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by castwide 7y ago
I think the reasonable takeaway is "don't let your side project interfere with your job," but the article comes dangerously close to conflating it with "employees shouldn't have side projects." The draconian as
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by castwide 7y ago
IANAL, but it's definitely not that simple. I've worked in salaried positions and still retained ownership of my side projects. There was also one instance where I refused to sign a NCA that threatened my IP, so YMMV.
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by castwide 7y ago
I'd expand on his premise by saying that XML beats JSON for structured documents, which also happens to be a practical way to represent a UI layout.
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by castwide 7y ago
You might be thinking of an old SQL injection vulnerability that allowed updating models from unchecked request parameters, aka the mass assignment problem[0]. That type of thing can be a concern in any web application, regardless of the fr
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by castwide 7y ago
A workspace shared between two people, or even three or four, is a little different from an open office. I've worked in rooms I shared with small groups and can definitely see the benefits. After a certain point, like maybe ten or twel
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by castwide 7y ago
I agree. If "access" is a verb, the "to" is superfluous and awkward.
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by castwide 7y ago
CGI is still in the stdlib, and AFAIK there's no plan to deprecate it. You might be thinking of a few other methods like URI.escape that have been marked obsolete in favor of CGI equivalents.
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by castwide 7y ago
Coincidentally, I announced the beta version of a Ruby type checker in Solargraph two days ago: https://github.com/castwide/solargraph/issues/192 It has a few overlapping features with Sorbet, with one major