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Since this is HN, I'm gonna pick a nit. > A clever and witty bash script running on a unix server somewhere is also not utilitarian coding, no human ever directly benefited from it…

If you are good enough at the task of "finding a cofounder" that you can offer useful advice on it, you are... bad at some very critical things. This is not a task anyone should be…

I saw a headline about the book on Reddit and made a joke to a friend of mine: "How much you wanna bet it uses mmap?" Well... It uses mmap.

Because employers _want_ people to be fungible. The quest to quantify and systematize hiring is a Quixotic effort at solving real challenges, but it persists because nobody has com…

Almost, but not quite the audience for your question. I was going to use Heroku, but the security requirements for my app made that a non-option. Instead, I went with simple Terraf…

My home folder is a git repo (with a very extensive .gitignore, so I'm only versioning dotfiles, ~/bin, etc), with a branch per machine. Copying over the .git folder to a new machi…

Rails + graphql-ruby + ActiveAdmin + Devise + SideKiq/Faktory + Postgres remains a ridiculously productive combination for me. I'm leaning more towards Faktory these days because i…

The workaround I've found: Select the relevant line(s), but before releasing the mouse button, cmd-c (or the equivalent shortcut in your local computing environment). But yes, it's…

As I touched on, the cost can vary a lot depending on the particulars of the situation. For example, one company I came into was using Redshift and fighting a lot of problems with …

Well, for starters, it's simply untrue that every company (likely) will (barring bankruptcy of course) eventually need extreme scale, and the implicit assumption that the up-front …

I think you're crossing the streams a bit here. Twitter designed _Snow_flake. _Sony_flake is a reimplementation that changes the allocation of bits, and the author acknowledges tha…

George R.R. Martin? Is that you?

I suspect the surrounding context is Apple threatening to yank the Hey app for bypassing Apple's cut by not using IAPs for managing subscriptions.

What you're doing by keeping up to date continuously is reducing the cost of a major version bump down the road -- should that become required. For example: If you had a Rails 3 ap…

I've never quite gotten the hang of `git add -p`, so I use `git gui` (incl. with Homebrew version of git, among others), or other tools that let me do partial staging/unstaging via…

It's just serialization as a workflow mechanism, and it really gets rid of a lot of workflow cliffs. It's also nothing to be afraid of: You can absolutely do everything programmati…

Octopress, which is built on Jekyll. Unfortunately I bet on Octopress waaaay back in the day when it was essentially a very customized Jekyll install. This has led to a situation w…

Just saw your question on a thread from a couple weeks ago about building a TD game. As I'm only now seeing it, I apparently can't respond directly anymore. Email me -- jfrisby at …

I've now worked at two companies in that space -- a startup I cofounder in 97, and a much later-stage startup I recently joined -- and all I can say is... shrug The company I'm cur…

i suspect that even without the ridiculous hoops, the incompetent will always spend a disproportionate percentage of their time job hunting, and thus making the hiring process chal…

It's a combination of two things: 1. We're bad at hiring, as an industry. We just aren't very good at identifying good candidates. 2. We're an industry where the average skill leve…

I had a chance to ship the first Tower Defense game for iOS. The OS X game I was porting had some crippling performance problems that were incredibly hard to track down. The proble…

I've worked at maybe two companies with a bus factor > 1. Maybe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Failure_rate

Except that the retrospective IS predictive.