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dejv
12y ago
http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2014/8/20/Rails-4-2-beta1/#mai...
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12y ago
I found that it depends on type of jobs available. There are tons of full-time rails jobs everywhere, but smaller/remote projects tends to be more on the edge of things and more often use new, hip, technology. So there is less smaller
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12y ago
Notation Training http://notationtraining.com Sinatra app running on Linode server + heavy use of VexFlow ( https://github.com/0xfe/vexflow ). It is up and running for few years now, getting around 200 - 300
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12y ago
I don't know, really. I do Delphi programming for 15 years now and it was quite mainstream back then, even now I occasionally do work for new clients (iOS, Rails, Machine Learning) and every 7 years or so I found another client whom I
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12y ago
I am doing maintenance programming for living (in Delphi 5), which usually consist of long list of small problems and changes: I am usually trying to do one or two things a day, generate new binaries and send it to customer so he have somet
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12y ago
About 2500 USD/month, working hour or two a day. I can make more easily, but I already make like 2x of average salary in my country, so I can live comfortably, travel as much as I want to and have time to pursue other projects (running
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12y ago
I am using Zoho Mail, web client is not on the Gmail level, but it works well and it is free.
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12y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote or onsite (based in Europe) 10+ years of experience of maintaining codebases, mostly desktop software (Delphi), embedded stuff (C), mobile apps (Objective-C) and web apps in Ruby (Rails and Sinatra frameworks). I like
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13y ago
Not really, I create first version in about 5 hours and only marketing I did was to post it into Chrome web store and I was really surprised that people actually using it few days later
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13y ago
I had created http://notationtraining.com in 2010 when I was learning how to play piano. I did update this project few times, but otherwise it is completely on its own. It makes only about 300 USD/month but I am quite happy
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13y ago
nope, I am still using Delphi 5 and Paradox database for 20+ years old project I maintain (it is like 40% of my working time, rest is Go, Ruby and Objective-C)
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13y ago
I just return from a year of traveling in SE Asia and 10 GBP per day seems like really low. Transportation alone could eat that amount easily. My budget was something around 20/day, which buys me dorms at nice hostels (no bugs, aircon
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13y ago
In Czech Republic the mother have 28 weeks of paid leave (starting usually 6 weeks before the child is born. After this time one parent (no matter of gender) can take parental leave, which can't be refused by employer and he have to give yo
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14y ago
It does not matter. My first guitar was some entry level model of Les Paul made by Epiphone. Best way is to drag some friend who knows how to play guitar to the music store and try a few models. Pick something cheap and make sure that neck
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14y ago
One company where I worked decade ago have tables numbered, like tbl01_users or tbl14_places. Still have no idea why they establish it this way.
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14y ago
You can scroll the display same way like you scroll any other window.
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dejv
14y ago
You can just use iPhone simulator to make retina screenshot and/or do bigger screen testing.
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14y ago
I am world traveler for past 8 years and I can tell is really hard to work at some paradise longer than normal vacation time. Typical paradise consist of beach, some local bar and maybe two or three crappy restaurants. There are many differ
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14y ago
I was growing in rural area of comunist country when I get this computer more then 20 years ago. I was six years old back then and still remember playing with screwdriver alternating tapedeck to let games load. I was only person around who
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14y ago
Last paragraph reminds me great quote: "I actually think most folks are obsessed with the IDEA of being a startup founder/ceo, rather than wanting to do the ACTUAL hard work. I also think quite a few just want to be known as Entrepreneurs o
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14y ago
"Don't stuck in relationships just because is it comfortable." and "Don't stay in second tier cities."
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14y ago
How about making trip outside of EU and return back which should give you another 90 days tourist visa? It is not permanent solution, but it give you some more time to get better visas.
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15y ago
There are official extension for Chrome to display this icon (see https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nlbjncdgjeocebhnmk... ). As long as there are extensions I am ok with removing this icon from browser itself.
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15y ago
Great! When I was reading hiring post today I was just thinking that something like this will be very helpful. Just one thing is missing: sorting by city.
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15y ago
If Bay Area is so expensive, how people with shitty jobs (sweepers, fast food chain workers...) can afford living there?
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15y ago
I don't know anything about Greece, but speaking of my country of origin (Czech Republic) is quite a big problem to set up credit card payments, not speaking about much bigger administrative burden and costly process of setting up company.
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15y ago
Speaking of business books: Growing a business (old but still valid and great) and Setting the Table. Speaking of fiction I want to recommend Neil Gainman The Graveyard Book
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15y ago
I launched this little project: http://notationtraining.com It is very simple and fast way how learn to read sheet music notation.
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15y ago
I would consider it success. $100/month is not a lot of money, but creating app that makes $100/month from nothing is much much more harder than polishing this app to bring $200 (or even $500) per month.
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16y ago
I started with Commodore 64 using Basic in 1993, maybe 1994. Than I've got PC with QBasic, later Pascal, C++ and Delphi.
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