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Your frienemy the ORM(weblog.therealadam.com)
1 points by hkarthik 15y ago|0 comments
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by hkarthik 15y ago
I'm looking at getting a Synology or QNAP server and using that for backups with a Samba based file sharing system. I have a server lying around, but a dedicated device would save on power consumption so I'm going to go with that. I believe
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by hkarthik 15y ago
Clojure is on my list of languages to learn in 2012. I really dig the community and the fact that it runs on the JVM. I've been looking for a strong functional language to use for backends as an alternative to using Node, and Clojure seems
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Rails Has Turned Me Into a Cannibalizing Idiot(wekeroad.com)
54 points by hkarthik 15y ago|10 comments
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by hkarthik 15y ago
I felt exactly the same way. I don't know Python, but it's similar enough to Ruby that I could follow the post. I was able to grok it, but I think the points could have been made better by sticking to one language.
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by hkarthik 15y ago
I work in a completely distributed team and I think it works well if you have the right demographic in your team. The one problem I see with the model, is that it does little for junior developers or interns that are just starting out. Ther
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by hkarthik 15y ago
The retailer that tried to recruit me was led by a former startup CTO that was doing much of what you described to try to change things. Aside from separating IT, the other big change was to create a new campus/location with a better dress
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by hkarthik 15y ago
There are lots of jobs for anyone capable and willing to do ASP.NET. But building a career on .NET can lock you into the Microsoft ecosystem in the eyes of many employers. Depending on how you look at it, that can be a good or bad thing. I
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by hkarthik 15y ago
Here in Dallas, lots of retailers have their corporate headquarters here. I've done some consulting work for one of them in the past and a couple years ago one of them was trying to recruit me pretty heavily for their big e-commerce push. M
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Evolving Rails(karmajunkie.com)
18 points by hkarthik 15y ago|0 comments
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by hkarthik 15y ago
The fact that you're even asking how to be good at this is a really good sign. I wish some of the folks that I've worked under in the past would have done the same. There's lots of good advice in this thread. My advice is to find a way to h
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by hkarthik 15y ago
This is a great post and I agree with everything he's said. However, I know plenty of folks that are doing all these things but are still struggling to hire for the following reasons: 1) Not enough experienced local talent to attempt recrui
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by hkarthik 15y ago
The whole thing seems too incredulous to be true and feels like a PR stunt. If it is true, and it makes this guy's products even more popular, then I fear for fate of humanity.
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by hkarthik 15y ago
I've considered buying a $50K car used after 2 years. Are there any brands you recommend sticking to when going this route? I know some of them just gouge you on the maintenance costs after 30K miles or so.
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by hkarthik 15y ago
I'd totally lease one to try it out and see if it fits my lifestyle and availability of charging stations in my city.
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by hkarthik 15y ago
Ask around your work place and find some of the grey beards that got their start as programmers in the early 90s. You'll find quite a few that didn't study programming or CS in school, but got their start via company training programs in CO
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Mono in 2011(tirania.org)
12 points by hkarthik 15y ago|0 comments
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by hkarthik 15y ago
Great comment, Dave. Would you say over the years that you've oscillated between points of the stack, based on the needs of your current team? I've found that to be the case for me. At my last job I did a lot of front end work, at my curren
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by hkarthik 15y ago
I think this is more typical of positions being filled in Silicon Valley, where it appears that more programmers tend to have CS degrees. Or there are enough people with CS degrees that the rest of the community feels compelled to know and
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by hkarthik 15y ago
But menstruation itself is a very big taboo in most parts of India. It's a subject only discussed among women for many reasons. In many traditional Indian families, the women are not allowed to many daily household tasks while menstruating.
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by hkarthik 15y ago
I really hope that this becomes a trend and other cities follow suit. It's really unfortunate that many US cities have focused on having world class Business Schools or Law Schools rather than Engineering schools.
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by hkarthik 15y ago
Regarding MSBuild, the biggest problem I had with it is that if you built projects with Visual Studio, using most of the standard tooling for adding references and dependencies, you'd often be left with a project that built fine with Visual
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by hkarthik 15y ago
+1 for tmux. We use it here and it works great for remote pairing. Some of the guys also pimped out their setup with tmuxinator. https://github.com/aziz/tmuxinator
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by hkarthik 15y ago
Agreed. I knew his 3 months excuse was a straw man argument but I wasn't in IT so I couldn't argue against it. The truth came out only after another 3 months of failed scaling when we found out that he'd oversold the benefits of cloud base
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by hkarthik 15y ago
They weren't available at the time, and because we were using Windows, they would still have been way out of budget.
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by hkarthik 15y ago
That sounds like a complete and utter nightmare. This is why I am a developer for life.
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by hkarthik 15y ago
The more I see Microsoft bend over backwards for big corps to retard the web, the more I think that maybe big corps should just stay off the web. Perhaps staying on proprietary, native platforms that don't change as often is their best cour
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by hkarthik 15y ago
Me: This vendor software you purchased is not going to scale well on EC2, it needs physical hardware to work well. Boss: Well, we don't have time to go purchase physical hardware and get it racked. That'll take 3 months. ...3 months later..
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by hkarthik 15y ago
This is definitely a sign of a bubble. When I was a college student in Boulder in 2000, one of my roommates worked at a startup as an intern. He told me during his first week, the team all just sat around a table and thought up ideas to pur
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by hkarthik 15y ago
It's all relative to your environment. A senior developer in one shop might be one of the more junior guys in the next shop. Salaries also vary depending on the market rates for the stack. To me, deciding on whether someone's a Senior Devel

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