gt384u

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by gt384u 10y ago
ITT: People who don't React well to critical feedback from new users
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by gt384u 11y ago
And Blue Box ( https://www.blueboxcloud.com/ ) a month and a half ago. Looks like they're investing in or acquiring cloud platform software companies like gangbusters at the moment.
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by gt384u 12y ago
I feel like completely specifying the problem does everyone in an actual engineering interview a disservice and isn't a good analogue to actual engineering problem-solving. That said, it might be acceptable or even encouraged for the p
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by gt384u 13y ago
> For a time, Target used Amazon's website code. I remember getting the email saying that we no longer had to special case Target stuff in the retail platform. 'Twas a joyous day all around.
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by gt384u 13y ago
I attended this conference and spoke with the presenter about his talk both before and after. My takeaway was that the presenter was trying to accomplish one thing: educate front-end developers who (rightly or not) have been characterized a
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by gt384u 13y ago
I would imagine this has something to do with having an existing package dependency management system company-wide and it causing friction trying to get the two to coexist. I have similar issues where I work with trying to integrate an inte
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by gt384u 13y ago
Another identifier which would seem to help accomplish the task is identifierForVendor. As a bonus, it isn't something that can be opted out of like the advertisingIdentifier.
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by gt384u 13y ago
Maybe it's just being on a team that's more focused on nontechnical users, but I still see plenty of PowerPoint. Product, sales, and business process people seem to swim in the stuff.
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by gt384u 14y ago
This is how I first learned about CSS circa 2001. More importantly, you could provide your browser user-defined CSS. My first entry? Making any link from goatse.cx struck-out and brown.
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by gt384u 14y ago
Neither. If you look at the S3 URL, they are URLs with expiry times after which they stop serving the content. The cryptographic signature makes it... let's call it "infeasible" to manipulate the URL to change the expiry time.
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by gt384u 14y ago
I had a conversation with a senior engineer on SourceForge where he pointed out that most people forget that developers are actually a minority of their business: most of their users are nontechnical people that come to them to download bin
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Do you keep a work journal/diary? How?
4 points by gt384u 14y ago|7 comments
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by gt384u 14y ago
I think I understand the motivation behind your comment and I'd agree to some extent, but designers still have the mantra that users need to be involved in the process of design. For some design practitioners, it's maybe ensuring that desig
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by gt384u 14y ago
I think you give your own creation too little credit. I would have never found Peanuts by Bukowski without you, and that was worth all my internets. I never saw it on reddit, never saw it on slashdot, never saw it on digg. Anyway, thank you
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by gt384u 14y ago
Never did I expect to have this discussion about "brogramming" as a legitimate phenomenon. My knee-jerk reaction is to lament that this is a misunderstanding of language/culture and that is why we can't have nice things, but that's just sim
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by gt384u 15y ago
Add to that the mapping companies, lala.com, Fingerworks for multitouch, Siri, PA Semi and Intrinsity for semiconductors, and a whole lot of other tiny but massively differentiating pieces[1] to their "experience" stack. [1] http://en.wikip
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by gt384u 15y ago
Are you associated with Confnow? I only ask because of the newness of your account.
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by gt384u 15y ago
Thanks. Here's the reddit post you were talking about, I believe: http://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/qjgkk/show_reddit_... Could you comment on what proportion of the CLECs you partner with are allowed to demand higher access rates
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by gt384u 15y ago
> It doesn't look like traffic pumping. What makes you feel confident about this? The assertion that "We get paid from termination" strikes me as very much that sort of arrangement. Perhaps I'm abusing terminology.
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by gt384u 15y ago
Can you maybe elaborate on how you're getting paid from termination? Perhaps I abused the term "traffic pumping", but this definitely sounds like the sort of of thing I was picturing being exorbitantly expensive to the carrier initiating th
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by gt384u 15y ago
Where are these calls terminated? I ask because I am always concerned that these sorts of services are being monetized by pumping traffic[1] into Iowa. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_pumping
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by gt384u 15y ago
Thank you. I knew that it was an editor feature I'd seen before for lisp code, but didn't recall the name of any one in particular.
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by gt384u 15y ago
Something I'd be curious to hear from the pretty lisp designers: what advantages do you feel this offers over an Emacs which just highlights the symbol of interest or region between the matched parens for a particular code block? By way of
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by gt384u 15y ago
To clarify, "lazy" isn't a pejorative in this case. It's just the technical term for deferring work until it needs to be done. "Eager" would be the term for doing everything right away.
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by gt384u 15y ago
Interesting. If I were interested in the current recruiting landscape for high school athletes, do you happen to know of any good survey or review-type sources? I'm curious about the context surrounding your company's service.
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by gt384u 15y ago
Based on my (perhaps limited) understanding of where they get their data set, isn't it possible that the percentage of athletes interested in engineering be overrepresented by the source? I would imagine an online social network for recruit
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by gt384u 15y ago
> No, it's not. I think you may be right, but only if you consider piracy to not be part of "the economy". My understanding at least is that it very much is.
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by gt384u 15y ago
But that is the pawn business. Anything else is a different business entirely, e.g. being a second hand goods dealer. Pawn shops can deal in second hand goods and often have the licenses for outright purchase (which may be where some of
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by gt384u 15y ago
THIS. I worked at an organization with ~700 branches with names all pretty much meaningless for a single project, when maybe 10 were actually being developed on. Makes it almost impossible to understand the repo.
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by gt384u 15y ago
For the sake of another data point, my own company provides a hosted PBX platform and just recently acquired another hosted PBX platform provider. We are a hodgepodge of J2EE pre-SIPServlet on JBoss using Rhino for the scripting layer. Also

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