jamesroseman

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by jamesroseman 9y ago
It's not completely separate. The maintainer of Absinthe got started working with the maintainer of GraphQL-Elixir. I'm not purporting they still work together, just that they have common roots. Though that's cool a book is c
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by jamesroseman 9y ago
I had a brief stint of working with Elixir a while ago, and got side-tracked and spent that time going down the GraphQL/Relay rabbit hole instead. During that time I was ramping up to help out on the GraphQL Elixir project [1]. I don&#
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by jamesroseman 9y ago
This is a pretty informative article. A coworker recently gave a very basic introductory tech talk at lunch about Bitcoin and cryptocurrency fundamentals, so this article hit me at the perfect time. For anyone perusing comments to see if a
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by jamesroseman 9y ago
Self-driving cars have been in the development phase for so long, I'm really excited to see them start rolling out in these beta tests. I'm curious what sort of unconsidered edge cases they'll find out in the real world. I&#x
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Ask HN: How do you test if a market exists for your product?
12 points by jamesroseman 9y ago|7 comments
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by jamesroseman 10y ago
As someone with a few years in the industry who's currently volunteering to help teach high school kids coding for the first time -- you have no idea how easily code confuses newbies. Take even the smallest snippet: while (Count <=
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by jamesroseman 10y ago
Twitter employee here. Admittedly I work in a remote office and not in HQ, but I've noticed NO day-to-day changes. The work, the management, the atmosphere have all been remarkably consistent despite wild rumors and general craziness.
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by jamesroseman 10y ago
It's murky, and depends entirely on how concretely they made those promises. To me, common sense should dictate no, but to others, it might [1]. (Story covers lawsuit against Twitter for misleading shareholders on user growth numbers).
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by jamesroseman 10y ago
I think the answer is that when Twitter IPO'd there were very clear expectations for the company to perform similar to its perceived contemporaries: Facebook and Google. If you look at the perpetually meteoric rise of GOOGL or FB, it&#
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by jamesroseman 10y ago
From public news sources, I imagine it's the value prop of live streaming sports games -- ESPN is largely owned by Disney, and from what I've heard it's failing as of late. Issue with Disney from a customer side is censorship
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by jamesroseman 10y ago
I really don't think this is it. I think more than anything it's the amount children share in common. Adults are lame. The world is big. There's a lot to do and a lot of time to do it in. If you're a kid and you meet ano
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by jamesroseman 10y ago
This is fantastic, thanks for sharing it! On another note, I'm a huge fan of small utilities like this. Sometimes cruising HN it's easy to get it in my head that a project isn't worth doing unless it's a scalable VC busi
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by jamesroseman 10y ago
I can't speak to the technical specifics of the story, but it was riveting regardless! I can't really fathom why someone would go through all of this trouble, was it obvious and I just missed it? It almost seemed as if the grad st
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by jamesroseman 10y ago
In my (somewhat limited) experience, there's no such thing as writing code without testing it. The question is: are you testing this manually every time or are you automating it? I think that's a valuable way to phrase it to a non
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by jamesroseman 10y ago
Passive aggression. I was searching for the noun of passive aggressive recently and someone corrected me, and I'm glad they did! (Hopefully this is helpful not hurtful).
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by jamesroseman 10y ago
What? > There are a lot of people in the middle class who live paycheck to paycheck because they manage their income poorly. I want a citation on that, that's all. I want a statistic on how many people who live paycheck to paycheck
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by jamesroseman 10y ago
I'm really not trying to say people below the poverty line can't function or move cities, what I'm saying is a lot of people can't do a lot for financial reasons and it's unhelpful advice to suggest things like the
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by jamesroseman 10y ago
I was referring to his income inequality essay and a few of his essays in Hackers and Painters, but it wasn't fair to call him out specifically, I've edited my comment to reflect that.
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by jamesroseman 10y ago
> because they manage their income poorly That's a good start. "There are a lot" may not mean most, but it doesn't absolve it of providing some proof.
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by jamesroseman 10y ago
Exactly. This article should have been retitled "What do those who keep their wealth know that those who lose their wealth don't?"
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by jamesroseman 10y ago
> Move to where the money is. Oops I was born in a small poor suburb outside of Pittsburgh and barely make enough each week to feed myself and pay rent, where am I getting money to move? > Befriend those who are already wealthy. Emula
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by jamesroseman 10y ago
Someone can either find a citation for me or dispute this, but the ROI on life insurance is pretty high. The morbid problem is obviously you personally never prosper from it (except in cases where you can borrow against it or use a certain
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by jamesroseman 10y ago
As I replied above, not having liquid cash is proof of being poor, not of managing your money poorly. What I want a citation for is: > There are a lot of people in the middle class who live paycheck to paycheck because they manage their
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by jamesroseman 10y ago
This is a citation for the claim "people in the United States are poor". What I want a citation for is: > There are a lot of people in the middle class who live paycheck to paycheck because they manage their income poorly. What
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by jamesroseman 10y ago
I think this article is short-sighted and poorly written. Its most grievous offense to me is lumping all non-rich people together. The 22-year old out of college who needs a place to sleep doesn't need to save up for a mattress that wi
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by jamesroseman 10y ago
I'd love some citations there..
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by jamesroseman 10y ago
I think you might be underestimating the size of the "on-demand industry"[1]. I'm hardly in the top 5-10% and I tried out Drizly in place of my beer run on Friday night and paid a $5 premium for my 6 pack to be delivered. I v
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by jamesroseman 10y ago
> As it stands, they are an anti-white hate-group, with not specific agenda other than "Whitey Sucks!" I'm not sure there's much more to that statement than baseless opinion. If you're interested in what the BLM
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by jamesroseman 10y ago
Of course all lives matter. But if racial identities were homes, there are a few on fire in the United States and it doesn't make much sense to call the fire department for every house when a few urgently need the attention more. Is th
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by jamesroseman 10y ago
I think maybe we just have an idealogical difference of opinion here, and that's fine. It's my belief that if you take 10 similar people and give them a problem to solve, they'll all solve it the same way. Whereas if you take

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