mattvanhorn

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by mattvanhorn 14y ago
SEEKING WORK - Freelance / Remote (San Francisco Bay Area) Ruby / Rails / Heroku code: https://github.com/mattvanhorn blog: http://mattvanhorn.com 18 years web experience, 6 with Rails Would like to try an Agile/BDD, pay-by-the-story (n
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by mattvanhorn 14y ago
Yeah - the coincidence is how I know him. me: http://mattvanhorn.com him: http://mattvh.com Also, I did not see the presentation, so I can't comment on it firsthand, but as portrayed it looks to be in pretty bad taste. I don't know Matt
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by mattvanhorn 14y ago
Just want to say - I am not that Matt Van Horn. (I've met him, though, and I think the article is intentionally trying to show him in the worst possible light to drive more page views.)
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by mattvanhorn 15y ago
(Just a little site I threw together since I didn't have a religious holiday to celebrate.)
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The true story behind the feature you're building.(truestoriesofbdd.com)
2 points by mattvanhorn 15y ago|1 comments
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by mattvanhorn 15y ago
Same here.
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by mattvanhorn 15y ago
You obviously have little idea of what it means to be "in the zone." It is just as easy to get there with a pair as without, provided you have a decent environment to work in. Pairing is like tennis, another activity which can get you in th
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by mattvanhorn 15y ago
The company I work for experienced a two hour outage several days ago, with a Rackspace hosted stack. It was a hardware failure of some sort, most likely a disk in our DB server. Nothing is really 100% fail-proof, and each "9" that you want
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by mattvanhorn 15y ago
1st time, I was the first employee of a company that grew to over 150 people. It went bust in the first dot-com bubble bursting and I got nothing for my sizable number of options, except for a lesson in how easily CEOs can break promises re
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by mattvanhorn 15y ago
I think it's more along the lines of them pressuring the government to change the law that now holds them accountable for the kinds of things they were doing in 2008. See here: http://www.law.illinois.edu/bljournal/post/2011/03/29/Dodd-F..
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by mattvanhorn 15y ago
Ironically, there were some pretty powerful investors scammed by Madoff as well. Herd mentality occurs everywhere.
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by mattvanhorn 16y ago
I pretty much do this myself now, and although I find myself working more than ever (in terms of both hours and productivity), I also feel better about my work life than I ever have. One caveat, though - 'only working when you feel like it'
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by mattvanhorn 16y ago
I think I'll believe the lawyers at EFF more than a disgraced liar of an analyst and a professional Apple fanboy.
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by mattvanhorn 17y ago
Good analogy - I wouldn't buy a dishwasher from Sears if it meant that I had to buy all my futures dishes, glasses, and silverware from Sears too. (App Store) I wouldn't buy it if I had to have a special Sears approved connecting pipe to ho
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by mattvanhorn 17y ago
I'd use this with the Tumblr API which, last time I looked, didn't let you schedule a post in the future.
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by mattvanhorn 17y ago
What's a 1900 penny worth today? My commute is only a couple of bucks - with inflation considered, it might be close.