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by alinajaf 14y ago
And fish.
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by alinajaf 14y ago
Does anyone know of a good reason not to use TLS with client-side certificates (and you as the CA) for API authentication?
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by alinajaf 14y ago
My pick-me-up checklist for when I'm procrastinating too much for comfort: * Get plenty of sleep. If you're sleepy, take a nap. Go to bed early, wake up early. * Drink plenty of water. * Eat well, whatever that means for you (for me its cut
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by alinajaf 14y ago
Have you tried having a read of The Non-designers Design Book ? While it won't make you a master designer, it will give you some basics. Notably CRAP (Contrast, Repetition, Alignment, Proximity) and the basics of colour theory and typograp
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by alinajaf 14y ago
> Not every piece of writing is a philosophical treaty I think you might mean treatise .
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by alinajaf 14y ago
The language we're talking about makes a big difference here. I have (very) occasionally been mistaken for a native Japanese speaker over the phone, but I have the reading level of a 12 year old at best.
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by alinajaf 14y ago
My hope is that one day some of you guys over in SV realize what you just did and start contracting more work to us across the pond. Programming talent in the UK is cheap.
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by alinajaf 14y ago
If you have a portfolio site and testimonials from past clients, £20k isn't that great. I worked with a guy at a small(ish, <100 employees) company who started at £34k with a similar background to that.
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by alinajaf 14y ago
Yes, London. I was at £45k after two years, and permie salaries are in general higher now than than they were three years ago.
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by alinajaf 14y ago
You're getting screwed at £15k, I've never been paid that little for developing web. For reference, my salary history over my 6+ year career is as follows: £20k->£26k->£45k->£450-£600/day Note that I am a totally average develop
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by alinajaf 14y ago
The guy is 18 . Who cares? > Talking about node.js or NoSQL or puppet or ansible or other "new technology" and be greeted by ignorance. You'd be greeted by a great big meh from me and I make considerably more than $100/hour. Your defin
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by alinajaf 14y ago
+1 I'm working through these now and they're the most fun thing I've done with a computer for a long time.
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by alinajaf 14y ago
2 points: > This comment is ridiculous. Yes. However, I would point out that eventually this productivity thing matters i.e. more productive developers will be able to effect more change in the world faster than less productive develope
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by alinajaf 14y ago
> but Japan also has institutionalized politeness. Careful. They also have an institutionalized social hierarchy, baked into the language and pretty much everywhere. It's expected that when you start at a new school or a new company tha
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by alinajaf 14y ago
Or you know, you could just spend a few hours learning about how a tool you're probably going to be using for over a decade works.
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by alinajaf 14y ago
> The only caveat is that you shouldn't rebase code on branches that you've shared publicly for the exact same reasons that you shouldn't publish version 3.2.1 and then re-publish it with a bug fix without calling it version 3.2.2. &#60
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by alinajaf 14y ago
> No religion forbids entry into another house of worship. Citation?
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by alinajaf 14y ago
As a Dawkins-thumping atheist, I don't think I would mind too much. 'Houses of worship' happen to have some be the most beautifully architectured buildings so naturally make for good venues, irrespective of your religious beliefs or lack th
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by alinajaf 14y ago
Does LSO St Luke's really count? Correct me if I'm wrong but the venue is used primarily for musical performances, not as a 'house of worship'. It is a brilliant venue, my wife performs in a Gamelan ensemble there every year which is great
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by alinajaf 14y ago
Do you really? I like the fact that git doesn't try anything clever when it hits a conflict and asks you to fix by hand. Have you found an automatic conflict resolution tool that you liked before?
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by alinajaf 14y ago
The implementation of branching in git is so fantastically simple (its literally a commit hash in a file, `cat .git/refs/heads/master` if you don't believe me) that it boggles the mind that so many developers have so much issue with it.
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by alinajaf 14y ago
Excellent work! I've wanted an easy way to explain git branching to people and from now on I'll point them to this.
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by alinajaf 14y ago
How exactly would you parse parameters in a web application framework differently?
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by alinajaf 14y ago
Can you point me to a concrete example of this? Rails as a codebase is decoupled reasonably well. As long as I take it in chunks, I can understand control flow through it reasonably well, and I probably have less ruby experience than you do
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by alinajaf 14y ago
> Not even security related. If I decide to move from rails to django, now I have to wonder if somebody out there decided to talk to my app using json instead of regular get/post, and deal with migrating/breaking that client. If you did
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by alinajaf 14y ago
> Yes. When you write a controller action, you have access to what appears to be a hash called `params`, which is a representation of the parameters that the user passed in their request. It could be GET query parameters, or POST parame
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by alinajaf 14y ago
> they mean that Rails has drawn that line quite far toward the abstraction side, which is true Can you give a concrete example of this?
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by alinajaf 14y ago
Yes, you are wrong. "Contacts in the recruitment world" are probably right about contracts with clients that use recruiters . I'm currently turning down more work than I know what to do with through my network.
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by alinajaf 14y ago
I was at this event (the 'freelancer' in the front row getting picked on by Sanderson), it was brilliant. Big thank you to yourself and Steve for putting on such a good show.
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by alinajaf 14y ago
> Talking to penetration testers, you often hear this story: if it's .NET, you're going to have a hard time; If it's PHP, you can count on the developer leaving an injection flaw of varying exploitability; If it's RoR, you can count on

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