gaustin

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by gaustin 12y ago
I met you and James at my first Ruby conference. I didn't ever get to know James well but that was the start of a sea change in my career. I never heard that interview but I'm smiling imagining the interaction.
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by gaustin 12y ago
Angry Birds was that way at some point, IIRC. Haven't looked in a long time though.
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by gaustin 12y ago
I dabbled with the Red Book aeons ago, but never got very far with 3D programming. What would you suggest for learning OpenGL? Or is there some other tool you'd recommend learning?
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by gaustin 12y ago
I worked at a place where 50% of our time was supposed to be refactoring/boy scouting/cleanup work. The codebase was so bad and delivery so painful that management endorsed it. But the pressure to deliver never let up and so that
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by gaustin 12y ago
I don't get much out of simply reading code. I have to get my hands in there and see how it works. I load it into a repl and play around. See how changing little things effects tests. I add print statements to give a narrative. I draw
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by gaustin 13y ago
People found it an interesting topic and started discussing it.
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by gaustin 13y ago
I'd suggest adding contact info to your profile and talking about your problems here. Hopefully you'll pique some interest and have some email waiting later.
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by gaustin 13y ago
I know people already do this. My intent was to ask why it's not the default for people who would save $1-2k every month. It seems the assumption is working in SF means living in SF for software developers making > $100k/year.
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by gaustin 13y ago
Why don't people live in Oakland and commute? Google Maps gives a < 1 hour each way commute (BART or bike + ferry), which I don't think is horrible. Is Google Maps just super optimistic?
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by gaustin 13y ago
"for ever" is consistent with British English usage. It's a UK site. Edited to add: Sure it's on the "US" section of the Guardian but they don't appear to change any other spellings to match US English.
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by gaustin 13y ago
Re "DOWNSIZE". I have the opposite problem. If I have too little on my plate I procrastinate. If I am obviously in over my head I have no problem lining up the tasks and working hard on them until completion.
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by gaustin 13y ago
I was skeptical of contract-to-hire situations until I did one myself. I got a significant increase my salary in the contract phase (even including what I paid for benefits) and got an increase on top of that at the time of hire (not counti
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by gaustin 13y ago
It is actually a good way for some employees to go from proven track record with tech X to building a proven track record with tech Y. Especially for those that don't dedicate a lot of free time to building demos/products.
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by gaustin 13y ago
Climate plays a big role too. Ticks have a pretty narrow band where they are active. We have ticks in my area for a couple of weeks in the damp, cool spring. After that it's too dry and hot.
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The road of tomorrow is electric(news.volvogroup.com)
2 points by gaustin 13y ago|1 comments
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by gaustin 13y ago
Unabashed racism, homophobia and jingoism. Most people I've gotten to know there start out super friendly and then repugnant beliefs start to emerge as we've become more familiar. I've heard similar stories from other transplants. eta: I'm
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by gaustin 13y ago
> - deep south, means you can't really be a foodie or god forbid vegetarian Really? I just spent two weeks in Kentucky, Tennessee and South Carolina. There was no shortage of decent restaurants in the cities. Rural areas were as devoid
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by gaustin 14y ago
A firetruck ride might convince me to make the trip over for Barcamp...
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by gaustin 14y ago
I don't see anywhere that he is displaying an exaggerated sense of his abilities. He says look at my history and judge my capability from that. What exactly strikes you as arrogant? Is it the fact that he says to recruiters "go read this be
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by gaustin 14y ago
How is it arrogant to state your minimum requirements up front? To me it shows respect for everyone's time and attention.
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25 Years From Today: A Time For Bugs(informationweek.com)
2 points by gaustin 14y ago|0 comments
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by gaustin 14y ago
I'm glad you appreciate it. I thought about deleting the posts. I'd really rather practice not worrying about what people think about it. It's a part of me and if others can't accept it, that's okay.
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by gaustin 14y ago
First I have to say that my symptoms have been pretty well-controlled for years. After my diagnosis I lost a lot of weight and became very physically active. This seems to have helped in a miraculous way (according to several doctors). Mana
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by gaustin 14y ago
I was diagnosed with schizo-affective and bipolar disorders when I was 19. I was on disability until I was 26 (I am now almost 31), even though I worked part time as a software developer through that entire period. I've managed to live a pr
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by gaustin 14y ago
It doesn't sound like he was filling out an application. It sounds like he had the job and was just filling out HR paperwork for benefits and taxes and such.
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by gaustin 14y ago
A good diet does not imply being calorie deficient.
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Redtape: Simple nested form objects in Rails.(github.com)
1 points by gaustin 14y ago|0 comments
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by gaustin 14y ago
What is more interesting to me is the way that the SOLID principles are expressed in functional languages. They are all still relevant.
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by gaustin 14y ago
Have you been to any small regional conferences? I've gone to MountainWest RubyConf a couple of times, on my own dime, and gotten way more out of it than I paid for tickets, lodging and travel. I'm pretty shy but I push myself to talk to a
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by gaustin 14y ago
SEEKING WORK - Helena, MT / Remote / Freelance or Full-time Currently employed full-time on-site. Working to transition to remote. Happy to travel to client/office occasionally. Ruby and Rails (on the JVM or otherwise), Heroku, Javascript,

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