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How 7 Lines of Ruby Will Speed Up Your Heroku Deploys(thirdprestige.com)
13 points by nthj 13y ago|6 comments
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by nthj 13y ago
For sure, we all were. I did have to chuckle at the Technical Director in the sidebar, though. I'm pretty sure the qualification for technical director [should] include shipping > 0 products.
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> How do you actually evaluate how much your skills are worth as a freelancer? How do you match with clients who need and are willing to pay for your particular skill level? They are worth what a client will pay. Trick: if you show a cl
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but TERRORISM and NATIONAL SECURITY
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> I'm a US citizen and I'm pro-US and this bullshit has to stop. FTFY
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I would be very interested in a a tutorial or guide for getting something like this set up on OS X.
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You missed his point, which was that the Feds weren't worried about him telling a stranger anything, until later.
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by nthj 13y ago
It's interesting to note that in neither case (physical security OR information security) has the government accepted responsibility to protect you. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/politics/28scotu
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Yeah, for real. We're not talking about sneaking a few files out on a thumb drive, here. We're suggesting petabytes of data being sent out over Google's networks without Google noticing. Meh.
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Absolutely. I think all presidents should be expert programmers.
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When a junior developer screws something up, I accept responsibility and apologize to the client. It's my fault. There is no authority without responsibility. If you don't like that, don't accept the job. [FWIW I didn't like Bush either]
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I travel a lot. I have clients who insist on paying me via old-fashioned paper check. And I have Outbox. That about sums it up. Thanks, Outbox.
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She did say "we're", it was pretty obvious to me that she identified with Moz
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> The legacy API was mostly used just internally I find that amazing. I think every app I've ever worked on or built with Heroku has tied into the API in one way or another. It's one of your best features.
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> And when you are lucky enough to get paid vacation Luck has nothing to do with it. Learn how to demonstrate the value you bring to the table, then negotiate for the salary/vacation combination you want. Believe me, it's a lot more emp
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by nthj 13y ago
GitHub hosts public repositories for free, so this doesn't seem to directly apply. GitHub is phenomenal software, and I'm happy to pay for it. If you're not in a situation to pay for it, I feel for you, but software is a lot of really, real
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by nthj 13y ago
If any of you guys are in Austin, check out 1405 E. 7th. ("Vintage Heart"). Fairly large space, some stand-up desks with optional bar stools, lots of outlets, and pretty solid wifi. Also a lot of the tech crowd hangs out there already, so i
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by nthj 13y ago
> No, they give them up because that's _the entire point of hiring a freelancer_. Not really. My clients are paying for results, and part of those results include a license to use the code I write forever. But I never give up the copyri
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by nthj 13y ago
It depends a lot on the person, and maybe quite a bit on how they've invested/been raised those first 14 years. No need to extrapolate from one anecdote.
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> I've only got 2 1/2 years of experience. I know a guy 1 year out of school charging $80/hour. Businesses pay for stuff getting done, not experience.
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POST /users HTTP/1.1 username=johnsmith&password=297324khd239723khad7823hksd7gh1h
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> Its almost like you rubbed it in my face I could have charged more. Yeah, I've been on the receiving end of this. It made me feel like a chump (even though I knew I was charging right about market rate for it.) "Hey man, something has
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> You want a developer that can take your pseudo spec (and I say pseudo because if they are detailed enough, then you should be able to code them, since you are hiring a developer you don't know the devil that will be hidden in the deta
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> I'll even go through the discovery phase and estimate/quote out their project I've started charging for this process. Partly because otherwise I'd spend all my time consulting for free, partly because it's a huge value add to their bu
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by nthj 13y ago
"We're booked until the end of the year" sounds suspiciously like "We're not charging enough money."
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by nthj 13y ago
I just retweeted + followed you as well. Good luck mate. | https://twitter.com/ngoel36
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> Frankly if someone isn't professional enough to do their job without some cartoon carrot hanging in their face As the Joker said in the Dark Knight, when you're good at something, never do it for free.
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> I hate calling people like that (as all developers) My assistant loves doing stuff like this, and paying her $MUCH_LOWER_THAN_MY_BILLABLE_RATE to save me time is a no brainer. (patio11 will be along shortly to encourage me to switch t
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Click to call isn't interesting because of connecting the actual phone number. It's a UX problem of minimizing the steps to figure out which Congressman belongs to the constituent visiting the page. [This gets way more complex on a state of
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> The only thing connecting the two is that the "fake" e-mail address is a "real-user-part+something@gmail.com" address, and that I've logged in to them from the same machine. So, to summarize, a simple regular expression matching email

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