wilmoore

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by wilmoore 3y ago
I'm disappointed that you missed the opportunity for a well-placed pun there :)-
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Ask HN: What's the HN equivalent for investing that isn't Reddit/Twitter?
9 points by wilmoore 4y ago|4 comments
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by wilmoore 4y ago
I remember being on a team where I'd frequently point out that the tests were not only flaky, but useless. I suggested that we delete the useless & redundant tests and either fix or delete the flaky ones. That suggestion was met wi
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by wilmoore 4y ago
> I don't understand why you'd do pair programming with two new hires! There's nothing wrong with two new hires pairing. A few things a pair could be doing while the other is writing code: 1. Spike out a refactor of the cu
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by wilmoore 5y ago
10,000%
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by wilmoore 5y ago
Happy birthday HN. I absolutely love this community. Once I started reading HN somewhat frequently, there is no question that I became a better developer, thinker, researcher, and writer. The topics shared here seem to have no rival anywher
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by wilmoore 5y ago
I'm just surprised people are more outraged that Spotify complied with the artist's request vs being outraged by Spotify's horribly cluttered (and confusing) UI.
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by wilmoore 5y ago
I've been fortunate enough to have worked across pretty much every portion of the stack with the exception of hardware or core networking protocols. Everywhere else, I have experience and am comfortable. Yes, you are definitely going t
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by wilmoore 5y ago
If you like jq, then you might also like jmespath.terminal (jpterm): https://github.com/jmespath/jmespath.terminal
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by wilmoore 5y ago
What the entire recruiting industry (this isn't unique to recruiting industry) fails to understand is, if the process isn't time optimal and fair, then engineers will eventually learn the nuances of the industry and build somethin
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by wilmoore 6y ago
I've interviewed with a couple teams that are using Shape Up and I got the general sense that the developers were happy with the process. Here is the readable on the web version: https://basecamp.com/shapeup/webboo
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by wilmoore 6y ago
Agreed. I suspect an open-source competitor could be much better than all of these if organized well.
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by wilmoore 6y ago
anxiety === lack of documentation + lack of frequent communication + general desire to be _done_ as soon as possible
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by wilmoore 7y ago
> what do you do when implementing a REST endpoint like GET /things where the user can give any number of 10 query parameters to filter the result? https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/referen
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by wilmoore 7y ago
> My .vimrc is constantly improving. To the point where I ask myself how healthy the obsession/addiction is. I have to concede that this _was_ my experience until about a year ago. I can recall spending many evenings and even some l
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by wilmoore 8y ago
So, invest in yet another program that likely further exacerbates the issue just to sweep the underlying issue under the rug?
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by wilmoore 8y ago
Curated configuration generally outlives data. If storage space becomes an issue, there is value in recovering storage space but config is generally small and much more important in the long term.
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by wilmoore 8y ago
I agree, you didn't look very hard.
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by wilmoore 8y ago
Honestly, I was expecting the music to be extremely weak. The third item I hit was fire. The design is clean, no bs; Sold. Suggestions: 1. add autocomplete to your search box. 2. make it easier for people to give you their email address (i.
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by wilmoore 8y ago
> The right thing to do when taking a cc for a trial is to send reminder emails that they will be charged.. Which not enough do. > Wouldn't the "right thing to do" be to not auto-renew the account? I suspect we sometime
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by wilmoore 10y ago
To be honest, this is the kind of thing that would be great to highlight immediately on https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo or http://doc.crates.io/guide.html . I go to those pages and I am given 0 infor
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by wilmoore 10y ago
You willingly subject yourself to this? Why?
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by wilmoore 10y ago
I see where you're coming from, but I feel like it would be a mistake to expect the language or std lib to try to solve problems that are effectively organizational/cultural issues.
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by wilmoore 10y ago
The issue with comments written this way is that there are no details to support the claim. Writing "see: JavaScript" doesn't really help without context. Without context, one does no know if you meant "JavaScript in bro
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by wilmoore 11y ago
They have specifically stated that they do not have any plans to support parsing JSON.
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by wilmoore 11y ago
> Haha, I'm actually also a Haskell programmer...building a C compiler in Haskell as my secret plot to take over the world. Haha; I got a kick out of reading that. Nice! > I have a sideproject that's a REST API in Haskell as
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by wilmoore 11y ago
>> ...it's hard for me to even consider the idea of Javascript being in the same category as Ruby. Indeed. I think anyone would agree...they were not built for the same purpose; however, let's set some expectations here. As
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by wilmoore 11y ago
>> That's what everyone predicted half a decade ago, yet it hasn't happened, not even the PHP death part. Indeed. I don't think it will happen...at least not the way people are predicting it to happen. There are plenty
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by wilmoore 11y ago
>> the fact that as a language Ruby is superior to Javascript remains, even if Javascript VMs are a hundred times as fast. As someone who frequently switches between Ruby/Rails and NodeJS (sometimes in the same day), I wonder abo
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by wilmoore 11y ago
For me, Scala is a great language that continues to present me with good surprises (i.e. literal curry syntax). The only issue for me is the JVM and the package/namespace system (not to mention mvn, sbt). In this way, Erlang/Elixi

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