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by nthj 14y ago
I find I like working on existing projects for this very reason. You can scope things into weekly blocks and emphasize the value you're adding to their business. It's easier for the customer to "See" it since it's not vaporware. It's also
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> I didn't make any money out of it, but I did get a day and a half to look around a new city on expenses. This strikes me as curious. Were you billing hourly?
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There are a lot of people I really enjoy working with that I wouldn't want to partner up with. Kinda like there are a lot of girls I'd go dancing with but that doesn't mean I've proposed to all of them.
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by nthj 14y ago
Sure, that makes sense, and I agree that "likability" is a fantastic metric to include in a hiring decision. And maybe the atmosphere and connotation is a bit different if you ask me the Sunday Test in person during an interview. All that t
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> Stripe turns down candidates with outstanding engineering talent if they don’t fit with the team’s culture. Each candidate must pass the “Sunday test:” if this person were alone in the office on a Sunday would that make you more likel
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by nthj 14y ago
I was about to disagree with you, but I realized the real problem I wanted to address was the importance of context. Text messages from an airline aren't great because by default they have the same "ding" as random jokes and "hey what's up.
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I think the idea is that you own a dozen of the same outfit, which solves the laundry problem.
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> Unless you selected a platform that is too complex to start with. I think that many of the PaaS companies I see today are here mainly for two reasons: Rails & Java frameworks. I think this is where I misunderstood you originally.
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Sure, see OpenStack: http://www.openstack.org/ [that said, comparing automated scaling of a Ruby on Rails SaaS app with 100K+ users to a one-click WordPress install is kinda humorous. Even WordPress has a market for expert DevOps guys to
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> Also people that want to start a business, there is a huge opportunity here, create software that makes managing Apache, Redis, PostgreSQL, ..., in dedicated servers very easy and robust. Traget a popular and robust non-commercial dis
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I'm inclined to wait until Heroku weighs in to render judgement. Specifically, because their argument depends on this premise: > But elsewhere in their current docs, they make the same old statement loud and clear: > The heroku.com
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[citation needed], as the Slashdot discussion [1] had conflicting reports. [1] http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/02/09/0054212/dhs-can-seize...
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Or, if you really want or need a dynamic website, throw CloudFront or similar in front of the site. Then lock down your CMS at a secret, SSL-only URL. It's about 2 lines of Ruby or PHP to ping CloudFront and request an invalidation when you
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by nthj 14y ago
> I really don't like the attitude here. Your significant other moving, is _not a silly thing_. I don't want to speak for the OP, but I took this sentence as, "Losing a good developer because his significant other is headed to medical s
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by nthj 14y ago
I can usually deal with interruptions in a gracious and friendly manner. I'm a nice guy, usually laid back, and capable of rapid context switching. I have discovered, however, that since I do not work for an emergency room, my context-switc
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by nthj 14y ago
I can tell you're not from the south... I shoot targets while standing on my friend's back porch every few weeks or so. I think you'd have to swap "not at a shooting range" with "within city limits." Regardless, say a guy is suicidal/crazy/
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> The constitutionalists could stop deluding themselves as to its applicability, and thus choose to secede or revolt Or revolt over seceding? The Civil War would not have taken place had Lincoln allowed the South to go on their merry wa
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> You can own a gun in US without license, but drive a car without. Man, if I had a dollar for every time I heard this argument. I can park an Aston Martin in my back yard and not have a license for anything. I can be 3 years old or hav
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> yours is a prime example. Glad I could help. tips hat
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by nthj 14y ago
As a guy who has held back on pushing up a branch because he didn't want to field client emails to the effect of "but you said this was fixed on GitHub", thanks, GitHub. This is great.
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> I can 7$ a month for only 5 repositories. That's insanely expensive for such a small repository with MINIMAL traffic in an out. I understand your plight, I've asked GitHub similar questions before and they were very gracious. But the
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Because it's a click-and-point graphical 3D maze-like diagram thing. If she'd piped ps through grep into kill then nobody would have ever mentioned it again.
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"You don't know what you don't know" — my mentor
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> What "expertise" you are speaking of, apt-get? One night, working for a CMS design agency, and running a launch for a new Rails app, I tried installing nodejs onto our dedicated server so Rails could compile the new coffeescript stuff
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> If the only reason to use Heroku or other of its kind is easy deployment - maybe we just need better deployment apps that can work seamlessly across servers. Heroku certainly thought so. That's why they got a few dozen brilliant progr
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by nthj 14y ago
This dismissal of technical problems by fellow hackers always confuses me. As a 20-something I'm all too tempted to routinely adopt the "oh, psh, that's easy" bravado, but as I always tell my junior devs, "if you think it's easy, you don't
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by nthj 14y ago
37signals lets people browse jobs, but not see contact information, until they sign up/pay. A similar workflow might be a possibility here.
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My father took me aside when I was 6 years old (I still remember this conversation like it was yesterday), because I was complaining about writing class, and he told me, yes, it's hard, but it's the number one skill you need to succeed in l
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by nthj 14y ago
That's really weird reasoning. If we applied that reasoning to highway construction areas, you'd see "vehicle-free zones" for fear of somebody speeding. But we don't, so instead, we just have "traffic fines double in construction zones." Wh
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I like the fetch method too: > name = details[:info].try(:fetch, :name) > => 'Bob'

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