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yellow··on Why giving feedback (whether it's good or bad) will help you hire
One important step I've found helpful is asking if the candidate would like to receive feedback before sharing. This should also curb the risk of litigation.
yellow··on Using HAProxy as an API Gateway, Part 1
The biggest problem with GraphQL in this regard is that it is a single endpoint. API gateways often define authorization rules, throttling rates, and caching times differently for each route. Consequently, you may need to write authorization, throttling, and caching logic in a separate layer or perhaps even in your microservices themselves.
yellow··on A New Face for Pebble
I wonder if the bezel allows for a normal square display underneath?
yellow··on Pebble Reveals Pebble Time Steel and a Smartstrap System
> Pebble produced a decent product relatively on time

Their branding is great. Now whenever i see "time", it reminds me of the watch...

yellow··on Get Started with the Microsoft Band SDK Preview
FWIW, I currently get two-factor auth codes on my band just because it shows text messages out of the box.
yellow··on List of available 2 letter domain names
Haha. I also attempted this one and failed.
yellow··on How drones and UAVs are already affecting construction jobsites
Have you seen pictures of what drone props can do to skin? Even the handheld drones draw blood easily. The $500 phantoms can cause damage requiring stitches... Not sure a baseball is the best analogy.
yellow··on Nginx Tutorial: Developing Modules
I was hoping for a performance related answer, but you are right. I might walk through this and see if one way is faster than the other. Thanks!
yellow··on Nginx Tutorial: Developing Modules
In a cursory glance, this appears to be logic (token, redis, etc) that can be handled by Nginx+Lua. Is there any reason to do it this way vs the other?
yellow··on Google I/O 2014
Being an attendee from last year, I can guarantee you that it's people still filing in to find seats well into the presentation. The exit is towards the back left of where the camera is. People going to the right are looking for seats. It's still not an attractive angle.
yellow··on The utility of switching lanes when stuck in traffic
I do agree that it isn't the best idea, but I find name-calling the worst way to support an argument.
yellow··on Lens Blur in the new Google Camera app
"Bokeh" is specific to photo characteristics. "blur" is more general but still applies: "a thing that cannot be seen clearly".
yellow··on Snapchat Raises $50 Million In Series C From A Single, Undisclosed Investor
Ten cents says it's Tencent.
yellow··on Snapchat images that have "disappeared forever" stay right on your phone...
This is exactly what has happened.
yellow··on Kit Kat's homepage is currently a parody of Android announcement page
It actually makes it great for sharing certain funny bits with friends.
yellow··on Kit Kat's homepage is currently a parody of Android announcement page
I just realized how important the number 4 in this whole deal. #classickitkat
yellow··on Cloud server showdown: Amazon AWS EC2 vs. Linode vs. DigitalOcean
I'm interested in seeing Google's Compute Engine show up in some of these benchmarks. Any reason why someone would not want to use them? Some benchmark's I've seen show them with awesome stats.
yellow··on Google Glass hands-on: Not a good device for consumers
Well that's one way to handle a big review about technology of the future: don't write a review and suggest weaning yourself off of technology.
yellow··on Why You Make Less Money
Same logic with Real Estate agents. My friend's agent tried to get him to sell his house with every low-ball offer that came in...
yellow··on Show HN: Optimized trading algorithms using IPython parallel and ec2
I would think it's relatively easy to swap in refined data after the fact. The attraction here is the process to consume the data.
yellow··on Automatic: Your Smart Driving Assistant
Progressive already does this with a similar gadget: http://www.progressive.com/auto/snapshot.aspx
yellow··on Python at Netflix
I'm pushing for more python use at my company as well. It's tough as everyone is drinking the ruby kool-aid.

P.S. I really enjoyed your talk at QCon SF last year!

yellow··on Show HN: Zipline - algorithmic trading in open source Python
Welp, there goes every plan I had this weekend. Thanks.
yellow··on Auto Insurance Comparison Startup Leaky Launches Nationally, Raises $670K
My first thought is that companies would not want to forward data to a company that enables a current customer to possibly leave for better rates.
yellow··on How to Be a Better Procrastinator
Commenting so I can remember to bookmark later.
yellow··on How Megaupload was Investigated and Indicted
Great article. This might cause some downvoting, but perhaps they really did bring all this upon themselves and the Anonymous attacks are not warranted in this case. Who stores those kinds of emails in plain text on American soil?
yellow··on MegaUpload has been taken down by the feds
Haven't we already proved that piracy can't directly equated to losing $500 million?
yellow··on Forbes: If Facebook Can't Stop SOPA, We Can Do It For Them
This article pointed out something I hadn't really thought about: random album pictures on facebook get more real estate than profile pictures in the news feed. If I started posting political items through that huge block of news feed, I bet people will start ignoring all my posts...
yellow··on Hourly Hacker News Snapshot
I really like this idea.

I was messing with the hours manually, and realized it would be very cool to have a timeline-toolbar at the top that would allow the user to fly through hours of the front page.

It would allow us to see the comment count changing over time and seeing which stories quickly disappear and which stick around.

/my two cents

yellow··on DOM Snitch: Google's passive in-the-browser reconnaissance tool
I'm going to uninstall it. I can't seem to get it to work in both my Dev and Stable channel instances (the table never updates). Also, my beloved middle mouse button behavior has changed. I hope future revisions make it worth while.
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