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by omouse 11y ago
This is pretty awesome, I don't know what it is but I've been getting more aggressive recruiters actually calling me. One even called the office of my recent new job! Huge wtf; I'm a dev I like automation, don't call .
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by omouse 11y ago
The issue is backwards compatibility and ensuring API compatibility. I don't care if I can switch from underscore to lodash if I have to change X lines of code and then test them many times over to make sure that it all works.
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by omouse 11y ago
In the past you would create a few mailing lists; I think sourceforge automatically did that for you too. They should have locked the thread or use a wiki page for this. A wiki page is less likely to be edited to add this kind of comment or
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by omouse 11y ago
It's the best way of setting up a clear goal. At my current job for a new project we only had marketing send over specs to some UX/UI designers and we're going to get the prototype UI sent to the devs for feedback. No idea wh
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by omouse 11y ago
What I have wanted to do for years is setup additional scripts/packages that act like DigitalOcean's droplets but for XMPP/mail server/ownCloud/MediaGoblin/etc. A one-click package that you can drop onto any ho
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by omouse 11y ago
>Eric Schmidt doesn’t care if I’m using Emacs Actually, yes he does especially if you use GNU/Linux because that runs the world. The importance of free/open source is so great that if the popular libraries switched to a proprie
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by omouse 11y ago
It's hard enough to explain to people that we should only be working 5hrs/day, can't just dive into it right away.
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by omouse 11y ago
still stuck on Django 1.6.x; also stuck with Python 2.7.x; fear is the order of the day when it comes to upgrades.
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by omouse 11y ago
now if I could only get my company to accept payments in bitcoin...
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by omouse 11y ago
The idea is that you let a million flowers of innovation bloom. You shouldn't need VCs to pursue your ideas and it's usually recommended (Joel Spolsky, Philip Greenspun, Jason Fried and DHH etc. recommend against it). It should
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by omouse 11y ago
It's an issue when dealing with management or clients. They can see long commits as a problem with someone with too much time on their hands. The whole point of a version control system is that it contains everything related to the c
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by omouse 11y ago
Just noticed that AWS gives you 12 months of Free Tier access on a lot of their services. As a dev who's been aware of Amazon Web Services for a long time it may be finally time to get into use Google Cloud or AWS. If you've been
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Testing AngularJS services that use $resource(neverfriday.com)
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by omouse 11y ago
What's funny is that these ideas are all better than the typical projects and ideas proposed within a company. Hell they're excellent in that their scope is limited, their budget is limited and the time to build them is limited.
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by omouse 11y ago
Not a day goes by without an article about the redundancy of daily standups and about the fact that as a creative worker you can only work best at certain times and in certain environments.
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by omouse 11y ago
I'm not going to slag on the developer; the manager got a better short term outcome. The longer than 1 week outcome is that I've had to go back and re-visit that code and make sure it's "done done for reals it's don
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by omouse 11y ago
> That's the everyday misconception. Nobody produces wealth just by typing at a keyboard. Products don't design and sell themselves and it's arrogant to pretend that product people and salespeople aren't a huge part o
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by omouse 11y ago
The problem with Agile is that it's political; it gives programmers lots of power because it allows them to control the scope of the project and it gives the more access to the client/customer/business analyst/user. It a
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by omouse 11y ago
Even the code for the subsystems that work could be improved and turned into real dollars. I've seen it in so many projects where a commonly used web page loads very slowly. On an ecommerce site, seconds and milliseconds count. Optimiz
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by omouse 11y ago
That's the everyday struggle; as developers we can produce so much wealth just by typing at a keyboard. Yet we let ourselves be controlled by people who don't know what's what and can't even prove their ideas have any re
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by omouse 11y ago
>Technical debt is ok, and often a solid product strategy. The importance is getting to market. Apparently they're using Rails or PHP at Bigcommerce. If you're trying to get to market as fast as possible then Rails makes sense
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by omouse 12y ago
The issue is underestimation. Everything is underestimated. That bug that was 5 lines of code? You had to spend 3 days looking for it. Writing docs and unit tests now is cheaper than fixing bugs later . I guess you're right that it
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by omouse 12y ago
Bought it and recommended it to someone already, thanks for the suggestion!
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by omouse 12y ago
Welcome to JavaScript.
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by omouse 12y ago
It's interesting that the most important part, the part of the process that will cut your costs and cut variability is the requirements/analysis and architecture design part. It's the thing that many people skim over and don&
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by omouse 12y ago
They should connect and then integrate the calendar into gitstats, it looks really useful and would be awesome to put into the gitstats report.
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by omouse 12y ago
That's the biggest danger with estimates, that you're being held accountable for a padded guesstimate. One way of avoiding this is to give estimates in ranges or with +/- attached: "It will take 2 days, + 5 days, - 1 day
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by omouse 12y ago
I've changed my mind on estimates; if you're giving a guesstimate it's your professional responsibility to make it clear that this is a guess and to explain that as you work or investigate the task(s) you will have a better e
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by omouse 12y ago
If you're a manager, salesperson or work on the business side, you have to tell tall tales all the time. It's called people-skills.
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by omouse 12y ago
Building crud apps actually is a challenge! I've seen three projects over the last year that are basically CRUD apps with some email notifications and that's it. And yet, because there's a custom workflow and some custom UI

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