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My company wrote a blog post a while back with some tips for a good cover letter -- it's not specific to engineering but I think it's super helpful anyway: https://blog.aha.io/the-best-cover-letters-that-ceos-love-
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Navdy contacts would-be creditors, prepares to liquidate
(techcrunch.com)
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I haven't seen the sad octocat falling off a cliff before. Wonder if it's just a new error page or a different type of outage than they typically have.
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GitHub is down
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In my experience, Prince is great for static HTML + CSS rendering, but its JavaScript engine is pretty lackluster -- I couldn't get it to work with rendering React components, for example. So it depends a lot on your use case and if yo
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I just went to see a general family doctor originally. I made the appointment by saying that I hadn't been in for a checkup in a while and wanted to establish a relationship with a general practitioner (for me it felt even more difficu
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For me, it started with an antidepressant (escitalopram, commonly called Lexapro) and weekly visits with a therapist. The escitalopram did wonders for my particular depression. I have dysthymia (also called persistent depressive disorder, I
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Went to my doctor for the first time about what turned out to be undiagnosed/untreated comorbid depression and ADHD. I was apprehensive and avoided it for years but it's easily been one of the best decisions I've ever made. I
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Debunking arguments against remote work
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How to run a remote team meeting
(blog.aha.io)
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Thrilled to finally see ST3 out of beta, it's like Christmas in September. I've used ST3 beta for literally thousands of hours since 2013, and ST2 before that. I've tried many newer options (Atom, VSCode, etc) but nothing has
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At my current company (Aha!). Fully remote which is great for me because I'm a night owl. Interesting and technically challenging work in my favorite stack (Rails/React). We use our own product so I get to see my new code/fea
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How I Convinced Our CTO to Switch from CoffeeScript to ES6
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Noticed a typo in the onboarding flow: http://i.imgur.com/qbXQHrR.png Should probably be something like "Kozmos will add the <3 button to your browser..." or at least "Kozmos will add to your browser the &
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Ruby on Rails if it's something that doesn't demand top-of-the-line performance. It easily makes me the most productive writing backend code/APIs and it's not really close -- so many problems that are just solved, sane c
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Yes, your initial summary is my understanding as well. Basically, top-level domains use fairly arbitrary domains as authoritative nameservers (in this case ns-a[1-4].io), and the company that manages all the .io registrations (101Domain) wa
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Aha! is always hiring quality folks to work on our Ruby on Rails and Javascript (React) application. We are fully remote (work from anywhere in North America), profitable, and we offer excellent benefits. http://www.aha.io | ema
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Aha! ( http://www.aha.io ) | Rails / Front End / UX | REMOTE Aha! is looking for experienced Ruby on Rails, Javascript and front-end engineers to develop rich interactive experiences in React with a Rails backend. Aha! i
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@SwiftOnSecurity. Excellent tweets on security, general programming stuff, nerd humor, and women in tech.
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Tweet thread from the founder of hapi.js about maintenance and financial support
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Yeah, as others have noted, the default for Rails is definitely not Mongo. SQLite is the default and thus ends up getting used a lot in development. Production is a relatively even split between Postgres and MySQL, although I think it tilts
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Also a dev at Aha! and second Peter's comment.
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Yep, I went for 16GB and maxed out the processor, very glad as well. The specs are still well above average for the industry, I don't think I'll replace it til 2019 barring an accident or whatever. It's actually really easy t
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15" rMBP. Got it in March 2015 and it's been rock-solid for over 2 years now (my previous Macbook lasted 4+ years before having a sporadic boot problem that probably could've been fixed if I wasn't ready to replace it an
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Yeah I just now saw that. Probably regional cache clearing or something.
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Did it? Still fields of green for me.
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I'd be surprised if they could detect battery swelling on a scanner. The battery's horizontal area doesn't really change, it just kind of bulges. The scanners are two dimensional and they make you lay your computer flat in a
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This is a great explanation, thanks. I'd never quite understood this either.
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They're referring to the UK/Brexit. There's a lot of opinions and some decently complex economics involved, but for a short summary, Brexit created economic uncertainty which acts as a general damper on business investment&#x
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Sure, but that doesn't take particularly long and is probably automated to minimize employee exposure. They certainly don't keep copies of child porn on their servers indefinitely (this would obviously be illegal, among other thin
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