tjarratt

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by tjarratt 9y ago
No, never.
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by tjarratt 9y ago
This reminds me a lot of Jenn Schiffer's talk at XOXO last year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wewAC5X_CZ8
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by tjarratt 9y ago
Oh wow. I can't be sure, but I'm pretty sure I'm the engineer at Pivotal that you paired with. I definitely remember you making reference to homoiconicity in lisp when we were pairing the day that Clean Architecture really cl
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by tjarratt 11y ago
It's reasonable within their own worldview, which is secretive and closed. I will gladly admit, that was one of the largest driving factors for me leaving the company.
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by tjarratt 11y ago
I worked at Apple on OS X server in various capacities for a few years, and really loved the experience. As an open-source user and advocate, I was really sad there because they have a very hostile and defensive position about open source (
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by tjarratt 12y ago
I'd be really delighted if you could show me a better tool for writing a parser, given a grammar in Golang than goyacc. You're absolutely right that the error reporting in yacc isn't that modern, but it's very functional
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by tjarratt 12y ago
Woah, I'm pretty stoked to see someone link to my ruby implementation (neé Grubby). It seems like the authors of Golang believe that a lot of problems with languages (refactoring, updating code to work with new libraries / version
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by tjarratt 13y ago
What happened to the students that were culled? I can't even imagine what you'd do after getting dropped from a class you paid for (even with refund). That must be tremendously demoralizing.
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by tjarratt 13y ago
Confirming that my sample size of X Bootcamp students have trouble finding jobs. It's still a competitive market, but it seems like there is an increased demand for skilled talent. What seems really odd to me, is that the market for cr
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by tjarratt 13y ago
This same comment, except replace "Svbtle" with "Facebook" back when they opened up registrations for college students outside the Ivy League. It's not too far off from the much ballyhooed Slashdot quote on the firs
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by tjarratt 13y ago
Not so sure it's this simple. The market is pretty large. Not everything needs to be so black and white.
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by tjarratt 13y ago
A lot fewer tears would have been shed.
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by tjarratt 13y ago
Isn't it a little early for April Fools' jokes?
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by tjarratt 13y ago
Working on a ruby gem that makes it easier to use software defined radios. My goal is to let someone write a police scanner in 10 lines of ruby. https://github.com/tjarratt/turtleshell
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by tjarratt 13y ago
This is going to be at the Pivotal Labs office, right? I can't wait, that's an amazing venue for this!
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by tjarratt 15y ago
I'm a little surprised that there wasn't a valid google cache still kicking around for any of those dead links.
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by tjarratt 15y ago
... and what of the fact that there will be one fewer major carrier and the cost of entry is significantly higher? Do you even have any idea how much it costs to start operating as a cell carrier, or how impractical it is in most regions, d
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by tjarratt 15y ago
Do you really think everyone has 100+ hours to spend learning the idiosyncrasies of HTML and CSS? That's asking a lot for someone that just wants to put up a landing page for an idea, or to design their portfolio. Everytime my artist friend
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by tjarratt 15y ago
I'd actually disagree - I think the fullscreen support is really good. What didn't you like about it?
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by tjarratt 15y ago
It's not just UI polish that make Apple products what they are though - it's the design that goes into a product even before an engineer writes a single line of code, or before a prototype is even built. Apple isn't afraid to have a bad ide
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by tjarratt 15y ago
The only location on the main campus that I think the general public is allowed into without a badge is the company store at IL1, although if you go inside you quickly realize that there is no way into the rest of the IL complex from there.
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by tjarratt 15y ago
As a former Apple employee I cannot disagree more. Everyone at the mothership needs more sunlight, not less. I can't even remember how many days I got to work when the sun was coming up and left as it was setting, or after it set. It was li
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by tjarratt 15y ago
Please post an update (or link to a blog post or something) when you do add this. It would be great to see that functionality working.
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by tjarratt 15y ago
Hey @cgcardona, this is really cool, but the 'fork me on github' tag in the corner doesn't really work well on Webkit browsers. With the latest chrome, you can't see "fork me on github" - only "cause i rock" backwards - this is a known bug
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by tjarratt 15y ago
>>>>> "... I think the reality distortion field will be at full blast for this book." <<<<< That's precisely why I'd want to read it. There's something fascinating about peeling away the layers of rea
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by tjarratt 15y ago
I've found the "developer time is more important than machine time in 99% of cases" argument to be particular effective when preaching python to the C++ masses.
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by tjarratt 15y ago
In general a "hypothetical person" probably isn't going to be a big fan of any one technology, platform, language, etc. There are too many choices and everything is fragmented to the point that it's hard to find any common ground between ru
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by tjarratt 15y ago
I'll see your emacs as "best proof" and raise you node.js - sure it's C++ underneath, but few people are going to argue that interpreted javascript is "close to machine code". For some tasks, elisp is a clunky and slower than writing a shel
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by tjarratt 15y ago
This is my number one pet peeve, right here: >>>>>>>>>>>>>> # Force all clients that hit this host to www.nintendo.com RewriteEngine on RewriteRule .* http://www.nintendo.com/ [R,L]
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by tjarratt 15y ago
The application already costs 99c and arguably the bookmarklet the author created did go viral (to the point where I'm still having friends send me links to the asteroids 'web site killer' every few days). One question on my mind is whether

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