jonpress

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by jonpress 10y ago
The programmer is only as good as his manager. If a 10x programmer is working under the leadership of a 1x programmer, he will probaby turn into a 0.5x (due to lost motivation). A 10x programmer in a decision-making position will actually b
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by jonpress 11y ago
That's why I'm not a huge fan of Coffeescript or even convenience utility libraries like underscore/lodash. They save you a couple of lines or a few opening /closing braces but they make code more difficult to understand
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by jonpress 11y ago
Being an asshole isn't that effective. Not as effective as being a scheming, manipulative backstabber.
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by jonpress 11y ago
JavaScript is object oriented just like any other language. The difference is that it is prototype-based OO instead of class-based OO. I would say that JavaScript's OO is actually more powerful/flexible than other languages but it
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by jonpress 11y ago
The earth and the universe will cease to exist eventually so we might as well make the most of them.
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by jonpress 11y ago
This sounds like it could be useful if you want to have a bunch of IoT devices (possibly on the same network) which interact with each other directly without going through a central server. In most cases though, your IoT devices do need to
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by jonpress 11y ago
Oops I forgot to add <sarcasm></sarcasm> tags around it. My bad.
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by jonpress 11y ago
I think it's important for you and your competitors to be aware of how much value you've added to society at any given time - Your company's valuation does that pretty well. It holds people accountable. I'm sick of heari
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by jonpress 11y ago
Wow, how did you manage to do the thoracic vertebrae? I have been trying to achieve that one for years! On the plus side, I was able to master repeated ankle cracking without refractory period - So I haven't exactly wasted my life.
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by jonpress 11y ago
Failure is the normal state of things. You should aim to be comfortable with failure. If you don't enjoy the process, then you probably shouldn't be doing it. Most people don't succeed financially. You could make all the righ
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by jonpress 11y ago
Yes, socket/pipe-based IPC is more expensive than shared memory up to a point, but it's more scalable since you don't have to deal with locking (mutexes, semaphores) and the limits this imposes.
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by jonpress 11y ago
The root of the eventloop issue is not Node-specific. The real underlying issue here is that one CPU core is given too much work while others are more or less idle. Offloading some of the work to another process naturally solves this issue
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by jonpress 11y ago
It's a personal observation and also a big generalization. I think maybe it's because extroverts often derive their self-worth from their interactions with others instead of basing it on intrinsic characteristics that nobody else
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by jonpress 11y ago
I think it was a huge mistake to announce Angular 2.0 so long before its release date. In the open source world, you should aim to release the product BEFORE you even announce its existence, not the other way around! When you release first,
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by jonpress 11y ago
I think that introverts who can fake extroversion make the best leaders. Natural born extroverts are often selfish and can't relate to others on a deeper level - Only on a superficial level (catch phrases and the like). I think that go
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by jonpress 11y ago
Developers who say that JavaScript is bad are ones who haven't seriously used it recently. Personally, I've come to prefer (by a long shot) JavaScript's prototype-based OO over traditional class-based OO. JavaScript is a grea
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by jonpress 12y ago
I think cloud providers are mostly good for small/medium, fast growing startups. Big companies need more granular flexibility. The path to vertical integration in the software indsutry is a lot smoother than in many other industries, t
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by jonpress 12y ago
I think transparency is good. The secretive (and superficial) society we have now favors cheaters and liars. If there was a way to publicly expose everyone for who they really were, maybe society would start to value those individuals who h
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by jonpress 12y ago
You are putting too much time into it. If you can't do something in under 50 hours per week, then you're not being efficient with your time. I have a day job at a startup (maybe 45 hours per week) and I also have my own side proje
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by jonpress 12y ago
I disagree with the concurrency part. Node.js has excellent built-in IPC support through the process and child_process objects. Since Node.js is JavaScript, you can't possibly argue that Go code is more 'portable' than Node.j
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by jonpress 12y ago
Most people are not deep - They don't really think - They just blindly try to adhere to various stereotypes. Everyone does that to some extent (including me) but there are many levels. Some people don't think even at the most triv
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by jonpress 12y ago
I didn't have many friends in school. I never tried to fit in - I found other people in my class to be predictable and uninteresting and it took me too much energy to pretend that I was enjoying their company. I went through several ye
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by jonpress 12y ago
"Instead it will focus on 'future versions of Glass' with work carried out by a different division to before." Is that division made up of people from Magic Leap by any chance? http://gizmodo.com/how-magi
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by jonpress 12y ago
Node.js is way better than Go! It's more expressive, more flexible and more portable. ... Thanks for the downvotes. Well worth the bad karma :)
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by jonpress 12y ago
Gophers love to quote TJ Holowaychuk to justify choosing Go over Node.js. In my eyes, TJ is a traitor - If he preferred Go, that's fine - He could just go ahead and use it as he likes, but he wrote a post completely debasing Node.js wi
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by jonpress 12y ago
You have to ask for equity at the beginning otherwise you have no leverage down the line. They don't want dead equity on their books so they are more likely to give you the position you want if you already hold vested equity. If a comp
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by jonpress 12y ago
I was surprised that he mentioned the global financial crisis. I think 'too big to fail' was one of the biggest frauds ever committed against society. There is no such thing as too big to fail. I think the 2008 financial crisis wa
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by jonpress 12y ago
I didn't mean to say that he has a big ego. What I meant was that he probably has to put some effort into not letting it 'get to his head'.
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by jonpress 12y ago
I think this applies to almost everything except for software 'environments' (such as operating systems, virtual machines, etc...) and frameworks (to some extent). Software environments and frameworks need to be generic because th
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by jonpress 12y ago
I have seen several people on LinkedIn describe themselves as 'Visionary Entrepreneurs' - One of them had never even started a company company in his life - Just deciding that he was 'going to do it' was sufficient to co

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