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by dutchrapley 15y ago
That being the case, try landing a job where the focus is pair programming. You'll learn more from a good mentor than you will ever learn on your on. Try to get involved in your local software development community, too. That is equally imp
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by dutchrapley 15y ago
I had attended college for three years and realized that wasn't where I wanted to be at that time. I didn't have a job offer. In 1999, I quit school and moved to DC for a summer job. After that, I worked as an office temp for two months bef
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by dutchrapley 15y ago
The price on Apple hardware isn't a premium. It's that price b/c it's top shelf quality. Even the displays on the Dell Precision laptops don't capare to those any anything Apple makes. +1 for the user who suggested a used Mac. I've recommen
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by dutchrapley 15y ago
Because you don't know what you don't know. That's why.
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by dutchrapley 15y ago
Take the skills you have and look for a job, preferably for a company doing client work. You can use what you know now to apply a designer's design as a cms template. Chances are, they'll have developers on staff that you can learn from to
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by dutchrapley 15y ago
We can all agree that there are different kinds of programming. There are some really hard problems out there that need to be solved. There's also the kind of programming that's a matter of getting users to interact with data. When it comes
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by dutchrapley 15y ago
To answer your question, no. But my Mac does have more than one user account. It would be nice if iOS would support multiple user accounts/profiles, especially for games - so when a user is "logged in" a game's saved progress would be tailo
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by dutchrapley 15y ago
Thanks for filling out the survey! Keep 'em coming. I'm not about to begin roasting and selling coffee, but looking to build a platform for craft roasters to get a presence/shopping cart online; and to also help those who enjoy good coffee
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Please help with market validation: Mail Order Coffee(surveymonkey.com)
4 points by dutchrapley 15y ago|1 comments
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You take the test and do your best. They're not testing how good your code looks, but to see how much effort you're will to make to solve a problem on the spot OR to see if you are someone who will look at the screen dumbfounded and will si
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by dutchrapley 15y ago
If you give an html template a .cfm extension, it'll be processed by ColdFusion. When ColdFusion processes the file, it'll recognize where it needs to output data and will populate the template. It will also look for <cf> tags and p
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by dutchrapley 15y ago
The answer is - it depends. I'll categorize them based on each computer. I'm basing my recommendations on using a 13" Macbook for the last 3 1/2 years and a 17" Macbook Pro (from work) for the last couple of months. Also, you might want to
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by dutchrapley 15y ago
Get a MBP. You can always install and boot Windows natively w/Boot Camp if you need to or if you're a gamer. It'll run Windows, natively, better than any other hardware you can buy. The displays are gorgeous. You won't need a dock but I wou
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Apple Kills the White Plastic Macbook - no one notices(apple.com)
3 points by dutchrapley 15y ago|2 comments
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by dutchrapley 15y ago
Great suggestion on #1, and I recommend looking for a store that specializes in office furniture - not Staples or Office Depot. When I started working from home, I did exactly this and sat in two dozen different chairs. I settled on this on
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by dutchrapley 15y ago
"class declarations are loaded as constants at run time" Let's say I create a class called User. When ruby sees that declaration, it creates a constant called User to contain that object. When I create a new instance: user = User.new "User"
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by dutchrapley 15y ago
Your question is more in regards to Ruby itself, and not Rails. You don't have to swap out implementations in Ruby. Implementations aside, when you do DI in Java, it serves two purposes: 1) instantiates an object and 2) wires it into anothe
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by dutchrapley 15y ago
I couldn't agree more. For most projects today, Java is severe overkill where a more high level language is better suited. While I'm not a fan of the Java language, the Java platform is rock solid and we can all agree it's not going away an
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by dutchrapley 16y ago
"I've been a fan of Fogbugz for a long time, but I have a team of 5, and can't afford $125/month unfortunately." Agreed, $125/mo. may be more than you or I are willing to spend. I don't understand how it's over the top if you're on the hook
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by dutchrapley 16y ago
I'll also add it depends on your what OS you're running. If you're on Windows, Python will be more forgiving than Ruby. Some Ruby gems build native extensions as they're installed, which isn't always possible on Windows. Granted, the state
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by dutchrapley 16y ago
To add to this comment, I'd recommend taking a look at Learn Python The Hard Way ( http://learnpythonthehardway.org/index ) to get started. I'm not a Python programmer, but I recommended this to a friend who's in the same boat as you and he
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by dutchrapley 16y ago
"There is a bit more to YC than just investing in a lot of companies." You're exactly right, investing isn't going to make those companies succeed as you said, doesn't increase your chance of getting a return at all. There's a ton of dynami
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by dutchrapley 16y ago
The flaw is that they've spent way too much time trying to figure out how to possibly squeeze the most revenue, before launching the digital subscription pay wall. The New York Times prematurely optimized profits. Software development doesn
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by dutchrapley 16y ago
[2] More than enough money to give seed funding to every Y Combinator startup since 2005. That says it all. Instead of pumping it all into one company, diversify. If you invest in 40 different companies, more than one is bound to come out o
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by dutchrapley 16y ago
This is great. Goes along with Zed Shaw's philosophy on the selling and purchasing of enterprise software - steaks and strippers. Features are boring, steaks and strippers aren't. http://vimeo.com/2723800 (17:53)
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by dutchrapley 16y ago
And that's a good point. You've got to take common sense into account.
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"I have to believe that this isn't the case with all developers. I think it's possible to find a developer to work with me instead of for me and in that case I think they'd play a key role in the discovery of the product." Very true. And th
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by dutchrapley 16y ago
There are no excuses. If the it is important and matters, you will always find a way. If you have the know how, start by spending 30 minutes a day on it. Get up 30 minutes earlier. Pack your lunch and work on it then. Small steps are import
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by dutchrapley 16y ago
Tim gets it. Those who can pay, will. Those who can't pay, this time: 1) benefit from the information and 2) may pay for a book in the future when they can afford it. 10k in circulation is free advertising, to some extent.
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by dutchrapley 16y ago
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