prophetjohn

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by prophetjohn 6y ago
I'm no Facebook fan or apologist, but I do think there's a distinction between failing to moderate perfectly (or even well) and refusing to even attempt to moderate.
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by prophetjohn 6y ago
Does it just cool down that much in the evening? What about the weekends? This is fascinating to me. I've lived in the rural Midwest, NYC and Texas and always had A/C everywhere I lived – only question was central or window unit.
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by prophetjohn 6y ago
Copy and paste it into slack instead
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by prophetjohn 6y ago
They are mailing out the required hardware and doing remote onboarding for the time being. But hardware shipments are getting delayed leading to some new hires being paid to do nothing for a week or two.
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Google to Slow Hiring for Rest of 2020(bloomberg.com)
382 points by prophetjohn 6y ago|279 comments
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by prophetjohn 6y ago
> an external tool is required by the developer Yes, that tool is Rome. They are re-implementing the TypeScript compiler, just like everything else
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by prophetjohn 7y ago
It costs money, but for other readers, I've been using Buildkite[0] at two different companies across ~4 years now and it's great. It's _mostly_ self-hosted in that jobs run on your own hardware and Buildkite itself is only t
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by prophetjohn 7y ago
I think this is a wise approach for large Rails applications, but this just looks like the Repository pattern to me, with ActiveRecord used as the db interaction layer
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by prophetjohn 7y ago
Yeah and that's for a 538 sqft apartment. I don't know the specifics of the San Francisco rental market, but you can easily beat $4k/mo for a studio in desirable parts of Manhattan, so I assume the same is true of SV
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by prophetjohn 7y ago
I guess it depends on how short the window and what other restrictions you're placing (e.g. Penn's diet?). But yeah, I can put down 2000 calories at McDonald's in about 10 minutes. And I wasn't even _that_ fat at my fatt
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by prophetjohn 7y ago
They progress the language by adding syntactic sugar. Many Ruby programmers aren't waiting around for Ruby to suddenly become fast. If that happened it'd be great, but most code I write isn't performance critical, so it'
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by prophetjohn 8y ago
This is Hacker News. The conversations generally have a tech-oriented context. I've never worked at a tech company in NYC where lots of people don't wear shorts in the summer. Shorts, flip flops, tank tops. It's all fair gam
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by prophetjohn 8y ago
I don't really remember there being much of a misunderstanding of React itself when it was first launched. There was definitely ridicule ("markup and logic in the same file?!"), but the general idea behind the core of it is p
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by prophetjohn 8y ago
Do you find it concerning that many software engineers with extensive professional React experience have such a difficult time understanding hooks?
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by prophetjohn 8y ago
SEEKING WORK | Remote only (based in NYC) | Part-time, moonlight only I'm a full-stack software engineer with over 7 years of experience. I've spent most of my time building software with either Ruby on Rails or JavaScript/Re
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by prophetjohn 8y ago
SEEKING WORK | Remote only (based in NYC) | Part-time, moonlight only I'm a full-stack software engineer with over 7 years of experience. I've spent most of my time building software with either Ruby on Rails or JavaScript/Re
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by prophetjohn 8y ago
I have more experience at startups than as a consultant. I was the 6th hire at a company that grew to 130 over three years and I was never thinking more than a few months in advance. A lot changes in five years — your customers, the competi
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by prophetjohn 8y ago
> The great architect has the foresight on how the code will be used in five years and design it accordingly Perhaps this is a function of me working in startups and consulting my whole career, but it seems extremely misguided, if not ne
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by prophetjohn 8y ago
SEEKING WORK | New York, NY (NYC) or remote | Part-time only I'm a full-stack software engineer with over 7 years of experience. I've spent most of my time building software with Ruby on Rails, but also have extensive experience w
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by prophetjohn 8y ago
A lot of people do care about more than just the technical aspects of the job, like what the company does. When that's intentionally obfuscated and the all the locations are government-y towns, then one is left to make assumptions — li
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by prophetjohn 8y ago
Why don't you just correct the GP? Kind of weird/suspicious that the company name appears to be secret
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by prophetjohn 8y ago
SEEKING WORK | New York, NY (NYC) or remote | Part-time only I'm a full-stack software engineer with over 7 years of experience. I've spent most of my time building software with Ruby on Rails, but also have extensive experience w
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by prophetjohn 8y ago
Yes, I agree that knowledge of the ecosystem is important to efficiently create business value. If I don't know that Devise exists and I roll my own auth library, that's a waste of time. That's different than if I don't
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by prophetjohn 8y ago
> You want an ORM? choose an ORM library. You want templates, choose a templating library. You want to send mails, choose a mailing library. But I'd rather spend my time creating business value than researching ORMs, templating libr
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by prophetjohn 8y ago
I did a similar thing in Texas (Austin Community College -> Texas State University), albeit later in life. I'm on a 4-person engineering team where the other three when to Carnegie Mellon, Stanford and Princeton. I guess I worked at
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by prophetjohn 9y ago
I know it's a minor point, but Boston absolutely does not have the same weather as NYC. The winters are so much worse in Boston. I'm a current NYC-er finding NYC too expensive to raise my family and the winter there is the only th
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by prophetjohn 9y ago
Felt is a legitimate, reputable bicycle manufacturer, though. It is much higher quality than a department store bike.
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by prophetjohn 10y ago
Never seen anything like this in NYC
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by prophetjohn 10y ago
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by prophetjohn 10y ago
PolicyGenius | Full-stack, Front-end, DevOps Engineers | New York City (NYC) We're growing fast and hiring for all engineering roles. Shoot me an email at josh at policygenius dot com if you have any questions. You can read more detail

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