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by pfitzsimmons 1y ago
I remember flipping through the Sear's Wish Book as child, coveting all the toys. You can still find old copies online: https://christmas.musetechnical.com/ What's actually happening is that China's manufactu
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by pfitzsimmons 2y ago
That's not a big deal for me since I only am running a handful of servers. I install it system-wide during initial setup of a new server. Plumbum has the ability to run remote shell commands as well, so I have a script that can login t
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by pfitzsimmons 2y ago
As a pythonista, I am a huge fan of the plumbum library as a replacement for bash. It makes it very straightforward to run a sequence of *nix commands, but you get all the simplicity and power of the python language in terms of loops and fu
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by pfitzsimmons 10y ago
I switched from Riot to Vue, and am glad I made the change. Biggest things I noticed: 1) Getting stared with the basics is about equally easy in both frameworks. Both have a very simple and clean API and component system. 2) Vue has more ad
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What I’d Change, Keep the Same, and Don’t yet Know(moz.com)
1 points by pfitzsimmons 10y ago|0 comments
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Our best practices are killing mobile web performance(molily.de)
1 points by pfitzsimmons 10y ago|0 comments
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by pfitzsimmons 10y ago
I worked at HubSpot for many years. (disclaimer - I do not have a financial interest in the company. But I do still have strong emotional and social connections, and I was there long enough that I feel some sense of ownership for the compan
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by pfitzsimmons 10y ago
I worked there, it wasn't anything as bad as what he makes it out to be. It was just shorthand for saying, "the whole is greater than the sum of the parts." Our whole sales pitch was that we were all-in-one software. So inste
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by pfitzsimmons 10y ago
I worked at HubSpot in engineering and I never once heard the term "graduation" in reference to a firing. Usually we just got an email saying, "HubSpot and John have decided to go separate ways" or something to that effe
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by pfitzsimmons 11y ago
1. There was a history of heavy-weight, overly verbose frameworks. The early frameworks were over-engineered and hard to use. Lightweight frameworks in dynamic languages (Rails, django) thus took off when you they showed how you could write
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by pfitzsimmons 11y ago
This looks like this could be a big deal. Kickstarter would be a lot more fair and more compelling if the backers were also investors, and could get a piece of the upside when helping to support development for a risky product. And it makes
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The Reg A+ Bombshell: $50M Equity Crowdfunding(seedinvest.com)
3 points by pfitzsimmons 11y ago|2 comments
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Heat Death: Venture Capital in the 1980s(reactionwheel.net)
7 points by pfitzsimmons 12y ago|0 comments
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by pfitzsimmons 12y ago
I went through this exact situation. I joined a company when it was just the founders and me, and then we grew to dozens and then hundreds of people. As we grew, I felt these same slights: I was left out of strategy meetings, I was not ment
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by pfitzsimmons 12y ago
" For any significant piece of logic, it ends up living in a class on its own, with its dependencies injected either via constructor parameters or method parameters. " And I was worried I was the only one who thought this was craz
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by pfitzsimmons 12y ago
Were the paying customers actually using it? Did they love the product (ie, would be a 9 or 10 on an NPS survey)? If yes, then you should have worked more on sales and marketing. If no, then you built the wrong feature. Blindly adding a col
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by pfitzsimmons 12y ago
Gestures are much less efficient than using a mouse or touchscreen, gestures require more muscles and movement and are less precise. Voice commands beyond the very simple stuff is an AI complete problem. True AI is much further away than we
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by pfitzsimmons 12y ago
If you look at the biomechanics, it does seem like a keyboard + mouse + >=20" screen is the optimal setup for doing actual work. A keyboard is simply the most efficient way to get information into a computer (the exception is that s
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by pfitzsimmons 12y ago
My favorite term for it is "Eye of Sauron" management. Most of the time the eye is not on you ... but when it is, look out!
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by pfitzsimmons 12y ago
The point of a microservice based architecture is to allow a large team (15+ people) to work together without stepping on each others toes. The idea is you break the application into smaller services, and each service can be iterated on and
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by pfitzsimmons 12y ago
This is great. You should have an offer a combined zip file with all the mp3's as a $5 download. I would pay for it.
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by pfitzsimmons 12y ago
So 2,200 signups turned into 9 active users. If those were paying customers, than that is a .5% lead to customer ratio. There are companies that have built large businesses with a ratio like that. I'm not saying that OP should continue
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by pfitzsimmons 12y ago
I would love for someone to start a company that could bring fiber to cities via the kickstarter model. Getting the money upfront from customers could go a long way toward mitigating the risk. Ideally the company would be structured as a hy
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Introverts at Work: Designing Spaces for People Who Hate Open-Plan Offices(businessweek.com)
1 points by pfitzsimmons 12y ago|0 comments
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by pfitzsimmons 12y ago
It is more precise than normal English dialect, but still much less precise than math or python. At root, the phenomena that legalese describes are often imprecise. For instance, there is no perfectly precise way to describe the boundaries
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by pfitzsimmons 12y ago
Math, English, Python, Chinese, Ruby - these are all just languages. Programming languages and Math are simply languages designed to be good at describing phenomena that can be defined with precision. Programming languages are optimized for
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by pfitzsimmons 12y ago
" He wants the rest of the people to first hear: "We're changing for the better, and while these layoffs are a bad thing, it's necessary pain we have to go through to be better in the long run." Right, but the ques
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A magical technique for resolving disputes at work(grokky.com)
2 points by pfitzsimmons 12y ago|0 comments
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by pfitzsimmons 12y ago
One approach is to start documenting how much of your time is spent either a) manually testing changes because you have no automated tests b) debugging, fixing bugs, and patching messed up data due to bugs that easily could have been caught
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by pfitzsimmons 12y ago
"My intuition would be that functional startups are visibly functional; they feel awesome." It is a lot more complicated than that. The term "sausage factory" usually applies - http://www.urbandictionary.com

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