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by alinajaf 14y ago
> But then again I am the same nationality as Charlie I would point out that the Conservative party in the UK just voted 400-175 in favour of gay marriage.
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by alinajaf 14y ago
I'm not sensing a great deal of love for Meteor on this thread.
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by alinajaf 14y ago
> "I'm going to cry a little but it's not like I'm working on a nuclear reactor" Great for you, but you're a developer who presumably works on 'shit CRUD apps' for other people who pay you for the effort. What happens when a script from
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by alinajaf 14y ago
Seconded. I've been programming for over a decade and this is still how I learn new languages/frameworks.
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by alinajaf 14y ago
Downvotes/tone aside, Letters from a Stoic is indeed a much easier to digest read. Much of Meditations feels particular to Aurelius, his education and his problems where Seneca feels a bit more easily applicable to life in the 21st century.
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Advice on securing full-time employment for web developers(happybearsoftware.com)
1 points by alinajaf 14y ago|0 comments
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by alinajaf 14y ago
If you're interested in security and have been following tptaceks notes, then no doubt you will have seen his recommendation for reading The Web Application Hackers Handbook . I'm just a rank-and-file web developer, but I would also strong
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by alinajaf 14y ago
I'm a full time rails developer and member of the "ruby community" and have nothing against rails. I am also strongly inclined to take tptacek at his word when he speaks on issues of security, even if he's light on the details. It's quite l
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by alinajaf 14y ago
Thanks for the feedback, > 1. No alloc checks I'm going to modify the post to do checks on alloc based on this and other comments, thanks! > 2. This module is limited to storing integers. Since this is for the most part for learning
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by alinajaf 14y ago
Thanks for pointing this out, will fix!
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by alinajaf 14y ago
Article author here, thanks for going to the trouble to highlight these. Really appreciate the feedback and will edit.
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Implementing a dynamically sized array in C(happybearsoftware.com)
36 points by alinajaf 14y ago|54 comments
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by alinajaf 14y ago
> K-san: "I have absolutely no interest in that." If this is the Japanese I think it is, I would have had difficulty not laughing out loud.
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by alinajaf 14y ago
> What is the impetus to write or read these things? As I've mentioned in other HN threads, I'm a living patio11 success story. Over the past two years, the trajectory of my life changed from "Well, maybe I'll figure out a way to get ou
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by alinajaf 14y ago
Great to hear how you're doing Patrick, thanks for sharing. > Even in weeks that I have blocked off to work on AR, I often find myself just lacking any desire to do it. The business isn’t intrinsically more boring that e.g. Bingo Card C
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by alinajaf 14y ago
Question from a newbie C developer: How can you avoid using malloc? Are you finding some clever way to do everything on the stack? Or are you perhaps allocating a large block of contiguous memory and slicing it up on your own? I've heard of
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by alinajaf 14y ago
As a newbie C developer I'd for one would really appreciate a follow-up to this if primitur has the time.
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by alinajaf 14y ago
Could be a coincidence, but I've been chanting that mantra at everyone who will listen after watching this talk by Rich Hickey: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy
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by alinajaf 14y ago
I will continue to beat this drum whenever Stripe post anything about anything: Please launch in the UK soon.
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by alinajaf 14y ago
The Samaritans provide a great service, I've used them when going through a few rough spots. Quick note though, the Samaritans definitely do not give advice. Mostly they help you work through your own feelings and figure out what to do on y
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by alinajaf 14y ago
I totally agree with the central thesis of this article, typing out the code for open source projects I like has been my secret weapon for learning technologies faster than most people think possible.
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by alinajaf 14y ago
People are free to live their lives however they want to within the law. If you want to smoke, eat or drink your way into an early grave, you're free to do so, and I don't think that the law should change in this regard. That being the case
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by alinajaf 14y ago
It depends what you're interested in learning about. I'm a ruby/rails developer by trade so rails is a really good place to start for me. The open source libraries around it like devise, cancan, haml+sass etc are required reading if you're
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by alinajaf 14y ago
> Out of curiosity, why do you propose a relocation to London? Not sure about the OP, but the London market has been screaming for web developers for the past three years at least and I would be very surprised if it slowed down any time
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by alinajaf 14y ago
No worries, I hope that helped. If you're ever in London and feel like grabbing a beer to talk shop then don't hesitate to get in touch.
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by alinajaf 14y ago
They taught me unit testing at university and I've been using it ever since. It has a lot of benefits. But things like decoupling, orthogonality and naming conventions are worth thinking hard about in their own right, not just in terms of t
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by alinajaf 14y ago
> "I see where you're going with this, it's a good way to solve A, B and C. But when we get to D, I fear X will bite us in the tail - Y can avoid that." In practice, I word things similar to what you've described here, probably even mor
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by alinajaf 14y ago
I'm currently a, "something" developer this is what I would tell you over a beer after a hard days work in the salty salt mines of programming, after 6+ years on the job. > Making mistakes will kill you Nah they won't. No matter how it'
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by alinajaf 14y ago
> If the organizers had said "We contacted groups involved in women / minorities in computing, and they knew of no-one who was of an acceptable quality who could talk about Ruby", then personally I would accept that, and have no problem
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by alinajaf 14y ago
I agree with everything you've said, but this still doesn't address why you think that diversity is good in and itself apart from blind faith. As I've alluded to in other comments, I have a feeling it's more to do with alleviating some sort

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