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by div 15y ago
You are taking a risk of only being paid 1/3rd of your market rate for the next 6 months. After that, you may be without a job. This is your downside, and it's what you should plan for. In a best case situation, after 6 months you will star
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by div 15y ago
Why does getting billed not count as an interaction ?
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by div 15y ago
Hacker news really isn't the best place to ask this sort of question. You will receive a lot more help if you posted this question to stackoverflow.
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by div 15y ago
It's always very painful if a codebase is not internally consistent. I usually try to find some sort of dominant naming scheme to follow and clean up old code left and right, but yeah, sometimes starting anew can be the only sane thing to d
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by div 15y ago
Consistency and familiarity would both be good reasons to me. Non camelCase variables and CamelCase classes in Java for instance would really feel out of place to me, whereas using the same case conventions for some ruby code would feel equ
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by div 15y ago
Did you just buy and convert a few admin themes that you now have shelved for future projects or is there some sort of workflow / tool you use to integrate these themes into your rails app ? I just found out about install_theme ( https://gi
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by div 15y ago
It's perfectly normal to feel ill as a reaction to hearing something that upsets you. If the author is not allowed to eat pork for religious reasons, I can easily understand him feeling ill.
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by div 15y ago
If 2 viable solutions have this kind of long term vs short term trade off, technical decision makers need to talk to business decision makers. Often it's reasonable to incur some technical debt with the short term solution, and then switch
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by div 15y ago
In my experience, when two viable technical solutions are presented, one is decided on by weighing the pros and cons. The problem with 'appointing' a formal architect is as the parent said: the architecture becomes the sole responsibility o
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by div 15y ago
I suppose to any newcomer my advice would be to go depth first into something like RoR or Django. Learn the framework and learn the language really well, then once you're comfortable building things well (after a year or 2) experiment with
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by div 15y ago
Agree completely. You are simply not a well-rounded programmer if you can't architect an application / piece of functionality to do whatever it needs to do. Designating someone to be the architect just causes strife / encourages 'normal d
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by div 15y ago
I often feel this way. I try to reason to myself that it's normal to feel this way as a programmer / techie simply because there is such a vast amount of stuff to know, that no one really knows even half of it. What with the multitude of pr
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Strategic technical debt for startups(blog.obiefernandez.com)
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by div 15y ago
I'm very curious to see the smartphones that will be coming out of Googorolla. Google's been promoting the "top end phone with fast updates" with their Nexus line which makes me wonder if Motorola-manufactured Androids are all going to be t
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by div 15y ago
"I also remember being taught that a good way to ensure DRYness was to use inheritance..." DRY has nothing to do with inheritance per se. Sure you get some functionality for free when extending something, but that's more of a nice side-effe
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by div 15y ago
There's a spreadsheet up on Google docs containing a large list of companies that got seeded, including a tab with YC companies. You can find it here: https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkkhSN3...
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by div 15y ago
No package manager is perfect though. Installing rubygems through apt for example is a pain because it's a custom version that will install gems to a different directory than vanilla rubygems. Trivial to fix if you know about it, but you ha
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by div 15y ago
I was lost without apt for a while too until I discovered homebrew. The list of packages available in homebrew is growing at a pretty crazy rate as well. It's currently the most forked project on github ( https://github.com/popular/forked )
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by div 15y ago
Leaky (YC S11) takes the pain out of finding the best car insurance. That would work for those who know about Hipmunk and those who don't.
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by div 15y ago
I suppose in OSX passwords can be stored to the keychain which is encrypted, but really, how many people just allow their browser access to their keychain without ever prompting them after the first time ? It's possible to simply "show pass
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by div 15y ago
The same way you justify spending $n on any luxury product you don't really need.
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by div 15y ago
This story is old, and false. http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/frogboil.asp
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by div 15y ago
What is stopping you from learning RoR or Django yourself ? That would solve both your budget and trust problem. If you absolutely can't implement your prototype yourself, try asking around in your high school if there are any hacker types
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by div 15y ago
It's refreshing to read about a judge giving a strong argumentation on a fairly technical subject. If it comes to the point where Oracle will have to show which patents are being infringed, I wonder how they will hold up under the light of
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by div 15y ago
Heroku gives you the comfort of not having to think about configuring and maintaining the servers that run your webapp. Parse gives you the comfort of not having to think about architecting a server-side component for your mobile app.
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by div 15y ago
The reason he is not fond of feature branches seems to be that they allow a single developer to work on a feature for too long before integrating with the master branch. This only becomes apparent in the footnotes where he states that if yo
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by div 15y ago
That is indeed a ridiculous quote. Before you re-iterated it here I had interpreted it as "the big three can no longer rate the world on their own" and "DGCR will add a fresh 4th voice to the rating industry". I'm wondering if anything has
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by div 15y ago
Really like the look and feel of the site, but as someone who dislikes gift cards in the first place, it seems like GiftRocket just makes the idea more cumbersome.
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by div 15y ago
I've used IntelliJ for previous projects, but I am definitely going to give Eclipse a spin for the next one. The Visual Layout Editor seems like too much goodness to miss out on. Jump to 7:17 in this video for a demo: http://www.youtube.co
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by div 15y ago
Could not agree more. There have been quite a few articles before that just cast Android in a more negative light then it deserves. I develop both iOS and Android apps and this article is the first one I wholeheartedly agree with. Both plat

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