johnkchow

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by johnkchow 14y ago
I personally feel the pain point of password/identity management across different websites, and I'm using LastPass to help. While LastPass's browser integration is great, its UX is... lacking. Mozilla's strategy to associate Firefox browser
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by johnkchow 14y ago
Definitely agree. I'm not sure if the OP is the author, but if he is and if he's trying to draw attention, then the motive shifts from sharing insightful lessons to personal "winning" (getting the most karma points, getting the most page vi
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by johnkchow 14y ago
I definitely agree with the statement about prototyping and testing. Testing is another signal of quality, a guarantee if you will, to your stakeholders that your software provided is dependable and trustworthy. That doesn't matter if you h
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by johnkchow 14y ago
One of my favorite plugins that hasn't been mentioned so far is vim-powerline https://github.com/Lokaltog/vim-powerline . It makes Vim have a really polished look to it, and more important: tells you which Git branch you're currently in.
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by johnkchow 14y ago
tl;dr: While not all recruiters are bad, I was better off just directly applying to companies and avoiding recruiters as much as possible. A couple of months ago, I was interested in what the SF market had to offer, and I started responding
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What makes up a successful person? Confidence and Humility(lifebeyondomegas.com)
1 points by johnkchow 14y ago|0 comments
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by johnkchow 14y ago
I can say I understand where you're coming from, and if you carry that chip on your shoulder for the rest of your life, you'll do just fine. I want to share my personal story, since I felt the same way you did when I was in college. Coming
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by johnkchow 14y ago
Most definitely. The one thing I try to be constantly aware of is whether I'm trying to learn too much at the same time, and whether what I'm learning is applicable to what I'm trying to achieve. Occasionally, I'll reward myself with someth
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by johnkchow 14y ago
Definitely agree with you larrys. It's about satisfying that innate curiosity that we all share. Some fiction books help the readers explore the inner emotions and other personal dynamics; information on how to scale your business/stack/tea
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by johnkchow 14y ago
I like the clear distinctions you've set between a manager and leader (very well written). I'd like to push this further and claim that a manager in a company has two roles: one that fulfills the business needs of the company (keeping the m
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Passion Is Talent(lifebeyondomegas.com)
2 points by johnkchow 14y ago|0 comments
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by johnkchow 14y ago
Got to say this is hard to admit, but after reading everyone else's comments, I am indeed ignorant. Thanks for the reality check.
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by johnkchow 14y ago
From my personal experience, the saving in development time is very much real. I used to work on .NET, and you'd have to program against crazy, non-intuitive patterns in order to have your code "clean" (I hated IoC containers as well as wri
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by johnkchow 15y ago
In retrospect, I too went through a short burnout period. I was the only server engineer in my startup, working 10-12 hours 6 days a week. On top of that, I was leading a personal project to help college student organizations stay more orga
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by johnkchow 15y ago
I have one thing to say: Finally. To give some context, my first job out of college was in a small WebForms/MVC shop in LA. It was very progressive in that my managers always pushed me to question the conventional "MS" way of programming/ar
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by johnkchow 15y ago
I started my career in MS ASP.NET WebForms/MVC, and then recently switched to RoR, and it's obvious that they're mimicking the success of RoR development environment and, more importantly, the culture. Their Nuget packaging system is pretty
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by johnkchow 15y ago
antirez, thanks for the objective look at Redis's internals. As a young engineer 2 years removed from college, I feel these articles serve more to us young'ns with lots of knowledge gaps.
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by johnkchow 15y ago
While it's not Rails, one of my favorite DynamoDB articles was Twitter Streaming with EventMachine and DynamoDB ( http://arfon.org/twitter-streaming-with-eventmachine-and-dyn... ). I see one huge strength of DynamoDB is its flexibility for
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by johnkchow 15y ago
One of the very first things I learned almost immediately after college is that inheritance typically is a bad idea and that composition is a better strategy. With inheritance you have so much thinking overhead with parent to children relat
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by johnkchow 15y ago
I agree that in Jack's specific examples you don't need the constructor: the constructor trivially saves the parameters into instance variables. However, one thing that hasn't been mention is when the setup of the class is non-trivial, whic
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by johnkchow 15y ago
One concern I have with Jack Diederich's video is that he never addressed one benefit of classes: better testability. In his Muffin example, he took out the instance variable that stored the API URL and created a constant out of it. If I ha
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by johnkchow 15y ago
It really depends on what your end goal is. Building a quick prototype doesn't need documentation, but building a long-lasting app that's maintainable and scales well with a growing dev team, documentation is extremely important.
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by johnkchow 15y ago
I've never had a production Rails project, but do you have any anecdotes or numbers to back up your statement? From initial glance, it looks like the win in processing speed outweights the complexity. So then you're implying that this win i
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Training for Focus(lifebeyondomegas.com)
1 points by johnkchow 15y ago|0 comments
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by johnkchow 15y ago
People need to understand that decisions should be made based on the team's current skill set. If your team is comprised of Java developers, time shouldn't be wasted on researching node.js; rather they should focus on how to leverage their
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by johnkchow 15y ago
At my startup, we have talked about this issue several times about how we can fairly compensate employees for their contributions to the company. Our company is a bit different in that we have a lot of young employees who are eager to learn
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by johnkchow 15y ago
I now see the true potential with personalized search. Just gives me the goosebumps (in a good excited way). Thanks for sharing!
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by johnkchow 15y ago
I have to agree that PP loses value when you have many senior level programmers on the team. The biggest value in PP, in my personal experience, is transfer of knowledge and experience. This applies mostly to teams with huge gaps in experie
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by johnkchow 15y ago
These ads serve a secondary purpose of reminding people that Wikipedia's wealth of information originates by public knowledge. A lot of people tend to take knowledge for granted, and I personally feel humbled and grateful for Wikipedia fro
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by johnkchow 15y ago
I know this isn't exactly answering your question, but if you deploy on an Amazon EC2 instance, you can use MongoHQ's shared hosting in conjunction to your pre-existing Node provider. MongoHQ runs on the AWS infrastructure, so the latency b

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