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by freework 14y ago
Django on Python3 is no different from Django on Python2. The underlying language doesn't change the semantics of the framework.
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The same can be applied to pre-interview screening problems as well. I recently send my resume to a company that was advertising on the Hacker New job board (I'm not going to say which company it was). They replied to my email telling me th
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"Geeks" are more analytically smart than emotionally smart. They can solve any computer problem, but they create many interpersonal problems. Dennis Rodman is an example of this. He was a brilliant Basketball player, but was a misbehaving d
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by freework 14y ago
I think the benefit of learning a new language is only felt when you are at the expert level on that language. For instance, I'm an expert at python. If I were to learn Ruby at a novice level, I would get nothing out of it. I need to learn
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I think starting your own open source project works to better improve your programming skills that contributing to existing open source projects. Existing projects already have most of the code already written. A typical open source changes
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If you shadow ban someone, they will just re-register. I was shadow banned here a few months ago. I re-registered. It did nothing to deter me. What I actually did to deserve the shadow ban I have no idea. Maybe I disagreed with the wrong pe
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I gave a talk on this very topic a few months ago. Here are the slides: http://www.slideshare.net/priestc/the-kanye-quotient Basically, some people have a knack for managing, others have a knack for creating. Put a creator in a management
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I think hellbanning/shadowbanning is the worst thing ever, and needs to be exterminated. If you don't want someone part of the community, then ban them. Shadow banning just seems to passive aggresive.
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by freework 14y ago
This is true, for the most art. If what you want to do depends on other people, it may be "too late". For instance, if your dream is to work for a startup in Silicon Valley, and you're in your 50s, it may be too late. No one will hire you.
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I'm confused, what does this have to do with Aaron Swartz?
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Do you hate it because its bad, or do you hate it because it's different?
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Slavery at one point was unethical yet legal. Do you consider the people who ran the underground railroad selfish?
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Why search for new land when you have no need to leave the land you're already on?
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This describes why I have such a hard time learning new languages. I want to learn Haskell, but I always end up giving up, because whatever I'm trying to do in Haskell, I can do in Python very easily.
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I think the problem is that with Silicon Valley startups, failure is the norm. Instead of optimizing for maximum skill when hiring, they optimize for maximum "bro-ness". You take that 7 figure investor money, get yourself a swanky downtown
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I think the ratio of female speakers at a conference should be equal to the ratio of women in the industry. Otherwise, you're dumbing down your speaking qualifications just to allow women speakers. That doesn't help anyone. If 1% of people
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by freework 14y ago
Because the mods set up a bot that automatically closes questions that get over X amount of upvotes. Or at least thats what it seems...
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by freework 14y ago
Its not about size, its about length of development. Great software takes more than a few days to create. I think the most direct indicator of software quality is number of commits. A project with 10 commits is probably full of bugs. A proj
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I don't mean to be negative, but I've never been impressed with people who have dozens of side projects. Instead of writing 10 crappy side projects, who not make 1 great side project? My side project, at the time is called Giotto: https://
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One thing I've learned about contributing to open source is that it's primarily a social achievement. If I see a developer who has contributed to many oss projects, I don't think "wow this guy must be a great programmer", I think "this guy
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by freework 14y ago
Mongo is like the PHP of the database world. Many important features are dropped in the name of "getting started quickly". What you gain in short term wins, are nullified by all the long term headaches you suffer.
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Can a command line program prevent its output being redirected?(unix.stackexchange.com)
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This has happened to me more times that I'd like to admit. One tip I can give if you find yourself in this situation: Try to make friends with your boss's boss. Be preemptive. Before he has a chance to turn on you, you need to turn on him.
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Want to Know Difference Between a CTO and a VP of Engineering?(bothsidesofthetable.com)
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I worked with many people who have terrible technical skills, but impeccable people skills. Those people are the ones who are by and large most successful. If I could trade in all of my technical know-how for the same amount of people skill
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by freework 14y ago
> this is really hard when you have other employees who all adhere to schedules and you want to have meetings. I think that is what managers are for. The manager's job is to facilitate communication between team members. If one person i
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Same here. I consider my "stack overflow question composition" skills to be my most valued programming skill. "Send me teh codez" questions don't get answers anyways.
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The reason why I dislike MongoDB is because it exist in between that key+value store and ful blown database. They market is as the best of both worlds, but it ends up being the wost of each world. Its like all those car+bike, car+boat, car+
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Does the site turn pink for valentines day?
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by freework 14y ago
Take a look at giotto, a python web framework that tries to do exactly what you're proposing: separation of model, view, and controller so that they are completely decoupled: https://github.com/priestc/giotto

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