StaticRedux

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by StaticRedux 8y ago
Now do that for a month. Or even a week. You may be more productive bc you don't want to be seen as slacking off with someone watching, but maintaining that kind of pace is untenable. Did you ever get stuck and check your email or Face
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by StaticRedux 8y ago
I was referring to Iceland/Norway more there.
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by StaticRedux 8y ago
Pretending Canada or Iceland or Norway are some kind of utopia where everyone is rich, in perfect health, eats pixie dust, and shits rainbows isn't doing anyone any favors. Those countries have their own problems, even if they aren&#x2
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by StaticRedux 8y ago
Definitely a league of it's own in difficulty of refactoring
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by StaticRedux 8y ago
The entire point of the original article is that Google's constant killing of products makes everyone fear what will be next, bc even seemingly popular products get killed off for little to no reason. The entire point of this article i
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by StaticRedux 8y ago
Ruby on Rails - fastest from zero to working prototype, fastest from working prototype to unmaintainable nightmare. No one should be surprised when the "language/framework for non-programmers" results in a codebase that was c
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by StaticRedux 8y ago
Microsoft, please make one for Ruby! C# vet and lover of VS and VS Code, now working on a legacy Ruby/Rails code base and hating a new life of lifecycle callbacks, fat controllers, fat models, magic methods, and un-upgradeable gems. Ug
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by StaticRedux 8y ago
Companies like Microsoft, Google, and Facebook are huge open source contributors specifically bc they can get a return on their investment. While your intentions may be noble, I think you'll find that more restrictive licenses will hav
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by StaticRedux 8y ago
Yes
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by StaticRedux 8y ago
Not everything requires imagination. Sometimes explanation is good too. While it may be obvious to you, other people find it enlightening and interesting.
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by StaticRedux 8y ago
For funsies.
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by StaticRedux 8y ago
Windows Shell for Linux (Kernel). I've been wanting this for years. With .Net Core, PowerShell for Linux, MS SQL for Linux, and WSL, I feel like (hope) that that is where they are headed, and if so, it's going to be awesome. A Lin
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by StaticRedux 8y ago
Not to be snarky, but this sounds like the viewpoint of a front end developer. One I disagree with. It would be like someone saying front end developers are unnecessary bc anyone can spin up a WordPress site and then go get a coffee. Can yo
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by StaticRedux 8y ago
So the Apple philosophy is, "when things get hard, don't bother, just walk away and abandon your current customers"? Sounds like a real winner.
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by StaticRedux 8y ago
Holding tight to 'all that legacy crap' is what makes Windows the de facto standard for desktop. Despite people trying to insist on it being business practices from twenty years ago, the simple fact is that Microsoft dominated, an
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by StaticRedux 8y ago
> Nothing I'm aware of comes close to Java in this, C#. No Type Erasure. More powerful reflection with less code. Not to mention the unbelievable power of Roslyn and being able to programmatically generate code with little effort.
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by StaticRedux 8y ago
Then you're lucky. I specialize in refactoring and reorganizing extremely messy and large / complex applications. And Rails is my fucking nightmare. Especially when untangling ActiveRecord callbacks, fat controllers, convention ov
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by StaticRedux 8y ago
You're absolutely right, you're just completely ignoring context. Some things break down a lot sooner. Eating or drinking too much of anything can kill you, even water. But drinking acid will get you there a whole lot faster. Rail
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by StaticRedux 8y ago
Assuming you don't know something to be definitely false, and you really really hope it works, is that the same as lying? I'm seriously asking in the context of your comment. People raise investor money all the time on the promise
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by StaticRedux 8y ago
It's not about reading minds, it's about taking the initiative to make things better or get things done without specifically being told what to do. And there is a big difference between people that can and people that can't.
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by StaticRedux 8y ago
Not the Op but I hire the same way and there is some questions I like to ask to gauge people's interest in "getting things done". I like to ask about their passions outside of work. Video games? Sports? Communities they may
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by StaticRedux 8y ago
"Actions have consequences" Yep. And in today's world, those consequences seem to be all or nothing, death penalty forever with no forgiveness or forgetting, no matter what, or let them completely off the hook and pretend lik
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by StaticRedux 8y ago
I understand your point, and you aren't wrong, but you are short-sighted. You may only sell to big clients now, but you are also leaving a lot of money on the table for yourself, not your company, yourself. You've been selling for
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by StaticRedux 8y ago
The explosion propelled him through the Milky Way at 5 million miles an hour until he came back around to earth.
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by StaticRedux 8y ago
I may be wrong, but from what I remember, it didn't show add because Google refused to allow access to the official API in order to show ads. It kind of forced Microsoft's hand.
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by StaticRedux 8y ago
I would argue that the _only_ way you can come in to the phone market is through the high end. In order to sell at the low end, you need to sell a lot. A new company doesn't have the market share to make a low end phone with almost no
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by StaticRedux 8y ago
Why does attempting to do so mean they think it's easy?
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by StaticRedux 8y ago
This might be the funniest comment/reply I've ever seen on HN.
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by StaticRedux 8y ago
The attack that never happened and/or has never been proven? From the line you yourself posted: "Webb's series led to three federal investigations, none of which found evidence of any conspiracy by the CIA or its employees to
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by StaticRedux 8y ago
While I agree that ActiveRecord is really good in a lot of ways, the entire ecosystem around it is a giant clusterf * waiting to happen, and it always does. Fat models, callbacks, concerns, scopes... changing a model reliably without 100%

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