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mainguy | 5 years ago | on: You don’t need reproducible builds

I think OP is coming from a different perspective than I (corporate bespoke solution builder) do. When I say "reproducible build" I mean a build that is the same on any machine (i.e. no special magic necessary to build a "official" version of the code). Too often in corporate environments, getting a local build or setting up a new build pipeline involves arcane black magic and/or copy/pasting weird libraries that can't be pulled from any sort of "official" repository. curl/bash libraries that "automatically change versions" based on when upstream decides to change them can wreak havok when setting up a new build environment. My $0.02, it's not (in the corporate world) so much about validating binaries, but more about "how many steps beyond check out the code" exist and how easily can I validate my binary uses the same versions of libraries/dependencies as the one that a local developer tested?

mainguy | 8 years ago | on: Her six-hour commute each day seems crazy, but her affordable rent is not

Because the UK is a bit over half the size of California. Many folks in Europe tend to under appreciate the sheer size of the United States. To your point though...certain metro areas are largely this way...(NY/Chicago)...but others (LA/Detroit) are not... Not sure why some cities invest and others don't.

mainguy | 10 years ago | on: My Complicated Relationship with No Longer Being CEO

While I agree it's a great read and CEOs would be well served to understand what he's saying...I don't think that takes any more guts to write than a schmoe who posts something derogatory about their company..esp since 10% of the us population lives paycheck to paycheck (yes, look it up...10% of the population has ZERO savings [not even retirement money] and spend EVERY penny EVERY month)...and 25% have zero savings i.e. they may have a surplus, but nowhere NEAR a year's savings...

mainguy | 10 years ago | on: My Complicated Relationship with No Longer Being CEO

Huh, while interesting and well written and all the other happy happy/joy joy stuff everyone else posted...I can't help but wonder about folks who start out in life as founders/CEOs/top 'o the food chain...how do (can) they relate to folks who spend years working for others? This made me realize that many folks might in fact be so isolated/insulated from the folks that work for them that they are quite literally "out of touch" with the reality that vast majority experiences... interesting read.

mainguy | 10 years ago | on: Just Got Out of Prison. Now What?

IANAL, but if parole is just a way to more cheaply supervise someone still serving their time it seems like the same thing... Once parole is over though...well then it would be because you've finished your sentence.

mainguy | 10 years ago | on: React Performance

Well, I think the author's point is that the conventional hive mind wisdom in the community that uses this product has been that DOM manipulation causes performance problems and the framework is wicked fast and not a source of performance issues... which may lead naive or new developers to never both to consider it as a potential source of problems. This very clearly illustrates it may be possible that you shouldn't always disregard the framework as a potential source of problems...

mainguy | 10 years ago | on: React Performance

It's only a negative benchmark if you chose to perceive it that way. I think it's a valid data point, it doesn't say anything (that I perceive) negative...unless you're really worried about javascript performance of the framework versus relative to straight javascript.

mainguy | 10 years ago | on: React Performance

Said every developer who's never had to "just speed up" an application written with a framework that makes development/debugging easy, but has fundamental performance issues that cannot be overcome without a significant overhaul.
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