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by cweagans 12y ago
Nah. Probably better to just send your invite to me. ;)
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by cweagans 12y ago
Most of my classes were something like this: - No mandatory homework (not graded) - Quizzes at the end of each week - Optional homework is designed to reinforce the concepts that were going to be on the quiz at the end of the week. If you u
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by cweagans 12y ago
There's no reason to deal with shared hosting providers anymore. VPSes are so incredibly cheap that it doesn't make any sense. In order of price (low to high): DigitalOcean, Linode, AWS. Take your pick. They're all good.
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by cweagans 12y ago
They're on external funding right now. I'm guessing that consulting services around flynn deployments are not too far out, given how much progress they've made recently.
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by cweagans 12y ago
In theory, sure, you could use any of those languages for real production work. But in practice, it just doesn't happen. Javascript is here to stay, I'm afraid.
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by cweagans 12y ago
As someone that was in your position not so long ago (5 years), here's what I've learned: - Yes, you can get good programming jobs based on your experience and portfolio. - No, college is not a required step. - I would recommend w
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by cweagans 12y ago
Also, I hate to be "that guy", but spelling and grammar are both important if you're going to be selling $x0000 projects (and you should be). In this post alone, I noticed "wandering" and "tide to a platform&qu
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by cweagans 12y ago
I've said it on many other similar threads: Avoid freelancer.com, odesk.com, elance.com, etc. like the plague. You will not make the kind of money you need to sustain a successful freelance consultancy on any of those platforms. I su
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by cweagans 12y ago
I prefer the Kinesis Freestyle over mechanical keyboards. The Kinesis has low-force key switches, so overall fatigue is lower. I also use the Ascent bracket from the same company, which gives me a split, vertical keyboard. It's really
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by cweagans 12y ago
Well, yeah. I mean, that's straightforward enough, but what people frequently leave out is what "improve on that function" entails, especially when you start getting into really weird codebases. Like I said, I understand the
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Ask HN: How does code completion (as in IDEs) work on a technical level?
6 points by cweagans 12y ago|3 comments
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by cweagans 12y ago
You know, this same guy wrote before about a framework making a radical BC-breaking change: http://thefsb.tumblr.com/post/44942894313/zurb-foundation-4-... Seems like he just enjoys getting mad at people about the
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by cweagans 12y ago
Nonsense. People are writing things in PHP all the time. You just don't hear about it because it's not the cool, new, shiny thing of the week. Over 34,000 repos created on Github since Jan 1 that have PHP as the main language: ht
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by cweagans 12y ago
Plain ol' LAMP stack here (with some extra goodies thrown in - memcache, varnish, redis). You should use what you're most productive with, not the new, shiny thing of the day.
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by cweagans 12y ago
Yes, it was already in place when I was hired. I'm a Drupal developer, and pretty much every site that I work on uses 10s or 100s of contributed modules from Drupal.org. When a bug is reported to us, the first thing we do is narrow dow
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by cweagans 12y ago
I work at a major media company, and while my job description doesn't include open source contribution, I contribute almost every day through normal work. Granted, we use open source software for what I work on. All of our bug fixes an
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by cweagans 12y ago
https://github.com/cweagans/Contract Fork and modify. I accept PRs too ;)
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by cweagans 12y ago
vim.
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by cweagans 12y ago
Remote work is easily attainable. Build something of your own, throw it up on Github, and make it nice. That, combined with your 15 years of experience in other technologies, should easily qualify you for a pretty nice position. Sidenote: i
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by cweagans 12y ago
1. Charge by the hour. Your rate is not high enough. IMO, start at around $100/hour and see where that gets you. Don't fall into the trap of trying to calculate your expenses and divide them down into 40 hours/wk, etc - that
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by cweagans 12y ago
Gun.io is pretty good, IMO. I'd stay away from odesk and elance.
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by cweagans 12y ago
Avoid oDesk and elance like the plague. You'll get sucked into underbidding your competition and that's not sustainable. I spent way too many years of my life doing it. Instead, use Gun.io. I'm not affiliated with them in a
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by cweagans 12y ago
No. Why not just pay for your software/movies/music/whatever? And before people start chiming in with "Torrents have legitimate uses too!", I'd say that isn't applicable in this question. Legal torrents do
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by cweagans 12y ago
IE doesn't need to be open sourced. It needs to be euthanized. Also, we don't really need the entire application open-sourced. There might be an argument to be made for open sourcing Trident (the rendering engine), but only for th
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by cweagans 12y ago
Yeah. It was a long time ago, but the situation hasn't changed at all. You simply can't make the kind of hourly rate that you should be making in software development on those sites. It's too easy to get undercut by some guy
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by cweagans 12y ago
You don't need a new IPv4 address for each cert. That's for Windows XP. Just stop giving a shit about XP and use SNI. Problem solved.
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by cweagans 12y ago
odesk and elance are places where you go to get work that a) doesn't pay well, b) has bad working conditions, and c) has next to no chance of future re-hire. I do not recommend this. As another commenter suggested, codementor.io is a g
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by cweagans 12y ago
I think you're thinking of ActiveCollab
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by cweagans 12y ago
Because Bitcoin holds no value to me.
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by cweagans 12y ago
Can you link to the site?

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