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by joshcrews 14y ago
In my experience with curse-worded commit messages it means the codebase is very frustrating and working on it feels like editing hack upon hack to get small changes to work. The curse words either are for "heck yeah, it finally works!" or
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by joshcrews 14y ago
If you want such calls, but up a website with a title tag of "Ruby on Rails developer in <your local city> | <your phone number>". I'm not trying to parody anyone, that's what my website says and I get contacted frequently
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by joshcrews 14y ago
I'm speculating here, and may be wrong. You may have a more "I don't know how I got here, but I kinda feel like somebody's slave" problem than a CRUD problem. If that's your problem, there's an eject button that will be a wild and scary ri
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by joshcrews 14y ago
I've had good success with clients in letting them see the application come to life. I'll release a working something on week 1 ('something' can be very, very minimal) on a staging site and push updates to it a few times a week. If you can
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by joshcrews 14y ago
I've been handling offering flexibility in fixed big projects by sharing my Pivotal Tracker story board w/ feature estimates and letting them choose which features to axe to get their new priority scheduled. In addition I've also been offer
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by joshcrews 14y ago
Using github for it seems brilliant because she probably sees herself ending up with someone who is on github. If github is where a lot of your potential mates are, of course go there! Imagine posting that requirement about writing beautif
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by joshcrews 14y ago
It looks good, but I cannot figure out how to buy one. Can someone point to where I can order one?
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by joshcrews 14y ago
on getting out of consulting-- wouldn't that slowly age your relevance on marketing products/workshops/ebooks as an expert on running a consulting company? Why not keep some consulting business to stay 'in the game'?
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by joshcrews 14y ago
Maybe. If Ruby / Ruby on Rails is a good language for web-development, easy for beginners to learn, the community is helpful, beginners feel welcome, and experienced developers invest in teaching; you'd expect to find a small army of 'just
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by joshcrews 14y ago
Good luck! I did the same thing in the fall of 2008, except that I taught myself to program _after_ quitting my job. I went into freelance consulting with Ruby on Rails and have been doing that ever since.
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by joshcrews 14y ago
America ought to think about that question deeply. Corn fed ground beef in the supermarket is $3-4 per pound while grass raised ground beef is $7-$9 per pound. We (Americans) are making ourselves very sick with degenerative diseases (canc
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by joshcrews 14y ago
I went through a similar growth curve of being a total beginner to full-time Rails developer. For tips: there's a lot of power in has_many :through. Watch the relevant Railscasts on has_many through and the Rails docs. http://guides.rubyo
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by joshcrews 14y ago
On the lack of dead bodies from privacy intrusions; they are there. Ukrainian peasants were deported and killed for having more property that their neighbor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dekulakization 14.5 million dead Central and Easter
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by joshcrews 14y ago
I too noticed the 1984 similarities. One difference is that the world of this Civ II game is the utopia state for the inner party of 1984-- perpetual war that only happens at the borders and doesn't really risk the existence of the 3 super
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by joshcrews 14y ago
update: all 5 down
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by joshcrews 14y ago
I checked 5 sites, all single dyno: 3 down, 2 up
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by joshcrews 14y ago
I went into the article thinking that he had written some old software bugs that are inadvertently making it difficult for some evil organization to consolidate its plans and carry out its schemes.
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by joshcrews 14y ago
The most impressive part to me about the story was picking a niche, CB Radios, that doesn't appear to be a business you were already familiar with and building a successful company anyway.
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by joshcrews 14y ago
Automation is not the cause, but an increase in farmers per capita increases resistance to unhealthful or immoral food production practices (crowded, drugged, chemicalled animals; GMO crops, nutrient-depleted vegetables, corn-raised cattle,
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by joshcrews 14y ago
What if surveillance/intelligence is the business model? If Facebook generates $10bil/yr of surveillance value, that justifies a $100bil valuation. A lot more than $10bil/yr is spent on US intel/surveillance, and Facebook is the best inte
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by joshcrews 14y ago
I'm reading the transcript of the video and he talks about a form of attack where fake emails are sent from spoofy addresses demanding positive review takedowns and making legal threats. I wonder if that's a possible explanation of the lif
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by joshcrews 14y ago
The projects I do have never had final documentation before development started, and its not necessary. I got this process from another Ruby consultant and it works great - Get wireframes of main page views (usually there are about 6 of the
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by joshcrews 15y ago
Open Source work for free AND not giving away photographs 'for exposure' to for-profit businesses are both allowed in the the Should I do this for Free? flowchart http://shouldiworkforfree.com/clean.html
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Ask HN: self-hosted hacker news clone?
2 points by joshcrews 15y ago|3 comments
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A single dyno on Heroku can process a lot of hits if you tune it (joshcrews.com)
2 points by joshcrews 15y ago|0 comments
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by joshcrews 15y ago
> Do you have an actual product you want to work on? Having a real product to build, even if its just to help yourself and not the world is key. It gets you out of the tutorials (which you need to do) and into finding out the main prob
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by joshcrews 15y ago
I was James's Rails mentor and I can testify that he definitely did not know Ruby on Rails at the beginning of November, but he is sharp.
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by joshcrews 15y ago
A complicating factor is the recruiter's take on top of your rate. I'm making up numbers, but lets say your rate is $100, and the recruiter's % is 40% of your rate. Now the company sees $140/hr. The company may not object to your rate if
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by joshcrews 15y ago
I'd rather do gemsets than preface commands with "bundle exec"
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by joshcrews 15y ago
Perhaps you have hit a batch of work to do that mind just can't be convinced is profitable no matter how hard you try? This might be a personal startup that you know is already defeated, or a client that asks for a never ending series of ch

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