bbwharris

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by bbwharris 13y ago
> from parents who recklessly allowed their children access to their credit card There's nothing reckless about handing a child their favorite game to play. Once you've been bit with a $100 charge for an in app purchase, you st
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by bbwharris 13y ago
Here's one: neither zuckerberg nor page posted those responses. The NSA did. Once we all believe, the rabbit hole is an abyss.
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by bbwharris 13y ago
I had tmobile in Austin for years and its was always superb. I only switched for an incentive I definitely regret.
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by bbwharris 13y ago
Or this complete lack of privacy erases what we today call politically correct. Perhaps these labels will have less weight or significance because everyone will be labeled in some seemingly negative way.
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by bbwharris 13y ago
Go for the one arm hug. It's half handshake half hug, it's a hugshake.
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by bbwharris 13y ago
Whats so wrong with a merge? Git is made for it. Sometimes things are nonlinear. I prefer to roll-forward anyway instead of rollback.
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by bbwharris 13y ago
He did everything right. Tried it in ruby, if it would have been fast enough this article wouldn't exist. Instead he applied good software engineering and found the right tool for the job. This doesnt say "don't use ruby it's too slow". It'
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by bbwharris 14y ago
Yeah this sounds no different than a consultancy.
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by bbwharris 14y ago
I'm a huge fan of Sirius/XM. Occasionally I flip to fm. I never touch am. It's nice to allow omakase for music. I can't always spend time tuning a playlist.
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by bbwharris 14y ago
This is the best explanation I have ever seen. I always say that that beautiful code doesn't stand up well against users, and this is why. It doesn't mean that you should write crapy code, it just means that sometimes you have to in order t
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by bbwharris 14y ago
Played with one at sxsw. Ordered it right there. It is as impressive as it looks.
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by bbwharris 14y ago
Personally, doesn't bother me.
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by bbwharris 14y ago
I'm with you on this. Its almost as if the op is blaming the victim for allowing this to happen. Just think how you would feel if this was your mother, sister, or daughter. You would not have the same attitude. Women never deserve this, eve
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by bbwharris 14y ago
There is value in reading pages of legacy code. Its very common to watch new hires solve an already solved problem. Too many people are allergic to reading code it seems. Solving complex problems in the physical world usually results in com
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by bbwharris 14y ago
This is not a "rails community" issue. These are individual members. Rails is software that works for a lot of people. The "community" doesn't tweet. Most of us just want to write code.
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by bbwharris 14y ago
Having done this type of consulting myself, I could never work around the maintenance issue. You likely setup the entire system so if something goes wrong, whether its you're fault or not, you're on the line. It's all about reputation. And
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by bbwharris 14y ago
Austin, TX would love to have you.
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by bbwharris 14y ago
Learn your tools. New developers will need to do the same. There's zero substitute for experience. Rails solves the most common problems easily. It's extremely common to do things upon saving. Once you need to do more than one thing upon sa
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by bbwharris 14y ago
> It never ends for a beginner...I miss programming simple stuff. It never ends for a programmer. Constant learning and reinventing is what defines us. It gets easier to pick up new stuff, but you never end the process of picking up new
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by bbwharris 14y ago
I agree. If you can't remember, it's not a priority for you and that's okay. I operate the same way and have "hectic" schedules too.
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by bbwharris 14y ago
If you are making enough, and you are happy, then why did you look in the first place? Often times just the act of dipping your toes in the water will send you swimming. Evaluate why you are even looking. If you are happy and the new thing
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by bbwharris 14y ago
I think we should all sit back and be happy that we are in this position. It's a great place to be, much better than desperate to find anyone who's hiring. We have our pick and we complain about recruiters? If only everyone was so lucky.
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by bbwharris 14y ago
I'm not comfortable keeping all my passwords in a single companies database. They are good products, it's just a personal preference.
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by bbwharris 14y ago
I see your point. But, if you don't care about what you are doing it will show. If you care and allow your developers to care about what they are doing, you will breed a culture that people want to be a part of. Sure it's lost money in the
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by bbwharris 14y ago
How about for presentations? You are already using your hand and talking naturally, why not incorporate that into your talk? I wouldn't use it as a keyboard replacement, but for other tasks that naturally fit into this type of human input.
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by bbwharris 14y ago
I would love to read a write up on how you accomplished this.
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by bbwharris 14y ago
I agree with you on the development setup. Production setup is about the same. Meant no offense. Seemed trollish but when you factor in development setup then yes MySQL is slightly easier. I think heroku is doing a good job making Postgres
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by bbwharris 14y ago
MySQL was great, we all loved it. It allowed many real businesses to make real money without the overhead. Then the oracle thing happened. In the end they are all just tools. Its not really interesting to have a religious debate over tools
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by bbwharris 14y ago
Installation? All modern Linuxes have package managers that make installation a headache of the past. Configuration is a different story. When you are done with a Postgres config you have a more secure setup. They don't allow you to shoot y
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by bbwharris 14y ago
Right. The same scalpel that when told to not insert a null value will make a decision to insert an empty string. MySQL works but it was always a hack. PostgreSQL is superior and has been a superior solution for quite some time. I'm sad to

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