tomjohnson3

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Show HN: Multiplayer, a debugging agent to run locally next to your coding agent(multiplayer.app)
8 points by tomjohnson3 4mo ago|1 comments
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by tomjohnson3 1y ago
Hi HN, I’m Tom, the CTO and cofounder of Multiplayer. We built this because we were tired of incomplete bug reports, hard-to-reproduce failures, and stale docs. Where traditional recordings stop at the UI, we go deeper. This is all the data
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Show HN: Multiplayer – Full-stack session recordings to debug, test, and build(multiplayer.app)
10 points by tomjohnson3 1y ago|5 comments
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by tomjohnson3 2y ago
Thank you everyone for reading my article! I’m the author, Thomas Johnson. This article stems from my frustration with the typical approach of asking, “What diagramming tool should we use?” instead of addressing the root problem: the need f
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by tomjohnson3 6y ago
I would be willing to bet that assembly wasn’t the first language you learned. The first programming I did was as a kid when I taught myself basic on an apple II+ after I saw a joystick and a manual sitting next to my dad’s computer. ...i
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by tomjohnson3 7y ago
Yes. ...that was very annoying. How did they do that, exactly?
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by tomjohnson3 7y ago
excellent post. can i make a (hopefully useful) comment about programming style - something that someone shared with me a long time ago when reading my code that i have found to be very valuable over the years? it can be incredibly benefici
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by tomjohnson3 8y ago
My daughter (now 4) loves: Poor Louie; Rosie Revere Engineer; Ada Twist Scientist; Iggy Peck Architect; Elephant & Piggie books; Llama Llama books; Rory the dinosaur books; ...and because she loves the shows, she asks for: PJ Mask
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by tomjohnson3 10y ago
yep - this would throw an exception. ...and it's missing other things too. ;-)
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by tomjohnson3 10y ago
ironic that his reverse function is incorrect.
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by tomjohnson3 11y ago
hmmm...i watched the video of kyle pitching and i understood what was talking about. i don't see what was so bad about it. to me, given the interruption-laden flow of the dialog, it was as clear and concise as you could probably expect
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by tomjohnson3 13y ago
WebThriftStore / NYC - remote / Devops Engineer WebThriftStore is looking for an operations engineer to join our team on a part-time basis. We are open to remote work but have a preference for NYC. Freelancers are welcome. Must ha
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by tomjohnson3 13y ago
i've been following kyle's jepsen project for a few months (check out his other posts) - and it seems (thankfully) to be nudging the focus of discussion away from only "performance metrics" (transactions/sec, etc.)
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by tomjohnson3 13y ago
this is perhaps the most honest and accurate description of what you will likely find in raising money - couple with fantastic advice. in fact, it accurately reflects my first experience and rookie mistakes raising money in a secondary ma
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by tomjohnson3 13y ago
i don't think this is the case. here is a link to a video by one of the authors about log repair during leader election: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=YbZ... log entries on a follower ma
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by tomjohnson3 13y ago
one other thing to keep in mind is that the underlying algorithms (zab and raft) provide different guarantees. for example, zookeeper/zab allows reading directly from followers with a guarantee to get at least a past value that won&#x2
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by tomjohnson3 13y ago
one of the most important things - something that is difficult to suss out in an interview - is how well you (or your team) would work with a person. (i think this is perhaps the most important quality - definitely more important than being
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by tomjohnson3 13y ago
Translation: joke -> threat. Sounds like bullying to me. No place for that. No exceptions.
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by tomjohnson3 13y ago
interesting FAQ...i like the idea of bringing this info together. i've found there are lots of more-common things that cause partitions in practice than equipment-in-the-middle failures. human errors are probably the biggest: network config
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by tomjohnson3 14y ago
github: tomjohnson3
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by tomjohnson3 15y ago
For those who think a flat tax is fair to all, I'm curious if they would still feel that way after playing this game: www.playspent.org A progressive tax system seems more fair to me (though not perfect) because there is some link to discre
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by tomjohnson3 15y ago
> The theory in taxing capital gains at a lower rate than ordinary income is that the wealth that was invested that produced the capital gains has already been taxed once when it was earned. Whenever someone argues this point (not fw, i
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by tomjohnson3 15y ago
good points...i definitely get chills (in a good way) going down 101 or walking around soma, etc., feeling the energy of the tech companies all around me. it was definitely a motivating factor when i worked there. (lo those many years ago.)
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by tomjohnson3 15y ago
i'll throw down a few off the top of my head: foursquare, 10gen, etsy, a cool one called makerbot, stackoverflow, etc, etc., etc. ...but there are lots of little guys you probably haven't heard of yet popping out of columbia/nyu or the grea
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by tomjohnson3 15y ago
honestly, do these people look like they want to screw you out of your first million? http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/NYC_Resistor ;-) look at all those happy/helpful people, ready to volunteer their time and emotional shares to help you get
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by tomjohnson3 15y ago
whenever i read comments about nyc's best developers ultimately being sucked into the vortex of finance, i want to gag. i can only assume that these commenters haven't spent much quality time here (or in finance - which is, for the most par
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by tomjohnson3 16y ago
I've used java since 1995. I agree that some EE projects are overly-complicated (EJB, etc.) and make simple tasks seem difficult. ...However, there's usually a reason - and, the bottom line is that you probably don't need to use those proje