andrew_wc_brown

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by andrew_wc_brown 11y ago
What a great story ===> page not found. <===
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by andrew_wc_brown 11y ago
I use MithrilJs with Coffescript. Small and Fast.
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by andrew_wc_brown 12y ago
I am building larges scale web-apps with AngularJS and I have no issues with debugging or performance that I need to move to another framework. Once you know the paint points of any framework you work around them.
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by andrew_wc_brown 12y ago
I owned an early Macbook Pro 2011 model. I had the logic board replaced 4 times and the 4th time paid out of pocket. After that one burnt out I gave up and bought a new computer. Simply the worst computer I ever owned.
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by andrew_wc_brown 13y ago
They're splash video has the same chords as Wrecking Ball.
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by andrew_wc_brown 13y ago
http://memegenerator.net/instance/45092497
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by andrew_wc_brown 13y ago
I don't use LinkedIn or have a résumé because I think both are a waste of time and I don't care. Its great to be a programmer where the job market is in such demand you have the option of not doing the following above.
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by andrew_wc_brown 13y ago
I like cubicles and would prefer to be in my own box than in an open space concept room. Cubicles reduce noise. Respects my privacy, and puts up barrier against people distracting me. I wish more startups had cubicles.
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by andrew_wc_brown 13y ago
I had to do deal with DDOS attacks in the past and DDOSArrest worked like a charm to mitigate the problem.
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by andrew_wc_brown 13y ago
Anecdotal evidence vs Anecdotal evidence. I guess its a matter of picking your preference.
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by andrew_wc_brown 13y ago
I purchased the Payment Gateway book and regretted it. The only essential tool I see on the list is Sidekiq and the rest is just bloat.
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by andrew_wc_brown 13y ago
I use vim everyday and I don't find this game easy to play.
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by andrew_wc_brown 13y ago
Analogies are awful. I wasn't sure what their trying to get at. Anyone can translate this story in no-nonsense clean speak?
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by andrew_wc_brown 13y ago
Are you in a large city like Toronto, San Francisco or Barcelona that has accelerators and incubators around? Do you plan on doing all of this remotely?
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by andrew_wc_brown 13y ago
Instead of using the very board labels of extrovert and introvert we should break down the components so we can mix and match and come up with something the describes a person's personality more accurately.
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by andrew_wc_brown 13y ago
how's it even hard to go to contracting? I always make twice as much as I would working a salaried job.
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by andrew_wc_brown 13y ago
This whole bed is for sleep is anecdotal nonsense. My back isn't great so switching from standing to sitting to laying is what I do throughout the day.
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by andrew_wc_brown 13y ago
specificity is important for attracting eyeballs but this article doesn't show you an affective way of doing it. Check out Eben Pagan Summit videos or or Dane Maxwell interview on Mixergy. They have a detailed breakdown on how to attract le
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by andrew_wc_brown 13y ago
I can triple confirm. When Im typing on my phone I have periods everywhere because of mistyping.
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by andrew_wc_brown 13y ago
Why is this proclaimed gentleman swearing so much in blog post?
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by andrew_wc_brown 14y ago
I built a web-app for my previous startup in Backbone, after a year and half working with it, (1) I got frustrated with the amount of files I had to create, (2) its performance, and (3) the difficulty to write pure tests, (3) no concreate c
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by andrew_wc_brown 14y ago
At the end of the day, I want to write the least amount of code, have the best performance, and be able to have an easy way to test my code and all I had to do was get over putting extra code in my DOM and structuring my javascript in a way
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by andrew_wc_brown 14y ago
The worst I've encountered recently was Mastercard. They call thanking you and your family for using their service. They say as a thank you they give for free, card protection services, by accepting their thank you/free gift your opting in
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by andrew_wc_brown 14y ago
I won't present a résumé, a github link, a linked in profile, or do nonsense tests. I always send a full web-application I built for code review, do a technical demonstration and provide sample work on their codebase. Any other route is a w
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by andrew_wc_brown 14y ago
500px is a Canadian startup in Toronto. They been on the front page of hacker news several times. The word order made perfect sense.
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by andrew_wc_brown 14y ago
When applying for programmers I'll refuse to hand in a résumé without being able to demonstrate my skills and provide sample work first. The hiring process that most companies use is backwards, and I think mostly due to people that go to sc
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by andrew_wc_brown 14y ago
If a company is smaller than 10 people I can't be bothered with formal processes and HR people. When I get people applying that call themselves engineers I just think of comp-sci graduates who have no practical skill or someone trying to
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by andrew_wc_brown 14y ago
Didn't apple use to have an R&D department and one of the first thing Steve Jobs did when he came back to Apple was he scrapped it?
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by andrew_wc_brown 14y ago
I'm glad it's written in coffeescript, it's less verbose and easier to read.
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by andrew_wc_brown 14y ago
It took years before I was hireable material. All I had in 1999 was irc rooms and mailing lists filled with egotistic programmers that had 120 different ways to call you dumb if you wanted to learn. Learning to be a hireable programmer is a

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