zeemonkee3

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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
It reminds me of early 20th century footage of barnstorming aircraft inventors. Now it's just Boeing and Airbus and precious little in the way of real innovation.
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
I think it was the fall in oil prices in the late 70s/early 80s - combined with a ruinous invasion of Afghanistan - that finally did in the Soviet Union economically. Putin should take note. Otherwise - despite the appalling human cost
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
Typically deployment is a "solve-once" problem, even if you don't use docker. You set up chef, puppet, ansible or fabric to handle deployment, installs, database migrations and so on, and tweak as needed. Of course that may n
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
How do I know that? What is the interviewer looking for? Maybe in company A they are looking for developers who come up with a solution on their own and don't rely on external libraries or Google. Maybe company B don't like develo
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
Hiring right now is a shitshow of old wives' tales, cargo-culted practices from big name tech companies, shady recruiters, mismatched incentives, interviewers who have no experience or training in interviewing, gimmicky apps trying to
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
He's a developer, not a telepath. In tests like this you make it clear what's allowed - "use the standard library, no external dependencies" etc. Because in a normal working situation, his solution is perfectly valid. If
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
Interviews like this are a two-way thing. In this case, I'd pick up the vibe that this was a company cursed with NIH and withdraw my application (unless I was desperate for a job or some other overriding factor, of course). Technical i
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
Are people using React starter kits? The major issue I'd see with React at hackathons is the large amount of configuration you typically need to do before you get started. I dislike starter kits due to the additional complexity overhea
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
NodeJS + MongoDB is this generation's Laurel and Hardy stack ("look at this mess you got me into"). Last generation's was PHP + MySQL.
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
How about vimperator? Vimfx is OK as a stop-gap but that's one extension I wouldn't want to lose permanently.
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
Perhaps it was written on gold-lined vellum? I'm assuming the plan required the input of lawyers or other expensive advisors. Still it seems excessive for a bootstrapping company.
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
> This is true unless you have a very popular app and a very large team. Or you have very important and lucrative clients in government, healthcare, or some other crusty large organization with horribly dated browsers they're not go
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
Take away templates and add Django Rest Framework and you have a very capable platform for building large CRUD APIs complete with models, permissions, serializers and so forth. Is it the best solution when you just want to stream data down
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
This is one of the best things about Django - outside the admin interface it's not opinionated about your frontend setup.
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
Just ask them simple questions about their code. "Why did you use a class here? What does this function do?". Or even what motivated them to do the project or what the hardest challenges were. It should be pretty clear whether the
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
IIRC Twilio use Flask, and contributed the flask-restful library [1] [1] https://github.com/flask-restful/flask-restful
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
Often the founders have trust funds and connected families, so never have to worry a day in their lives about missing rent or going hungry.
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
> There is nothing forcing you to use all the extra dependencies This right here is a major problem with a ton of apologists. "You don't need to use X and Y, just start with barebones Z". If you're doing your own side
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
The anger in this thread does not bode well for the future of React. I predict big, complex, arcane React stacks will be a punchline in a few years, much like J2EE/EJB is today. And yes, I know React itself is a small library - Java se
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
Zamenhoff lived in a part of the world where the Russian, Austro-Hungarian and German empires intersected, and Esperanto reflects that. Although the vocabulary is largely Romance, there are words of German/Yiddish and Slavic origin and
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
His point though was that SF isn't particularly suitable as a city for startups; there's no magical "tech gold" that you can't get elsewhere, like West Virginian coal - people go there just to be in the game, becaus
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
We could only wish to be as socially mobile as the Victorians http://ereh.oxfordjournals.org/content/17/1/1.abstract EDIT: from the paper, it appears that mass education in England toward the end of the Victo
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
Moving to the Latin alphabet must have been quite a shift as well.
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
To what extent are many languages today "artificial"? Modern Hebrew was resurrected from a language unspoken for millennia outside of religious services and given an up-to-date vocabulary. Shakespeare and Elias Lonnrot invented th
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
> I just don't believe you can force a language on people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_Not
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
Look at the EU: although there is complete freedom of movement of labour for EU citizens, cultural and language barriers prevent true movement to a far greater degree than within the US.
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
When basic income is a done deal, then maybe. But it's not, and in a toxic and divided political system basic income - and other necessities, like modern universal health care - are not guaranteed for years, if not decades.
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
J2EE wasn't even that old when Rails was new - maybe 4 or 5 years? But it offered an optimal path between the Scylla of J2EE architecture astronautism and the Charybdis of PHP spaghetti.
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
Any decent coding school should teach the basics, so that learning a new framework or language is, if not trivial, then at least something you can pick up on your own.
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by zeemonkee3 10y ago
I think it fell out of favour after WW2 - returning G.I.s had their fill of poor-tasting low-quality mutton from war-ravaged and rationed Europe and wanted their steak, dammit. [1]. [1] http://www.qmfound.com/food_wwII.htm

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