knighthacker

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by knighthacker 14y ago
Happy Birthday, Perl :). At Crowdtilt, we are proud to have the majority of our stack Perl based. w00t w00t CPAN :)
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by knighthacker 14y ago
The Crowdtilt API can easily power something like Selfstarter and significantly improve its features by offering support to multiple payment processors instead of just Amazon Payments. It also provides collaboration tools for the supporting
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Show HN: Crowdtilt announces the first Crowdfunding API(github.com)
90 points by knighthacker 14y ago|20 comments
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by knighthacker 14y ago
Agreed. More than likely, it is in violation to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
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by knighthacker 14y ago
Agreed. Paypal is flat out painful. But they certainly have a huge advantage when it comes to international payment processing.
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by knighthacker 14y ago
wow. At least they gave you the option to opt-out haha :)
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by knighthacker 14y ago
I love it. Well executed. My only comment is to make the text on the button customizable.
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by knighthacker 14y ago
I think bottom line, don't work at a place that cares more about the amount of hours you work as opposed to the results that you produce. Life is too short for this shit. There are a lot of job opportunities in companies and teams that unde
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by knighthacker 14y ago
I agree with you. Those big names, for better or worse, became the identity store on the internet. Most websites tend to support at least one of them if not all of them.
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by knighthacker 14y ago
Yeah, that's what I used it for. I've used it every day for about a week and it dropped maybe once or twice. At which, I created a new connection. I should add that I did use a screen session to share vim though.
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by knighthacker 14y ago
This is super cool. I used screenleap to try it out with my remote team members and I am very impressed personally. I wanna mess around with their APIs a bit.
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by knighthacker 14y ago
Having a dedicated team is definitely important. I had a similar experience to yours and I am not entirely sure why. I think a big part of it is that once you dig into complexity points and time estimates and all that other stuff, people t
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by knighthacker 14y ago
As long as you get the job done, we don't care where you are. I don't think many companies care anymore. Or maybe they still do.
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by knighthacker 14y ago
You, sir, will be quoted some day :)
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by knighthacker 14y ago
+1 It is so hard to know that @ means array and % means a hash (key/value pair) haha.
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by knighthacker 14y ago
frameworks, libraries, This is basically what Modern Perl and CPAN modules are all about. Checkout Perl Dancer as a web framework for example and you'll see simplicity.
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by knighthacker 14y ago
Exactly. MooseX::Declare is a good example.
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by knighthacker 14y ago
You are exactly right. But for some cases, it is a great thing. You obviously need to know when is the right time to be explicit. I remember doing the Stripe CTF and I was like, I wish all people would learn to be explicit about those pa
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by knighthacker 14y ago
I second the reference to the book. It is a must read for all new devs at Crowdtilt. Excellent book @chromatic.
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by knighthacker 14y ago
+1 I definitely recommend reading "Modern Perl". It is a game changer. http://www.onyxneon.com/books/modern_perl/index.html
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by knighthacker 14y ago
Indeed :). Checkout these modules: Test::Class::Sugar MooseX::Declare Thank you for your feedback.
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by knighthacker 14y ago
There are always tradeoffs, but sometimes you can find "the best tool for the job". And that may or may not be the tool that you know. You gotta be flexible and open to learn other tools that may suit the situation better. In the post I don
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by knighthacker 14y ago
Developers that write unmaintainable and unreadable code exist. This has nothing to do with the language. That's where "Good Developers" come in. You don't even need to know how to write code to understand the code written at Crowdtilt or
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by knighthacker 14y ago
I personally wouldn't work for a company ONLY because of the programming language. I have to be super passionate about their product as well and then the language choice comes after. So far hiring hasn't been a problem for us. However,
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by knighthacker 14y ago
It is a very good question and I had to think really hard about it in the early days. My take on it is that I appreciate good developers regardless of the language of choice and those are the stars that we want to have at Crowdtilt. Good
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by knighthacker 14y ago
I agree. It is a misconception that Perl is "dying". It powers a lot of the web. It had a bad rep a few years ago due to cryptic-looking codes that were written as a throw away code and somehow spread all over the web :). I was one of th
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Why Did I Choose Perl When Building Crowdtilt?(dsog.info)
120 points by knighthacker 14y ago|138 comments
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by knighthacker 14y ago
The two biggest goals in my mind would be: 1) You involve the API consumers in the design and decision process, which helps in understanding their use cases better. 2) Give insights and transparency to consumers as to why and how some decis
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by knighthacker 14y ago
Thanks for sharing your experience with Perl. +1 I've never been biased towards one language or another. I always recommend using the right tool for the job. With that said, I built Crowdtilt using Perl and the main reason was because we
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by knighthacker 14y ago
Thanks for sharing your schedule. I use Skype and IRC to work with my remote teams too. I don't really have a schedule per se. I do things whenever I want to. Luckily, I am in the mood to hack all day long. And when I wanna take a break,

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