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by hkarthik 15y ago
I really dig this post. I've worked at waterfall companies and agile companies doing Scrum, and in both places the tools tended to dictate the process a bit too much for my liking. Estimates got treated as gospel and planning was deemed ext
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by hkarthik 15y ago
I like the idea, seems similar to BuildItWithMe. However, requiring Facebook for sign up kills it for me. As a dev, I'd rather use email/password.
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The 10 Most Underused ActiveRecord::Relation Methods(blog.mitchcrowe.com)
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by hkarthik 15y ago
Good post with some great details. I hope the holdouts on Ruby 1.8.7 REE look carefully at upgrading. Rails 3.X is still a tough upgrade though. I'd be curious to see similar benchmarks with upgrading a large code base. I've heard a few sto
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by hkarthik 15y ago
It's definitely possible to spin up a Windows instance on EC2 and get it running. Many startups built on .NET do that today. As for the sysadmin on the software side, I agree most .NET devs that want to build something probably have those s
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by hkarthik 15y ago
Listen to the middle days of the first StackOverflow podcast and you'll hear that for a long time they ran StackOverflow on a single server. They were serving a million uniques with the web app and database running on a single box! It w
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by hkarthik 15y ago
The only problem for me as automated testing and in result I have written my tests in Python. To a Ruby developer like myself, this seems like a pretty significant gap. Have you looked at Jasmine or some of the other testing frameworks fo
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by hkarthik 15y ago
We've got nearly the same problem in Dallas. For decades the development has moved further north into the Ex-burbs and bedroom communities. The interesting component is how the development gets financed in a Ponzi-esque scheme. Suburbs are
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by hkarthik 15y ago
Once you're a parent, you'll worry about two things with regards to school choices: 1) Curriculum 2) Safety It's one thing to make the argument that most public schools are mediocre and the parents need to be more involved in their kids liv
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by hkarthik 15y ago
I really dig posts like this. As an engineer, this is the kind of stuff that makes a startup a really attractive place to work.
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by hkarthik 15y ago
After setting Solr up, I definitely see the value that you guys provide for high traffic sites. But there's a difference between production level needs and hobbyist level needs for a side projects. For side projects I'd be okay with indexin
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by hkarthik 15y ago
It sounds like the speaker was live coding (and struggling) during the presentation when Yehuda started to chime in. I've heard from many speakers that Live Coding is kind of a recipe for disaster, and so many experienced speakers avoid it.
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by hkarthik 15y ago
Solr or Sphinx based searching is what pushed me out of most of the PaaS offerings and into my own VPS. It's unfortunate that most of the hosted services out there are too expensive for side projects. When I looked at WebSolr, the cost exce
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by hkarthik 15y ago
Discussions like this arise mostly because developers today think less about whether a feature should be built and more about how it should be architected and tested. For decades, we've been conditioned to think that by the time a feature i
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by hkarthik 15y ago
From what I've read and heard from friends who've worked on it at HP, it's internal infrastructure but it's built on top of OpenStack.
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by hkarthik 15y ago
FTE salaries won't catch up until there's real money being made and profitable firms start competing for talent. A CEO with net profits of 10 mil/year is going to be a lot less stingy than a founder with 15 mil in funding. I hear that at th
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by hkarthik 15y ago
If you talk about Urban living, the costs are universally high, and only get worse once you have a family. Suburbs get a bad rap, but they are way more economical once you have kids. And not everyone has to commute. Plenty of us work from h
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by hkarthik 15y ago
Point taken. Keeping a larger balance for investments does make sense.
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by hkarthik 15y ago
what's the benefit in not paying it off quickly if you can? That monthly payment is extra cash you could put away into savings or other investments, presumably at a positive interest rate. Even if the market sucks and interest rates on most
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by hkarthik 15y ago
By working hard, I meant more that you may need to spend more time working towards earnings rather than spend time on leisure pursuits. That could mean watching reading a technical book while another person watches a movie. The thing about
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by hkarthik 15y ago
Just FYI, my family immigrated to the US when I was an infant and I've lived in the different parts of the US since then. So while I had a mostly eastern upbringing, I still grew up in the suburbs, went to public schools, and lived a typic
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by hkarthik 15y ago
I don't judge others for choosing to indulge a bit more and saving a bit less. I spent most of my 20s living exactly that way. It's a personal choice either way and only sustainable if you choose to live that way. If you're forced to live t
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by hkarthik 15y ago
Our path to be on track for a net worth of $1 mil: 1) Two good incomes on the professional track. We both have good degrees from universities and don't plan on taking any breaks in employment. Even with kids, there are plenty of great child
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by hkarthik 15y ago
I've had MacBook Pro's for about 3 years and I've been running a MacBook Air for about 9 months. I love my Air, it's easily a very solid machine. But the small screen size can be a little constraining, and the machine does noticeably lack p
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by hkarthik 15y ago
Former Microsoft-focused dev here. It's funny you mention fads, because I feel like most of the successful development decisions in Microsoft frameworks arose from copying previous 'fads'. Once you deep dive into OSS, you start to see where
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by hkarthik 15y ago
A few of us HN'ers got our start working in KC for Cerner about 10 years ago (pitdesi, ashbhoopathy, and myself among others). Would love to hear one day how you guys got one of the stodgiest HealthCare IT companies in the midwest to build
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by hkarthik 15y ago
At this point, there are a couple of heavily funded daily deals sites that can afford to hire armies of sales people to literally pester their way into multiple local markets. My friends that work at one of these firms say there's about 60
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by hkarthik 15y ago
I've commented on this before, but I'll reiterate that in my experience, 3-5 person team rooms work best. Smaller teams tend to be the most successful at breaking large problems up into smaller, shippable chunks. Also, they can minimize the
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by hkarthik 15y ago
Some of the cache plugins may just utilize page output caching, but IMO if you're spinning up your language runtime (Ruby, PHP, Python, Java, .NET) just to do page caching, you've already lost. Varnish and even built in Web Server caching c
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by hkarthik 15y ago
Alternating days hasn't worked for me. I end up way too tired the next day if I can't get on a consistent schedule. And yeah, going to bed early and waking up early will definitely cut into time with the spouse. Even if all you do is watch

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