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by bphogan 16y ago
I'm not sure I understand your question. I'll try to answer anyway. An internship doesn't mean free labor. Although I guess there are some people who do try to get people to code for free and call it an "internship" or "portfolio building e
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by bphogan 16y ago
When I post job ads now, I ask interns for their blog URL, websites they've done, URLs to open-source projects, and their Twitter account if any. I'm not looking to find out personal stuff, but I want examples of what they do, how they lear
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by bphogan 16y ago
I don't think you understand what I'm saying. There's no terms at all in the donation-based giving, and yet people think they have influence. Contracts get renegotiated all the time. What would prevent Company XYZ from exerting pressure al
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by bphogan 16y ago
Is that really true though? If Company XYZ is your biggest support contract, they'll have influence over you, wouldn't they?
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by bphogan 16y ago
I guess I can see that. I didn't read "support" in terms of "support contract" but that does make more sense. Thanks.
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by bphogan 16y ago
I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around this. He's basically complaining that people think they own him (or his time) because they donated money. I've seen that, and it's terribly unfortunate. I was right with him until I saw
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by bphogan 16y ago
The problem is that bookstores charge too much money. Borders will sell my book for $49 when it comes out, whereas you can preorder it from Amazon for around $22 which is about what it costs to buy the ebook copy right from the publisher. T
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by bphogan 16y ago
I can only speak for Ruby - it's what I chose when I moved from PHO development several years ago. 1. I am much more productive in Ruby than I ever was in PHP because the language is more consistent and testing is built in. But it takes a l
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by bphogan 16y ago
I completely agree with this. In fact I'll go another step. I'm willing to bet that the people lobbing the thinly veiled insults do so because that's easier than putting their stuff out there and having it ripped to shreds by other people l
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by bphogan 16y ago
For me it was a discipline thing. Then a mentor of mine convinced me that not writing tests was actually okay when you're exploring something. He suggested I only write tests for "production" code - something I would deploy. So I routinely
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by bphogan 16y ago
This type of attitude is what keeps some aspiring people away. How does a beginner know what an obvious question is? Honestly I'm long past tired of this attitude among developers. When you're really good at something you've been doing for
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by bphogan 16y ago
We've all heard that record companies are evil, but then again they often pre-pay an artist to produce a record, pay for studio time, mixing, mastering, etc. There's a lot that goes into producing music, videos, and books than you see. Open
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by bphogan 16y ago
Understood. Until they don't need you anymore. Then they boot you out, leaving you with no ideas. And that's why these things bother me - you don't have a backup plan under contracts like this, and in this day and age you certainly need one
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by bphogan 16y ago
The lesson though is that the answer is always no unless you ask.
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by bphogan 16y ago
The problem with this line of thinking is that he's not doing it on company time and thus not being compensated for it. This guy built a web server on his own time, and now Google gets to add it to their portfolio and is not compensating hi
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by bphogan 16y ago
It's nice to see more evidence that people do this. I've always believe that contracts are negotiable, so it's good to know that I'm not the only one that does this.
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by bphogan 16y ago
This concept irritates me. You basically can't create things on your own if you work for a company? I just completely disagree with these kind of no-compete things. That said, I also think it's silly to sign a contract that states this as a
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by bphogan 16y ago
37Signals Chalk is the first that comes to mind. But we're doing a few of these apps where I work, and my HTML5 and CSS3 book shows how to do an offline app with the Web SQL storage API too. This is actually really cool stuff when you think
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by bphogan 16y ago
I dunno, maybe I'm reading into this too much, but it almost sounds like a "hint" so as not to upset others at Oracle. Kinda like "I don't have that thing you're looking for, but if I did, it would be in my unlocked office in the third desk
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by bphogan 16y ago
I agree. At least in the US, I have long viewed traditional media as nothing more than public relations divisions of the various political parties. Face it - when you're not doing your job, someone's gonna step in and do it for you. Notice
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Adobe on Canadian accessibility ruling: "Don't blame us, blame developers"(blogs.adobe.com)
1 points by bphogan 16y ago|0 comments
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by bphogan 16y ago
I routinely write plain-text with my clients and stakeholders - they like cucumber. I could not show them Steak. When working with end users Cucumber works really really well for me. However, the idea of Steak on projects where I'm the stak
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by bphogan 16y ago
Very much so. Very happy to have it too - I had to return my iPad when the orientation lock button broke 1 day in. Having a software option for this makes a lot of sense.
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by bphogan 16y ago
Yes, that's really great too... I was just looking for an example that many people could relate to. :)
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by bphogan 16y ago
I used to use VIm for years before I got my mac, and I've been moving back to it recently. One thing I'm surprised nobody ever mentions is the ! command. If I'm working on a file and I want to, say, commit my work, I can do :!git comm
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by bphogan 16y ago
No, in fact I'm mighty upset about this and have been for some time, mainly cos the damn thing isn't vaporware. It exists in Safari and Chrome, whereas IndexedDB works nowhere yet but "sounds neat." I want to see what WebKit browsers are go
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by bphogan 16y ago
Love it, but I can't shake the feeling that the people who I want to show this to would not dig the zombies vibe. Maybe I just hang around too many people who do Real Serious Business (TM) programming. :) It's neat as hell though.
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by bphogan 16y ago
It's been my experience that when someone says "reasonable" terms, in regards to a contract or license, the meaning of "reasonable" is largely skewed in their favor.
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by bphogan 16y ago
The HTC Hero and Samsung Moment (both Sprint) are EOL as of July 2010. No 2.2 or future upgrades for those devices. I expect this to continue with future phones. I've had a Sprint store employee basically tell me that they expect you to get
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Blind passengers sue United because of innaccessible web site and kiosks(npr.org)
2 points by bphogan 16y ago|0 comments

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