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by choxi 15y ago
nope. i've done TDD for 3 years, ever since I learned Rails. in my experience, that's exactly how product design and development works. whether it's a startup or a goliath like Google, you implement a lot of features to test a hypothesis an
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by choxi 15y ago
agreed, i hope after all the testing controversy settles people will walk away with that. that was my favorite point too. upvotes for you
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by choxi 15y ago
sir, if i could give you 10 upvotes, i would
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by choxi 15y ago
the problem isn't that my tests are bad, the problem is that it's commonplace to adapt new interfaces in a constantly evolving codebase. when your unit tests were built for one interface, you have to change them when you change the interfac
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by choxi 15y ago
by "writing great software" do you mean writing software that other programmers will admire? or writing software that your users will love? you shouldn't let the first one get in the way of the second.
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by choxi 15y ago
yep, thanks! fixed it
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The Hustler's Manifesto(blog.niroka.com)
171 points by choxi 15y ago|74 comments
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Learn Backbone.js Online in Realtime(niroka.com)
2 points by choxi 15y ago|0 comments
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by choxi 15y ago
Khan Academy is interesting but imo it's not complete. Technology enables us to make learning an interactive experience -- either interacting with another person or with a REPL interface (like Codeacademy). Just posting videos online in one
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by choxi 15y ago
Sure, I agree that's a valid reason. It wasn't our reason though, I've worked with Devise on Rails projects many times so implementing that would have been just as easy as implementing Facebook Connect. Honest. I like meric's response as we
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by choxi 15y ago
yep, you got it. that pretty much sums up why. although, at least with Rails, there's so many authentication gems that it's comparable to implement Facebook login versus email/password login.
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by choxi 15y ago
Sure, we just wanted users to have a more social experience with our site. With Facebook login, you can show profile pictures and names, and eventually make it easier for friends to take classes together.
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by choxi 15y ago
Yep, there's a few people who have requested non-Facebook login. We're working on it :) If you'd like you can upvote that feature request here: http://niroka.uservoice.com/forums/136707-general
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by choxi 15y ago
I hope this style of funding takes off. I'll be the first to admit that I buy into the hype around social, mobile, realtime, and all those buzzwords for consumer apps but the future I dream about involves taking on the bigger challenges, ba
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by choxi 15y ago
Every once in a while I find really intriguing questions on Quora. The last one I found was about Batman...
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Has there been any point in history with more or less war?(quora.com)
1 points by choxi 15y ago|1 comments
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by choxi 15y ago
I like when physics theories don't work out, it means the real answer is probably even more interesting
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by choxi 15y ago
I hate that Bill Gates quote, why would you cite the opinion of a guy who isn't known for his programming ability nor has any history of hiring good programmers?
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by choxi 15y ago
This is cool but I think it's important to remember that they're comparing algorithmic benchmarks but modern software has many different bounds besides for raw, algorithmic processing. For example, I think I/O and database interactions are
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by choxi 15y ago
i thought this was a pretty mediocre post, it just had a few tips about how to improve your landing pages (pretty well-known ones too). I'm calling shenanigans on the 352 votes, but I'm all ears to anyone who can explain why i'm wrong and w
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by choxi 15y ago
Why couldn't you use other distributed in-memory stores like Redis or Memcached?
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The Only Thing That Matters: Market + Product Fit(classic-web.archive.org)
2 points by choxi 16y ago|0 comments
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by choxi 16y ago
This post on Hirelite gives great insight about your question: http://blog.hirelite.com/how-to-evaluate-a-non-technical-co-... As a developer, I'd definitely found a company with someone who has those skills.
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by choxi 16y ago
Really? That's pretty cool, I used to be a developer at merge.fm, would love to talk to the Indaba guys if you could drop an intro. My site's: http://roshfu.com if you want to make sure I'm legit first :)
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by choxi 16y ago
http://merge.fm
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by choxi 16y ago
he gave a talk at RailsConf '10 and was much better. I also don't think he's that bad though, public speaking's hard
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by choxi 16y ago
Vote for us to win the StartupBus competition: http://startupbus.com/teams/59-shotput We'll promise to be your friends :)
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by choxi 16y ago
Modern web services like Heroku and Twilio are awesome, it would not have been possible without them!
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Deploying a Group Messaging app in 48 hours w/ Heroku+Twilio+Resque... on a Bus(getshotput.tumblr.com)
27 points by choxi 16y ago|8 comments
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by choxi 16y ago
Finance data is definitely one we're looking into, I'd love to see what some clever hackers could build with access to something like that! A few others: Sports stats, nutritional info, science figures (melting point of titanium, etc.). The

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