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by nthj 10y ago
When asked for an emergency contact, I always supply "[wife's name] [wife's #] (please text)", knowing there's basically no chance of her picking up a call from an unknown number.
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by nthj 10y ago
This seems trivial to circumvent by (1) tying into New Mexico's database or (2) cross-sectioning license plates + facial recognition databases the first time you drive through a traffic light; so trivial that the time and expense of th
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by nthj 10y ago
I always took that expression to mean “having cash in the bank on the day before payday"; maybe that's not how it was coined, but it's certainly possible for a person to get ahead of his own situation without comparing himsel
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by nthj 11y ago
So a lot of times, on a project, maybe right after a production deploy, I'll just keep the production logs open on a spare monitor or a TV, and passively keep an eye on what's going on while working on other things. I'm not l
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by nthj 11y ago
> If you do need to back out a feature, how would you do it on a rebased, fast-forward merge? I've never been on a team where we fast-forward-merged multiple commits as a feature. (I'm sure it happens, but I can't see it w
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by nthj 11y ago
Nice! I had the same pain point and worked something up a few weekends ago. [1] I may look into integrating some of my ideas into Claudia.js, although "I like CoffeeScript" may not be in line with where the author is headed. Most
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by nthj 11y ago
> over-hyped For the past 5-6 years or so I've been working extensively with Stripe, Braintree, WePay, and PayPal, on a number of different eCommerce and marketplace platforms. Some supported only one of these gateways, other platfo
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by nthj 11y ago
I imagine that ActionCable will support a variety [1] of pub-subs sooner than later, similar to how ActiveRecord supports multiple databases. I almost took a stab at working PostgreSQL support in a couple of weeks ago, but Tubesock [2] was
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by nthj 11y ago
> But folks that don't live within walking distance to daily needs like their bank, grocery stores, barber, doctor... are going to rack up extra costs switching to hired cars. This may be a bit too simple. Technology is solving thes
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by nthj 11y ago
A bit off-topic, but I recommend Middleman as a nice, well, middle-ground: Middleman builds to static files like Jekyll, but pulls in Rails' asset pipeline features for a better experience.
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by nthj 11y ago
If the argument we're going with is “well, microservices-first is relatively new so we won't know for another year or 3 if this is a mature route to take, but everyone's trying it anyway so let's do that", there is
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by nthj 11y ago
Somewhere along the way I realized that design skill has as much to do with making convincing business cases for simplifying your business offering as it does with what design patterns we use. Approached this way, these types of articles he
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by nthj 11y ago
No worries, we will just build other drones that hover at 100 feet above ground level, and are programmed to detect falling drones or drone parts, and then cast a net to catch the falling parts. Then, we will have other drones, that hover a
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by nthj 11y ago
I am not a game developer, just a developer and a gamer, so please forgive what may be a goofy question: have you seen or engineered systems that capped the level designers' resources? For a super simplified example, I think of Forge i
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by nthj 11y ago
Worked in a similar situation for a while. I feel your pain. You have three choices, I followed this progression: 1. Stick it out. You'll become stupid. Remember those hard problems? The ones where you woke up early in the morning, exc
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by nthj 12y ago
It's not about saving time, it's about avoiding context switches. Also I'm really bad at remembering that I'm out of something even 5 seconds later, much less when I'm at the store racking my brain for what I'm
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by nthj 12y ago
> Even people in the US should only be in the office 1/3 of the day. A Silicon Valley startup /generally/ has most of their customers in the US. Both US businesses and US consumers have a cultural expectation that issues b
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by nthj 12y ago
A large piece of delivering value to a business as a developer is, in the words of PG, "knowing what to build, not just how to build." Day-to-day, an on-site developer might be expected to sift through customers' feedback, jo
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by nthj 12y ago
If you hire an electrician to wire your house, he doesn't say “This costs $3,500 (or whatever) and another $700 to ground everything properly." He says "That will cost $4,200", because he is a professional, and he is go
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by nthj 12y ago
> so you can say anything you want in a courtroom without being arrested, unless it causes immeidate danger (e.g. yelling "FIRE!"). "F@$% you, your honor!” “Bailiff, please arrest mr. nthj for contempt of court” http:&#x2
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by nthj 12y ago
I pre-ordered several coins in November 2013. I tried to retrieve my Coins during the beta, following through their convoluted "get an invite to our iOS app to request your coin" process. I did not receive even one coin. I have no
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by nthj 12y ago
I always thought Uber avoided such a clause now and would continue to do so in the future, regardless of monopoly status, because their contractors being reclassified as employees would be disastrous to their business model.
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by nthj 12y ago
I've taught a Rails 12-week bootcamp, delivered on-site Ruby on Rails trainings for various Fortune 100 companies, and in a past life spent a considerable amount of time teaching in another field. Patrick covered the "charge more&
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by nthj 12y ago
Certainly his time and capital are worth something. He's probably out of pocket for at least a few lawyer fees. And if he intended to live there, he's now set back 2-3 months rent while he finds another permanent solution. All in
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by nthj 12y ago
> If you raised money to pay their back taxes, what would they do the following year? Detroit property tax rates are something like 3% per year. If I own the house outright, shouldn't I get a mortgage on the house to pay the propert
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by nthj 12y ago
I'm not sure, we received our gigs through referrals. I've long thought I should set up a landing page for this kind of service—this seems pretty well-received on HN so maybe I'll finally get around to it now.
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by nthj 12y ago
This stuck out to me, too. This is exactly the scenario where you want to bring in a third-party consulting team. My team has been hired for this role several times: we receive full access to the technology stack and the target's engin
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by nthj 12y ago
This may be roughly equivalent to saying, “I would rather have a programming language that describes what I want in plain english, so I can program myself without hiring a programmer to do it for me.“ Even the first ten amendments, "si
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by nthj 12y ago
I'm a grown adult who is perfectly capable of maintaining a savings account and investing in a network of peers who I could ask for help with acquiring another job. Why should that be my employer's responsibility?
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by nthj 12y ago
I've wondered about this. If somebody had tens of millions of dollars, it seems like it might be worth it to pay a lawyer a retainer or insurance or something–"Hey, you have to take care of me if a government ever seized all my as

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