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by barce 15y ago
Misdirection and inauthentic, that's what I call Steve Yegge's follow up piece. Internet attention spans suck. Remember his first post? Amazon is doing everything wrong and Google is doing everything right. If Bezos is a super intelligent a
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by barce 15y ago
I paused for a bit when I read, "A programmer can't acquire this kind of knowledge without slowing down." It seems that many businesses that rely on programmers are unwilling to give them the time to be better. I have seen coders with CS de
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Upgrade Your Rails Facebook App to SSL before October 1st(codebelay.com)
3 points by barce 15y ago|0 comments
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by barce 15y ago
Los Angeles, West Hollywood, Machinima.com, Full-time employment We are hardcore gamers that love producing the best videos of the top players in the gaming scene. FPS, MMOs and Ruby are 3 things you should love. If you've got ruby skills a
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by barce 15y ago
The "write their own ticket" idea is both a myth and a misunderstanding. Even if you're say a coder in NYC making 200k at an ad agency, your status isn't as high as the coder at FourSquare making half as much. By status, the zero sum part o
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by barce 15y ago
If you are the solle person to call the shots on what goes into prod and has the degrees she has, you're a techie.
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Are You Perceived as a Low Status Techie?(codebelay.com)
46 points by barce 15y ago|39 comments
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by barce 15y ago
This seems to be the quick summary. Gamification coerces in that an organization can leverage the phrase, "we made your work more interesting, you have to do more." It conceals in that the author feels there is no value add. It impresses in
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by barce 15y ago
Replace 'NYC' with 'LA' and it's equally true.
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by barce 15y ago
Personally, I'd like to hear something along the lines of "tools that best fit the team and the problem." Languages come and go but algorithms are forever.
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by barce 15y ago
A great follow up question, or daughter question, would be: "What tools do you think best contribute to the process of invention?"
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by barce 15y ago
This question is a great yardstick. If you are at a startup and want to swing for the fences, this question makes very clear your intentions.
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Setting up Cucumber and RSpec on Padrino(codebelay.com)
3 points by barce 15y ago|0 comments
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by barce 15y ago
This is pretty cool. It didn't work for me on Firefox 5.0.1 but it did work for me on Google Chrome 12.0.742.122. Thanks for posting this!
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How to TDD Image Uploads With Minitest on Padrino(codebelay.com)
1 points by barce 15y ago|0 comments
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by barce 15y ago
In this market, it's possible to charge around $125 or more in SF or NYC, especially if it's Ruby. You can charge more for native apps / html 5 skills. Cisco was hiring for an HTML 5 position at $200 / hour.
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In Los Angeles Coders Are Too Scared To Take Risks(codebelay.com)
39 points by barce 15y ago|28 comments
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by barce 15y ago
The author wrote, 'Facebook solves the problem of how to stay in contact with your 250 "friends". Twitter solves... well, ok, Twitter didn’t solve any real problem, but has still grown to become extremely useful.' How can something be usefu
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by barce 15y ago
I became a persona non grata socially. Folks would invite my previous company but not me. Simple as that.
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by barce 15y ago
Ya, the pics on the side are just random pictures I took. I will definitely re-design the blog to show the author's pic.
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What's It Like To Be Fired?(codebelay.com)
28 points by barce 15y ago|38 comments
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How I Use the Node.js Circle on Google Plus(codebelay.com)
2 points by barce 15y ago|0 comments
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by barce 15y ago
Some universities and clever ads have brainwashed non-technologists like Ms. Way into thinking that software do a lot of things that they do not really do. In some cases, the illusions are lies; in other cases, these folks are hoodwinked in
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by barce 15y ago
It's from http://apture.com/ .
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by barce 15y ago
Ya, I'm bringing it up with the Apture folks.
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Coders Who Don't Job Interview: Zed Shaw(codebelay.com)
106 points by barce 15y ago|76 comments
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by barce 15y ago
I can find at least 10 Silicon Valley startups featured in hn with that approach (do any freaking thing you please, without regard to paying the bills) to creating value. Valleywag, how I miss you! Thanks for the comment.
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by barce 15y ago
Hi, I didn't really expect this great of a response and am working on replying where I can. I'm humbled. The piece is first and foremost a polemic. In order to get Google juice many bloggers present an "if you build it, they will come story
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I Did What I Loved and Nearly Destroyed Myself(codebelay.com)
79 points by barce 15y ago|69 comments
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by barce 16y ago
There's a difference between a work being a result of philosophical genius and a work producing in the reader a philosophical experience. As someone who studied philosophy, I felt that his proof for the existence of quality lacking. He appe

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