jonathanwallace

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by jonathanwallace 12y ago
This was my first thought as well. Is he hiring? As there's no chance I'd want to take on the risk of getting a regular government IT/developer job and being enmeshed in the nightmare that is my conception of government burea
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Testing Rails Service Oriented Architecture(bignerdranch.com)
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by jonathanwallace 12y ago
Fair enough, I remember it that way too. I was only looking to clarify what I read in your original post as indicating that backbone.js was the first one. I agree with you that it was the first highly popular framework. Sorry for the earlie
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by jonathanwallace 12y ago
Not quite. Ember existed before backbone.js by about 2-3 years under the name sproutcore. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ember.js#History http://sproutcore.com/about/ Backbone.js's first releas
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Request Queueing with Unicorn (Rails), Nginx and New Relic(devblog.springest.com)
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My Code Retreat Syllabus(blog.jonathanrwallace.com)
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Building Netflix Playback with Self-Assembling Components(techblog.netflix.com)
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by jonathanwallace 12y ago
Ha, I assume the name is a play on "Y U NO HOST". Well done.
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by jonathanwallace 12y ago
That's definitely not fair as, at a minimum, it is disparaging to the profession of teaching which is a skill and art unto itself.
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by jonathanwallace 12y ago
There's numerous mobile phone apps that do this for women. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pink-pad-period-tracker-free... I thought to make one for men for just the reasons you described but it seemed a litt
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by jonathanwallace 12y ago
I started on something like this here, https://github.com/wallace/zuggy . I imagine a sqlite3 db with a rails app with vlc in a docker container. One day I'll have the time to make it happen but for now, there&#x27
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by jonathanwallace 13y ago
Similar to http://words.steveklabnik.com/rails-has-two-default-stacks ?
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by jonathanwallace 13y ago
@yiedyie, this is a fantastic article. Do you have any other recommendations along similar lines? However, the original article is not as great. It starts strong but gets into hand-wavy generalities about the requirement of innate talent wh
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by jonathanwallace 13y ago
Assuming you've done well for your company you might say "That's very disappointing to hear that we're struggling so much as a company. I was (hoping|expecting) for X. <pause> Is there any advice or direction you c
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Code Review in Four Steps(blog.bignerdranch.com)
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by jonathanwallace 13y ago
You're absolutely correct, Snowden receives personal credit because he's taken on great personal risk to share the information he's shared. Let's not underestimate the value of a singular face to focus sentiment vs. a ro
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by jonathanwallace 13y ago
Everyone knows coupling is bad. Why couple the laws of such disparate cultures into one big ball of mud?
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by jonathanwallace 13y ago
This took me a little time to set up but once I did, it worked perfectly. Finally, terminal pairing without all the pain!
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by jonathanwallace 13y ago
Watch out for patents in the US. I worked on a similar MVP for a client a few years ago and he did some patent research and did not move forward because of what he found.
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by jonathanwallace 13y ago
That something else entirely may be SBS, http://sleepsex.org/ .
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by jonathanwallace 13y ago
One constant piece of advice I give to people starting out in IT and software development, never work for free.
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by jonathanwallace 13y ago
Try the non-SSL version if you're having trouble accessing the site. http://www.defcon.org/#dc21fedbreak
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by jonathanwallace 13y ago
A "Tu Quoque" argument. http://www.fallacyfiles.org/tuquoque.html p.s. Yes, I gather your comment was rhetorical. :)
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by jonathanwallace 13y ago
The phrase "random walk" immediately makes me think of evolution. :)
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by jonathanwallace 13y ago
There's at least two books I know of that cover upgrading to rails 4. Here's one: http://www.upgradingtorails4.com/ Full disclosure: I'm friends and work with Andy and he's super smart and I'm not g
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by jonathanwallace 13y ago
Mark Dalrymple recently wrote a great series of posts at Big Nerd Ranch's blog on dtrace: https://www.google.com/search?q=dtrace+site%3Ablog.bignerdra... . Full disclosure: I work at Big Nerd Ranch.
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by jonathanwallace 13y ago
Any particular reason you say that other than the existence of the aforementioned "career incubators?"
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by jonathanwallace 13y ago
It may be both. And since Rackspace is loudly publicizing that their actions are based on their beliefs, if they were to ever act contrary to their established brand, they'd lose even more than if they were to do nothing at all.
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by jonathanwallace 13y ago
Sounds like there is a market opportunity for job coaches. Reasonable-reason-for-extended-absence-from-the-job-market as a service, anyone?
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by jonathanwallace 13y ago
Nothing makes me want to become a rackspace customer more than posts like this. I adore integrity.

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