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by TruffleMuffin 8y ago
I am a senior developer in a small company, we almost exclusively hire Junior developers and train them. It's not a tech hub and so while we have had positions open for senior developers at good salary for the area by any stretch, we j
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by TruffleMuffin 8y ago
Related: Running bash scripts? :)
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by TruffleMuffin 8y ago
"half the stuff is fake, the other half is ads" You and I have had very different experiences with Amazon. I am not sure where this sentiment is coming from, I have literally never seen "fake" products on there. I appr
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by TruffleMuffin 8y ago
I am genuinely amazed by the stuff Amazon does sometimes. There are many times this would have made my life so much easier. Feels like cloud providers are becoming more like language frameworks over time. I guess its a kind of lock in, but
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by TruffleMuffin 8y ago
Have to agree wholeheartedly. He seems to have a problem landscape that involves CRUD on single 'documents/tables' with no business logic involved or required. I suppose it is fine to have business logic in a client, but repl
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by TruffleMuffin 9y ago
I believe the authors point is that you have to use SQLAlchemy for that experience. Natively, the experience is much harder and that's why ORMs (like SQLALchemy) have been built. In MongoDB, the driver matches the command line interfac
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by TruffleMuffin 9y ago
Veronica Mars movie was made through kickstarter way back when. That was successful, and specifically covered cost of production. I can't remember the donation system, but most tiers got free digital copy of the film.
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by TruffleMuffin 9y ago
I think it has value in the length of copyright being continuously extended. Far more than a patent, and even the lifetime of the creators of the work.
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by TruffleMuffin 9y ago
Don't see an ergonomic version. For me that's a must.
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by TruffleMuffin 9y ago
I have been using Mongo for several years now on a fresh build that follows basically the outline you have here. The fresh build was triggered in part because of the cost (development time and infrastructure) in using Microsoft SQL Server.
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by TruffleMuffin 9y ago
I have a history in customer services, spent 7 years dealing with the general public on a returns desk. As a result, in a friendly setting I enter my swearing mode which I developed to cope to balance out having to be perfectly pleasant to
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by TruffleMuffin 10y ago
3. Pilots are very expensive. Not just to train but also in terms of the political cost of having pilots killed or captured by the enemy. In terms of ethics, there is a need to ensure that war has a human cost or there is very little to sto
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by TruffleMuffin 10y ago
I would take a job that offers enough compensation for you to live on your own. In my opinion, real world experience trumps a lot of what you learn during school. School is a foundation to be built upon, not the end of the road. Start earni
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by TruffleMuffin 10y ago
It seems to me that this sort of thing is going to set a dangerous precedent. Allowing local authorities to breach their own jurisdictions and national boarders to attempt to locate and arrest suspected criminals based on local laws. How lo
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by TruffleMuffin 10y ago
To me, TDD is like a framework (Backbone, React etc). You can do it well and get a lot of value, and you can do it poorly and it serves no purpose. Ill provide an answer to your question, from a business perspective. The value of TDD when d
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by TruffleMuffin 11y ago
I created this small bower library to enable simple usage of bootstrap data with Backbone.
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Show HN: Backbone.bootstrap(github.com)
3 points by TruffleMuffin 11y ago|1 comments