jplahn

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by jplahn 4y ago
I'm the manager for the team that owns our code host integrations. You're correct that we support non-git code hosts via a conversion to git. We're currently exploring what it means to support non-git VCSs natively in Sourceg
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by jplahn 4y ago
All of our Sourcegraph docs are public, including our architecture overviews and a myriad other docs linked from there. https://docs.sourcegraph.com/dev/background-information/arch...
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by jplahn 5y ago
My biggest endorsement of Sourcegraph is that on Sunday nights I look forward to getting back to it on Monday morning to work with my amazing team and solve hard problems. I struggled with Sunday scaries at my previous job and I've had
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by jplahn 5y ago
I'm an EM at Sourcegraph and happy to chat with anybody who thinks they might be interested in helping us grow. We're stacked top to bottom with high quality people that truly care about building a great place to work and leading
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by jplahn 8y ago
I don't know if this really qualifies as TL;DR, but they seem to have captured the high-level points: https://www.freshworks.com/freshsales-crm/sdr-sales-developm...
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by jplahn 8y ago
I recently finished reading the book Never Split the Difference and I would highly recommend it. It's a slightly different take on the traditional negotiation tropes we've all heard. I've managed to employ many of the techniq
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by jplahn 8y ago
Giving a plug to https://truelayer.com/ . They have a great team and they're making a big push to bring PSD2 compliant banking integrations to Europe. I haven't heard of many other offerings within Europe.
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by jplahn 9y ago
This is tangentially related to something I've been struggling with for the last year. I began getting into photography about a year and as an attempt to surround myself with inspiration, I followed many of the top landscape photograph
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by jplahn 9y ago
I know Amazon gets a generally bad rap around HN, but my organization at least pays for all SDEs to attend one conference a year. While not everybody takes advantage of it, those that have typically provide several brown bag sessions to dis
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by jplahn 10y ago
You do realize the way most services get into AWS is that they're first built in the retail side of Amazon (without any thought towards AWS) and then once people realize it's effectively solving an actual problem, it's rebuil
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by jplahn 10y ago
I was just going to mention this exact same observation from my visit to Japan in October. I stayed in an Airbnb north of Shibuya and morning and night we saw little kids walking to and from school. It was awesome. That, coupled with everyb
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by jplahn 10y ago
I can't disagree. I love Gitlab but it would be hard to take a > 50% pay cut if I were to work there. That being said, I have full confidence in Gitlab and know they'll continue to improve these things!
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by jplahn 10y ago
A lot of people ask why Instagram took off and get a lot of different answers; I think that's the beauty of it. I wasn't much of an Instagram user for a long time until I started getting into photography. I'm still a total ph
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by jplahn 10y ago
It's the standard in vim.
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by jplahn 10y ago
This is tangentially related (and wholly anecdotal), but one thing I've noticed is that when dealing with other engineers or managers, it's often very easy to tell who has kids and who doesn't. I find myself drawn towards tho
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by jplahn 10y ago
Yikes. That's a pretty heady classification of myself and my coworkers. The funniest part about your response, though, is that you said we'd "do anything for whatever else Amazon has". Looking past your assertion that we
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by jplahn 10y ago
I have two questions: 1) What's the problem that's being solved? 2) And what's a good answer? I'm genuinely curious because I've never considered Markdown anything more than a way to more easily render text -- which
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by jplahn 10y ago
Soylent (or more particularly Coffiest) has been perfect for filling the 3pm spot at work when I'm both tired and hungry. I used to head out for a $5 coffee and stay hungry, but now I can use Coffiest to do a decent enough job of satis
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by jplahn 10y ago
I feel you. I'm not a huge fan of the X-T10 if I'm honest (I think it's a decent camera, but not one I would personally get). Fuji is definitely targeting a certain segment and many people may not care for the features that a
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by jplahn 10y ago
Great timing for this post! I'm an unabashed Fuji fan and have been scouring the used market for a new lens or two. It really is incredible what Fuji has managed to do in a couple years with building out their X Mount Lens series. I ha
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by jplahn 10y ago
That Rainier picture is incredible!
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by jplahn 10y ago
Two comments: 1. The original photos are beautiful. What equipment are you using? We're extremely spoiled here in the PNW! 2. Have you considered printing any of the Primitive forms out and displaying them?
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by jplahn 10y ago
Ah. This reminds me of a great story in Amazon of a conference room booking email gone wrong. The email was inadvertently sent to the entire company, so that employees in Japan, China, Scotland, France, etc. all knew of this fabled booking.
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by jplahn 10y ago
Or so Newt? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_with_America
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by jplahn 10y ago
A 100% increase in searches for "voter intimidation" in my city (Seattle) is interesting. I'd love additional context on who is searching for that (i.e. is it the intimidators or the fearful?) Nonetheless, this seems like the
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by jplahn 10y ago
That's a pretty big accusation with no justification. Care to contribute some detail as to why Udacity is a scam?
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by jplahn 10y ago
Curious where you were living in Seattle that the commute was so bad?
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by jplahn 10y ago
I've seen posters for the Edinburgh DC throughout some of the Amazon offices in Seattle and it looks like you guys are doing cool stuff :). I'm not looking to change teams right now, but I'll probably get in touch sometime in
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by jplahn 10y ago
http://aprilzero.com/ When I first saw this site I was blown away. Sure, the level of detail may be off putting to some people, but even from a purely engineering standpoint it's impressive. Shoutout to Anand for the i
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by jplahn 10y ago
I'm a bit of a David Beazley fanboy and Python lover. I've watched all of his keynotes and lectures at this point and I have yet to find one that wasn't incredibly informative. You can watch the video for whatever the main to

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