joshcrews

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by joshcrews 15y ago
I'm a bright person, and I learned to program in 6 months with only "programming" experience being Excel VBA scripts. Joel's method would have made me drop out and convinced me that programming was terribly boring-- much like a how a kid wh
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by joshcrews 15y ago
I am too. How much have I billed my clients for things I learned off Railscasts? Plenty.
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by joshcrews 15y ago
I would take this seriously. The causes of crisis of 2008 were never resolved just addressed with more debt and more money-creation. A financial system collapse like 2008 but without a rescue could happen this fall. Steps to prepare: thin
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by joshcrews 15y ago
My explanation of the 1947-1979 middle class bulge is the spoils of World War II for the United States. It gained brain power (smart immigrants), oversees market domination, and a premium on capital (other countries capital and people dest
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by joshcrews 15y ago
The two things that help me the most in this department are: 1) write tests first because then you can write something ugly that works and then refactor underneath passing test coverage 2) expose yourself to other peoples code. My tendency
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by joshcrews 15y ago
Greenfield projects and projects < 1 year old are very common right now. Let that be a call for people to develop a) Rails experience b) testing, refactoring, working with legacy code experience Because it means that there are going to
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by joshcrews 15y ago
Regarding tax cuts, I recommending taking another look at the history of American innovation and taxes. When I overview American history I see great innovation and economic growth from 1800 to 1930's, a period of low taxes. I see 1940's t
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by joshcrews 15y ago
update: aparadja fixed me and I'm up and running
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by joshcrews 15y ago
Thanks!
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by joshcrews 15y ago
I just installed it on OSX 10.6, restarted, and it still says "Filter not found, please restart your Mac" Any help?
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by joshcrews 15y ago
I recommend to devs to take this a little bit farther. If a dev is willing to work overtime "if we have immediate deadlines", management will increase the frequency and urgency of deadlines. Rather commit to working overtime if the company
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by joshcrews 15y ago
who is the software company with a trademark in the computer software realm over all things related to frogs and toads and little animals of that ilk?
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by joshcrews 15y ago
I'm religiously devoted to TDD and understand the 'dirty' feeling that comes from writing any code without it. But its totally fine to learn new languages and try out new stuff without it. TDD only needs to be enforced on code going into p
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by joshcrews 15y ago
Ruby development
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by joshcrews 16y ago
The discussion feels serious to me. The question in my mind, that I believe is being addressed, is: Is Color a trojan horse big brother spying app looking like the next cool realworld-digital game? If it is, that lines up with the review's
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by joshcrews 16y ago
On the absence of qualifications, licensing and certification for programmers--I think it doesnt exist because its not yet an effective indicator. People who can pass the tests can easily add no value (or negative value) to a project People
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by joshcrews 16y ago
I like Airbnb. I've hosted 8ish times and stayed with people once. Why I think the people on Airbnb are 'cool' is that its a small population that has a lot in common (young or young-at-heart, singles and couples without kids, internet nat
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by joshcrews 16y ago
I'm doing BDD as the lead (of 2) Rails developers at our startup, and _its the reason_ we can go so fast. Some differences we're doing from your situation: We use Cucumber to cover the whole web app(but not flash or video processing), and o
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by joshcrews 16y ago
I _so_ loved having many different ways to end up a no for the 'legitimate business' track. It really drove home the 'No'. And you get multiple objections covered ("but its a startup...") And you get get separate reasons for the 'No' base
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by joshcrews 16y ago
Public graphs are movitational for me. I made similar personal app at http://fatgrapher.com and one of the key features for me is the that my graph is public. We used the principles: weigh/graph everyday, skip dinner whenever more than 1
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by joshcrews 16y ago
I have been hooked on Typus for 1.5 years now. It goes on every project.
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by joshcrews 16y ago
It's also a bit community service on Jeremy's (and his supporters/partners) part. He seems committed to putting on a free conference and just makes it happen... and it works!
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by joshcrews 16y ago
This is a great reminder to have skepticism and humility about current scientific beliefs that are so widely accepted they are axioms today.
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by joshcrews 16y ago
The tests today are a way of documenting the developer's expectations (in an executable test) so that you can extend, refactor and delete code in the future without the 'edit and pray' method. And bug hunting time is massively reduced beca
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by joshcrews 16y ago
I think children themselves _are_ startups. They require a ton of effort and long hours getting started, have a growth phase, and then start to pay returns and become more self-sufficient. In a sense, women are involved in startups when th
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by joshcrews 16y ago
I use your site, I'm a fulltime Rails developer, and I would think all your traffic would be from Rails developers or at least the Rails-curious. You might be able to get some money (I have no way of estimating how much) by just adding the
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by joshcrews 16y ago
Two reasons, both invalid but sympathizable: 1) Everyone else is buying DS's for their kids. I almost feel like I'm judging people to not get one for our kids. 2) Parenting in America is playing defense, reacting to kids boredom, whining,
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by joshcrews 16y ago
Letting others be the canaries in the coalmine is a great strategy. This is what the Amish have been doing. 150 years ago, they were not that different from the surrounding culture. They became distinct as the pace of innovation took off.
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by joshcrews 16y ago
Thanks. I'm the developer for Musikpitch. I'll check it out and if you clearly see the fix in the code let me know.
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by joshcrews 16y ago
3x salary is actually a great formula for equivalent compensation. If you make $30/hr salary, you really make $40/hr with vacation/health/employer-paid taxes/use of office and equipment for free/reimbursed travel+conferences +you don't get

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