap on Windows (Arial), but fit on one line on a Mac (Helvetica)? Until we can get the major operating systems to include
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by esonderegger 10y ago
That's a good point - I remembered when Reddit open-sourced a good chunk of their codebase and had figured Hacker News and Reddit shared some of their foundations, but looking into it I appear to have been mistaken. I think restricting
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Ask HN: Thinking of only using open-source in 2017. What would that mean to you?
9 points by esonderegger 10y ago|5 comments
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by esonderegger 10y ago
It's the player software making the request directly to the server hosting the xml file, no? Who would be doing the proxying? The whole point is that other players are free to completely ignore the tag. I suppose if the podcast creator
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by esonderegger 10y ago
SkipCast looks really cool! Nicely done! I think there is a lot of potential for funding the production of great content via donations. I think the "right" way to fund a particular piece of content depends largely on the content i
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by esonderegger 10y ago
I've been wrestling with the idea of how to enable monetization for smaller podcast producers since I decided to start building an AppleTV app for playing video podcasts this past winter. What I think could work is namespaced tags for
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by esonderegger 11y ago
And in Bend that would be a delicious beer! I'm thrilled Deschutes Brewery has started distributing here in DC. Also, count me among the many who have no issue with the use of Amazon affiliate links.
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Show HN: Cast-a-net – A video podcast player for Apple TV(castanet.xyz)
1 points by esonderegger 11y ago|0 comments
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by esonderegger 11y ago
Lawyers for In-N-Out say DoorDash's delivery vehicles aren't compliant with the California Retail Food Code, and In-N-Out would never authorize DoorDash "or any other entity to deliver its food products to consumers without
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by esonderegger 11y ago
To me, it comes down to whether the deliverable is the source code itself or the process by which the source code is created. If the deliverable is static html, for example (it often is), then it shouldn't matter if that static html is
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by esonderegger 11y ago
Fortunately, the source code and test data we're working with are not considered sensitive. As a matter of fact, the separate, less restricted part of the network approach has also been proposed. I don't know what's been hold
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by esonderegger 11y ago
Good to know - thanks! Although I would say that would cripple the entire point of having node, since now things like grunt, gulp, browsersync, etc. would all need to go through that same approval process. Better to have development happen
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by esonderegger 11y ago
I see a bunch of comments asking about the use case, so I'll share one... The Defense Department agency I work for employs between 50 and 100 developers, many of whom, like me, are contractors. The security folks have things locked dow
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by esonderegger 11y ago
Lots of good advice here about establishing a healthy routine and communicating. I've only been working remotely for a few months, but here are some things I've learned so far: 1. Assuming you'll be calling in to a lot of mee
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by esonderegger 11y ago
I've been enjoying reading the TripleByte posts about what you all have been learning while trying to build a better hiring funnel. (Thank you for sharing!) Have you been able to place anyone yet? I'd love to know out of the 300 o

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