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by emiller829 13y ago
I'm really sorry that is your takeaway: Re: money -- I tried very hard to avoid coming off that way. I am very discriminating in the kinds of jobs I take, and as I've regularly spoken about, it's not about the money. The mone
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by emiller829 13y ago
Both.
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by emiller829 13y ago
Fair question. There were a series of unforeseen circumstances that cut the runway tragically short. The stories you've probably read are missing a lot of info.
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On Funemployment (and My Next Job)(erniemiller.org)
77 points by emiller829 13y ago|68 comments
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by emiller829 13y ago
Yep, absolutely. Thanks for the follow-up!
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by emiller829 13y ago
It does? I have had no issues with the back button. What are you seeing, exactly?
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by emiller829 13y ago
The suggestion isn't to introduce the lockout after the fact. In fact, what you're describing would be the exact thing that would happen in the metaphor -- acute withdrawal symptoms. The suggestion is to institute the lockout befo
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Overtime is Morphine(erniemiller.org)
91 points by emiller829 13y ago|44 comments
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"No" is a beautiful word.(erniemiller.org)
13 points by emiller829 13y ago|2 comments
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Multipass Rendering With Mustache(erniemiller.org)
1 points by emiller829 13y ago|0 comments
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by emiller829 14y ago
I'm in the east end, as well. If you ever want to meet up for lunch or something out this way, let me know.
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by emiller829 14y ago
Hello, inexplicable title change. I picked the latter part for the purpose of it being relevant to more than Louisville. Ah well.
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by emiller829 14y ago
@MatthewPhillips drop me an e-mail at ernie@erniemiller.org. Definitely up to hang out... and I might know of a job for ya. ;)
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by emiller829 14y ago
There's an important piece of that quote that's missing here, which is that those people are likely to change. If you're at a position because you like the people, you're probably making a mistake. You can have a personal relationship with
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by emiller829 14y ago
FWIW, I didn't take it that way (Louisville-bashing). I get what you're saying, but I don't think it's as important that Louisville be the "best" in any one of those categories so much as "sufficiently good". It's like Maslow's hierarchy of
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by emiller829 14y ago
Put in different terms, this means Louisville COL is 92.4% of national average, and NYC is 223.8%.
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by emiller829 14y ago
Online referrals definitely work. My last two jobs have stemmed directly from interactions with people on a single IRC channel. :)
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by emiller829 14y ago
I'd have addressed this in the article, but it was getting too long already. Short answer is that many of the best opportunities I've received have arisen as results of relationships formed on the Internet, first, and maybe over a few beers
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Why I Love Being A Programmer in Louisville(erniemiller.org)
326 points by emiller829 14y ago|187 comments
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The Greenfield App Continuum(erniemiller.org)
1 points by emiller829 14y ago|0 comments
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Persistence is a Solved Problem(erniemiller.org)
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by emiller829 14y ago
In stock ActiveRecord, you're not going to be able to join a derived table without dropping to SQL. :( Still, if you're looking to constrain results to only the latest, you could use the having clause (with some performance penalty).
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by emiller829 14y ago
Comments aren't available on the article, so a couple of quick clarifications here: Nitpicky, but ActiveRecord::Relation is not ARel. ARel is the relational algebra library that underpins ActiveRecord (>=3.0). See http://erniemiller.or
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by emiller829 15y ago
You should probably wrap some constraints around this. That is, for the purposes of this poll, it'd really be more relevant to know how many of the HN visitors found out about 37signals products via HN. I think there's probably a significan
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by emiller829 15y ago
"Error establishing database connection" ORMs don't kill databases. Hacker News does.
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Ira Glass on Storytelling (applicable to anyone who "makes stuff")(vimeo.com)
5 points by emiller829 15y ago|1 comments
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by emiller829 15y ago
I understand your frustration -- you may not think so, but I get it. That being said, the other points I made were in support of the answer I pose to the question: Rails is growing up. The changes we've seen aren't just change for change's
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by emiller829 15y ago
Had you continued reading, you'd see that I backed the point up by explaining what I meant. :)
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by emiller829 15y ago
Yup -- that's basically it. A true newbie should find Rails 3.x easier. It's the people who have to unlearn habits that may have it rough. I found Steve's advice to learn an early version of Rails first completely backwards, in that respect
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WTH is happening to Rails? I'll tell you.(metautonomo.us)
219 points by emiller829 15y ago|77 comments

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