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Fear and Expectations and the Ruby Job Market(stevengharms.com)
2 points by bphogan 15y ago|0 comments
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by bphogan 15y ago
Bundler didn't solve the Rake issue because by default, Rails doesn't put rake in the bundle :) Another thing to learn.
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by bphogan 15y ago
Yes you do have to keep up. Because one day you'll go install your 2.3 app on a new server, and you'll have an incompatible version of some library because Rails 2.3 didn't specify version number dependencies. Like what happened to Rails 3.
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by bphogan 15y ago
I paid half that money for an ASUS eee-pc a couple of years ago that had all of those problems. The only difference is I don't have 3G service or 100mb free with it. But it runs Chrome slowly, loses WIFI a lot, has a terrible trackpad, and
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by bphogan 15y ago
The shoemaker's children have no shoes. This happens all the time. How many programmers do you know that spend all day automating the processes of others and yet still manually copy files to the production server instead of automating their
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by bphogan 15y ago
Agree 100%, but also would like to add that the only reason we can't develop things faster, better, and more performant is that so many companies have been focused on making their own tools faster and more performant. If Microsoft can desig
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by bphogan 15y ago
Infected Mushroom - Classical Mushroom is my go-to "gotta get stuff done" coding album. I highly recommend it.
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by bphogan 15y ago
I've never ever gotten why people get so mad that the database gets hit on every request. It's going to get hit anyway on every request for something else. I've seen how easy it is to break into systems that don't re-auth the user on each r
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by bphogan 15y ago
I dunno, I've been at this for 6 years with Rails, am running a 4 year old mbp that dogs it with Java stuff but hangs in ust fine with Ruby. Maybe my apps aren't nearly as huge as the ones you're loading, but I've done some large ones. But
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by bphogan 15y ago
You're going to need a whole new breed of faculty to support this. Tons of schools are still shackled to Office. I have tons of PowerPoint slides that look like crap when opened with Google Docs, and look even crappier when exported from
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by bphogan 15y ago
Hey. That was suggested to me by a good friend when I showed this to him. QEDServer's code is on Github... it's just a Sinatra app wrapped by jRuby. I could see a situation where we just have a config file and we just say "this route return
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Show HN: QEDServer: A standalone playground for JS and AJAX(qedserver.napcs.com)
22 points by bphogan 15y ago|3 comments
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by bphogan 15y ago
If you can think of a way to bring this together with railsmentors.org, ping me. I'd love to see what we could do.
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by bphogan 16y ago
Yes. With PragProg it's 50%, but it's 50% profit sharing really. There's no advance up-front, but you split the profits with the publisher. It's pretty awesome because in a way, it's a lot like self-publishing, but you get all the support t
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by bphogan 16y ago
There are plenty of smart people. Some people are results-oriented, others are not. I had an employee who could never keep hours. My superiors wanted me to fire him because he never came in on time. But he got stuff done. I mean, middle of
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by bphogan 16y ago
Yeah but I don't care about getting my money back as much as I care about how much they claim to be down. It's like the hard disk maker that gives you a 1 year warranty vs a 5 year warranty... which one believes in their product more? :)
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by bphogan 16y ago
We always, always use the SLA offered by a vendor as the basis for our information. We trust it more than any marketing page, sales pitch, tech support FAQ, or anything else. That's what they'll hide behind, so that's what I'll have in mind
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by bphogan 16y ago
That's a bit of a worry for me... if you are having those 10pm conversations, how do you draw a line between work and life?
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by bphogan 16y ago
Hah! I wrote this app a couple of years ago as a lab for me to get some HTML5 examples done for my book. Turned out to be useful to others so I added some bells and whistles. And I love SASS. If I get time, there will be CoffeeScript.
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by bphogan 16y ago
I would love to do more remote work, but then I hear horror stories about people having problems not being around people. Feelings of isolation set in after a couple of months, and people end up going to a gig where they are around people.
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by bphogan 16y ago
I graduated ten years ago. I am just now starting to regret not paying enough attention to those general education classes that I thought were wastes of my time. I wasn't mature enough to realize how important economics, marketing, politica
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by bphogan 16y ago
Thanks. I kinda see where that might lead. It feels much like Rails' nested routes. There are a ton more questions I'd love to ask, but I feel like I'm taking the thread off topic, so I'll go investigate Compojure a bit more on my own.
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by bphogan 16y ago
I wish this had answered my question more though - what is it that I'm missing. I mean, we have been building web frameworks for every new language that comes along. So what is it about web apps that we haven't solved? What does Clojure bri
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by bphogan 16y ago
I'm interested to know why you ended that last statement with "unfortunately." I'm a web developer who currently uses Ruby for my projects, and I've been looking at Clojure. I've looked at Ring, Compojure, and other things, and it all feels
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by bphogan 16y ago
I can't upvote this enough. Most people can (and shoul) say NO to salary history questions, and only provide salary requirements. I just finished working on a group to hire someone for a state job. One candidate came from another state job
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by bphogan 16y ago
Not to mention that research scientists and engineers often have advanced degrees which required a lot of application. I bet you'd hire a programmer without a degree who can do the work before you'd hire a civil engineer who learned how to
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by bphogan 16y ago
But how many Facebook/Google/whatever engineers can a new startup afford to hire? Not every programmer is a rock star ninja. Most are mediocre. Some are pretty bad but know the theory and can play the resume game, pass the whiteboard test,
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by bphogan 16y ago
It honestly wasn't meant as sarcasm and I apologize for the hyperbole. But do you know how often I hear people say "I'm really good, but I can't show you anything. But you can talk to my references and they'll tell you I'm good." That may w
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by bphogan 16y ago
Yes there's junk on Github. But I can see that and I can say "no, this person is not a good fit" before I hire them. :)
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by bphogan 16y ago
The problem is that I can't believe a word you said. I can't see examples of this awesome super top-secret code because it's all closed-source, as you say, for good reasons. I also can't trust your references, because you'll only give me on

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