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by gavingmiller 14y ago
In a nutshell yes. We also bundled in some additional value added services to that retainer.
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by gavingmiller 14y ago
To counter some of the negative sentiment around "selling to developers" I'd like to share a bit of what Brennan's advice has done for my consultancy business. One of my partners took Brennan's Consultancy Masterclass and here are some of t
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by gavingmiller 14y ago
You bring up a good point with: "Impressive, but somewhat less success on actual apps". For the longest time, I thought the path to success was: * Launch an app * Quit my day job the next day * Live life on the fast lane forever more. This
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by gavingmiller 14y ago
No, you're right. However a lot gets read into tone when a message is short. Adding "Sent from X" allows the reader context.
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by gavingmiller 14y ago
Completely agree with you. It's a good time to be a software developer! :D
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by gavingmiller 14y ago
Anecdotally that appears to be correct. My company tried to sponsor a graphic designer to come up from the States. We were denied because the gov't said there were more than enough skilled graphic designers available.
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by gavingmiller 14y ago
I wrote a blog post about Sikuli a long while ago: http://randomtype.ca/blog/a-look-at-sikuli/
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by gavingmiller 14y ago
I mostly agree, with the exception of the initializer, something I haven't seen put to much use in controllers. The main thrust of my question was, do you have any links/examples for a DI based rails controller? Other than your "in theory"
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by gavingmiller 14y ago
What you're talking about looks like (is...) dependency injection. Rails is a response to the Java FactorySingletonWidgetFactoryClass culture, so the question is does DI benefit Rails, or simply allows us to pontificate about our code? Whic
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by gavingmiller 14y ago
I think someone needs to plug how awesome the Destroy All Software screencasts are (referenced in the post.) They are well worth their value, and have made me a better developer: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts
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by gavingmiller 14y ago
So my employees should get a raise for not leaving me? Not sure that logic will fly. I'm certain there's a bad date analogy somewhere in there too! :D
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by gavingmiller 14y ago
It's sitting in the project that never shipped because it was trying to be perfect for all the wrong reasons?
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by gavingmiller 14y ago
Additional context: Tiny Habits is a free course about learning how to make habits like the OP talked about. It teaches the habit of habit making. Highly recommend.
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by gavingmiller 14y ago
Once had someone give me an id that was simply a second id with the face cut out and his id taped in behind it. Worked too until they separated handing it back to him.
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by gavingmiller 14y ago
Yeah, I've used dynamic method calls in Objective-C and I just Ruby easier to use when doing those types of tasks.
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by gavingmiller 14y ago
My position, I've done a fair number of iOS apps and am well versed in Ruby. The meta-programming aspect of RubyMotion is what appealed to me. There's a ton of boilerplate in iOS that could be eliminated. I attempted to migrate an iOS app t
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by gavingmiller 14y ago
That was my thought when reading the article. Replace programmer with accountant, marketer, designer, etc and the article would read the same. As much as programmers think we're special snowflakes, there's always another group (see previous
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by gavingmiller 14y ago
Just a bit of feedback on your test forms: Your credit card number doesn't chunk the credit card into segments, making the input really difficult. And the sliding text when fields get focused is distracting. Also as a question. Does my subd
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by gavingmiller 14y ago
I'll back up Brennan 100% on his claims. I've _successfully_ raised my rates +30/hr after reading his ebook. The advice was relevant, pointed, and easy to implement. The book paid for itself in the first week I owned it.
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by gavingmiller 14y ago
Plug for Brennan's plug: This book is amazing. I've increased rates by +$30/hr with the advice in this book. If you send invoices to clients BUY THIS BOOK.
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by gavingmiller 14y ago
I agree with your viewpoint for different reasons. I like RubyMotion _because_ it is for iOS. I've developed for Android and iOS and much prefer iOS. I dislike RubyMotion because the current debug tool chain/error messaging is so weak. I ca
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by gavingmiller 14y ago
Our Canadian office managed to convince a couple of team members in our American office that we ran on a 20 hour clock, with 72 minutes in an hour. That was fun for a week.
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by gavingmiller 14y ago
re 5: SR&ED (the program I assume you're referencing) is 'free' money. If my company can make back 3/4 of a developers salary by doing "proposal writing" why wouldn't they do that?
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by gavingmiller 14y ago
+1 it's playing like this that inspires ideas in others - should it be so prominent, maybe not. Furthermore, it's going to get linked a ton which is great for Nissan's brand.
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by gavingmiller 14y ago
Of course the goal of this website is to sell cars to Indians out of Japan, so really fail on Nissan's part
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by gavingmiller 14y ago
Agreed title needs to be changed. 'Blackhole malware attack spreading on Twitter' vs 'Twitter hit by Blackhole malware attack' two very different stories there.
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by gavingmiller 14y ago
Having done multiple native apps on iOS, and a couple of phone gap based apps, the overwhelming flaw is that web apps don't _feel_ like native apps -- it's partially an HTML5, partially a js, partially iOS web view issue. It's the nuances t
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Letter to Steven Aldrich of Outright, re: GoDaddy Acquisition(devblog.avdi.org)
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by gavingmiller 14y ago
I'm with you on this one, there wasn't anything I saw in those Android libraries where I thought: I desperately need that for iOS.
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by gavingmiller 14y ago
I live in Calgary, AB and used to hear something similar to the Hum approximately 4 years ago. At the time I was in a basement suite and would occasionally wake up and would hear a humming noise (unsure if I was waking due to the hum or not

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