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andymoe
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About andymoe
Director of Software Eng. Tech Lead for rocket launch system software. SF Bay Area. Space is the place.
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Comment #39431982
You are in the wrong PR wise probably. Generally I think providing a way to opt out has become the path many projects take. Anyway, their main beef appears that you are not properl…
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Comment #38674702
It’s Apple.
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Comment #38153519
We all kinda hate it but if you want to build UIs on the web you probably have to learn it. Start with mastering flexboxes https://flexboxfroggy.com/ After that maybe allow yoursel…
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Comment #37910949
Always fun to see a new UAV startup. Did you use an open source autopilot (like ardupilot, PX4, Paparazzi, etc) or build something internally?
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Comment #37239673
The microservices knowledge is the interesting stuff and transfers to the more complex hard to maintain things people build elsewhere. The infra stuff is generally toil you can fig…
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Comment #31637211
Everyone wants a scapegoat and easy answers where there are none. That said SF government is provably corrupt (and every couple years someone goes down) but the Chesa recall is a s…
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Comment #31579342
Wait until they find out how many different teams and systems and plans they have to try and do real software subscriptions. Anyone who’s worked on billing stuff for software knows…
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Comment #31443296
Trust your management skills and your people and you will be fine.
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Comment #31392455
Sure, lots of engineering needs, but I work with some software PMs in the industry. Reach out.
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Comment #31216488
Typical credit card transactions fees range from 1.5-3.5 percent so the 2 percent is not a terrible deal and businesses usually just eat it in retail and work it into the prices. U…
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Comment #31079756
I mean, “don’t leave stuff in your car” is a pretty basic tenant of parking on the street in any big city… but yeah, it’s kinda as described and has been for at least a decade or m…
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Comment #30419251
Makes sense.
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Comment #30415802
I don’t agree with this. Once it starts to click a bit, if you enjoy it, it’s not hard to make progress. Build things that excite you and keep at it. Don’t just study for the sake …
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Comment #30415712
Don’t give up if it’s what you want to do. It took me about 10 years to make the switch from IT/network guy and another 12 being a dev to become a director of eng. Btw, I’m hiring …
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Comment #30040026
If you want to run my favorite industrial strength ci system you can look at https://concourse-ci.org Gives you the ability to install workers on Mac so you can do iOS builds if yo…
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Comment #29675360
Perhaps it will show folks how their product and business decisions affect people day to day and improve the experience for everyone. As of now DoorDash is a service I won’t use an…
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Comment #29659142
Mine (white, electric, Frigidaire) goes to 170F. Maybe you need a cheaper oven.
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Comment #29649870
Interested to try it out. As someone who’s done a good bit of pair programming this way with tmux+vim on a cloud vm I’d love to hear what the advantages are over that kind of setup…
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Comment #29610376
So they can take screenshots/install RAT software for anti cheating etc.
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Comment #29575553
If they don’t do a direct listing maybe they’ll let some old timers get in on the IPO like Airbnb did for hosts. Lurking for 16 years has to count for something right? :)
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Comment #29314847
Yeah, they suck though. We do weekly at home PCR testing too and everyone is fully vaccinated so the masks are a little excessive but I guess better to be safe for now. It’s requir…
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Comment #29221120
I get that it’s insane to open a business here and the 200k ice cream shop thing was ridiculous but in this case they asked them to put in a hood and some sinks which appears prett…
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Comment #28972465
Best chess engine name yet.