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Australia first to test new lithium-sulphur batteries(newscientist.com)
43 points by ntalbott 7y ago|54 comments
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API Docs by Request(blog.spreedly.com)
1 points by ntalbott 9y ago|0 comments
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by ntalbott 10y ago
I hope it has a lasting impact beyond Spreedly, too. The impact of founding a company shouldn't just be on customers; if we act in an upright manner, hopefully employees, vendors, partners, the families of all of the above, and a casca
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by ntalbott 10y ago
Author here: you're right, nothing revolutionary here in technique. Most/all of our actual process is ripped straight out of http://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/03/06/the-hiring-post/ . But my
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by ntalbott 11y ago
Love this: like 99designs for code. Bet you'll get a lot of pushback on this "devaluing coding" just like 99designs has for design, which just means you're on the right track. Of course it doesn't; it just commoditi
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by ntalbott 12y ago
Spreedly already supports vaulting bank account information, and while the number of gateways that we support passing bank account info to is still limited, we're growing that rapidly at the moment. Our gateway support is heavily influ
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by ntalbott 12y ago
Thanks! The name's "test/unit", but I won't hold it against you ;-). It's pretty sweet that people have gotten so much mileage out of code I wrote, and if it's helped us as a profession - even a little bit
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by ntalbott 12y ago
You forgot to reference the great recursive essay Eric Meyer wrote on exactly this topic: http://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html Which essay I already knew about and chose to willfully ignore when I titled th
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by ntalbott 12y ago
I think a lot of it depends on context. In a private repo I'm right there with you. But when I look at a public repo with a lot of contributors, I want to know what the "logical" history is a lot more than I want to know abou
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by ntalbott 12y ago
Well, quoting from that message, "If it's not ready, you send patches around". I think the big difference is that I'm willing to take patches that aren't ready and get them ready, whereas I'm sure Linus usually
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by ntalbott 12y ago
Most of the contributions I'm merging in are 10 lines, but a lot of them (half?) take two or more (sometimes many more) commits to converge on those 10 lines, and none of those intermediate commits has useful information in them. The o
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by ntalbott 12y ago
Maybe, but... probably not. The thing is, I want to work with the changes locally before they get included. So it can't be a 100% web workflow. That said, there might be ways the web UI could make the transition to the CLI easier, and
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by ntalbott 12y ago
These quality issues become a problem sooner than I would have thought, and Linux is big enough that they can just demand contributors know their stuff. But I found that in between "hobby project of my own" and "huge project
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by ntalbott 12y ago
FWIW hub is even handy for the "add a remote for the fork, check out the fork branch" flow, since it lets you just `git remote add ntalbott` instead of having to find or derive the full url for the remote.
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by ntalbott 12y ago
You may think of commits as literal quotations of the "Author", but it's important to realize that git doesn't. If you want to know who's ultimately responsible for a commit, you always want to look at the "Com
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by ntalbott 12y ago
As I understand it `git am` is actually replaying the series of commits on top of the branch you run it in, whereas a merge commit flattens the commits out and applies them in one go (while keeping full history of the commits begin merged).
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by ntalbott 12y ago
Cool, I'll have to try that! Does it also pull PR's that live on feature branches in forks of the root repo?
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by ntalbott 12y ago
Using git remotes and distinct branches per contribution is totally legit, and I still do it sometimes. But, I'm often/usually dealing with contributions that have already been reviewed and don't need a whole feature branch&#
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by ntalbott 12y ago
Agreed, editing contributions does add a bit of extra work for contributors post-inclusion, especially if they've been using their own branch in production. That said, since this is a PR flow, the contributor will get an email from Git
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by ntalbott 12y ago
So to be clear, every commit in the ActiveMerchant history also points back at the initiating PR via the commit message including the PR number (which gets linked up). So there's no real loss of information in that sense And I hear you
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by ntalbott 12y ago
OP author here... The result is the same, but I've found the `git am` workflow to be much smoother vs. mucking around with remotes. Some of that could be due to the nature of the OSS project I work on - ActiveMerchant - since just in t
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Remote work interview with Nathaniel Talbott(remotejobs.co)
2 points by ntalbott 13y ago|0 comments
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by ntalbott 13y ago
Having people know how to start contributing is not an issue I've had with my OSS projects; that could just be me though. Keeping straight what stage the Issues in our private repos are in, though - that's a very real problem I de
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by ntalbott 13y ago
Based on the email at the bottom of the page, looks like this is from the http://rallydev.com folks? I hope they have plans for an internal/private version, because while I'm not sure I'd use this for my open sour
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How Spreedly Raised $300K in 10 Days on AngelList(exitevent.com)
27 points by ntalbott 13y ago|6 comments
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by ntalbott 14y ago
Good feedback; I think a couple of example backtraces would help to illuminate what's going on. Not sure if I'll edit this post, but I shall take it to heart for future ones. Thanks!
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by ntalbott 14y ago
The API has actually been in active use for almost two years, which means it is both battle tested and also showing its age. JSON support is actively planned for v2.
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by ntalbott 14y ago
I've been using this extension for awhile, and I can't duplicate your results - clicking on your username with the extension installed is taking me right to your profile page. What happens when you do it?
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by ntalbott 14y ago
Today there isn't any integration between our classic Subscriptions product and Core (though we do have some customers using them side by side regardless). It's something we'd very much like to do, but it's not at the top of the list yet.
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by ntalbott 14y ago
The data is absolutely transferrable today - we've had multiple customers leverage that transferability to switch (or augment) their gateway with just a configuration change. Of course, it's not just about data portability; API consistency

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