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by joshdotsmith 11y ago
Really enjoy going to this meetup. Often it's too easy to get sheltered off into your own little Ruby/Node/Python/whatever community and not talk to other people. The HN meetup here has a good cross-section of technologi
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by joshdotsmith 11y ago
The struggle for me seems to be knowing how much is too little and how much is too much. Do you try to err on the side of doing too little at first?
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Ask HN: Do you document your development process?
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by joshdotsmith 12y ago
We're launching a podcast next month about programming and technical topics for non-technical people: http://www.talkingcode.com/ Our favorite interview so far (feels like picking your favorite kid!) has been with Sand
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by joshdotsmith 12y ago
Feel free to write to me privately anytime. I'd love for you to try some of the lessons on CookAcademy and let me know if it helps, too. One thing we're trying to reduce that fear of embarrassment is have a sort of automated helpe
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by joshdotsmith 12y ago
If I could upvote this a thousand times, I would. The problem, however, is that making a mistake in programming is not so painful. Making a mistake in cooking costs money and is often pretty embarrassing. I can easily see why you'd be
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by joshdotsmith 12y ago
This right here is exactly right. If the reasoning is mentioned at all, it's usually incidental and not intentional. When we talk about salt in the seasoning step of our pan-sautéed chicken lesson, we wrote: "Salt "brings out
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by joshdotsmith 12y ago
I replied to myself above with the link.
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by joshdotsmith 12y ago
I second this advice. A slow cooker is really ideal for your use case and can have some dramatically amazing results. Still, you can't slow cook something like a pan-sautéed chicken breast. But many people, particularly single people,
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by joshdotsmith 12y ago
You can see the link to my site elsewhere, but I'd be happy to help more thoroughly if you're interested. The ability to do this is not a reflection of your ability to think creatively but rather that you need to understand why yo
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by joshdotsmith 12y ago
Alton Brown is our guiding light for CookAcademy. (Our chef ironically also happened to be on Cutthroat Kitchen!) Mark Bittman writes about the stages of learning how to cook and you are pretty advanced relative to others. Many of us haven&
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by joshdotsmith 12y ago
The pain of going to buy ingredients is a big one for people. I just can't personally see myself spending that on much ingredient delivery, though my wife does get some things delivered from a CSA. I think there are two other pains wra
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by joshdotsmith 12y ago
Yes, though sometimes in non-obvious ways. For example, cleaning a pan after making pan-sautéed chicken is difficult until you realize you can make a pan sauce and get the pan clean at the same time. Lessons are broken down into the mise
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by joshdotsmith 12y ago
Since people expressed interest, my side project is https://cookacademy.com Happy to offer whatever help I can outside of the site, too.
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by joshdotsmith 12y ago
Speaking of side projects and learning to cook, I'm working on a side project that helps people learn to cook. Happy to share if interested.
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by joshdotsmith 12y ago
I wish there were something like this akin to the National Guard. If I could serve a weekend a month (or maybe even more, if it were something closer to my civilian skill set), I probably would have opted for this over joining the Army. Hel
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by joshdotsmith 12y ago
That seems like a good way of limiting yourself from discovering potentially new and surprising things. I get the need to protect your time, but not at the total expense of randomness.
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by joshdotsmith 12y ago
One thing to keep in mind is that "entry-level" means the most junior position with that company, not "entry-level" into the workforce at large. I found this equally frustrating in non-technical jobs after I graduated co
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by joshdotsmith 12y ago
As someone who has built products that used both Amazon Payments and Stripe, I have to say this is definitely the right move, even if the impetus was that the former service is meeting its end. I built essentially a Kickstarter copycat in a
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by joshdotsmith 12y ago
I'm very curious to hear others' insights on the valuation issues with bootstrapped companies. I share your concerns here.
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by joshdotsmith 12y ago
The "who" describes my situation perfectly, but at first blush the logic and positioning both read as internal contradictions. > Those who focus on raising outside capital and achieving fundable milestones have a very difficult
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by joshdotsmith 12y ago
For rvm users, remember to run rvm get stable before trying to rvm install ruby-2.2.0 You might end up getting preview1 unexpectedly.
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by joshdotsmith 12y ago
Ruby 2.2 is available on Heroku https://devcenter.heroku.com/changelog-items/574 As for performance, I think we'll have to wait to hear from adventurous souls who use this, or who have been using the rc's. Ho
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by joshdotsmith 12y ago
"There’s more empathy" also bothers me. I'm not sure we're doing anyone any favors by generalizing large swaths of people, by gender or anything else. This is pure prejudice, even if it's good-natured and well-inten
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by joshdotsmith 12y ago
I feel like somewhere, somehow, a point is being missed.
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by joshdotsmith 12y ago
I wish I could throw all of my karma at this. I would really love more support in IRC, especially since I think fully owning some fanatical support for a developer-focused company can only be a good move. It'd also end up meaning a muc
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by joshdotsmith 12y ago
Seriously, thank you for all the help you've given to those of us who've freely taken it on IRC. I wish you were a Stripe employee, in all honesty.
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by joshdotsmith 12y ago
Ah, I entirely misunderstood your point. I thought the point was that the end users of DNS should be hosting. My mistake.
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by joshdotsmith 12y ago
Not that difficult for whom? Great if you have the in-house resources to devote to managing your own DNS (and can't put them to better use elsewhere), but that is not the case for the vast majority of us. The fact that so many of us us
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by joshdotsmith 12y ago
Will these services not have the same thin pipe issue that's currently affecting DNSimple?

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