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by bphogan 10y ago
Yea. I wanted this since Rails 3.
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by bphogan 10y ago
Sometimes it's as simple as politely asking. "Hey, are you interested in knowing how this works?" IT people tend to assume that everyone is just as interested in stuff as they are. It's not a great assumption to make. Ju
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by bphogan 10y ago
This one's really tricky, because one thing you have to determine early on is whether or not the person really cares to understand at all. Metaphors can be terribly dangerous because of personal experiences. For example, I've seen
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by bphogan 10y ago
Taught software dev for four years in higher ed. I always had modules on resume/cover letter, behavioral interviews, core value matching, self promotion, salary negotiation, and other job-related things. Student feedback always suggest
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by bphogan 10y ago
Nope. It doesn't. I've spent two years working with it. And "gets every single dang decision right" is a matter of opinion. Chris and José are incredibly wonderful people, but they are just as opinionated as the people b
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by bphogan 10y ago
When you tie someone's compensation to performance, you don't always get the results you're looking for. It seems to promote short-term gains over long term goals. See IMSAI in the 1970s for a great example of needing to hit
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by bphogan 10y ago
Woah, can you please provide a little more info on the software and OS you're using on the Pi? I've got a good Windows-based setup using MaLa as a frontend, but I'd love to do this on the Pi.
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by bphogan 10y ago
All I'm saying is that when there were 28.8 modems, people in rural areas didn't always see those. In 1995. When you could do simple tables, images, and font colors. I remember it well because I worked with a rural ISP to make the
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by bphogan 10y ago
I had a 28.8k modem. But my internet connection was rural, and 1200 baud. It was possible.
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by bphogan 10y ago
You will indeed have to re-implement stuff Rails gives you. But more importantly, you will have to maintain it. I maintain a large-ish Sinatra app that should've been done with Rails. Update cycles on the gems are a nightmare. It feels
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by bphogan 10y ago
There are days when the end of Office Space seems like a good idea....
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by bphogan 10y ago
I hope this isn't directed at me -I posted the article cos I couldn't believe someone would actually think this is advice. It's so horrible I wasn't even sure it wasn't just really poorly done sarcasm.
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by bphogan 10y ago
This seems like such terrible, terrible advice. And yet when I hear stories on HN and other places, I kinda wonder if this is a sarcastic take at the way things work in software. I would love to know the context of this. Was this seriously
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Recruiting and Retaining Giants [pdf](alexstjohn.com)
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by bphogan 11y ago
It's not pedantic. It's the way it was designed. Just because people use tables for layout doesn't mean they were intended for that. As far as graceful degradation, If I open a properly built page in a text-only browser, ther
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by bphogan 11y ago
You set prefix to C-a and then send double-presses on. So C-a-a still does beginning of line.
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by bphogan 11y ago
HTML is not the presentation. HTML is the content and description of content. You put a <strong> tag around text to make it strong emphasis. CSS is the presentation. Your browser sees the <strong> tag and applies its default sty
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by bphogan 11y ago
Just a nitpick. I hate, hate, hate having to alter my HTML to apply styles. The idea of <h1 class="primaryColor"> totally creeps me out. I do it because other people refuse to use preprocessors and think that altering the HT
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by bphogan 11y ago
I've also been doing things on the web since 1995. Don't measure experience by how long someone's done things. Measure it by what they've done. It's that old quote about "10 years of experience, or one year of
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by bphogan 11y ago
Trying to figure out if US businesses can use this. Seems very UK-centric from my reading so far.
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by bphogan 11y ago
Yea it was poorly phrased, but so many people brush off the platitudes like "broken windows" in our industry.
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by bphogan 11y ago
Came here to say the same thing. This whole article could be summarized as "I was pampered growing up. I was pampered through school. I was so pampered I had no concept of what things actually cost because everything was paid for me.&q
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by bphogan 11y ago
This is the "broken windows" effect in real life. "Google doesn't care, and these other sites don't care, so why should I care?" I have found that validation serves a very important purpose - to guide your deve
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by bphogan 11y ago
Couldn't you just make sure that puppet/chef/whatever runs the right config options? Maybe a script that asks you for values up front and plugs them in?
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by bphogan 11y ago
So you plan for it. We just had this whole discussion on HN a few weeks ago when Mandrill changed and everyone was scrambling. If you rely on a third party for business, you need to plan for it. The rule always applies: You will pay now or
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by bphogan 11y ago
Makes sense. Although I take issue with "when chat is down your business is at risk." Pick up a phone. Use Skype. Send email. Business was done for thousands of years before chat apps. :D
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by bphogan 11y ago
Yea. And isn't it funny though in an age of Docker and pre-made VMs that we still configure stuff? Seems like a quick script would set all this up for us :D
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by bphogan 11y ago
ZNC handles this nicely. The tech is all there. It just sucks to set it up yourself and should just work out of the box.
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by bphogan 11y ago
Edit: looks like someone asked a similar question below. I'm curious though. What is it about IRC that makes it not a good choice? It seems to me that the biggest issue non-nerds care about is the user experience. And I feel that if pe
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by bphogan 11y ago
You know, if people approached web programming like actual programming, with layers of abstraction, there wouldn't be spaghetti code in the first place, and one could move to a different framework as needed. But the problem is nobody s

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