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Rolling Jubilee – A bailout of the people by the people(rollingjubilee.org)
5 points by rmchugh 12y ago|0 comments
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by rmchugh 12y ago
Have your arms recovered?
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by rmchugh 12y ago
the sample chapter of the book is more detailed: https://leanpub.com/trailblazer
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by rmchugh 12y ago
the author argues based on his experience refactoring legacy Rails apps that these problems are so common that they must stem in some way from the framework. I'm not sure how true this is, but my experience is that Rails doesn't g
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by rmchugh 12y ago
perhaps a bit of an exaggeration. i apologise. i suppose i'm mainly bitter about PHP. It completely baffles me that FB have invested so much money in the language ecosystem
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by rmchugh 12y ago
thanks for that, wasn't aware of that connection.
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by rmchugh 12y ago
Ruby is a wonderful language. It would be great if there was some deep-pocketed multinational willing to fund its development in the same way as Facebook has done for PHP or Google has done for Python.
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by rmchugh 12y ago
> the true intentions of the Glass project was a social experiment by Google to introduce something quite controversial and see how it fared in the current social/technology climate in America. Honestly I think the true intentions o
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by rmchugh 12y ago
I would perhaps say that Adam Curtis has a great knowledge of recent history, rather than understanding. His work portrays history as an unending sequence of conspiracies. While I greatly enjoy his work, I would in no way consider him an hi
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by rmchugh 12y ago
It really depends where you are in your career. If you are just starting out and would like to work in general web development, committing yourself to JS only would be stupid beyond belief. That would assume that JS based frameworks are goi
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by rmchugh 12y ago
Remember the Internet? Wow that was great.
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by rmchugh 12y ago
Europeans had domestic animals (horses, pigs, cows, sheep, dogs, chickens), meaning that they had acquired resistance to the many diseases that animals bring with them. The Americas had few animals that were capable of domestication, thus n
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by rmchugh 12y ago
I for one am disappointed that they didn't host this on a .it domain.
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Can tiny plankton help reverse climate change?(aeon.co)
1 points by rmchugh 12y ago|0 comments
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by rmchugh 12y ago
Nice piece of work. It would be cool if you could OCR the text out of the pdfs (perhaps using ocrad.js) and push the text in as a GitHub commit. In that way, you would have a full history of all changes to a document.
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by rmchugh 12y ago
No, I don't. I mean laws governing the relationship between workers and employees. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_law Do you think that placing legal reins on employers' ability to do whatever they want
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by rmchugh 12y ago
There was an interesting article about Microsoft's use of a similar mechanism written by one of their developers. He wrote that it encouraged people to seek out incompetent teams to work with as within these teams they were guaranteed
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by rmchugh 12y ago
I'm not sure how much it is a case of Americans tolerating it, rather than Americans lacking decent labour legislation to challenge this sort of nonsense. Luckily in Ireland we have pretty good labour law that gives us better protectio
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Sacked Google worker awarded €110,000 for unfair dismissal(irishtimes.com)
87 points by rmchugh 12y ago|48 comments
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by rmchugh 12y ago
Another thing to bear in mind is that cron won't have access to your Rails environment per default. If for example you used cron to call a rake script which needed the Rails environment, you would be loading the Rails env every time, w
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by rmchugh 12y ago
In Denmark: http://www.it-kollektivet.dk/
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by rmchugh 13y ago
looks interesting, will give it a try.
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by rmchugh 13y ago
blazing fast it isn't.
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by rmchugh 13y ago
More horrible things you can do with javascript.
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by rmchugh 13y ago
might have been a good idea to black out his name. poor fellow might lose his job for being caught saying that.
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by rmchugh 13y ago
"I now believe the only way to have a secure career is to make one for yourself. You could be let go at any time, for any reason." This is absolutely nuts. Do American workers have zero rights to redundancy pay, notice, warnings
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by rmchugh 13y ago
Wired in inaccurate gloss of complicated technical subject shocker! Seriously, they're like the Daily Mail of Silicon Valley. P.S. well done on the language, sounds interesting.
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by rmchugh 13y ago
on the other hand, nothing is more demotivating than an unmotivated professor.
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by rmchugh 13y ago
snide remarks about people who choose an education to broaden their horizons? is it just me or does that strike you as just a little bit... narrow-minded?
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by rmchugh 13y ago
new hero! and his book seems like it will be good: http://playbooknovel.com/

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