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by mccolin 6y ago
Spree e-commerce is a solid Rails engine that can be used a fully skinnable site and offers a full API for any integrations, customizations, or other apps you want to hook up down the line. It also has robust configurations for your product
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by mccolin 7y ago
I'm a technical project lead at a small consulting firm. I manage the engineering efforts of two independent projects with team sizes ranging from two to eight engineers. I have about 8 hours of regularly scheduled meetings (standups,
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by mccolin 7y ago
Taking small steps to solve big (especially personally existential) problems can be significantly less daunting that solving the world in one go. Obviously, getting everyone's stress level down to 1 would be best, but improving even a
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by mccolin 8y ago
Paternity leave policies are rare or only just becoming popular benefits differentiators in the US.
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by mccolin 9y ago
After working in DevOps and getting nightly calls from a paging service about down servers, turning my toddler into another down server seems worse than the current situation ;-) That said, this is a great, fun project for an Amazon button.
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A small town in Iceland created a “levitating” crosswalk to slow traffic(qz.com)
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by mccolin 9y ago
This seems like it's almost "1Password for Email Addresses," which would be pretty great: go to site, hit key combination, have random/saved email inserted into login boxes. Combining that with email forwarding to my r
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by mccolin 9y ago
Does that not prove the market?
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by mccolin 10y ago
Agreed. "Not exceptional in any manner" seems like a bit of an out-of-whack analysis of a $250K engineering salary at Google.
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by mccolin 10y ago
Reading this really brought me back -- to my earliest days as a developer and to the many hours I'd spent on the IMDb boards! Thank you!
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by mccolin 10y ago
It's higher fashion, which is perhaps the limiting factor, but Rent the Runway was "Airbnb for clothes" pretty well: https://www.renttherunway.com/
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by mccolin 10y ago
The human element of home inspection is invaluable. That interaction between homeowner (or prospective) and a knowledgeable professional is critical. But drones as tools for that professional could be great.
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by mccolin 10y ago
Excellent personal story on finding the right workspace in a remote situation. Home office vs. Coworking space is a conversation I have with other remote works quite a bit, and the answer is different for everyone.
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by mccolin 10y ago
I've gone through the interview process and received two job offers as a result of "Who's Hiring" posts. The posts tend to come from first parties that are motivated to hire talented new members for their teams, so the o
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by mccolin 10y ago
Really beautiful way to make an account physical. Oink!
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by mccolin 10y ago
This is applicable to an Intro to SOFTWARE ENGINEERING course. As an exercise. Not the primary content. It is not Computer Science.
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by mccolin 10y ago
Lots of finding work and vetting skills is actually a chicken or the egg problem. You have to find the places that are willing to offer opportunity with less proven background in order to open the door to bigger opportunities. This is like
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by mccolin 10y ago
The article contains excellent negotiation advice and its cornerstone element is honesty. Regardless of the author's history, this advice is solid.
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by mccolin 10y ago
Hiring teams that are just "getting their feet wet" with remote workers are going to be more hesitant. When there is an in-company precedent for what remote work is like, I find them to be more open. For me, making the transition
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by mccolin 10y ago
This is definitely something that happens. It's valid, I believe, for the company to vet candidates for culture fit, but the go should not be hiring a team of "sames." In a recent batch of interviews (four opportunities local
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by mccolin 10y ago
This. I keep my friends list neat by taking a look at today's birthdays. When Facebook asks me to write something on a person's wall for their birthday, I can make a quick decision on how important that friendship is to me. For th
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by mccolin 10y ago
I love the anecdotal account -- especially since I am researching a similar change -- but would truly appreciate more numbers for transition stories like this. Memory usage before and after. Throughput, etc. Also what was the cost in time a
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by mccolin 11y ago
Script tags at the bottom of body has become the accepted standard for faster page loads. I'd think the library would have to be doing some strange things to not work if placed in the head, though.
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by mccolin 11y ago
Yes! If not to catch violators, at least to collect data for use in enforcement. In cities and towns with lots of pedestrians, the stop sign case is key. People check for other cars by habit, but often overlook pedestrians waiting to cross
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by mccolin 11y ago
I think there's a chance your cohort will have more people like this (that have great fondness for "older" characters and media) due to Netflix/streaming, but on the overall I think you're a subset. For every pers
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by mccolin 11y ago
I can echo your positives regarding using the platform. It's been mostly a joy and learning it has been fun. We've used npm for a server-only component of our architecture built in Meteor, but happily mix npm and atmosphere packag
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by mccolin 11y ago
I work for a startup that has grown our team and product over the past two years, building a major application on Meteor. It's been great seeing the platform grow, and we've been able to benefit from many of Meteor's componen
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by mccolin 12y ago
I live in Bella Vista, a tiny neighborhood between Center City and South Philly and echo @angdis' sentiment. The Philadelphia subway system leaves a bit to be desired, but considering the trolleys, buses, and "regional" rai
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by mccolin 12y ago
There's a little nod to it toward the end: "London's Trellick Tower and The Barbican are now both listed and desirable places to live."
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by mccolin 12y ago
Many could argue there is great beauty in the records of games played, the statistics, and the codified events of the day's action.

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