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by ctide 15y ago
Sounds remarkably similar to my life in my early 20s. Get out . Now . I spent about 5 years in a job that initially taught me a lot about a lot of different technologies, but I peaked very quickly. I felt like I couldn't leave, however
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by ctide 15y ago
I thought the point of this article was to generate a cliff notes version of the last week of arguments, coming from the side of someone who thinks node is cancer. Why are we even discussing this?
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by ctide 15y ago
Or, use: http://lockerproject.org/ and export everything locally without it passing through someone else's web server (as well as keep your local copy of the data completely current for as long as you decide to keep your locker running.)
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by ctide 15y ago
That's done via fixtures, not mocking your database, and is significantly more trivial than HTTP request mocking.
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by ctide 15y ago
I have no intention of ever mocking the database, and I mock HTTP requests solely so I can work on my app without an internet connection. Look, a better approach is to use TDD for things it makes sense for. Spending a ton of time to mock
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by ctide 15y ago
That's not why it's faster. It's faster because I never have to manually run through whatever I'm developing. On a large feature that I can completely write using TDD, I don't ever 'test' the feature until I'm completely finished. There'
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by ctide 15y ago
I got as far as: Oh, and good luck mocking your database and HTTP request objects. and just stopped. If you don't have any experience with TDD, then don't write about it. Mocking HTTP request objects is incredibly trivial and tools are
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by ctide 15y ago
It's not just building software, building companies is inherently fun. It's a different set of challenges problems that need to be solved. It's ok that you have a different mentality, but understand that it's just that, a different mentali
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Facebook’s New Timeline: Data Goes In, But Can It Ever Leave?(techcrunch.com)
1 points by ctide 15y ago|0 comments
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Basis Reveals An Awesome New Affordable Heart And Health Tracker(techcrunch.com)
2 points by ctide 15y ago|0 comments
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by ctide 15y ago
Connect middleware has never been especially clean for me. Every app I end up working on, we slowly grow this hideous mess of middleware that starts off like: https://github.com/LockerProject/Locker/blob/master/Ops/webs... And tends to e
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by ctide 15y ago
Regarding #6, have you never been to twoplustwo.com? The forums there (whilst not a 'social network') surely provide all the benefits. Also, re: #9 - see http://memolane.com/ or http://lockerproject.org/
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by ctide 15y ago
This, but more specifically for me, writing code for features that you find utterly repugnant.
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by ctide 15y ago
We are building a service specifically to track this sort of thing. It's an open source project here: https://github.com/lockerproject/locker If you're interested in ways to track and parse through all the types of data that you're prod
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by ctide 15y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2875703 already discussed the first time this ended up here.
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by ctide 15y ago
I was going to ask about Resque as well. There's also a port of it (I don't know how well maintained it is, but it exists) that uses mongo as the backend instead of redis if you want to avoid adding another platform to your app.
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by ctide 15y ago
There's nothing at all mythical about a 100k / year job where you work 40 hours a week. There are plenty of coders out there making at least that much by pumping out enterprise Java 9 to 5 for insurance companies and banks. You don't even
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by ctide 15y ago
Yes, so this 100k / year job with no benefits and no equity for exactly 40 hours / week is mythical.
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by ctide 15y ago
I don't understand why all these people are responding to this post so positively. Overage hours? Job-less risk? Career risk and opportunity cost? What? You seem to be including those numbers as his 'cost', are you assuming he's not getti
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by ctide 15y ago
Future clients who have no intention of paying will probably be discouraged by this behavior.
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by ctide 15y ago
That 80k was over 18 months, and you're not including social security tax (which is another 10%) plus a computer, etc. 60-65k / year engineers will affect your burn WAY more than 80k over 18 months.
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by ctide 15y ago
Budget at least $80k/employee in payroll, benefits, insurance, and misc costs. (you'll have to budget more if you plan on hiring more experienced talent) Competent engineers are willing to get hired for what amounts to ~35k / year? ....
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by ctide 15y ago
Do you auto follow every spambot that follows you on twitter?
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Where’s your "data center"?(mdzlog.alcor.net)
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by ctide 15y ago
Very important clarification, you are quite correct.
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by ctide 15y ago
Egotistical engineers always think this time things will be different, because they're smart enough to do it right. The reality is that every rewrite brings a new and different set of problems that need to be addressed. You don't escape p
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by ctide 15y ago
3. Sunk costs and egos get in the way of good software Egos are what drive people to throw away their entire codebase and start over.
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by ctide 15y ago
That doesn't change the fact that you bombard every post in any way related to nodejitsu with angry comments. I get that you have some serious personal vendetta against them, but if you aren't going to add any value, save it for your blog.
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by ctide 15y ago
Has everyone already forgotten the recent implosion of poker? I'm sure smaller companies can get away with this by flying under the radar, but should the biggest player in the game go down this road it'd be a short lived trip.
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by ctide 15y ago
The only time tests aren't the right thing to do is when you can guarantee that you will completely trash that system at some point and that code is never going to see the light of a production machine. Most code gets refactored out of it'

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