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lxfontes

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About lxfontes

ProdEng @ Shopify

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/lxfontes; my proof: https://keybase.io/lxfontes/sigs/zbZcXNjBvr8Wn8lhHoCfz2wRQDWPBqgHi944goW1EbQ ]

Recent public activity

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    Comment #13418896

    Nylas privacy policy ( https://nylas.com/privacy-policy/ ) is the single reason why I don't use it. (puts Stallman's hat on) This is not free as in freedom.

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    Comment #13361013

    And tbh: money is not the issue. I don't like the 'apple tax' but they are comfortable wayyyyyy up in their trees... and macOS / iOS dev env is leverage. I'm on the same boat. Exce…

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    Comment #12072184

    honest question: Any idea why Toronto (and Canada in general) is not higher in this list?

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    Comment #11504112

    I wrote this last week, might be relevant https://github.com/lxfontes/droplet-lb

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    Comment #11427231

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome Be yourself. Ask your manager for feedback every other week. Have fun.

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    Comment #11353870

    curious to know the 'what works / what doesn't work' here. I truly believe this battle to be between xps13 / retina 13.

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    Comment #11034883

    I think "having to ask" is the #1 pain point. Money is usually not a topic people are comfortable talking about.

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    Comment #10357706

    Bob: Hey guys, we didn't pass emissions tests. Jay: I think we can adjust the ECU parameters. Bob: Oh, nice. let's try that. Mechanic James: By doing this you guys lowered the life…

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    Comment #10292506

    11k employees, 970 million daily actives, one of the companies "changing the world", and yet people say you don't know anything based on sporadic outages. They are good. Let them f…

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    Comment #10266325

    I'm really happy with openresty and curious to put them side by side. betting on lua here.

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    Comment #10247566

    If you can't get in the console, use awscli. It is responding fine!

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    Comment #10175531

    unless you have a family to take care of, don't think about money. at your level, 12k becomes marginal after taxes. Focus on what you want for your career. Promotions (while on the…

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    Comment #10062731

    brain: longest garbage collection cycle ever

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    Comment #9936847

    if there is intelligent life there and they point a telescope at us right now, they would be seeing earth ~ 500 years ago. "check out this planet, looks like a promising place once…

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    Comment #9904414

    counter strike walk my dogs watch some conference videos on youtube ( https://www.youtube.com/user/Confreaks ) or random stuff on http://reddit.tv IMO it is about clearing my head …

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    Comment #9771659

    I fully agree. Sorry if this sounds like a thread hijack, but I would rephrase the question as How to deal with people that are trying to "win" an argument. We need secure logins. …

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    Comment #9738648

    Have been using postico https://eggerapps.at/postico/ for day to day queries and pgadmin for more hardcore operations

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    Comment #9403470

    Great work! The EmberJS panel is also a good read.

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    Comment #9324241

    I would put down a list of hardware requirements: CPU, Memory, Disk (speed/size), screen, connectivity. wrt Mac: It just works and most of your unix tools are there. You might stil…

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    Comment #9302828

    Clicking on the link automatically downloads: http://www.xkcd.com/fonts/xkcd-Regular.otf License = apparently Creative Commons https://github.com/ipython/xkcd-font

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    Comment #9269474

    > The faster guys will often grow bored with a single problem and will have to skip from one problem to another (ADHD, etc). This is your opportunity: stay on the same problem long…

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    Comment #9245235

    lost "for.science" for a split second :(

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    Comment #9155204

    relevant: http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/06/charge-your-phone-before-fl...

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    Comment #9082367

    short answer: I wouldn't do it. 1. I would ask for my unpaid consulting fees 2. Ask if they want me to join without the 100k down and take less % on shares The rationale here is: -…