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Tern: Code Analysis / Autocompletion for JavaScript(ternjs.net)
2 points by rpwilcox 11y ago|0 comments
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by rpwilcox 11y ago
And some obvious cultural differences between UK and US (ie: "budget 2 months to find another job". Which made me scratch my head... my experience lately has been 1-2 weeks, if that. And I'm not in a prime market either...)
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by rpwilcox 11y ago
I like it. The sliders are great, especially showing emotions in the spaces between states: "I'm not quite angry mad, but my :-| face is reasonably red". I would like a free form text field, a more like, "What's bot
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by rpwilcox 11y ago
I too like the idea, and am of two minds of this. In the hands of individuals it's a good tracking tool: I wasn't really aware that I was... maybe not as happy at work as I would have liked until I took this week's survey. I&
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by rpwilcox 12y ago
QuickBase(.com) may be something close to what you want: while mostly aimed at > 10 people businesses. It's not great, but it does have a reasonable amount of power... especially for apps with say less than 10 tables. DabbleDB was a
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by rpwilcox 12y ago
Likewise, I'm somewhat excited by what 0xDBE, the upcoming database "IDE" for DBAs and devs, from JetBrains...
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by rpwilcox 12y ago
Kind of neat, from the Simplest Thing That Could Possibly Work perspective. (Sometimes all you need is five lines of shell script to provision something, vs a full blown provisioning system and all the scaffolding that implies)
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How to install xctool: the comprehensive documentation(rwilcox.tumblr.com)
1 points by rpwilcox 12y ago|0 comments
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What Have We Learned? (from Vesper)(medium.com)
1 points by rpwilcox 12y ago|0 comments
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by rpwilcox 12y ago
TL;DR: Since 2012 McKinsey has a program where you can take 5-10 weeks UNPAID off between projects (once per year). They also talk about "team norm" before a project. There are also part time posts available. 13% of the workforce
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by rpwilcox 12y ago
Was wishing for the Mac version to be free, but then remembered the Mac version is probably 68K (instruction set). But still, had so much fun playing this on my 68030 back in the day ( just before Apple made the 68K to PowerPC transition..
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by rpwilcox 12y ago
I really wish this was taught more in business school: that metrics/productivity is subject to the Observer Effect ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer_effect_%28physics%29 ) too: that the act of observing for me
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by rpwilcox 12y ago
Thank you! For the past couple of years I've been using Kuvva.com to do this: in addition to having a nice selection of wallpapers their Mac app also correctly keeps the wallpaper the same on all monitors/spaces. But with this gem
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by rpwilcox 12y ago
How common is 600% turnover in management? I know turnover in engineering is usually high (if people are moving around every 18 months to 2 years)... but 600%?
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by rpwilcox 12y ago
Wait... WTH is Panic Sync?
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by rpwilcox 12y ago
It'll be interesting to see what, if any gradients emerge. Technically the "generic OSS based web" stack starts at debugging Linux kernel code (and sys admin cough DevOps cough ), up through the OSI layer (with particular st
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by rpwilcox 12y ago
What kind of filter will be in place to be assured that these are full stack jobs? For example, for the Bradford and Galt Consulting Python/Django job... "some Javascript". This does not scream "full stack" job to m
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by rpwilcox 13y ago
Hmm. Seems like a technique with a very low success rate: out of 1,000 applicants they hired 2? So what's that, a .2% success rate? Seems like there has to be techniques with better success rate than that...
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Retro Mac Computing: MPW: The Long View (2010)(basalgangster.macgui.com)
1 points by rpwilcox 13y ago|0 comments
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by rpwilcox 13y ago
It looks like using Rails test fixtures (reborn) to create seed data. Which is an OK win I guess, and having it separated out by environment (implicitly mentioned in the article) is nice.. but I don't see how much of a win this is over
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by rpwilcox 13y ago
Disagree, there's a lot of ambiguity in English that makes for bad specifications. Example: take even the word "tomorrow". Does tomorrow mean at midnight tonight, or tomorrow morning? Does it mean 24 hours from now , or does
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My Base Rails Setup 2013 (and compared to my Rails Setup in 2010)(blog.wilcoxd.com)
1 points by rpwilcox 13y ago|0 comments
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by rpwilcox 13y ago
Yup. And after getting dinged once or twice in a review, metrics get gamed consciously or unconsciously. The mind tends to avoid pain. If management lays down some metric like "higher velocity by 20%" or "20% more bugs closed
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by rpwilcox 13y ago
Kind of neat. What I like to do with rake tests and/or delayed jobs is write the actual business logic in some other file / module: a module in lib/, a DCI style class, whatever. Then the delayed job / rake task just cal
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List of Full stack Rails Developer Resources(rwilcox.tumblr.com)
1 points by rpwilcox 13y ago|0 comments
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by rpwilcox 13y ago
I like Appcode's formatting tools, and could configure it how I like. (I'm only picky about one or two things stylistically, and one or two things that affect code generation: what Appcode does when it generates an @property for m
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by rpwilcox 13y ago
I've been using Appcode exclusively for the last week, working in a greenfield app. Up until now I've used Appcode here and there for things, but this is the first time I've used it for, well, a work-week straight. I've
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by rpwilcox 13y ago
The scenario sucks, and I really do like apps that give you the option (display in the Dock or display in the menu bar). There is Bartender ( http://www.macbartender.com/ ), which lets you shove all your non-critical menu bar
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Failure is not a four letter word(rwilcox.tumblr.com)
1 points by rpwilcox 13y ago|0 comments
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by rpwilcox 13y ago
> The only quibble I could have is that almost everyone understands what "Quality" is yet it requires education and experience to understand "Scope" I would say that's a feature, not a bug ;) Everyone "knows

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