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by sturgill 11y ago
> If you view their website as a physical store / private establishment, then I assume that they have every right to establish who has access to what and under what conditions. Not true. There are very specific laws about not being
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by sturgill 11y ago
There are lots of strength training programs out there for beginners (Starting Strength, Stronglifts, Greyskull). Most studies I've read suggest all that really matters is that you are strict with your form and stick to it. A program&#
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by sturgill 11y ago
I'll take the bait: tell that to my father who is a nurse. He has fought blatant sexism and discrimination his entire career. And I wont speak to the taunting I endured for having a father who did "woman work." "Meet the
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by sturgill 11y ago
Official job listing: http://careers.jobscore.com/jobs2/dailyburn/data-engineer/c8...
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by sturgill 11y ago
Data Engineer | DailyBurn | NYC | REMOTE Looking for an engineer to join our growing analytics team. You will report directly to the Analytics Lead and take ownership of our ETL and internal reporting processes. Our office is in the Flatiro
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by sturgill 12y ago
I was excited when I read about this when Balanced launched their beta of this same feature, and I'm equally as excited to read about it WRT Stripe. The competition in this space has provided some wonderful innovations in a very short
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by sturgill 13y ago
There is no inherent morality attached to paying taxes. And there is no inherent morality that dictates what amount of tax one should pay. There is a legal obligation to pay taxes, and a moral obligation to follow the law, but there is not
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by sturgill 13y ago
Back when I was slicing and dicing specs that had to be compatible with IE6, I really wish I could have used TinyPNG. Preserves alpha transparency that works in really crappy browsers, without resulting to weird CSS filter shenanigans. But
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by sturgill 13y ago
I turned down friends who wanted to join our raise at Goalee for this exact reason. That, and I wasn't convinced that they were fully aware that you only invest in a small start-up what you can afford to lose. They guy was getting a
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by sturgill 13y ago
I'm a pretty big fan of TinyPNG. I was actually part of their beta invite for the API and wrote up a quick Ruby gem(1) to automate the process (and to auto-shrink PNGs on a Capistrano deploy). I haven't really messed around with
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by sturgill 13y ago
Amazon Mechanical Turk could help with this.
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by sturgill 13y ago
Forging mail headers is easy enough to do that I wouldn't consider this approach to validate an email address. Sending a validation email is much harder for spammers to bypass.
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Why Automate View Testing?(chris.thesturgills.com)
1 points by sturgill 13y ago|0 comments
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Why Did You Endorse Me?(chris.thesturgills.com)
1 points by sturgill 13y ago|0 comments
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by sturgill 14y ago
First off, no need to apologize - I didn't take your criticism to mean you were affronted by my existence or anything... Second, I don't necessarily disagree with what you call "a good testing practice." Seems pretty reasonable to assume t
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by sturgill 14y ago
I'm a big proponent of SSL-everywhere, but paying Heroku $20 / month to have a custom endpoint seems absolutely obscene (especially for a small shop worried about simple once-off payments). I guess you could forward non-encrypted requests f
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Getting Stuff Done(sturgill.github.io)
1 points by sturgill 14y ago|0 comments
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by sturgill 14y ago
My wife is a planner. I'm more of a "let's get in the car and see where we end up." A healthy mix of both planning and spontaneity adds a lot of variety and enjoyment to life. Which is one reason I love the start-up scene. You start out wit
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by sturgill 14y ago
Maybe not. Sometimes all you need is developers that are "good enough." I personally don't like hiring junior talent (mostly because I hate all of the hand holding it requires), but that doesn't mean it might not make business sense to go w
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by sturgill 14y ago
We have a slightly different approach to the same problem: if people keep putting out crap code that breaks (or worse, introduces regression bugs) and I will let them go. I have no time for people who do crap work. You use tests to weed tho
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by sturgill 14y ago
By "community" I'm referencing the Rails startup scene in particular, and technology startups in general. Here's a fun exercise: go find a job posting for a Rails startup that doesn't expound on the virtuosity of its TDD practices.
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by sturgill 14y ago
To be clear: I did not say TDD was bad. I simply said it might not always be best. I took that a step further and suggested that with a start-up, and especially an early stage one, is probably not worth it. Not that it's bad or wrong. Simpl
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by sturgill 14y ago
OP here. My conclusion wasn't drawn from an isolated incident; I shared the incident to highlight what I imagine is a common pitfall in testing. I used the phrase "only test what needs to be tested" intentionally. How should I know what y
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by sturgill 14y ago
I'm not sure that there is a sure-fire way to quantify what tests are or are not necessary. In my opinion, this is something that comes with experience and is more of an art than a science. But I'm okay with that. If all you got out of th
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by sturgill 14y ago
The key, to me, is determining what needs to be tested. That doesn't change with larger code bases. Note that I didn't say that tests were pointless or that you shouldn't write tests. That's incredibly shortsighted. Originally I was goin
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Tests Are Overhyped(sturgill.github.io)
149 points by sturgill 14y ago|149 comments
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by sturgill 14y ago
Not at the moment, no, but I appreciate the validation!
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Why I Code(sturgill.github.io)
19 points by sturgill 14y ago|2 comments
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by sturgill 14y ago
For the record, (and as someone who is happily married) I would discourage marrying kids. It's better to wait until both of you are at least 18...