paulriddle

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by paulriddle 8y ago
Not only ego. Other people too. Have you tried acting without ego? It might piss some people off, because it will expose them. Right in their smug faces. They will see how free you are and then look at themselves and become MAD. Assuming yo
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by paulriddle 8y ago
The biggest problem with PHP is that a lot of smart people don't want to work with it for whatever reason, and you really want these smart people. To succeed you have to have a good team. Difficult to assemble one with PHP as your lang
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by paulriddle 8y ago
Obviously Javascript, Ruby, Golang, Python. Javascript has become a nice language. You can't avoid it in webdev. Rich ecosystem. Languages like Typescript, Elm, Purescript, etc. are close. Ruby is very practical, has everything, very c
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by paulriddle 8y ago
Some advice doesn't feel right to me. > I also promise not to accept other offers until I have a chance to discuss them with you. Such things should be discussed separately. At this point I might not even know how solid our communic
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by paulriddle 8y ago
Truth be told, at the time I was also reading around 20 other books, it's just that I completed 90% of How To Prove It and around 10-15% of the other books. I was so captivated by math after discovering blogs of rather opinionated math
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by paulriddle 8y ago
I overcame my math illiteracy by reading How To Prove It. The book is so simple and narrow in scope and yet it gave me a feeling that ultimately no math is beyond my grasp, even the papers on arxiv. Now I would say my math skills are still
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by paulriddle 8y ago
I am currently using this horrible keyboard. Hate this thing. Before I've been using a mechanical keyboard, but coworkers complained that it was too loud. I like loud keybords. The sound is so pleasant and satisfying I want it to be ev
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by paulriddle 8y ago
Women will buy thinner phones. Fat phone makes you look fat. A delicate slim phone feels better! (kind of joking, but who knows) Some people, not just women, might think that thinner means more advanced. After all, it's always been som
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by paulriddle 8y ago
It is possible to display humility without confidence. So it's possible there's no mistake at all.
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by paulriddle 8y ago
> Permission (especially if its not related to something they were assigned to do) can come across as diverting off course and pulling peoples will towards theirs, more so if the request requires action on their part. That's so true
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by paulriddle 8y ago
I feel like black box assessment is highly inferior to white box or whatever it is called, when you have access to source code. Huge waste of time for both company and security specialist. It is only acceptable for ongoing bug bounties. Am
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by paulriddle 8y ago
> But in business, this trope is implying "You're free to abandon your career, study chemical engineering, get financing to start a lab, hire a large staff of experts, buy the machinery, run an advertising campaign, establish t
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by paulriddle 8y ago
To me it feels like apples to oranges comparison. I watched this talk on strangeloop a long time ago, and a version of this talk given on RailsConf recently (watched recently, not given). Here's what I see on the page: > Complex con
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by paulriddle 8y ago
> We know because they tell us. But not marginalized groups also tell them. Now the question is who tells more? I think marginalized, because they read all these blogs and tweets about being opressed, shift their selective focus to minor
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by paulriddle 9y ago
Well. Is it really bad to have bugs though? I think it can be good, it's free advertising it gets people's attention for some time. Which is good. Even being hacked is good, you can always turn it into PR. Maybe Apple doesn't
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by paulriddle 9y ago
It's insanity. If I found myself working for such an employer I would immediately label them as my enemy and nope the hell out of there as soon as possible. I wouldn't talk with my friends or family, I wouldn't watch youtube
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by paulriddle 9y ago
I agree. His book Practical Typography is very hard on the eyes, even looking at the text is uncomfortable. I think he fell into a trap of overdoing things. Like some people when they learn about what you can do with javascript and css add
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by paulriddle 10y ago
I think it would be hard to provide such an example. Mostly because most companies that fail don't do it because of technology but rather because of the nature of their product itself, people, or money. And language plays a part in it
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by paulriddle 12y ago
If you are serious about the offer - I would take it. I could explain it in detail via email as to why , but it really boils down to motivation and having somebody who supports you. Currently I'm learning Rails, and I'm having no