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Writing and running Jasmine specs with Rails 3.1 and Coffeescript (pivotallabs.com)
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by hkarthik 15y ago
It's an interesting project, but in my 6+ years of Enterprise .NET development, I've yet to work in a single shop that released a production .NET application that wasn't written in C# or VB.NET. Even F# seems to be very rarely deployed. It'
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by hkarthik 15y ago
Thanks, I used this code fCD4SMwEf7JnwU9r!
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by hkarthik 15y ago
Even better!
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by hkarthik 15y ago
Slightly off topic, but I tried tweeting this post and Bit.Ly reported it as a phishing site, you guys might want to look into that. Another person had the same problem. Here's the shrunk URLs: http://bit.ly/pvv11g http://bit.ly/okHtiC
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by hkarthik 15y ago
If only I could get a Dropbox shirt with my referral code URL printed on it.
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by hkarthik 15y ago
The author seems to be focusing his argument primarily on productivity and tooling. In that regard, I agree that C# and all the surrounding OSS has surpassed vanilla Java and is starting to catch up to Rails. However, he neglects to mention
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by hkarthik 15y ago
Given the huge growth of the site in the first few years and the relative inexperience of the founding team with problems of this magnitude, I expect the story would have been the same with Python, Java, .NET, etc. The simple Web Server -&#
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The end of the euro for dummies(anexperimentinscotch.com)
3 points by hkarthik 15y ago|0 comments
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by hkarthik 15y ago
Paying above market salaries is also a slippery slope. If your salaries are too high, you can send the wrong message about the quality of the work environment. I live in Dallas and over here the shops that pay a lot tend to overwork you, th
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by hkarthik 15y ago
Humans act a lot like apex predators in their environment (e.g. Lions in the Serengeti, Wolves in Yellowstone). It's just that our environment happens to be the entire planet. We dominate the food supply such that only animals that stay out
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by hkarthik 15y ago
As a current .NET developer that used to do Java, it seems like Scala includes a lot of things that C# developers have taken for granted for several years. I can see where it goes a bit further though, and I'm excited to see the community a
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by hkarthik 15y ago
There's another hidden cost that they didn't mention in this article: benefits and employment agreement requirements that vary from state to state. We had a few colleagues that telecommuted from California in a startup that I worked at 2 ye
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by hkarthik 15y ago
Absolutely. As a beginning Rubyist, I've learned a lot from Ilya's posts. Congrats to Ilya and the whole PostRank team!
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by hkarthik 15y ago
Good article with a lot of great tips. But I'd like to see a follow up that elaborates on the practice of hiring experienced developers who don't know Ruby. Many of these questions wouldn't apply in that case and it would be hard to detect
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by hkarthik 15y ago
I wish they had done comparisons of commuting via public transit rather than driving. I have friends in NYC and SF that routinely commute 1.5 hours on the train and don't complain about it one bit.
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by hkarthik 15y ago
I imagine some of the top level programmers at Microsoft, Google, Facebook, etc probably earn in the mid six figures. But just like executive pay, there's a point where the bonuses and profit sharing make up the vast majority of your compen
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by hkarthik 15y ago
As a vegetarian, I totally support his decision and respect it. My meat eating friends like to call themselves carnivores, I usually correct them and say they are actually scavengers.
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by hkarthik 15y ago
I like the concept and it seems like you've already got a handful of good ideas there. For a nontechnical guy you did a great job! The design isn't bad except for a few things: 1. The choice of the "Yanone Kaffeesatz" font. It just doesn't
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Can an open-source backer thrive inside Microsoft? This one says no.(zdnet.com)
12 points by hkarthik 15y ago|0 comments
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by hkarthik 15y ago
Agree on this, but find a replacement (or firm) that will be willing to take on the project and work with the investor to make sure it gets done.
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by hkarthik 15y ago
I'm looking for Rails work now and I've been offered substantially low salaries compared to what I make now. I was thinking maybe I need to adjust my expectations but your post makes me think twice. Thanks!
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by hkarthik 15y ago
I agree, using short term contract work to identify good long term employees sounds contradictory.
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by hkarthik 15y ago
I really like the approach of "Contract-to-hire" developers but I've often found it to be difficult in markets where most good developers have multiple offers at any given time. Also it's tough to do this when you're boot strapping and lite
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by hkarthik 15y ago
Higher up front infrastructure costs would be my guess.
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by hkarthik 15y ago
Did anyone else see the author's resume on this site? It appears that despite his extensive experience in making a auccessful career at a BigCo, he quit to build a Rails app and do his own startup. That speaks volumes to me.
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by hkarthik 16y ago
Qlikview's options for getting data out suck royally. Your basically forced to use their native Windows client. Their web stuff is too immature to be viable.
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by hkarthik 16y ago
From the article: Rack is a web server interface and software package for R. It is very much like Ruby’s Rack. In fact it is so much like Ruby’s Rack that I decided to use the same name and basic class hierarchy. You could say I “borrowed
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by hkarthik 16y ago
I think this is the best of both worlds, and probably the right way to go for startups in cities with a huge urban sprawl.
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by hkarthik 16y ago
While I agree that you probably miss out on finding a lot of great candidates, there is a significant advantage in finding someone that already knows your chosen platform. Already knowing the OS and Tools allows a new hire to focus on under

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