louischatriot

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by louischatriot 7y ago
Raising the price for tld would actually be a good thing, as it would make "domain investing" (domain hoarding) unprofitable. Let's say a .com costs $1,000 per year. For a legitimate business / organization, that is a tr
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by louischatriot 10y ago
-- Most merchants want either a declined transaction (possibly with explanation -- possibly), or an accepted one with a guarantee against chargebacks. Well in fact their is an issue of misaligned incentives here. Your chargeback insurance h
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by louischatriot 11y ago
I'm no expert here but current job duration may be counter-intuitive. We usually think that the longer the better but it may also correlate with inability to find another job, so in fact during a recession, these kinds of people may ac
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by louischatriot 12y ago
Absolutely. It's crucial for a founder to be able to take a step back and think strategically. Being always under water and completing task after task prevents you from seeing the big picture and taking the big decisions.
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by louischatriot 12y ago
It doesn't have to be the case, at least not from my experience managing startup teams. The most usual case I've seen is that you have to let the employee go for performance reasons but you still have a good relationship with him
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by louischatriot 12y ago
Very interesting read. What I would add to this framework is the often overlooked "solving one big problem" vs "solving lots of small problems". Most startups try to solve lots of problems, which can be seen by the numbe
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by louischatriot 12y ago
That's one of the reasons I like the Node ecosytem: the culture is really about finding the right library and designing clean interfaces so that you can switch when you need to. Having worked with Grails in the past was such a pain in
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by louischatriot 12y ago
Using 90s technologies with node is not really diversity, it's punishing yourself on purpose ...
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by louischatriot 12y ago
If a dev really writes code that blocks the event loop, is not tested and not reviewed, I'm not sure he should work on professional projects ... Anyway with one nodejs process it's not possible, but you can detect a stuck node and
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by louischatriot 12y ago
The last point about small libraries versus monolithic framworks really resonnates with me. I always have a hard time understanding why my team should commit to one specific way of doing almost everything, instead of picking the best tool f
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by louischatriot 12y ago
Or NeDB which solve the same constraints :)
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by louischatriot 12y ago
NeDB creator here. I'd like to know more about the issue you're describing, I've never heard about it and considering the test coverage I just don't see how it could happen. Could you post an issue on https://
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by louischatriot 12y ago
Yep, also missing on what collection sizes benchmarks are performed. If that's on a 1 doc, 10 docs or 10k docs collections the results are going to be very different. With these kidns of results I expect the dataset size to be quite sm
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by louischatriot 12y ago
This article really resonnates with me, having had to choose between two very interesting jobs. It took me 2 weeks to decide and was a really anxious period, whereas without a choice I would have taken either without a second thought.
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by louischatriot 12y ago
Couldn't agree more. Most of the tools I see and try are usually just ways to make coding harder and less joyful. Special mention to IDEs which make everything super slow, provide a huge lt of unnecessary plugins and can't even do
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by louischatriot 12y ago
Interesting read, explains well why I don't like to code in Java anymore. Most Java devs who go too deep in frameworks and complexity should try to build a small project in a very dynamic and concise tech. I always recommend Node.js fo
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by louischatriot 13y ago
I really dislike the line drawn between "collecting data on American people" vs non-American people. So it would be ok to spy on Europe but not the US? Come on ...
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by louischatriot 13y ago
Totally agree, dark mail feels too threatening.
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by louischatriot 13y ago
Another rant by a programmer who clearly doesn't understand JS... It does have its drawbacks (what language doens't?) but if you have some coding discipline you can code pretty big application without headbanging.
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by louischatriot 13y ago
So hard to read. Also, do we really need another modelling language? UML was not enough? (not saying ML could be used to do that, more like "didn't we learn with UML that these kind of stuff brings pain and no benefits")
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by louischatriot 13y ago
So many negative comments so let's say it loudly: this freaking rocks. Massive kudos to the team. Maybe the performance is not yet on par with C. Maybe it will never be. But using JS means we can use this for very rapid prototyping and
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by louischatriot 13y ago
You misunderstand me, I'm talking about explaining how your startup works and what the business is. The startup mechanics I'm talking about is the way we generally work in startups, for example the fact that if you work for a post
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by louischatriot 13y ago
I totally agree. I'll add that Joe should first ask his friends working at tech jobs if their companies are hiring. "this candidate is respected by someone we employ and know is good" is actually the most important criteria f
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by louischatriot 13y ago
That's actually a pretty good idea (and I am being serious). These firms are always looking for good engineers (I didn't say "experienced") and have a hard time finding ones. This is especially true for smaller companies
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by louischatriot 13y ago
I don't think it's the job of a startup CEO to explain startup mechanics to his staff.
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by louischatriot 13y ago
The article says it makes 100% sense from a business perspective to settle. That's not true, at least not in a collective way, where we should fight to make these scumbags disappear. It's a situation where the personal and the col
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by louischatriot 13y ago
That's a great idea, I'll definitely try!
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by louischatriot 13y ago
Definitely, spending time validating email is useless. Look for an @ to make sure the user didn't mistake the email field for the name field and send him a confirmation email if you really want to be sure.
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by louischatriot 13y ago
You don't seem to know a lot about node. The whole philosophy is "small modules that do one thing well and get out of the way for the rest". If what you like are big frameworks that handle these kinds of things for you, e.g.

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