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Why I Left Shopify(medium.com)
1 points by gkop 9y ago|0 comments
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Find engineering teams that share your values(keyvalues.io)
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The Upside-Down Org Chart(6brand.com)
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by gkop 9y ago
In fact regarding (1) CA state law adds a protected class "Political activities or affiliations", http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/california-employment...
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by gkop 9y ago
Rails ships with an auth module: http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveModel/SecurePasswor...
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by gkop 9y ago
It took me several re-readings to understand the author's point about the quoted tweet. I think her point was that Duo goofed the API because they are security engineers, not software engineers - security engineers made a usability mis
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by gkop 9y ago
Perhaps they make up for this with a hilarious Contact Us page? https://www.theodinproject.com/contact
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by gkop 9y ago
When hiring junior developers, I look for experience in at least two general purpose languages, because I think comparing and contrasting at least two languages gives you a valuable and necessary perspective. In web software engineering, Ru
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by gkop 9y ago
The Show HN from over 3 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7466487 Anecdote: I hired an Odin Project "graduate" in early 2015, somebody who had gotten a CS degree 10 years earlier but never done anyth
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by gkop 9y ago
Longer programs would also compete with flexible programs from traditional institutions. For example, Mills College's MA in Interdisciplinary Computer Science [0]. The traditional institutions arguably have large advantages in accredit
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The Odin Project – Learn Web Development for Free(theodinproject.com)
150 points by gkop 9y ago|64 comments
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by gkop 9y ago
What era was it when you are learning? Now we have excellent community-developed free and open resources like https://www.theodinproject.com .
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I super duper do not recommend this. Read all the caveats in this thread, they are all genuine annoyances. I'll add another one: interactive debugging works, but has quirks. The cost/benefit just isn't there unless your syste
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Medium’s engineering interview process (2016)(medium.engineering)
2 points by gkop 9y ago|1 comments
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Git Bisect Debugging with Feature Branches(blog.smart.ly)
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Totem Open Health – Limitless Possibilities with Wearable Health Technology(openhealth.wemaketotem.org)
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I felt extremely fortunate that Wolfram Alpha was available when I took calculus in college during summer '09. Wolfram Alpha was amazingly convenient and helpful in getting through tricky problem sets when there was a queue at the tuto
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by gkop 9y ago
Thanks. Our monitoring says it started at 4pm pacific. So the incident lasted 2.5 hours.
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by gkop 9y ago
Thanks for the tip! I'm sure in my research I was always clicking on i7. What's the practical difference between the better of the i5 chips and the i7?
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by gkop 9y ago
Unfortunately I think this model bundles dedicated graphics, which I have no need for. I have yet to find a Linux-friendly PC laptop with quad-core and integrated graphics only.
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by gkop 9y ago
Between T520 and T550, there was T530, which had basically the chiclet version of the T520 keyboard, and it was just as good if not better than the T520 keyboard. Indeed, Lenovo really screwed up with the T540 and beyond - the useless numer
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What Happened at the White House Tech Meeting(medium.com)
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by gkop 9y ago
Would you clarify why it's worse to use an email address than a username as an internal key/identifier? It seems to me in either case you suffer the problem of, if the email or username changes, needing to update all the "for
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by gkop 9y ago
OP: What about Digital Rights Management (DRM) restrictions? Does that ever create problems consuming TV on Linux?
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At Burning Man, there is a large presence of law enforcement officers with conservative attitudes. Both uniformed and plainclothes. The plainclothes officers especially create an atmosphere of distrust regarding substances.
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by gkop 9y ago
Regarding queues, Delayed Job [0] is a popular queue abstraction over a SQL database that suggests the impedance mismatch in this case may be successfully mitigated. [0] https://github.com/collectiveidea/delayed_job
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I'd go further and say this could have a dramatic impact on the vibe at Burning Man. Marijuana has historically been one of the least popular recreational substances at Burning Man, because the smell is hard to disguise. If marijuana i
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by gkop 9y ago
Don't waste your time grepping for "churn", it's not mentioned in the body of the article. This article is long on code and graphs, but short on intellectual honesty.
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There are at least several other advantages to TDD the article misses: * Faster development feedback loop by minimizing manual interactions with the system * The tests are an executable to-do list that guides development, helping you stay f
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by gkop 9y ago
Instant Pot is a combo slow cooker-pressure cooker. It can brown meat, too.

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