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by bobbytherobot 10y ago
Maybe Rails has changed from when I last used it five years ago, but I dealt with many of the issues DHH makes against other technology. > That people spent hours, if not days, just setting up the skeletons. The basic build configuration
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by bobbytherobot 10y ago
newsat13 wasn't complaining about using conventions. newsat13 was complaining about how Rails uses black magic with conventions. I can't speak to Rails, but I've worked in other codebases that used reflection to dynamically a
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by bobbytherobot 10y ago
First off, Amazon never lost a billion dollars in a single year. More importantly, Amazon could have been profitable for much of the time. Amazon was losing money because they were taking the profits from they successful ventures and pourin
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by bobbytherobot 10y ago
If you want to do front-end, don't worry about those coming out of uni/college. Front-end is a specialization that very few places teach. There is a huge range for front-end. You have people doing basically cut-up for marketing si
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by bobbytherobot 10y ago
> Are mainstream js developers really that ignorant of what is out there to suggest running js on the server all the time? No. At least not the high caliber ones. There are those that know only know JavaScript and will try to make everyt
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by bobbytherobot 10y ago
I've worked in JavaScript for 15 years. There is always something to be sad about.
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by bobbytherobot 10y ago
What? The engine is written in C, but all JavaScript engines are written in another language (C being the most popular) because it is an interpreted language. The engine isn't written from scratch because it is the V8 engine from Googl
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by bobbytherobot 10y ago
Exactly. I've met too many front-end devs who are unable to separate the architectural pattern from the implementation of the library they are using. They have the larger mountain to climb when needing to learn a new framework.
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by bobbytherobot 10y ago
I don't think comparing an over abundance of JavaScript libraries with a big chain restaurant. It would be more like going to a huge open air market with hundreds of stalls each serving a few dishes. The dishes range from amazing to si
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by bobbytherobot 10y ago
There are certainly a large number of developers using macOS that have come to regularly use the Unix terminal and sub-systems. If anything comes from the cries of Apple abandoning the Macintosh hardware, it could benefit Microsoft. I'
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by bobbytherobot 10y ago
> No connection to core metrics. Infrequent discussions about desired customer and business outcomes. Team cannot connect work to key business and customer satisfaction metrics. Impossible to connect iterations to “what matters most” Som
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by bobbytherobot 10y ago
My take is you should be skeptical but don't let that skepticism stop you from learning something new. I remember the complex UIs I and others wrote a decade ago with jQuery, now those aren't complex at all compared to what is com
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by bobbytherobot 10y ago
I don't think he has much data to work off to create a model for impeachment.
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by bobbytherobot 10y ago
Uber makes you fill out an application to be a driver which requires proof of insurance and drivers license. Thumbtack checks plumbers and electricians are properly licensed before listing.
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by bobbytherobot 10y ago
> discriminating against innocent third parties is going to help I'm not following you on that, would you explain more.
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by bobbytherobot 10y ago
It may be shallow, but that same shallowness has been used to keep people at a disadvantage in society. I believe we should be actively un-biasing the negative biases throughout society. What I am describing is affirmative action which many
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by bobbytherobot 10y ago
It is very very easy to create bias interview questions for programming. I've seen too often people ask a college homework assignment they worked on. Is using your path to the job a good proxy for finding diversity of thinkers? Then th
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by bobbytherobot 10y ago
They are still around, but far less than they use to be. I remember as a kid you would find a shoe shine guy setup in the lobby of most buildings fill with professionally dressed people. Certainly work place attire has become more casual ac
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by bobbytherobot 10y ago
Interesting. This might in part explain why duckpin has been fading from mid-atlantic states where it use to be quite popular.
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by bobbytherobot 10y ago
Because milkmen don't exists anymore - at least not in the U.S. or Canada. Houses were built with little doors from the outside into a chillbox for the milkman to directly place the milk inside.
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by bobbytherobot 10y ago
The author was claiming she was using her introvert nature as an excuse for being rude. You can be both extraverted and rude too. An extravert should excuse their rude outward behavior on being an extravert.
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by bobbytherobot 10y ago
> exception: if you are responsible for someone, like a child or elderly person So what about when she says: "I sat in my car and read a book while my children attended a family-oriented athletic function"? I think from that si
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by bobbytherobot 10y ago
I've been using flexbox for the past 1.5 years. I'll add fallbacks, but it really is minimal if you are willing not to have it pixel perfect. Sometimes though I will use the fallback because it actually does it better than flexbox
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by bobbytherobot 10y ago
I think "content" should be "context". It is when you create a class based on appearance instead of context. To make it worse, is when the class has a semantic name like Hero but it is being used in clearly non-Hero usag
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by bobbytherobot 10y ago
I actually think this device would do little good for weather. * Rain can come at you from many more angles than just straight down * Wind will rip apart anything remotely a sail, like the top of his device * How do I put it on as I exit a
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by bobbytherobot 10y ago
Speaking of the tools (spreadsheets, Jira, standups, etc), the tools are there to help you execute your process, they are not your process. Too often I see people try to fix their process - or simply the lack of a process - by throwing rand
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by bobbytherobot 10y ago
Then why didn't you just say that? You wrote a whole article defending your negative campaign when in reality you are doing it because it is the only campaign that works for you. This is a smoking gun for in that you are only justifyin
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by bobbytherobot 10y ago
Why do they always focus on the daylight after work? I need daylight to get going in the morning. I've hated moving daylight-savings earlier. Now I have to wake up for an extra month in the dark. Waking up in the dark makes me damn gru
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by bobbytherobot 10y ago
I've had this and I have good managers. I worked outside of the Bay Area before coming here. I can tell you that the Bay Area tech has the worse managers. They drink the Kool-Aid way to hard out here.
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by bobbytherobot 10y ago
> - The UI to look as good or better than the UI on Mac OS X. I'm not willing to compromise on looks. Just remember that the UI kit is only part of having a good UI. Apple's historical success with good UI is based on their lon

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