joncampbelldev

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by joncampbelldev 5y ago
NOT OP but there's very little I would not sell or change my mind for $5bn. That much money just to go back on a promise to not sell would be a very easy decision (bear in mind that no material harm is done to the employees, no equity
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by joncampbelldev 5y ago
I believe they're getting $5bn each. Though of course your point still stands.
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by joncampbelldev 5y ago
I don't see the promise impacting an employee's decision at all: 1) Founders promise not to sell. Employee is offered salary without equity. 2) Founders say nothing about selling. Employee is offered salary without equity. In both
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by joncampbelldev 5y ago
Not the person you're responding to, but those comments are not saying the same thing at all. One asserts that nerds want to know the details for ego reasons. The other asserts that he (presumbly as a self-proclaimed "nerd" i
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by joncampbelldev 5y ago
This comment helpfully explains many of the reasons Rich had for choosing immutable, persistent, generic data structures as the core information model in clojure (instead of concrete objects / classes): https://news.ycombina
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by joncampbelldev 6y ago
TFA and the person you're replying are not suggesting you can never complain (at least I don't think they are). There is a difference between not complaining vs raising issues constructively and valuing the maintainers time at lea
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by joncampbelldev 6y ago
Was the game free? And did the people working on the game contribute a lot of their time to it for free? If not then I can see the reason for your frustration, however it is not the same as free software being worked on (at least partly) by
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by joncampbelldev 6y ago
Regarding REPL restarts: You don't need to use stuff like component. There are far lighter weight alternatives with no requirements for app structure. I use "mount" [0] for this. You define "start" and optionally &q
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by joncampbelldev 6y ago
Please may you specify what consultant you're referring to here so I can answer more thoroughly. In general, I highly doubt anyone would hire a consultant just to "rewrite code". Rewriting code is not a business objective. Im
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by joncampbelldev 6y ago
Thank you for explaining much more clearly and succinctly than me.
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by joncampbelldev 6y ago
I think another possibility in addition to what you mentioned is that the original design was incorrect, or even just not very optimal. Just as an aside. However this is all becoming a wide ranging statement about the entire job of a dev te
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by joncampbelldev 6y ago
I'm not entirely clear what you mean. Are you referring to the disaster artist consultant mentioned in another comment? I don't think anything can stop someone like that from wrecking things short of not hiring them. Or do you mea
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by joncampbelldev 6y ago
Your article was very clear. Thank you for writing it. It is a common refrain against simple mottos or ideologies in programming for people to pick the worst memory they have of a coder or experience as an example of why it cannot work. As
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by joncampbelldev 6y ago
So for the consultant: Yes he did, clearly this consultant was an absolute disaster. An excellent cautionary tale of arrogance combined with lack of ability and design thinking. Changes made without thought / design or discussion with
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by joncampbelldev 6y ago
Other developers, unless it's a solo dev at a small company. Then roll the dice and hope you hired someone with good design sensibilities.
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by joncampbelldev 6y ago
Whilst improvements shouldn't be done ad-hoc without consideration, I think the concept of "left alone" applies more easily to the concept of natural spaces. In code it is really stretching the metaphor to do much more than v
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by joncampbelldev 6y ago
This sounds very different to the process described in post. Are you raising this anecdote as an argument against the boy scout rule? I don't think you would find many people who would consider his actions a reasonable interpretation o
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by joncampbelldev 6y ago
Funnily enough that is the inverse of the historical meaning of decimated (to destroy 10% of something).
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by joncampbelldev 6y ago
I am currently learning mandarin and my wife is chinese. This word, Na Ge (sometimes pronounced Ney Guh), can be said in rapid succession with little to no pauses between syllables, like an english speaker saying "um-um-um-um" or
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by joncampbelldev 6y ago
I believe conditionals is referring to if statements (and their ilk, switch/case/cond etc). Rules is referring to rule systems and/or more generally declarative knowledge systems. Things like core.logic in clojure (or prolog,
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by joncampbelldev 6y ago
TFA appears to address this, the automated system is used to help identify comments for human moderators. The human is the one responsible. And according to stack overflow they plan to use this system only to help the human moderators. If y
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by joncampbelldev 8y ago
I can confirm that buildkite is a fantastic replacement for jenkins. - pipelines stored in source control - hosted on your own servers (with easy one click setup in AWS if you're too busy for all that) - excellent cloud hosted UI Also
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by joncampbelldev 8y ago
A language with no built-in multi-threading capabilities is unlikely to suit every backend. Running multiple copies of the same lightweight process works quite well for stateless http interaction (request -> database -> response), but
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by joncampbelldev 8y ago
Can you list some of these metrics?
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by joncampbelldev 8y ago
Same, was reviewing alternatives to mingle a short while ago, saw nothing of this product.
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by joncampbelldev 8y ago
This comment would be less silly if the above hadn't made it clear that the "honour" is entirely from a western point of view. It is then up to any japanese / non-western readers whether they give a shit about the honour
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by joncampbelldev 8y ago
So to say it "came into force" before its being enforced is at best a poor choice of words.
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by joncampbelldev 8y ago
As a programmer approaching 30 I can confirm this for me. I am horrified that a company would prefer the long hours / low quality output of my earlier years compared to my current fewer hours / more thinking / higher quality
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by joncampbelldev 8y ago
Just wanted to say thank you for mentioning rematch, it's exactly what I've been looking for. I've built a couple of apps with redux and always wished it was closer to clojurescript's reframe in terms of minimal boilerpl
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by joncampbelldev 8y ago
Most likely the enforcement would be applied as a restriction on any future business done in the EU assuming the US company refuses to pay the fine.

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