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by alinajaf 16y ago
I used to believe this until I actually worked in a team with dedicated testing staff. While it is entirely the responsibility of the developer to test changes and functionality to the best of their ability, testing is arguably a skillset i
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by alinajaf 16y ago
There are a lot of things that can go wrong at various points in the process of putting the details in the ui and getting a printed card out the other end, and there will always be bad batches. I'm not sure that its a general problem with t
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by alinajaf 16y ago
Woohoo go us! (dev at moo)
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by alinajaf 16y ago
Amen brother. I've worked at a place where our 'deployment script' logged into each of our production servers and ran svn up in working copies. This company handled thousands of financial transactions every day. At my current company we hav
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by alinajaf 16y ago
> Creating branches in svn is cheap, switching branches is cheap, checking out a new working copy if you want to work on two changes at once is also cheap, merging is cheap. I think then the problem is our definitions of 'cheap'. A typi
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by alinajaf 16y ago
While there may be some equivalent in SVN, it gives you nowhere near the flexibility. I can't for example, create an idea branch for one feature I'm working on, try another idea on another branch, delete the first branch, switch back to the
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by alinajaf 16y ago
Its strange. Everyone seems to rave about poignant guide but I just couldn't get into it. For me Ruby for Rails by David A Black was an absolute revelation, really made things click for me.
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by alinajaf 16y ago
It may be tiring, but it's still true. "[svn|rails|regex|whatever] is bad because I don't get it" is not an argument, just an expression of laziness/lack of interest.
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by alinajaf 16y ago
My preferred way of gaining a good intuitive feel for a language is to read tons of published written material (print magazines, books etc). The language is edited and proofread so you're guaranteed a level of correctness. This trains your
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by alinajaf 16y ago
I tried reading this after finishing Shogun but just couldn't get into it. Watched the movies instead with Toshiro Mifune as Musashi, and will agree that its an epic story. The legend of the wandering warrior who lives only to increase his
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by alinajaf 16y ago
I am a total whore for historical fiction: 'Shogun' by James Clavell was the first book I read that had me glued to it for hours and hours at a time. Tai Pan is also a classic. I also found the original three Courtney books by Wilbur Smith
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by alinajaf 16y ago
> Vim to me seems like an ever expanding series of configuration files and keyboard tricks to get something remotely powerful. I used to feel this way but I hated Eclipse enough to push through and get past it. Once you get over the bar
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by alinajaf 16y ago
I would agree with this. At my new job I was forced to use a Mac for my first couple of weeks and it was like being put in a straight-jacket. A lot of the gui can be manipulated from the keyboard in gnome, and this is what I missed the most
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by alinajaf 16y ago
Am I the only one who saw this, went over to Qwiki and started drooling at how sci-fi it is?
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by alinajaf 16y ago
Yeah I would emphasize that memorization, to me at least, is just the beginning of learning. Experience, context, questioning assumptions, contrasting, analysis, evaluation and ultimately some action taken with that knowledge is what gets a
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by alinajaf 16y ago
I would agree that in a university lecture, taking notes isn't the most constructive use of your time. > I think it's in your best interest to learn instead of memorize This doesn't necessarily make sense. Memorization is a first step t
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by alinajaf 16y ago
I have a script that simply touches a file with filename <timestamp> in a directory and cracks it open in vi. I hashtag things in the files so I can grep them later, and keep all the files in a private repo on github. I used to be a
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by alinajaf 16y ago
NSFW!
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by alinajaf 16y ago
I thought it was bad too, so I blew the shit out of it!
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by alinajaf 16y ago
This is absolutely uncanny. I've just started writing a similar blog post thread about my dev environment, and its similar to yours (i.e. screen (I'm moving to tmux though), vim, bash, etc.).
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by alinajaf 16y ago
I think this is a great idea, but am I the only one who thinks the minimum rate should be more like $70? This would widen the perceived quality gap between this and Elance IMO, but I'm guessing you've probably done a lot of research before
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by alinajaf 16y ago
That wasn't irony. THIS is irony (i.e. that the person who called out the other guy for not understanding irony, happens to not actually know the difference between irony and sarcasm himself) :P
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by alinajaf 16y ago
Define most people. Personally I spend the majority of my day editing text, so the small improvements are pretty important. P.S. I have code completion, jump to file etc all working just fine in vim. On a codebase with 15000+ files, this is
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by alinajaf 16y ago
The fact that you used the word 'haven' and 'pirate' makes it sound like salty pirates on the high seas of swashbuckling adventure. Why not just say illegal file-sharers and skip the pretense?
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by alinajaf 16y ago
I used to be a die-hard NERDTree user until I discovered CommandT. It is solid gold and I couldn't imagine using vim without it.
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by alinajaf 16y ago
After having worked with rails for coming on two years now, it's been a love-hate relationship. The short version: your first few apps will be pretty horrible but the more you know about the framework, the better they get. Admittedly, the s
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by alinajaf 16y ago
I was paying attention up to the part where you make it start in insert mode for use with the mouse, menus etc. I like working in the terminal, with as little mouse action as humanly possible, and (for crying out loud) in normal mode. Norma
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by alinajaf 16y ago
It's specific to Japanese, but rikai(chan|kun) has been an _extremely_ useful tool.
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by alinajaf 16y ago
As someone who didn't have particularly good grades, I've been in this situation. In about eight job interviews, only once did someone show surprise when I told them my grades. Its as big an issue as you make it.
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by alinajaf 16y ago
Am I the only one here who has a broad smattering of skills in that graph (around about C, PHP, Ruby, Javascript, HTML etc.) and don't see myself inferior/superior to anyone on that list? Incompetent programmers are incompetent no matter wh

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