bobfirestone

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by bobfirestone 13y ago
I know this isn't what you want to hear but you really need to talk to an attorney on this. There are potentially significant implications for the donors and the charities that you work with if you don't get it right.
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by bobfirestone 13y ago
I think the biggest single thing to happen was significantly faster JavaScript processing. The speed boost has made things that were previously not worth doing possible. With out the V8 engine node.js was not a realistic proposition.
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by bobfirestone 13y ago
$100,000 a year works out to be ~$50/hr. Enterprise consulting will get you into the 6 figure club. It is not as sexy as working for a startup but a lesson that took me too long to learn is work for the people who have lots of money to spen
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by bobfirestone 13y ago
I think there is a disconnect between what many of readers who have commented here think of when they hear standardization and what the author intended. Bootstrap has not introduced a standard in the way that html5 is a standard. It is a st
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by bobfirestone 13y ago
The table lost its formatting Price Theirs Yours $4 $27k $0 $5 $36k $37.5k $6 $45k $75k $7 $54k $112.5k $10 $81k $225k
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by bobfirestone 13y ago
In options there are two important numbers the current stock price and the strike price. Assuming the stock price is higher than the strike price the option is worth the difference between the two. I am a little unclear about the "$36,000's
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by bobfirestone 13y ago
What version of ruby, rails, db & which web server are you using? It's hard to say the problem is ruby being slow until you isolate the problem. A guy I work with wrote a gem called dev_panel we use to find the bottlenecks. I haven't lo
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by bobfirestone 13y ago
Have you done any view caching? You should take a look at fragment caching and how Russian doll caching works with the cache_digest gem.
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by bobfirestone 13y ago
I have heard good things about this combination. You buy your on VPS setups to get redundancy or regional dispersion and cloud66 manages the deploy.
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by bobfirestone 13y ago
Enterprise rails consulting. Enterprise is never going to be as sexy as working for a startup. But they do have project budgets that exceed most company A rounds. The work is not very exciting and things often have to be done in ways that y
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by bobfirestone 13y ago
Making the person demonstrate that it is more than an idea but an actual functioning implementation not just a couple of sketches and a vague description would be fantastic.
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by bobfirestone 14y ago
The biggest risk is you get something that is not what you want, are out some money and have to delay the launch. If you are really concerned about it. A css framework can help your developer eliminate a lot of pain points and make a design
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by bobfirestone 14y ago
I have only been coding for a couple of years and know the feeling. There are so many things you could know that thinking about it is intimidating. A few of things I think you should do... 1. There are a lot of free CS courses being put onl
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by bobfirestone 14y ago
The two languages are very similar. What I would really suggest is see which has the more active user group in your area. This is actually how I ended up learning ruby. If I had found another user group as active in my area I would probably
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by bobfirestone 14y ago
I have been learning ROR for the last 2 years. The two things I would go back and do more of is write tests and write more straight ruby. Writing tests for your models should have you covered. You can skip testing the controllers & view
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by bobfirestone 14y ago
To clarify is he calling himself "a founder" or "the founder"? Being part of a team and calling himself "the founder" is a dick move and you need to talk to him about it. If he is calling himself "a founder" you need to chill. There is no d
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by bobfirestone 14y ago
Mostly Sublime 2. I am learning Vim because I am tired of paying for text editors.
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by bobfirestone 14y ago
I was diagnosed with ADD as a kid. It turns out I was just bored. There are only 2 reasons for jumping around like this. Either you aren't that interested or you hit a knowledge roadblock. The knowledge roadblock is probably the easier of t
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by bobfirestone 14y ago
Who is the target audience? beginners, intermediate or advanced? Something I have found in common with many of the thicker books (400+ pages) that I liked is they are broken up into a couple of very distinct sections. The first part is usua
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by bobfirestone 14y ago
In production Java has a lot of upside. Compared to ruby or python it is screaming fast. Twitter has moved large portions of their app to java from rails because of this. The reason why interpreted languages are hot with startups and why tw
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by bobfirestone 14y ago
To really learn Ruby & Rails if you haven't already done it do the rails 3 tutorial http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book . It goes through building a rails app line by line without scaffolding. For the Ruby try Lea
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by bobfirestone 14y ago
Started to seriously learn programming about 2 years ago by joining a user group, reading lots of books and writing lots of code to practice. The only way to learn is by doing.