kitwalker12 | 7 years ago | on: The World's Most Efficient Languages (2016)
Had a consultant developer once who named his functions like doMagic() & doStuff()
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kitwalker12 | 7 years ago | on: 2018 Ruby on Rails Developer Community Survey
I didn't know Devise was such a polarizing thing in the ruby community
kitwalker12 | 9 years ago | on: Actress Kristen Stewart just released a research paper on AI
Link to paper authored by Stewart, Bhautik Joshi and David Shapiro of Adobe and Starlight Studios https://arxiv.org/pdf/1701.04928v1.pdf
kitwalker12 | 9 years ago | on: How much does employee turnover really cost?
> When a capable person on your team wants a role bigger than her past experience, do you give her a shot or do you simply hire someone with more experience?
This spoke to me the most as I've seen this happen at multiple places. lack of growth seems to be the most common reasons for employees leaving (apart from stagnating salaries) and that's something a company can easily invest in
kitwalker12 | 9 years ago | on: Why Snapchat didn’t give Spectacles to techies
Also identifying customers
kitwalker12 | 9 years ago | on: Community Contest: Creative Navigation in Email
I was impressed with how marketers are hacking emails to get the most out of them. personally I would love some of this ingenuity in my inbox.
kitwalker12 | 9 years ago | on: Bill Belichick Throws in the Tablet
yes. I'd have liked to see what exactly failed that got him so riled up
kitwalker12 | 9 years ago | on: 2016 H1B Visa Reports: Top 100 H1B Visa Sponsors
look to ones_and_zeros's reply
kitwalker12 | 9 years ago | on: 2016 H1B Visa Reports: Top 100 H1B Visa Sponsors
oh my. That's interesting. The jobs I see are:
Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists(274); Biochemists and Biophysicists(187); Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary(100); Biological Technicians(60); Molecular And Cellular Biologists(59);
kitwalker12 | 9 years ago | on: 2016 H1B Visa Reports: Top 100 H1B Visa Sponsors
Interesting to see University of Michigan in there. wonder what's the impetus there.
kitwalker12 | 9 years ago | on: Instant Hacking
click-baity title?
kitwalker12 | 9 years ago | on: Golang – The annoying remote import path
recently encountered the same annoyance. had to fork a repo, and then do a replace-all on all references of import to the new path
kitwalker12 | 10 years ago | on: Show HN: A Web Account Dashboard for Robinhood
Robinhood (https://www.robinhood.com/) is a 0 brokerage fee app for trading stocks
kitwalker12 | 10 years ago | on: Show HN: A Web Account Dashboard for Robinhood
i didn't know they had an open API. scared of using this though as robinhood is directly connected to my bank account
kitwalker12 | 10 years ago | on: Apple Policy on Bugs May Explain Why Hackers Would Help F.B.I
their arms race rhetoric doesn't seem to hold water when everyone else is doing it.
kitwalker12 | 10 years ago | on: Alchemy Micro-Service Framework: Using RabbitMQ Instead of HTTP
this is helpful. we already use rabbitmq for our golang services. This would ease the task of setting up publishers and subscribers in the node APIs we're building.
kitwalker12 | 10 years ago | on: Kimono, webscraper, disappearing as a service. App to mend transitional issues
I'm not a user of the product but seems weird to only give users a 2 week notice.
kitwalker12 | 10 years ago | on: GitHub responds to Dear GitHub letter
IMHO it's the code search (which they've been planning for months now)
kitwalker12 | 10 years ago | on: HN is in the same cluster as 2ch, not Techcrunch, on Twitter
(Update) see rabidsnail's suggestion
not working for me on Chrome or Safari either
kitwalker12 | 10 years ago | on: New app for notarizing via a smart phone
this is so serendipitous. I was just in need of notarizing some documents.
although it looks like it gives a signed PDF in return. Would a print out of that be accepted in places like a passport office
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