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Release Paralysis(rtigger.com)
2 points by RTigger 14y ago|0 comments
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There's Nothing Wrong with JavaScript(rtigger.com)
1 points by RTigger 14y ago|0 comments
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Architecture Last(rtigger.com)
1 points by RTigger 14y ago|0 comments
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It's Okay to Love Your Job(rtigger.com)
1 points by RTigger 14y ago|0 comments
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by RTigger 14y ago
As I noted in the article's comments, I'm pretty sure you can't just add "dataType:jsonp" and have it automagically bypass all the cross-domain security restrictions. What actually happens is jQuery appends something like "callback=some_ran
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The Dangers of Handing Off(rtigger.com)
1 points by RTigger 14y ago|0 comments
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by RTigger 14y ago
I ended up blogging in response - http://rtigger.com/blog/2013/01/23/short-term-planning/ TL;DR - I agree, and highlight how the short-term planning process baked into most agile approaches addresses this problem.
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by RTigger 14y ago
I blogged about the "moral" of this story a few months ago - http://rtigger.com/blog/2012/07/06/architecture-last/ TL;DR - Frameworks should emerge from use cases, not the other way around.
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Developer Education vs The Real World(rtigger.com)
1 points by RTigger 14y ago|0 comments
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What's Your Problem?(rtigger.com)
1 points by RTigger 14y ago|0 comments
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How to Find a Hacker(rtigger.com)
1 points by RTigger 14y ago|0 comments
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by RTigger 14y ago
Ask and ye shall receive! http://rtigger.com/blog/2013/01/17/how-to-find-a-hacker/
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by RTigger 14y ago
I consider myself one of the people trying to "take it back". See my article on the subject: http://rtigger.com/blog/2012/11/19/redefining-hacker
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by RTigger 14y ago
Yep - had a two year stint in Vancouver but moved back last year. Good to hear from you! Drop me a DM on twitter if you're around :)
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by RTigger 14y ago
Fair enough - as someone else pointed out in the blog comments, there's not a lot of "actionable" items in this post short of seeing if people work on side projects, which in itself isn't an indication of someone you should hire. Word of mo
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by RTigger 14y ago
I would've hoped the lack of advertising, missing link to my linked in profile or resume, or lack of any sort of "donate" button would've established that I'm just doing this because I have a personal interest in writing and software develo
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by RTigger 14y ago
I don't mean to exclude the value of language experience, rather point out that just because someone doesn't know C++ doesn't mean they wouldn't be able to contribute to your team. It's more an argument against companies who won't even ent
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by RTigger 14y ago
Aww, thanks for the constructive criticism! Despite your comment, I think we're kind of getting at the same point - if you have a great place to work and focus on building a team that works well together, you're going to have more success a
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by RTigger 14y ago
I'd argue the short and long term gains of this approach. If you hire someone who's really good at Python, you're going to get good quality out of the gate from them. But if they're not a good fit for your company or team and/or if they'r
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by RTigger 14y ago
I don't think it's as much as a compromise, just that we should focus less on the language aspect of it. Technical details like implementation and syntax are easily learned. Passion for development is more of a character trait that can't
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by RTigger 14y ago
We don't do cultural interviews to determine if someone's a hacker, we do them to determine if they're a good fit for a team and if they'll be able to work in our company environment. And passion comes in many forms - the fact that they wer
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by RTigger 14y ago
We're kind of arguing the same point - I mostly meant there should be less of a focus on language experience and more of a focus on passion (pet projects). It goes without saying if you try to hire someone who doesn't want to work for you
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by RTigger 14y ago
I'd argue that (and I have) - a recent grad who went outside of their coursework to learn about node.js (for example) and/or has maintained their own personal website or projects is a passionate developer and can probably learn anything you
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How to Hire a Hacker(rtigger.com)
58 points by RTigger 14y ago|43 comments
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Single Page Applications(rtigger.com)
3 points by RTigger 14y ago|0 comments
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by RTigger 14y ago
I suppose that's a good point. Once we have a standard in place (like the one proposed in the original article) it'd be relatively easy to make a client library that standardizes access to those kinds of API. You know, like WSDL used to d
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by RTigger 14y ago
I don't understand the coupling aspect. You're moving from one dependency (URIs) to another (implementation of discoverability). Until HATEOAS/discoverability/rest links themselves are a standard, you're just binding to the way that API d
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by RTigger 14y ago
Fair enough - I haven't actually used a hypermedia API (short of OData). I really can't see the documenting point though. Sure, you get a list of actions that you can perform, but you get those in a response object. Some people compare thi
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by RTigger 14y ago
I blogged about this same idea in response to a different article 3 months ago. Seems like the hypermedia discussion keeps coming up. Here's my response article: http://rtigger.com/blog/2012/08/27/discovering-the-value-in-... TL;DR - th
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by RTigger 14y ago
The games in that list that are turn based include Dominion, Lords of Waterdeep, and Stone Age. We stick to 1-hour games mostly because of the lunch hour restriction, if you're spacing the game out over a series of days it might be more int

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