lxfontes

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by lxfontes 10y ago
Nylas privacy policy ( https://nylas.com/privacy-policy/ ) is the single reason why I don't use it. (puts Stallman's hat on) This is not free as in freedom.
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by lxfontes 10y ago
And tbh: money is not the issue. I don't like the 'apple tax' but they are comfortable wayyyyyy up in their trees... and macOS / iOS dev env is leverage. I'm on the same boat. Except I have a chromebox as guinea pig
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by lxfontes 10y ago
honest question: Any idea why Toronto (and Canada in general) is not higher in this list?
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by lxfontes 10y ago
I wrote this last week, might be relevant https://github.com/lxfontes/droplet-lb
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by lxfontes 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome Be yourself. Ask your manager for feedback every other week. Have fun.
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by lxfontes 10y ago
curious to know the 'what works / what doesn't work' here. I truly believe this battle to be between xps13 / retina 13.
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by lxfontes 11y ago
I think "having to ask" is the #1 pain point. Money is usually not a topic people are comfortable talking about.
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by lxfontes 11y ago
Bob: Hey guys, we didn't pass emissions tests. Jay: I think we can adjust the ECU parameters. Bob: Oh, nice. let's try that. Mechanic James: By doing this you guys lowered the lifetime of a few components. We might need to re-engi
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by lxfontes 11y ago
11k employees, 970 million daily actives, one of the companies "changing the world", and yet people say you don't know anything based on sporadic outages. They are good. Let them figure it out.
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by lxfontes 11y ago
I'm really happy with openresty and curious to put them side by side. betting on lua here.
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by lxfontes 11y ago
If you can't get in the console, use awscli. It is responding fine!
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by lxfontes 11y ago
unless you have a family to take care of, don't think about money. at your level, 12k becomes marginal after taxes. Focus on what you want for your career. Promotions (while on the same company) are usually due to: - merit: if your goa
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by lxfontes 11y ago
brain: longest garbage collection cycle ever
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by lxfontes 11y ago
if there is intelligent life there and they point a telescope at us right now, they would be seeing earth ~ 500 years ago. "check out this planet, looks like a promising place once we run out of materials here."
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by lxfontes 11y ago
counter strike walk my dogs watch some conference videos on youtube ( https://www.youtube.com/user/Confreaks ) or random stuff on http://reddit.tv IMO it is about clearing my head so I can evaluate what ha
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by lxfontes 11y ago
I fully agree. Sorry if this sounds like a thread hijack, but I would rephrase the question as How to deal with people that are trying to "win" an argument. We need secure logins. How should we do it? (a) We should use https (b) h
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by lxfontes 11y ago
Have been using postico https://eggerapps.at/postico/ for day to day queries and pgadmin for more hardcore operations
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by lxfontes 11y ago
Great work! The EmberJS panel is also a good read.
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by lxfontes 11y ago
I would put down a list of hardware requirements: CPU, Memory, Disk (speed/size), screen, connectivity. wrt Mac: It just works and most of your unix tools are there. You might still need a VM depending on the task as OS X is not Linux.
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by lxfontes 11y ago
Clicking on the link automatically downloads: http://www.xkcd.com/fonts/xkcd-Regular.otf License = apparently Creative Commons https://github.com/ipython/xkcd-font
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by lxfontes 11y ago
> The faster guys will often grow bored with a single problem and will have to skip from one problem to another (ADHD, etc). This is your opportunity: stay on the same problem longer than they can, and you will find solutions while they&
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by lxfontes 12y ago
lost "for.science" for a split second :(
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Amazon RDS PostgreSQL 9.4.1 support(aws.amazon.com)
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by lxfontes 12y ago
relevant: http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/06/charge-your-phone-before-fl...
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by lxfontes 12y ago
short answer: I wouldn't do it. 1. I would ask for my unpaid consulting fees 2. Ask if they want me to join without the 100k down and take less % on shares The rationale here is: - Low monthly revenue for a long time - Not paying contr
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by lxfontes 12y ago
UX / UI. Solid usability and design chops. Dev / Ops at the moment.
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by lxfontes 12y ago
stripe did a great job: https://stripe.com/blog/ctf3-architecture
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by lxfontes 12y ago
At Uken Studios we use NSQ as a chain of queues for log processing. rails -> fluentd -> NSQ (firehose) -> log splitter (python script) -> NSQ (elasticsearch, s3, hadoop) We have this setup live since November and processe
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by lxfontes 12y ago
I'm in favour of competition, but this sounds like "Music industry should be forced to release cassette tapes" BB was ahead of the curve, had its glory days, dropped the ball on not focusing on enterprise and now it is strugg
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by lxfontes 12y ago
looks like you have already made your decision and is seeking for validation, but hear me out: consider: - burnout is real. check if your concern is an ongoing issue or a reflection of current events. - grass is always greener on the other

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