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by prophetjohn 10y ago
Also Brooklynite. I'd just like to another: The confidence of knowing that the driver will get me where I need to go. I have, on more than one occasion, gotten in a cab in Williamsburg (which is in Brooklyn), asked to go to Park Slope
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by prophetjohn 10y ago
This is not correct. What you're describing is two different styles of merging: fast-forward and no fast-forward, as indicated by the `--no-ff` and `--ff-only` flags provided to `git-merge` `git-rebase` will rewrite the history of the
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by prophetjohn 10y ago
For someone who already knows how to program and just wants to learn Rails, the official guides[1] are top notch and a great way to learn the framework without having to read a whole book [1] http://guides.rubyonrails.org/
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by prophetjohn 11y ago
I'd describe myself as a "TDD guy." Probably the type that most of the TDD-negative comments are about. I've got quite a bit of experience doing TDD in large applications, mostly web or services for consumption by a web-
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by prophetjohn 11y ago
PolicyGenius | New York, NY (NYC) | Full-Time | Onsite Software engineer (full-stack or front-end, mid-to-senior) We're looking for multiple new team members to help us build and grow our Rails and React applications. Our stack: - A li
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by prophetjohn 11y ago
PolicyGenius | New York, NY (NYC) | Full-Time | Onsite Software engineer (full-stack or front-end, mid-to-senior) We're looking for multiple new team members to help us build and grow our Rails and React applications. Our stack: - A li
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by prophetjohn 11y ago
A very quick Google search for "rails rename column" will show that there's a method called "rename_column" You can even search for "rails typo in migration" and the first result is a stack overflow post s
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PolicyGenius Raises $15M for Its Online Insurance Brokerage(techcrunch.com)
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by prophetjohn 11y ago
PolicyGenius | New York, NY (NYC) | Full-Time | Onsite Software engineer (full-stack or front-end, mid-to-senior) We're looking for multiple new team members to help us build and grow our Rails and React applications. Our stack: - A li
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by prophetjohn 11y ago
PolicyGenius | Brooklyn, NYC, NY | Full-Time | Onsite Senior front-end engineer / architect: - You’re a front-end engineer with a sharp focus on clean design and modular, component-based code. - You have a strong opinion on BEM/OO
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by prophetjohn 11y ago
PolicyGenius | Front-End/UI Engineer | Brooklyn, NYC, NY | Full-Time | Onsite The role: We're looking for a mid-to-senior-level front-end/UI engineer to help us build and maintain the UI of our apps. About you: - You’re a fro
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by prophetjohn 11y ago
Full-time | Software Engineer | PolicyGenius | Brooklyn, New York (NYC) We're PolicyGenius and we're building an online education and shopping platform for insurance. We're looking for full-time, mid- to senior-level, front-e
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by prophetjohn 11y ago
Full-time | Software Engineer | PolicyGenius | Brooklyn, New York (NYC) We're PolicyGenius and we're building an online education and shopping platform for insurance. We're looking for full-time, junior and senior, front-end
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by prophetjohn 11y ago
Full-time | Senior Software Engineer, Front-end Engineer | PolicyGenius | Brooklyn, New York (NYC) We're PolicyGenius and we're building an online education and shopping platform for insurance. We're looking for a full-time e
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by prophetjohn 11y ago
Full-time | Senior Software Engineer | PolicyGenius | Brooklyn, New York (NYC) We're PolicyGenius and we're building an online education and shopping platform for insurance. We're looking for a full-time senior software engin
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by prophetjohn 11y ago
Shameless plug for a Chrome extension that I wrote that helps with this a bit (if you use Chrome). https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacked-hacker-news...
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by prophetjohn 11y ago
PolicyGenius | Brooklyn, NY (New York, NYC) Positions: We're looking for full-stack and front-end engineers who like Rails and React to join us in our Williamsburg office overlooking the East River. About PolicyGenius: We're a dig
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by prophetjohn 12y ago
I'd be interested to hear what the definition of "everyday literacy needs" is, because I've had a similar experience in the US. Unless there is a large concentration of people who are actually mostly illiterate in rural
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by prophetjohn 12y ago
The docs seem to state otherwise One instance of where this is handy is for returning a 'sensible default' value if an expression resolves to false or null http://groovy.codehaus.org/Operators#Opera
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by prophetjohn 12y ago
Angular UI-Grid has horizontal scrolling and is pretty feature-rich overall http://ui-grid.info/docs/#/tutorial/191_horizontal_scrolling
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by prophetjohn 12y ago
I haven't used Groovy much, so I may be completely missing something here, but how is the elvis operator different from a simple guard in Ruby? Based on the docs for elvis, it looks like potentiallyFalsyValue ?: safeDefault is
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by prophetjohn 13y ago
New York, NY (NYC) - Pivotal Labs We're trying to change the way the world builds software. We need more software engineers and designers to help us. Come work with us and get free breakfast and beer, sane working hours (40 hour weeks)
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by prophetjohn 13y ago
New York
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by prophetjohn 13y ago
It's not the same thing. Labs is part of the greater Pivotal umbrella which includes SpringSource, Cloud Foundry and others. There is no Cloud Application Platform Group at Pivotal Labs. This is also part of the greater Pivotal umbrell
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by prophetjohn 13y ago
You're thinking of Pivotal Labs .
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by prophetjohn 13y ago
To hopefully clarify a little, Pivotal is the "joint venture" of EMC and VMware to which the article refers. Big data in the cloud is the idea behind the business. Pivotal Labs was purchased by EMC, though, and is thus a part of P
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by prophetjohn 13y ago
A lot of you guys would absolutely hate to work where I do. Next week is my last week, but for unrelated reasons. We're an open office plan and I love it. I couldn't imagine working in an office where everyone is quietly tucked aw
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by prophetjohn 13y ago
"Full balls" is pretty colloquial, but I imagine it was intentional. It makes sense to me. Kind of like "balls out" or "balls to the wall." Or even "balls deep." Y'know?
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by prophetjohn 13y ago
Grading 1000 code submissions per day would be challenging. What is trying to suggest, though, was that many of those 1000 would not submit code.
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by prophetjohn 13y ago
Fair point. The companies are small and medium-sized. I'm not convinced that those models can't scale, though. One large-ish company that I know of who still does something similar is ThoughtWorks. They have on the order of thousa

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