carols10cents

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by carols10cents 15y ago
I have been having so many problems getting vagrant + chef-solo to do what I want to duplicate my rails dev env... Something simpler and more abstracted would be great. I want to spend my time coding, not configuring my environment.
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by carols10cents 15y ago
Does this strike anyone else as a bit crass? There's no mention of "I'm so glad I was sick that day; I could have died." He does mention he's happy to have career... And the part where he says "But if I could erase everything that happened
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How 9/11 Changed My IT Consulting Career | ZDNet (zdnet.com)
1 points by carols10cents 15y ago|1 comments
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by carols10cents 15y ago
Pittsburgh, PA - Careerimp (Resunate.com) I'm a dev here, feel free to email me (carol at careerimp.com) if you have any questions. Official job posting: Fulltime Rails Dev Careerimp is changing job searching, making it possible for jobseek
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by carols10cents 15y ago
The problem is that increasingly, learning to ski, picking up guys, etc are going to be dependent on being able to use a computer efficiently.
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by carols10cents 15y ago
nano 4 lyfe!!!!!!!11 My favorite thing about nano is that the commands are always at the bottom of the window for you-- no remembering needed. ^C and ^W are right there ;)
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by carols10cents 15y ago
Yes, PDF download is that bad, especially on mobile. It will likely be larger and thus take longer than html, and in many cases requires opening a different app.
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by carols10cents 15y ago
Should it (programming, creating an app, executing an idea) be this hard? Or would that only lead to more fart apps and more disappointment later in the process when the app doesn't hit it big?
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by carols10cents 15y ago
"The variant mentioning off-by-one errors may be pleasant, and useful for beginners, but is hardly a problem." On the contrary-- I have seen many beginners struggle for a long time to fully grasp counting starting at 0, which leads to many
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by carols10cents 15y ago
Woman here. I don't offend easily though... If I were to come across this library as something that I wanted to use, it would probably merit a sigh or a shake of my head. I'd also be more likely to dismiss the whole library as a joke since
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by carols10cents 15y ago
"...and it's kind of the "slowest" part of the speech where he starts talking about biology and the lymbic system and blah blah blah science whatever (that's literally how I remember that section of the talk in my head)..." This was the mos
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by carols10cents 15y ago
Actually, Dr. Chris Nass (author of The Man Who Lied to his Laptop [1]) claims that people's memory of what is said after criticism is much better than what is said before criticism, so you should start with small praise, then criticism, th
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by carols10cents 15y ago
Yeah, I'd want to do some experimentation with the label of the checkbox. I would guess something like "Show password" might be clearer as to the purpose of the checkbox than "Check password".
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by carols10cents 15y ago
Heh, I've felt more out of place as a Windows Ruby developer than I have as a female Ruby developer.
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by carols10cents 16y ago
I have been consistently impressed by the reporting done by propublica: http://propublica.org
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by carols10cents 16y ago
Bahahaha. Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo.
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by carols10cents 16y ago
Steve actually wrote a pomodoro gem that aliases sites like that for 25 minutes at a time: https://github.com/steveklabnik/pomodoro
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by carols10cents 16y ago
Which is actually unnecessary since afaik you can tell what brand a card is from the first digit.
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by carols10cents 16y ago
Steve and Jake, I think you should do a video together-- I've seen Jake's version and it's pretty good. Maybe next month at PghRB?
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Today's Slylock Fox puzzle: did you get it right?(content.comicskingdom.net)
2 points by carols10cents 16y ago|1 comments
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by carols10cents 16y ago
helvetica is the font of the establishment! resist, hackers!
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by carols10cents 16y ago
I was getting paranoid that it was going to be one of those sites that flashes a scary face and screams at you.
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by carols10cents 16y ago
I just crashed it. Signed up for an account with the same username as on here, then tried to create a new project as directed and on submission of that form I got a rails error page. The url was http://chalkboardhq.com/projects/31 . Please
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by carols10cents 16y ago
because it's not fa-airrrr
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by carols10cents 16y ago
The book that changed my outlook (as an engineer) and got me started on the road to appreciating good design is The Non-Designer's Design Book ( http://www.amazon.com/Non-Designers-Design-Book-Robin-Willia... ). It taught me the basics of w
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NFL Playoffs Infographic Usability Fail(carol-nichols.com)
1 points by carols10cents 16y ago|0 comments
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by carols10cents 16y ago
Let's say, for the sake of devil's advocacy, the historical quote was "Women wanted for hazardous journey". If the ad had used that as its headline, would you males feel encouraged to apply?
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by carols10cents 16y ago
I agree, the back button is one of the best parts of the Android experience. I find myself reaching for it every time I go back to my iPod Touch.