pacemkr's comments

Walmart (Supply Chain) | Software Engineer (Front-end) | Hoboken, NJ / Remote

Front-end is TypeScript back-end is F#. No nonsense interview process.

We are part of the Jet.com acquisition and are working with pride on our Warehouse Management System, including automation and Walmart Fulfillment Services.

Reach out to me at [email protected] and/or apply directly at https://careers.walmart.com/us/jobs/WD755993-software-engine...

You want your encrypted chat application to emit DNS queries to your ISP. As another Signal user, I do not want that. Nor do I want the bloat of this and other features that will make the core functionality worse. Next we'll want Memoji's and animated drawings and fireworks.

My point is, there is already an app for that. Signal has a completely different purpose.

Chromecast support would be cool, not sure if this is possible though.

My most precious productivity tip:

  # Productivity
  127.0.0.1 mail.google.com
  127.0.0.1 gmail.com
  127.0.0.1 news.ycombinator.com
  127.0.0.1 www.bbc.co.uk
  127.0.0.1 netflix.com
  127.0.0.1 www.youtube.com
  127.0.0.1 boingboing.net
  127.0.0.1 xkcd.com
  ...

I've been doing this for a while.

I didn't make an app to customize this list. Nor am I going to spend the next twenty minutes explaining why it works for me.

It works for me.

=)

Would south migrations work with these field types?

I've been administering a vBulletin forum for 8 years or so. Let me tell you, this is a great idea.

Just yesterday, I was evaluating a bunch of forum software and came out empty handed:

The OSS forum scene is just depressing, some of the more popular packages still use tables for layout. I themed a table based layout (vBulletin 3.x) once, _never_ again.

The paid packages are just full of shit no-one needs. vBulletin is basically social networking software at this point. These things are so complicated only geeks, and I say that with love, can possibly figure out how to use them. It's a pissing match between competitors.

However, no import (as far as I can tell) means I can't move over to Discourse. And, in your FAQ, you actually suggest that I shouldn't move. I think you underestimate how much hate I have for forum software.

As a developer, Jeff, what I really want is SO self-policing features, as a service that I can use in other products. Discourse is nice and all, but I want to build something more than a forum.

I signed up, but the quality of the stream is really not that good. It fluctuates between 480 and sometimes hits up to 1500 for ten seconds. I never get the 3500kbps stream that I think should be available.

This doesn't work. I get "The content does not seem to be working." when trying to load the stream.

I use email just fine for this...

My last exposure was months ago, sorry. =(

Reading the source is certainly not an alien notion to me coming from Python. I just find Ruby code very difficult to follow when you actually need to understand the implementation.

One of Ruby's greatest strengths, the ease with which you can define a DSL, is its biggest weakness in practice (in my opinion, of course.) In Rails for example, there is a DSL for everything, the Ruby language is used in non-obvious ways to get the desired DSL syntax.

All this makes it very difficult to read other people's code. For the same reason, reading the documentation is difficult. You don't know what function you should be looking for in the first place.

Here's an anecdote:

In my experience, finding something in Python docs takes a total of five seconds, including passing through the "Google gateway".

Finding something in Rails reference has been downright impossible. This is a function of Ruby itself, a very magical language, magic that fails to communicate in auto-generated documentation. How does this work? Good luck finding out, but you'll feel very clever three hours from now.

Admittedly, I've had very limited exposure to Rails, but perhaps that makes my experience even more relevant.

I _need_ to be making $100, so I'm _worth_ $1000. You know, because I'm very unlikely to succeed.

Something doesn't add up here.

That road trip to see your parents (or going out with friends, or stoping to take in the present) is valuable in itself. It gives you time to center and to regain your balance. Thinking that every hour that you take off is costing you a thousand dollars is a great way to burn out.

Saving that $30 on hosting though, that's probably not worth it.

Thinking like this helps me center.

Whenever I find myself down and my productivity low, I stop and think of how insignificant all this is, on a cosmic scale. We're here, and then we're not.

You'd guess that this thinking would make you feel nihilistic: what is the point of what I'm doing? Ironically, I only feel like that when thinking on a human scale, of life, of what I want to accomplish, of how unattainable it all seem in the moment. Then I step back, and I see that we are a spec in time and all this self-doubt and torture is unnecessary. At the end of this game, there are no winners. Enjoying the sport is your personal victory.

I really like GitHub for browsing and reading code, something that you don't get with self-hosted repositories. That's really the feature that I was thinking of. Obviously there is a great deal more to GitHub than that.

Love the fournova logo, something about it is just really aesthetically pleasing. It looked like an airline logo to me before I realized (from the more colorful logo for the app) that it was a control tower. Great job. Who designed it?

The app... I don't know why, but I never realized that I needed this. It's a private GitHub for self hosted repositories, duh. Will definitely give it a try.

Software Engineering Radio: http://www.se-radio.net/

What parts of Wordpress do you find superior to alternatives?

I'm building yet another blogging platform (not quite) right now. It isn't going to be Wordpress, but it will be managed and won't cost you $200/mo. A carcycle, if you will.

To carry the analogy to its end: you seem to be only using the car to drive ten blocks to work. In other words, you only serve static content + comments. Which is why I'm curious what, specifically, compels you to stick with Wordpress even though there is an obvious cost (be it money or effort.)

"A version of this article appeared in print on February 3, 2012, on page A21A of the National edition with the headline: A New Resource for Hiring Programmers Has Become Entirely Too Successful."

Bottom of page. So NYT printed a syndicated article? That's interesting.

The implicit assumption is that you shouldn't have the legislator's ear because you have a fat check in hand. Chance are that the check will win over a petition.

If we are to have freedom of speech, then Beck should be able to have his show. That's the easy part.

Beck converts money into public opinion. Arguably, SuperPACs do the same. Hence the Citizens United decision. In practice, SuperPAC donors just tell the legislator why the check was written, or in which case it will be. Nothing wrong with the premise (free speech), plenty wrong with the outcome (money = voice, or rather money = ear?)

Now that I ran this circle, I can see how publicly financed campaigns might be the only answer. Thank you for asking a difficult question to answer. I'll definitely think about this more.

Direct contributions are capped at $5,000. SuperPAC contributions are not capped at all and are anonymous until well after the election. [wikipedia]