joncalhoun

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by joncalhoun 3y ago
People have a mental cap on what text should cost. If someone creates instructional content that provides thousands of dollars in value, they can sell videos for $200+, but a book version is hard to sell over $50, even if both provide the s
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by joncalhoun 4y ago
In my head I was thinking of a definition like the one below when I wrote that: "Spam is irrelevant or inappropriate messages sent on the Internet to a large number of recipients." - https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/doc
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by joncalhoun 5y ago
Many employment contracts prohibit doing additional contract dev work. I agree the spirit of contract to hire is great, but worth noting it won't work for everyone.
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by joncalhoun 5y ago
I'd double check that you don't have multiple orgs. You used to share a cess to your account with people, then they made some org change a while back that essentially moved that shared access setup to an org and gave you a new per
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by joncalhoun 5y ago
Go to the bank and say, "I would like to withdraw money from my account." Do they hand you your balance in cash, or ask you how much? Obviously one can withdraw all of something, but I'm skeptical of it meaning "all&quot
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by joncalhoun 6y ago
Does steam take any cut of in-game purchases for free to play games? I don't think they do, so that is a difference to consider.
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by joncalhoun 6y ago
The most frustrating experience is when I'm already paying for an app and intercom constantly nags me and gets in the way of me using the actual app.
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by joncalhoun 6y ago
Was this a timed take home project or something with a flexible timeline? That is, was it "You have to respond within 3 hours of receiving this email with your solution" or something more flexible? I mostly understand why some com
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Creating a live reloader in less than 200 lines of Go code(calhoun.io)
1 points by joncalhoun 6y ago|0 comments
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by joncalhoun 6y ago
I don't think plausible deniability works on one-of-a-kind artwork. Even if you assume your dealer is legit, any cursory research will tell you it was stolen. It would be like buying the secret formula for Coca-Cola and claiming you di
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by joncalhoun 7y ago
Now imagine being the dev who keeps making proposals and working diligently at the problem only to have countless ideas and proposals shot down for one reason or another. Ian Lance Taylor is persistent if nothing else and I'm hoping hi
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by joncalhoun 7y ago
My guess is you are incorrect and this has more to do with the Ardan Labs partnership[1][2]. This release also came shortly after Bill (founder of Ardan Labs) went to visit Matt and discuss Caddy[3], which helps support that claim. Prior to
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by joncalhoun 8y ago
Most people - traveled or not - would be okay with this if they knew the service person was making a fair wage. The problem is that service workers are not fairly compensated in the current system so our options are (a) hurt the service wor
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by joncalhoun 8y ago
The page is a little rushed, but the worst thing you should see is an ugly error message. This is a TRIAL RUN, but if things go well I want to make this a regular thing with new designs by a variety of artists, and I'd love to donate p
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Show HN: GopherSwag.com(gopherswag.com)
3 points by joncalhoun 8y ago|1 comments
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by joncalhoun 8y ago
I'd like to expand the course a bit and cover more testing topics, so if anyone has suggestions I'm all ears. Ideally I'd love to hear about situations that were particularly hard to test and (if possible) solutions you used
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Show HN: Test with Go(testwithgo.com)
1 points by joncalhoun 8y ago|2 comments
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by joncalhoun 8y ago
If you don't show with "good" reason (finances, health issue, etc) they usually do nothing. If you don't show with a "bad" reason then what they do varies, but I've never heard of someone being sued. Inste
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by joncalhoun 8y ago
Huh... I was thinking I touched on the Secure field of the http.Cookie when I wrote this article, but I guess I did not. I'll try to find time to update the article with both the Secure field and more info on HSTS.
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by joncalhoun 8y ago
I both founded a YC backed startup and I worked at another YC backed startup and had a great experience there. Having said that, I can't say I would ever recommend a new graduate taking an offer at a startup (at least an early stage on
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by joncalhoun 8y ago
I fear things like this would never work in the US because at this point $14k/yr is nowhere near enough to cover the insane rate at which university prices are rising. Ignoring all the reasons why the rates are going up, the simple tru
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JSON APIs Are Just Web Applications(calhoun.io)
4 points by joncalhoun 8y ago|0 comments
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Using the Service Object Pattern in Go(calhoun.io)
2 points by joncalhoun 8y ago|0 comments
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by joncalhoun 8y ago
> That makes it bloody hard to mock during unit testing. Can you share why? Not trying to say you are wrong, but I am guessing that part of this stems from some limitations in the way interfaces work in Go, and this could make a good u
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by joncalhoun 8y ago
Blogging is basically just content marketing, which has been proven to work when done well. It is also one of the cheapest ways to market if you have a little time each week to invest into it. I know of at least 10 companies and/or ind
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Exploring vgo(calhoun.io)
2 points by joncalhoun 9y ago|0 comments
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by joncalhoun 9y ago
> When a security issue is found in a package, it's common to see point releases get released for older major/minor versions. So if foo has 1.1.0 and 1.2.0 out today and a security bug that affects both is found, the maintainer
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by joncalhoun 9y ago
You CAN ship v1.2.1 after v1.3.0 is live. I have tested this with the vgo prototype and it works fine (see github.com/joncalhoun/vgo_main): $ vgo list -m -u MODULE VERSION LA
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by joncalhoun 9y ago
Let's say I create a program that is using foo and end up with the following dependencies: main: requires "foo" v1.0.0 foo (v1.0.0): requires "bar" v1.0.0 Right now if I check my dependencies, I&#x
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by joncalhoun 9y ago
You (and likely everyone else) should look at the tour as well before commenting, as I think many people are misunderstanding some of the subtler points. > If I'm starting a brand new from scratch Ruby on Rails application today, in

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