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by generalk 16y ago
I'm reading Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential right now, and it has a lot in common with a lot of Chuck Lorre's writing, this vanity card in particular. I absolutely love reading things by people who are clearly passionate about
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by generalk 16y ago
That certainly makes sense, but weigh salary and benefits higher than bonuses. Anecdote: The company I work for had a particularly rough quarter years ago and couldn't make bonuses. Those that had planned on their bonuses being there were s
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by generalk 16y ago
Of course it depends on the field, and for top C-level executives the bonus is pretty much the biggest chunk of compensation. My particular bonus rests on my performance, and is based on profit besides, which is the most common form of bo
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by generalk 16y ago
Personally I don't count bonuses as compensation. They're nice pot-sweeteners but salary is constant whereas bonuses can fluctuate.
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by generalk 16y ago
I don't know many folks that call themselves "PHP programmers" or "Python devs". I know a lot of "web developers" that know a bunch of technologies, though. The few people I do know that are "$LANGUAGE developers" usually aren't that good.
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by generalk 16y ago
I'm seriously underwhelmed here. There's four new features on that page: The Mac App Store Maybe this is a naive point of view, but I can't see the value proposition for third-party devs to have their software in this store. Maybe I'm w
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by generalk 16y ago
He said pay market salaries. Sounds to me like he was paying his employees standard wages, as opposed to having them take pay cuts to make ends meet.
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by generalk 16y ago
You don't assign equity based on work that isn't done. That's asking for trouble, unless the person has a huge track record of doing the type of work you have them doing. Vesting is key here. I'm not the first to say it, but setting up ke
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by generalk 16y ago
Complaints should only stop rolling in when they're resolved, not when resolutions are announced for the next major upgrade.
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by generalk 16y ago
I think if I knew I had to name my child after a programming function I wouldn't have kids.
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by generalk 16y ago
Sure, you can boil down tactical execution to "do this, then do this, finally do this." I don't think it's best, but it's certainly a way to go. But if you boil down your whole strategy to "All we need to do is X and then Y and then Z" you'
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by generalk 16y ago
It's certainly "case by case, every time", but in every case the first thing should be customer education. If your customer wants a feature done in an unreasonable timeframe, don't say yes, don't say no, educate your client how long it ta
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by generalk 16y ago
To be fair, if you wrote a browser plugin like Silverlight, wouldn't you do the majority of your projects in it?
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by generalk 16y ago
I personally don’t like [git's] index. I feel that git encourages people to check in changesets that contain code which they’ve never tested (or even built) because the index is such a prominent part of git’s workflow. This doesn't make s
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by generalk 16y ago
So I start a SaaS business and put "Please login with your OpenIDv2a+OAuth compatible login below." prominently on my front page. And then I have no users because nobody knows what that means.
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by generalk 16y ago
Macs are awesome: you can hit up the Keyboard System Preferences pane and hit the "Modifier Keys..." button to change that. Make Command into Control and Control into Command and you're back to your comfortable keys.
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by generalk 16y ago
Good list. Some of it's true, although I now cannot live in Windows because of the same keyboard issues: I'm so used to Control+A and E for home/end that I don't know what to do without it. Here's some awesome things that make up for the sw
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by generalk 16y ago
one menu bar for active applications Honestly, I find menu bars that don't respond to Fitt's Law ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitts_Law ) to be almost unusable. Two feet away isn't so much when you can blindly shove towards the top of t
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by generalk 16y ago
It certainly wouldn't be fully mainstream. Really? I think that's discounting the booming home PC market that existed before Microsoft got involved and giving a lot of credit to someone for an achievement that wasn't fully there. All Ga
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by generalk 16y ago
I hate to break it to you, but Steve Jobs and Bill Gates are likely two separate people.
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by generalk 16y ago
in a corporate situation, once a team starts working at any degree of efficiency at all, the real problem is getting the rest of the business to understand and agree on what the team is supposed to be getting paid for. This happens in the
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by generalk 16y ago
You can quite easily (and elegantly) update 14 different tables from one form, using one request and one controller method. You can very transparently do it with ActiveRecord associations, so that you're operating on only one instance of
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by generalk 16y ago
In the simple case, Rails likes you to have seven controller methods and one controller per table. Realistically I usually end up throwing a few more methods on each controller. This is actually part of the reason I like Rails: it guides th
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by generalk 16y ago
Why should be tables be pluralized automatically? Because that's frequently how you'd do it anyway. I deal in a lot of legacy data stores, and I have a lot of "set_table_name" calls. That said, Rails is opinionated, and not agreeing with
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by generalk 16y ago
Fascinating. I'd love to hear about the data model mismatch -- having done mostly CRUD webapps, I'm not really in a position to see that.
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by generalk 16y ago
This is exactly the kind of response that concerns me. I'm looking for concrete Rails-specific issues. I understand that, in theory, Rails may suffer from this issue. In practice I've never once seen it. I think Request.Form is an ASP.NET t
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by generalk 16y ago
My intent wasn't a holy war. I've used Rails for over a year. I keep hearing people say that it's slow, or it doesn't scale well, or that after the first 80% of the application is finished it gets in your way. I haven't found that to be the
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Some HNers seem to hate Rails. I want to know why.(joncanady.com)
25 points by generalk 16y ago|57 comments
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by generalk 16y ago
A lot of the HN crowd dislikes PHP, and can point to dozens of reasons why: no consistency in the standard library re: naming conventions, order of arguments, etc; poor abstractions; up until recent versions, a lack of namespaces or late st
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by generalk 16y ago
To me real scaling is where you're having to run a cluster since a single server is inadequate to handle the traffic, where you're having to implement or leverage various application caching schemes, etc... Can you explain how Rails doesn

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