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by lgleason 13y ago
Reminds me of this video. As an American it makes me sad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0TK_vk-XDM
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by lgleason 13y ago
Which languages? From what I understand you could earn that in South Africa and have a much better standard of living. Given the cost of things in the UK that is crazy....
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by lgleason 13y ago
I am based in the US but travel to South Africa a few times a year. The tech community there is strong. Though I haven't had my feet on the ground in Kenya I also hear that there are some amazing things happening there. Startups lik
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by lgleason 13y ago
I volunteered at a Startup Weekend in Johannesburg last year and do agree with this statement. With that being said I do think that the investors or starting to get more tech savvy. My family on my fiancee's side is from South Africa
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by lgleason 13y ago
Something doesn't sound right with this. In Atlanta a developer worth their salt with 7 years of experience is going to be getting into the 80-100K range depending on their skills etc.. The only time it is lower is if they are with a
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by lgleason 13y ago
I really hope this doesn't become another Ukraine. Obviously the context is different but still.
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by lgleason 13y ago
There is not a shortage of programmers, there is a shortage of inexpensive programmers.
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by lgleason 13y ago
It doesn't take it with it directly, but it dismantles some of the extreme power differential.
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by lgleason 13y ago
I do agree that the bullies will be protected and promoted. Unfortunately the legal action doesn't really solve the problem. Usually the companies just find loopholes around whatever they were sued for an it is business as usual. For
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by lgleason 13y ago
My conjecture is that they (the board) will be trying to determine what the legal, PR and ultimately financial fallout will be from this. These will probably be the things that will drive any decisions on how Github addresses the situatio
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by lgleason 13y ago
I'm not going to get into what is right or wrong. With that being said, in the US HR is not your friend as an employee. Their job is to protect the company. http://abcnews.go.com/Business/20-job-tips-hr-exec&#x2
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by lgleason 13y ago
Purr Programming is much more fulfilling :) http://purrprogramming.com/?page_id=2
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by lgleason 13y ago
Given what I have seen in South Africa, $25,000 is the equivalent of $50,000 here in the US. With that being said the local investment community has some catching up to do. The ideas and talent are top notch.... a lot less wantrepeneuers
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Skinny Models and Skinny Controllers with the Ruby State Machine Gem(polyglotprogramminginc.com)
2 points by lgleason 13y ago|0 comments
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by lgleason 13y ago
If it was bad enough now, I'm sure they would be pushing for it sooner rather than later. With that being said if this article is to be believed then it will be coming in the next few years. http://www.creditcards.com&#x2F
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by lgleason 13y ago
The chip and pin system would help. Credit Card issues in the US haven't gotten on board yet because the amount of losses prevented by chip and pin aren't high enough to offset the cost of a rollout. Using a debit card is just a
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by lgleason 13y ago
I love mechanical keyboards but prefer a Kinesis Advantage. If you really like the click cherry blue switches could bed added to the Advantage. Then you don't have to worry about RSI and can have the clicky feedback. The biggest issu
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by lgleason 13y ago
Now we all need to vow to stop supporting anything below IE10 so that we can starve this legacy support animal. Google already did......
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by lgleason 13y ago
These guys have great support. A client of mine was using them and had a cluster get wonky. The performance of their website got really slow during an in-opportune time. MongoHQ got right on it, fixed the issue and gave them 6 months of
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by lgleason 13y ago
My mother died from a MRSA infection. This is VERY serious stuff.
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by lgleason 13y ago
Has anybody freelanced using these guys? Did you land a good project or a so so one?
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by lgleason 13y ago
a contract in the evening is the best way to see how someone works and makes a lot more sense. A bad hire costs everybody a lot of money. I don't know why more firms don't embrace this method.
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by lgleason 13y ago
The good developers in developing nations are still going to charge more than $15 an hour. They tend to be more in the range of $40-$50. The $15 an hour guys in my experience are either: 1. good (quality-wise), but slow and don't speak
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by lgleason 14y ago
This was a great summary of what I have observed with some groups trying to inspire women in tech. Lots of marginally technical to non-technical women in events supposedly focused on women in tech. Instead of fostering the geek culture th
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A flexible Ruby Passbook Library(github.com)
4 points by lgleason 14y ago|1 comments
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by lgleason 14y ago
It depends on the number of transactions you are likely to see on your system. I love ruby, but there are areas where it begins to fall down.
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by lgleason 14y ago
It is a great start. The passbook implementation looks to be basic right now. I would love to be able to combine this with https://github.com/frozon/passbook for passbook support and git@github.com:grocer/grocer.git for push notificatio
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by lgleason 14y ago
If you want to discourage this kind of behavior stop feeding the machine.... You can't do that when you run year over year trade deficits with these guys. Reign that in and you will have a chance at solving this problem.
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by lgleason 14y ago
I lost my sister a little over a year ago from cancer and can relate.
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by lgleason 14y ago
You can't get blood from a stone. Sounds like he is trying to bully you. Try rational means and as necessary it might make sense to take it public if you have enough of a chorus of people saying this is not warranted and have exhausted al

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