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by nthj 13y ago
I received my email 90 minutes ago
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by nthj 13y ago
[citation needed]
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by nthj 13y ago
> I would do it now; it's not going to get easier later. Rails 4 may be stable, but there are a thousand gems to still be brought up to speed. It very well may get easier later.
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by nthj 13y ago
Which totally makes sense, and I'm unsure why students don't think this one through. It's like saying, "I want to be a career musician", spending 4 years learning music theory, and then expecting a job playing the piano with an orchestra. I
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by nthj 13y ago
I know a good developer on the market as of 3 AM this morning. Looking for remote. My email is in my profile.
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by nthj 13y ago
Yes, this easily solves many problems. Plus I get to see exactly how they are used to working, neatly avoiding many "tell me about your environment" questions.
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by nthj 13y ago
You're saying "firearms aren't like other rights", but that's like saying "a twitter account isn't like other rights." Twitter isn't the real issue: the right to free speech without government censorship is the issue. Twitter is a medium. L
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by nthj 13y ago
You could say the same thing about free speech. "Anybody at any time could start calling for us to overthrow the government in the town square! Newspapers need to be reviewed by the government!" Liberty is dangerous. If you don't like it, d
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by nthj 13y ago
SASS could help you generate the required CSS, but you would still need some kind of customized markup, dynamic call to a SASS function, or JavaScript if you wanted to support a truly arbitrary/dynamic/database-driven number of buttons.
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by nthj 13y ago
Unfortunately, CSS does not support a "has", "contains", or "parent" selector, which would be required to support this. .button:focus + .tip, .tip.open, .tip:has(a:focus) One line of jQuery should solve: $('.tip a').focus(fun
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by nthj 13y ago
I may be more excited about Heroku Fork than I am about the EU region. I've copied apps many many times, it's one of those tasks that I always meant to write up into a script and never got around to. Thanks Heroku!
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by nthj 14y ago
Note I said -refactor-, not -rewrite-. I am not a fan of rewriting apps: developers always underestimate the complexity involved, and then business rules change along the way, and it's just a mess. Refactoring is when you rework a specific
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by nthj 14y ago
This works because most managers and founders aren't smart enough to pay above market.
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by nthj 14y ago
Yeah, shipping something real is important, so long as you refactor long-term. Technical debt piles up. A car payment is manageable; a car payment, medical bills, and an upside-down mortgage can cripple you. So it is with software.
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by nthj 14y ago
Clients who won't pay for retainers (with optional SLA attachments for emergencies, if required) shouldn't make public quips about their contract developers being at the movies. The market is such that I do not have to be available 24/7 for
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by nthj 14y ago
pretty sure tptacek is aware of this. ;)
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by nthj 14y ago
> You get a laid-back working environment Laid back, to me, means "Oh, we had to work 60 hours last week, so this week I'm gonna leave around 4 pm on Thursday. I'll send an email to the team lead to not expect me tomorrow" From the stor
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by nthj 14y ago
> I don't want to get into a big meta-meta flamewar here, but there are many people who do reject the merits of refactoring working code, for some definitions of "refactor", for some definitions of "working", and this has been the subje
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by nthj 14y ago
Yes, in so far as he needs to be that actor -to keep the creatives from having to context switch.- To borrow Spolsky's yacht analogy, the captain has 40 people running around below deck to ensure that the engine keeps running, the beds get
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by nthj 14y ago
I've found I can hack this -slightly- if I get up early, knock out five hours of work, goof off for a few hours, eat a good meal, maybe throw a nap in there, and then come back for another 5 hour stretch. But I've really only gained 2-3 hou
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by nthj 14y ago
I think more companies could do with having an intern or assistant to help handle these kinds of things. No, you don't want your $1K/hour CEO manually replying to 150 emails, but having someone who represents the company simply acknowledge
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by nthj 14y ago
Heroku has made it very easy for multiple developers to have custom, local environment variables with Foreman, and their gem doesn't necessarily have to be used with Heroku for local machines. [1] We use Heroku exclusively, so they manage c
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by nthj 14y ago
yes. This is the first thing I fix on most Rails projects I inherit. Hardly exclusive to PHP.
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by nthj 14y ago
> I would take the idea more seriously if its something that can be rigorously demonstrated; i.e. there is no way to amend the US government without adding so many rules as to frustrate the situation even further. I cannot scientificall
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by nthj 14y ago
One recommendation, stolen from patio11: sell weekly blocks of your time. This is more fair to both those hiring you, and to your startup, because ramp-up and context-switch time are an expensive part of software development.
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by nthj 14y ago
> 1. You assume because a "korean immigrant" can do something, that it must not be intractable (hard). Or he assumes that integrating yourself and your family into a new culture, quite possibly while learning a new language, are both di
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by nthj 14y ago
> Moreover, why can't we have both? A government with smaller influence, but still freer of money-influence than today's. That feels like asking, "why can't we have both a simpler software codebase, with less abstraction and code, while
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by nthj 14y ago
I'm throwing this out there as a tech lead who interviewed and made hiring decisions on juniors in the Austin, TX market. First, working apps are big: put them on Heroku, link them up. I don't care how "straightforward" or "noob" they may s
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by nthj 14y ago
Not to mention that my ability to do something awesome in the first 30 days is in no small part dependent upon how well designed your onboarding process is, your systems' level of documentation, and how much BS I have to put up with day to
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by nthj 14y ago
Martha, I think I speak for a lot of us on HN that we weren't concerned this was a con, as evidenced by the fact that you're currently number #4 on the home page. From one self-taught programmer to another, congratulations on reaching your

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