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by nthj 13y ago
We use Circle at my Rails consultancy. They make us more productive, which in turn helps us work from wherever we want—a coffeeshop near home or anywhere in the world. Also, we're using Circle to help with a project for monthly life sk
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A lot of success in life requires being able to tell a story. Not lie, but telling others your accomplishments in an interesting way. You can say, my greatest accomplishment this year was maintaining a large rails app, or you can say, I lea
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http://DNSimple.com for us. Their template system and support is fantastic.
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> My we might be using a four-year-old copy of Photoshop, or Word. > my Rails consultant tells me that after he builds my 3 user internal accounting app I feel this is an unfair comparison between desktop software and a web app. Web a
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> I really wish we could admit publicly that Ruby is really not a race horse. Ruby isn't a race horse. It just turns out that when you're just plowing fields, harnessing up your prize stallion is a waste of resources.
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> Ruby is hilarious slow, for example. [citation needed]. Also, relevant Stack Overflow debate is available. [1] TL;DR: yes, of course Ruby is slower than, say, C, but today's bottleneck isn't hardware, it's developer prod
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Down in Austin, TX. Edit: Personal @gmail, and also Apps for Business.
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Fair enough. When I saw the title I first thought any random website could start silently listening, NSA-style—the real story isn't nearly that crazy.
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tl;dr: When you explicitly grant a website access to your microphone, the site may keep listening in a popunder window after you close the original tab.
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> Not to mention the fact that home-schooled kids are far, far behind "ordinary schooled" kids in terms of knowledge. How should they be other, after all? I was homeschooled all the way through high school, and while I may not
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>> Once a person stops coding for a significant portion of time, critical connections to the concerns of developers atrophy. > Citation needed. It sounds as fake as supposed facts like we only use 10 percent of our brains, or other
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I like SizeUp a lot: http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/sizeup/
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> Requiring a professional is a flaw, not a virtue. Your statement depends entirely on the context. I agree that requiring a professional to assemble my IKEA furniture would be a flaw. Requiring a professional to assemble my custom marbl
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A bit of a tangent, but am I the only one who finds texts unacceptable in professional situations? I never reply to a text from a client; if it's important, I'll reply to the text FROM an email, but never as a text. If it happens
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Consulting has its challenges, but one of the most amazing perks is charging for value, not time. Once I demonstrate the value of the project to the client, and bill by the week, I no longer have to justify unit testing, continuous integrat
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The real magic is that after you sink enough hours into high-quality code, you can write the high-quality stuff just as fast as low-quality code.
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> are you better off dead or with the NSA? The more things change, the more things stay the same: ”Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at th
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What with keyboard loggers, unsecured wifi, video cameras, stolen computers, stolen iPhones (with email access, now you're vulnerable to password resets), there are just too many attack vectors for even a 16 character password to suffi
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Because CircleCI stores private keys for the sake of deploying to your servers when your build passes. It's separate from your actual codebase having any private keys, which I agree would be a Really Bad Thing.
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2. Doesn't track. “Dude if you don't make it out for drinks tonight, you're dead to me” would make sense. “If you do <serious thing> you're dead to me” isn't really funny.
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I feel manipulated but I couldn't help giving you an upvote anyway.
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> But most Rails devs (myself included) are just about getting shit done, we don't know everything that's going on under the bonnet, and we don't want to. I love getting shit done. It's my job as a professional to kno
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Investors are a subset of “people who save“
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I've picked up used MacBooks (for relatives etc, I hate Windows tech support) for as little as $300. Still running years later. They couldn't be happier.
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As a former wallflower who now routinely gets mistaken for an extrovert, I just want to encourage us introverts out there that being social is a skill, just like marketing, programming, or reading. As with any skill, some people are born na
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Always love talking shop with fellow consultancy owners. If you're game, drop me an email and introduce yourself!
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I love SimpleForm, but I still wouldn't want to roll my own administrative interface. With RailsAdmin, I make changes to my database schema, or add a new model, and those changes are automatically reflected in my admin interface. One l
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I don't use ActiveAdmin much, but I do have RailsAdmin set up on Rails 4, no problems: $ grep \'rails Gemfile gem 'rails', '~> 4.0' gem 'rails_admin', '~> 0.5.0' htt
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Hmm, I don't remember giving my fingerprints to anyone for a driver's license.
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Exactly. I love shipping features for customers—I generally can't do this without bouncing from JavaScript to Ruby to back again faster than I could say "I'm working in this specific context right now." For example, toda

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