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New comment by eogas in "The most mentioned books on Stack Overflow"

eogas — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 18:08:12 +0000

>You're free not to buy books through their affiliate links.

You're only free to do this if you know that it's an issue. Unless you know about the affiliate program, you may be supporting this person against your own will. Even if you do know about the affiliate program, you may not know that after you click an affiliate link, the owner of the code gets a chunk of ANY Amazon purchase you make in the next 24 hours, whether or not it is related to the original link.

New comment by eogas in "Ask HN: Books you read in 2016?"

eogas — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 17:51:12 +0000

I just finished The Phoenix Project recently, and I thought it was great. It is effectively a novel about a large software project which is being mismanaged and on the brink of failure, and the steps that the team (and related teams) took to save it from the grips of death. The point of the book seems to be to explain the types of situations that are improved by focusing on devops and agile development.

Personally, this book really hit home, as I had recently left a team/project much like the one described in the book, however I think anyone working on a software project at a decent sized company will be able to relate to many of the problems presented early in the book.

Massachusetts Legislators Fail to Pass Bill Restricting Non-Compete Agreements

eogas — Sun, 07 Aug 2016 01:58:53 +0000

Article URL: http://www.wbur.org/morningedition/2016/08/02/non-compete-agreements-failed-legislation

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12240720

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Massachusetts House approves bill limiting non-compete agreements

eogas — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 23:34:28 +0000

Article URL: http://news.wgbh.org/2016/06/29/politics-government/deleo-pleases-both-sides-business-approved-noncompete-bill

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12012723

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by eogas in "Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?"

eogas — Tue, 06 Jan 2015 16:58:09 +0000

Nearly every submission you've ever made to reddit is either directly to your book, or to a post on your blog, most of which include a massive ad at the bottom for your book. That's spam. Even if there was no ad on your blog and you receive no compensation in any way, it's still spam.

Here's another good informational link that delves into this aspect: https://www.reddit.com/wiki/selfpromotion

I'm glad you've bought ads (though I don't remember ever seeing one), but that doesn't exempt you from the rules about self promotion.

New comment by eogas in "Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?"

eogas — Tue, 06 Jan 2015 16:22:18 +0000

You used to (still do?) spam this heavily on the programming subreddit. It annoys me to see that it's selling rather well, yet you apparently can't be bothered to buy an ad.

Please see: https://www.reddit.com/wiki/faq#wiki_what_constitutes_spam.3...

New comment by eogas in "What's New in C# 6.0 [video]"

eogas — Sat, 15 Nov 2014 15:32:04 +0000

That defeats half the purpose though, because if the string is null, you won't be able to call the method without throwing an exception. Or is that not the case for extension methods?

New comment by eogas in "Things about Git"

eogas — Mon, 26 May 2014 01:07:49 +0000

You may want to leave it in. As another user mentioned, the official stable release is still 1.9. It does warn you that the default will change in 2.0, and prompts you to decide whether or not you want to keep "matching" as the default, but the version that most people will be working on won't have "simple" set as default yet.

New comment by eogas in "Things about Git"

eogas — Mon, 26 May 2014 01:02:41 +0000

Ah yeah, my phrasing was poor on that. 2.0 has yet to see a stable release, but they started warning about the default setting changing a while back.

New comment by eogas in "Things about Git"

eogas — Sun, 25 May 2014 18:50:19 +0000

#3 is no longer the default behavior since 2.0 was released.

http://blog.nicoschuele.com/posts/git-2-0-changes-push-defau...

New comment by eogas in "How to Hire a Winner? Try a Game of Ping Pong"

eogas — Tue, 06 May 2014 23:58:39 +0000

Are you a robot?

New comment by eogas in "Amazon Snags Older HBO Shows For Web Streaming"

eogas — Wed, 23 Apr 2014 15:21:37 +0000

Not to mention HDCP. The first time I tried out Prime streaming, I turned off my second monitor after starting up the video, and Amazon took that to mean that I was a criminal, and that my video should be stopped.

I groaned and fired up Netflix.

New comment by eogas in "Apple declines to join Microsoft in funding patent troll Intellectual Ventures"

eogas — Fri, 11 Apr 2014 22:51:28 +0000

Just to clarify, what you're saying is that Nathan Myhrvold is a complete piece of shit?

EDIT: Oh wait I forgot, HN isn't crawled.

New comment by eogas in "ExpressJS 4.0 has been released"

eogas — Fri, 11 Apr 2014 17:29:05 +0000

That was the FIRST commit to that repo. Not that it's great reasoning, but really how much info does 'Initial commit.' convey as opposed to 'asdf'?

New comment by eogas in "Coming Soon to Hacker News: Pending Comments"

eogas — Sat, 22 Mar 2014 01:40:04 +0000

HN really loathes humour, doesn't it?

New comment by eogas in "Coming Soon to Hacker News: Pending Comments"

eogas — Sat, 22 Mar 2014 00:25:05 +0000

This seems like a rather hostile change to an already hostile community. HN has never felt like a welcoming place to me, and I don't think this will help. Maybe PG prefers the community to be small, so he's trying to trim it down? Because I'm fairly certain this will drive users away, and not just the ones he wants to keep out.

Please noble 1000+ers, free my humble comment from the depths of the low-karma peasants. For I have but 522 karma, thus I deserve to be spat on and excluded from the flawless utopia which is the HN comments section...

This Developer's Life - Space

eogas — Fri, 03 Jan 2014 03:41:50 +0000

Article URL: http://thisdeveloperslife.com/post/3-0-2-space

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7004016

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by eogas in "Sheryl Sandberg earns $100M, but won't pay interns"

eogas — Thu, 15 Aug 2013 02:02:37 +0000

nyar should have specified "unpaid interns":

http://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs71.htm

New comment by eogas in "#FF4A00"

eogas — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 03:09:44 +0000

How is it pronounced?

Is it Zah-pee-err, as in, more zappy?

Or is it Zah-pee-eh, like it's a fancy french service?

Or is it Zah-peer, like a fancy Frenchman pronouncing "the peer"?

New comment by eogas in "Sublime Text 2 Web Inspector"

eogas — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 01:43:26 +0000

This is pretty damn cool, but I can't help but notice that the UI seems to be severely limited by Sublime's API.