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by rpwilcox 15y ago
There's a number of parts of Rails core that could probably be spawned off to other gems. For example, the form building tools: there are several better ones out there - I know I always use Formtastic over what Rails provides. Another one w
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Yay we are doomed - Agile lessons from the Trenches(ebook signup)(yaywearedoomed.com)
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by rpwilcox 15y ago
I agree (with you, nupark) For example, thr other day I was debugging a crash in my Cocoa (ARC) app. I've been programming Cocoa since 10.1, although I stepped away for a few years. Anyway, random crash. My "manage memory manually" training
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by rpwilcox 15y ago
TL;DR: If you didn't go to a top ivy league school, bust your ass with internships and network like crazy, you don't want to start your own business AND you don't know a little bit of everything, Apple or Google doesn't want to see you. (So
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by rpwilcox 15y ago
On a bad scrumfall project, a coworker of mine (Dave Bock) talked about an Agile Maturity Assessment ( http://blog.codesherpas.com/on_the_path/2010/07/the-path-to-... ). He never really got it off the ground, but I only mention it to say th
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Freelancer Beer Hour G+ Hangout, every Friday at 4:30 EST(gphangouts.com)
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by rpwilcox 15y ago
> Because it's easier to convince the company's executives to do that than fix the systemic issues that are truly eating up software engineer bandwidth. Yes and no. Politics and systemic issues are hard to face up to, but sometimes the
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by rpwilcox 15y ago
Oh, I have no doubt. Many things are funny about Githire, including just how many coders are in the top 10-20% of Github users (including those with one repo and no activity).
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by rpwilcox 15y ago
Sounds like businesses can smell a deal a mile away. I thought normal recruiter practice was some percentages (10%, 20%?) of a hire's first year pay. So, like $10,000 to $20,000. If you can get an interview with a potential employee for one
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by rpwilcox 15y ago
SEEKING WORK, REMOTE or north central PA I've been doing Ruby on Rails for the last 3 years/10 projects, on teams big (7 people), and small (just myself), green-field to rescue projects, from Rails 1.2.3 to Rails 3.1. I've also done a bit o
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by rpwilcox 15y ago
Ever watch the tv show "pawn stars"? At least once an episode there's some guy - with no idea about what he has - walk in with an idea that they're going to sell some piece of trash for $5,000. When the bosses actually look at the piece,
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by rpwilcox 15y ago
Another vote for Scivener here, BUT you might be interested in git-scribe also ( https://github.com/schacon/git-scribe )
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by rpwilcox 15y ago
Agreed - we teach math in schools not to make everyone top talented Mathematicians, but to teach a skill that might be useful in life. Teaching programming in schools would probably get the same result was teaching math: courses that norm
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Links and advice for the "seeking tech co-founder"/ "build my app" startups(wilcoxd.com)
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by rpwilcox 15y ago
I agree - I think that part about "swinging for the fences" waters down the article's message. "well of course my idea for Facebook for cats is a great idea - I've got to swing for the fences!!"... Which could be the take-a-way for some p
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by rpwilcox 15y ago
> Unless you're the kind of employee that needs constant hand-holding and micromanagement, you're still responsible for your other tasks. The micromangament thing goes both ways: Perhaps you're the boss that doesn't trust their people t
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by rpwilcox 15y ago
From the article: > Ask what you should do first. Should you stop working on X and Y and finish this new project first?” How... niave. In my experience, in these situations the boss will say, "Work on Y"... then when X is due, wonder wh
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by rpwilcox 15y ago
One of the cool things about continuous deployment is that rush of, "Here's a new feature, right now! You don't have to wait! It doesn't break any specs, so it must work and be a good idea!" One of the downsides is that bugs like this creep
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by rpwilcox 15y ago
True (and that's the one issue I had with the article). I want to look back at my life and say something like, "I labored to make a sustainable business, was able to see my kids grow up and be there for them. All while working towards makin
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by rpwilcox 15y ago
Same thing happened to me. It claims I have 5+ years of Ruby experience. But, I learned Ruby in May 2008, because I got a job doing Rails development. (I just looked it up). So, 3 years, going on 4.
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by rpwilcox 15y ago
I would love to know if many business guys are getting pitched by startups, for equity positions, and how they handle these offers. (And if business guys are seeing a lot of offers like we do in the tech community, or if they're too busy dr
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by rpwilcox 15y ago
Yes, thank you! Especially the line about "here's what I hear" line. I'm also a bit worried when startups throw equity around like it's water... because technically, there's only so much equity...
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by rpwilcox 15y ago
Exactly. Thank you, TechCrunch, for (amongst other things) making the talent crunch worse : "TechCrunch says I need to hire rockstar programmers who can grasp the domain model stupidly quickly then make room-blowing strides with in 90 days
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The Talent Crunch: Not where you expect(or: more coders won't solve the crunch)(rwilcox.tumblr.com)
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by rpwilcox 15y ago
> You could go to the bank and get about the same and not have to give away anything. Could you? It seems like a bank would want some kind of collateral for a small business loan (unless you spend 6 months trying to get a loan from the
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by rpwilcox 15y ago
> but rather a crunch for coders who are near the top. The industry could find plenty of people if they are looking for mediocre developers, but that's not where the jobs are going. Exactly: to me the talent "crunch" seems to be for: R
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by rpwilcox 15y ago
As much as I respect Douglas Crockford, did he just reinvent Python's Doctest ( http://docs.python.org/library/doctest.html )?
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by rpwilcox 15y ago
> All these are counter-productive for a company... In my experience, companies that deathmarch can't see past the current deadline: "We'll deal with the repercussions of this action later, we need results now ". Which, yes, is counter
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by rpwilcox 15y ago
Agreed - I have a similar process which I documented on my blog: http://rwilcox.tumblr.com/post/12034393163/using-foreman-to-...
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Using Mutt on OS X - tips, tricks, and integrations(rwilcox.tumblr.com)
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