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kitwalker12

220 karma · joined August 25, 2013

As Tennyson once thundered, someone here has badly blundered.

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kitwalker12··on The World's Most Efficient Languages (2016)
Had a consultant developer once who named his functions like doMagic() & doStuff()
kitwalker12··on 2018 Ruby on Rails Developer Community Survey
I didn't know Devise was such a polarizing thing in the ruby community
kitwalker12··on Actress Kristen Stewart just released a research paper on AI
Link to paper authored by Stewart, Bhautik Joshi and David Shapiro of Adobe and Starlight Studios https://arxiv.org/pdf/1701.04928v1.pdf
kitwalker12··on How much does employee turnover really cost?
> When a capable person on your team wants a role bigger than her past experience, do you give her a shot or do you simply hire someone with more experience?

This spoke to me the most as I've seen this happen at multiple places. lack of growth seems to be the most common reasons for employees leaving (apart from stagnating salaries) and that's something a company can easily invest in

kitwalker12··on Why Snapchat didn’t give Spectacles to techies
Also identifying customers
kitwalker12··on Community Contest: Creative Navigation in Email
I was impressed with how marketers are hacking emails to get the most out of them. personally I would love some of this ingenuity in my inbox.
kitwalker12··on Bill Belichick Throws in the Tablet
yes. I'd have liked to see what exactly failed that got him so riled up
kitwalker12··on 2016 H1B Visa Reports: Top 100 H1B Visa Sponsors
look to ones_and_zeros's reply
kitwalker12··on 2016 H1B Visa Reports: Top 100 H1B Visa Sponsors
oh my. That's interesting. The jobs I see are:

Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists(274); Biochemists and Biophysicists(187); Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary(100); Biological Technicians(60); Molecular And Cellular Biologists(59);

kitwalker12··on 2016 H1B Visa Reports: Top 100 H1B Visa Sponsors
Interesting to see University of Michigan in there. wonder what's the impetus there.
kitwalker12··on Instant Hacking
click-baity title?
kitwalker12··on Golang – The annoying remote import path
recently encountered the same annoyance. had to fork a repo, and then do a replace-all on all references of import to the new path
kitwalker12··on Show HN: A Web Account Dashboard for Robinhood
Robinhood (https://www.robinhood.com/) is a 0 brokerage fee app for trading stocks
kitwalker12··on Show HN: A Web Account Dashboard for Robinhood
i didn't know they had an open API. scared of using this though as robinhood is directly connected to my bank account
kitwalker12··on Apple Policy on Bugs May Explain Why Hackers Would Help F.B.I
their arms race rhetoric doesn't seem to hold water when everyone else is doing it.
kitwalker12··on Alchemy Micro-Service Framework: Using RabbitMQ Instead of HTTP
this is helpful. we already use rabbitmq for our golang services. This would ease the task of setting up publishers and subscribers in the node APIs we're building.
kitwalker12··on Kimono, webscraper, disappearing as a service. App to mend transitional issues
I'm not a user of the product but seems weird to only give users a 2 week notice.
kitwalker12··on GitHub responds to Dear GitHub letter
IMHO it's the code search (which they've been planning for months now)
kitwalker12··on HN is in the same cluster as 2ch, not Techcrunch, on Twitter
(Update) see rabidsnail's suggestion

not working for me on Chrome or Safari either

kitwalker12··on New app for notarizing via a smart phone
this is so serendipitous. I was just in need of notarizing some documents.

although it looks like it gives a signed PDF in return. Would a print out of that be accepted in places like a passport office

kitwalker12··on How I fixed a bug in Atom
you sir deserve this https://xkcd.com/208/
kitwalker12··on Give Me My 21:9 Games
I'm not so sure about the "increasingly common aspect ratio" comment
kitwalker12··on Uber’s march across America’s regulatory landscape
what if Uber starts charging a tax on its competitors like Pablo Escobar charged his associates for getting rid of the extradition laws...plata o plomo

(I've been watching too much narcos)

kitwalker12··on Serverless Framework V0.1.3 – Reusable Project Templates Reduce Config
would someone be able to give me link to documentation that describes how to deploy a todomvc type app using lambda and serverless. I'd love to give this a go
kitwalker12··on Is 'Pink = Girly' a Myth?
I saw an episode of QI, in which Fry said up until 20th century pink was for boys and blue was for girls
kitwalker12··on IBAnimatable – Design App Store Ready Apps in Interface Builder
this looks really cool. I'm tempted to start a side project just to try this out
kitwalker12··on The liberal response to right-wing militias; an abolitionist’s perspective
Was anybody else was really moved by this...up until the last paragraph
kitwalker12··on Is there any point to the 12 times table?
he got off lucky. back in India, we had to cram tables upto 20.
kitwalker12··on Winning White Elephant Gift Exchanges Using Game Theory
doesn't it kind of translate to always steal unless you don't want to steal
kitwalker12··on Docker Jumpstart by Andrew Odewahn
Please amend to use Docker Toolbox instead of boot2docker
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