PixelPusher

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by PixelPusher 13y ago
And where were people like you several years ago when the laws were signed that allow the government to tap into network lines? A hero and their army are useless when they're late to the war. I don't honor traitors, but go ahead a
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by PixelPusher 13y ago
Are you serious? You can question everything you want as an ordinary citizen. The moment you sign a contract, specially for the military, you agree to keep your word. So, right, how dare the government hold someone to their word? You&#x27
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by PixelPusher 13y ago
Bottom line, he's a traitor. Beyond that, most of the laws that helped start this were set into effect years ago. Where were the people crying then? Most people complain about having their privacy taken away when using free online
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by PixelPusher 13y ago
No way, I don't vote for traitors. All his US supporters are a bunch of Benedict Arnolds. BTW, just voted for Miley. She definitely made my year.
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by PixelPusher 13y ago
Go anywhere outside of the US and Europe and they would laugh at you. Our culture (hispanic) takes it as a sign of weakness and petty complaints. Most people are too worried trying to feed themselves or their families to even think about
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by PixelPusher 13y ago
Agreed, I actually had some trouble with this sentence: "Science — psychology in particular..." Psychology, in itself, is not a science. This diminishes any of his further arguments and not being evidence based. PS. Sorry was mea
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by PixelPusher 13y ago
We came across this issue as well, we'd been wasting too much time setting up Postgres. RDS seemed liked a good choice, except that MySQL is just that much worse than Postgres. We had just used things like concurrent indexes. We ended up g
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by PixelPusher 13y ago
Seems stupid and pretentious. Furthermore, the market is so hot that I can reach whoever is employing directly. Convincing them to pay more because they don't have to spend anything on recruiters or silly agents. No reason someone else sho
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by PixelPusher 13y ago
First, an office less world is a dream right now. If you plan to be hyper-competitive, there's no substitution to 'water-cooler' talk. Technology is nowhere near being able to reproduce that. Second, why would they put the picture of a co
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by PixelPusher 13y ago
Super sweet, good luck. I personally got started in High School and would have loved more advanced classes. The issue was that they bundled people together into the same computer class. We used to have people who didn't even know how to t
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by PixelPusher 13y ago
What is there to explain? As a software developer, experience matters. If you're building disposable demos, you probably have more problems than building software.
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by PixelPusher 13y ago
Absolutely agree, and I personally use this as a potential red flag for new people we hire. Legacy systems have gone through so many fixes and shifts that it's almost impossible to recreate them without deep understanding of the business de
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by PixelPusher 13y ago
Yeah, Chrome has been doing this for a while. It has actually been pretty annoying that FireFox wasn't doing so. My main dev environment is FireFox and i hate it when things work for FF but not Chrome.
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by PixelPusher 13y ago
Thinking about it, I'm sure they can be just as good. Regardless of age. I would guess it's like anything else. Constant exposure and practicing will breed excellence. I would just be scared of all the mistakes they haven't made yet. It
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by PixelPusher 13y ago
Not to be mean, but the author looks really young. Maybe I'm getting old, but I find it really hard to take advice from such young people. My personal take is that they're bypassing a lot of the experience it takes to make a well rounded b
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by PixelPusher 13y ago
Thank God I've never HAD to do a complete re-write of anything. What the author describes sounds like a complete nightmare. On the projects I've worked on, I would like to think that a rewrite will not be needed. If it does, it will be beca
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by PixelPusher 13y ago
Riak has been working really well for us at PaeDae. Thanks for such a great product! Can't wait what else is coming? If i had a feature request, it would be bulk data insert kind of how Redis does it.
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by PixelPusher 13y ago
I'm a 'ghetto' kid. Grew up in LA and El Salvador. The reason I haven't done a startup is because i simply don't have the monetary support. I have to pay for my mom and family, pay rent, etc. We don't have the privilege of a circle of peop
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by PixelPusher 13y ago
An average web developer in no way can compare to a lawyer or a doctor. First of all, doctors generally save lives. And they have to go to school for at least 8 years. Lawyers, almost just as long. How long does it take to learn Rails, HT
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by PixelPusher 13y ago
Asking for telecommuting, equity, and time to work on other projects is ridiculous. I've gotten these requests from developers who have only done basic Rails projects. Do you think you deserve a better quality of life than say, a teacher?
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by PixelPusher 13y ago
That's great, I don't expect an academic explanation but just having heard of it is pretty good. That question by itself is not a deal breaker. An 'engineer' should at least know about things like data structures or just anything beyond Ra
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by PixelPusher 13y ago
Well now you're arguing market value not entitlement, which I didn't say it was a bad thing. If you're a Rails dev, yeah you're valuable and you should be getting paid that much. However, you still have a lot to learn, and if you're asking
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by PixelPusher 13y ago
What dictates entitlement is asking or expecting something without actually having earned it. Obviously finance, doctors, and lawyers went to school for many years. They earned it. Developers, who can't even explain map/reduce or other imp
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by PixelPusher 13y ago
That's why i said it's a good thing. It bumps up the base developer salary and makes experienced developers even more valuable. At least those who are able to properly market themselves as such.
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by PixelPusher 13y ago
Honestly, I'd more likely work w/ someone like you and teach them Rails than the opposite. MVC frameworks are very similar and a good developer should be able to switch easily. I suspect that employers who only look for Rails developers are
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by PixelPusher 13y ago
We've been hiring for a little while in Los Angeles. The problem is that there are some Rails developers, but most of the ones I've met are pretty entitled. They expect 100K+, benefits, telecommuting, etc. The problem is that most of them a
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by PixelPusher 13y ago
Why would listen to these silly points, he doesn't produce anything himself. He is no nerd and has no business judging other nerds. He's an investor who's gotten lucky and been around smart people. He's nothing special and I would never ta
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by PixelPusher 14y ago
I haven't used Go yet, but love Erlang. Honestly can't imagine a better way to build fault tolerant applications without the help of a supervision tree, errors that bubble up, and fast process restarts. Would love to try out Scala or Go tho
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by PixelPusher 14y ago
Awesome selling point. There are things that are missing that are nice about Riak. Mainly libraries, map reduce, 2i, and solr-like text search. This project definitely interesting for what it is though.
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by PixelPusher 14y ago
Ah yeah, I had to read it a second time to realize what you meant. That's true, that it's a bad example and doesn't make much sense. I think what they meant to say was that they parallelized the image processing mechanism of the applicat

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