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by phereford 5y ago
IMO, someone’s tangible value of putting an Ape as their avatar pic on social media might be greater than that of someone being able to use a ship purchased in Star Citizen. It’s a little crazy to me how Twitter profiles with Apes are viewe
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by phereford 7y ago
This! I prefer 80 characters so I can have two panes of code side by side or a REPL next to my code. It is near impossible to do that on a laptop if the line length is extended to 110 without a line wrap. Point being, everyone has very diff
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NuBank Aqcui-Hires Platformatec(twitter.com)
2 points by phereford 7y ago|0 comments
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by phereford 7y ago
100% this. The teams that I have been a part of that have had a lasting impact on me allow for authenticity. Sure, sometimes you get a disparaging remark that can escalate. But, in my limited experience, that downside is so minuscule to the
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by phereford 7y ago
To add to this sentiment, tests also give teams confidence that is needed. It gives engineers confidence when developing new features because the test suite will break if you introduce a regression. It gives engineers confidence during depl
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by phereford 7y ago
Honeypots are the best. It will filter out at least 90% of the spam (or so I have experienced everywhere I have implemented them).
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by phereford 7y ago
Tools that have worked in the past for me: - Confluence for long lived documents - JIRA for time boxed groupings of work. - Slack for real time comm if anything arises. - "Culture" and Process Living Document I ran a team of about
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by phereford 7y ago
What is soul crushing to you is not soul crushing to someone else. You can certainly find people who are motivated to meet new engineers and talk and spend part of their day doing that than going to a meeting of choice. If you are leading a
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by phereford 7y ago
Most times you are correct. In this scenario, however, it seems like he started as an individual contributor and transitioned to management. When that happens, in my experience, companies want to continue to leverage the system knowledge fr
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by phereford 7y ago
Believe it or not, _you_ and you alone can fix this. DELEGATE! Delegate enough to get back SOME of that coding time. Block off 2 hours a day as "Free Time" or "Creative Space" a la Michael Scott from _The Office_. People
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by phereford 8y ago
You can see the older HN article here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17310738 Looks like they are moving their office suite of software to React.js.
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by phereford 8y ago
I know we are talking about this in the digital realm, but this also exists in the property realm too. Imminent Domain is used be governments to acquire land, generally below its actual valution, for building of infrastructure. I wonder if
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by phereford 8y ago
It does not have complete feature parity. One of the things missing, that is important for me and the team I am on, is the ability to share screens and allow for remote control in that session. That is a Mac App only right now, at least the
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Ruby 2.5.0 Released(ruby-lang.org)
431 points by phereford 9y ago|108 comments
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by phereford 9y ago
Hmm my mistake. The blog post said Differential Equation and a classroom of 300 some students. Not many non-core classes have 300 students in them. I remember my diff eq class (18.03) being rather large (similar to 8.01, 18.01, etc etc). Wh
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by phereford 9y ago
It is 18.03. He may have just inadvertently flipped the 0 and 3. It is 18.03 now, and was in 2002 :D.
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by phereford 9y ago
I think it's a grey area, but I am not an accountant. The government considers it to be intagible property in some scenarios and a capital asset in others. For the most part I think the capital asset happens on the conversion to fiat
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by phereford 9y ago
There was a podcast(1) about part of your question recently. Essentially, people are playing with "house money" as they have generated net gains from BTC and other coins. Instead of incurring a taxable event by cashing out, they m
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by phereford 10y ago
http://firstround.com/review/why-firing-brilliant-assholes-i... For me, it's always been just to make sure the person isn't toxic to other employees From some other comments I skimmed: I think it's a bon
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by phereford 10y ago
There is no one answer here as every family structure is different. Like most other comments here, my 2 (5yo, 22months) children have first dibs on my time while I am not on the clock or am not dealing with a production issue off hours. Onc
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by phereford 10y ago
Not to derail the whole premise of this article, but Susan's book looks great! Just bought it and can't wait to start reading it.
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by phereford 10y ago
I found my mentor through my first paid web development job. The experience is absolutely worth it. That experience happened almost 10 years ago and I still catch up with him every so often. I have been a mentor in the past (and present) an
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by phereford 10y ago
I have dealt with the "negative work" conundrum myself and just wanted to give some insight from my point of view on your comment. 1) It isn't always junior level programmers causing the negative work. When it is a junior lev
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by phereford 10y ago
Not trying to hijack this, but this entire ordeal reminds me of this Hacker News comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11360482 If your livelihood is solely invested in a singular vendor, then you absolutely need to
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by phereford 10y ago
Hahahahahaha.
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by phereford 10y ago
Also, think of the various boot camps (General Assembly, Launch Academy, etc). Those do not teach SQL, but do teach some ORM.
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by phereford 10y ago
I don't know if it's the norm or not, but leveraging an ORM without knowing SQL is a thing. ORMs have so many benefits (query parameterization just to name one). That and people can stay in their comfort zone language (Ruby, Pytho
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by phereford 10y ago
Ehh. More about boosting confidence and team morale than politics. The goal was achieved, and we can yak shave during slack time if need be.
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by phereford 10y ago
We didn't make it immutable and we didn't add an index to it. Those are our next action items to help improve the performance of it. Honestly, instead of looking into more performance gains, I wanted the team to get a huge win and
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by phereford 10y ago
Thank you!!!!

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