twunde

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by twunde 12y ago
Unfortunately another contributing factor is that many enterprise websites or applications have to support old versions of ie. My company is still supporting XP due to a particular partner.
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by twunde 12y ago
Periodically there are HN threads about open source projects. Other things I've seen are to ask local tech meetups if anyone is interested in working together. I'd also add the fork on github ribbon to your site: https:/&#x
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Bitbucket Outage
1 points by twunde 12y ago|1 comments
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by twunde 12y ago
Don't feel bad. At least you're using their code which validates them open-sourcing it. There is plenty that anyone can do to help. Probably the easiest is to update documentation and fix any spelling mistakes. Those are typically
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by twunde 12y ago
I've seen international teams succeed and fail. Language barriers are a problem especially when trying to grasp domain knowledge. Most outsourced teams require specs and don't work well without them. Most startups prefer to have s
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by twunde 12y ago
1.Many companies don't have dedicated security resources. If the choice is between adding security or getting a new feature out, most companies will choose the new feature. 2. Security is a moving target so even if an application was m
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by twunde 12y ago
So looking through the link, the value add appears to be in the plugins. For your use case what is the main benefit of using dokku-alt?
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by twunde 12y ago
Most people do end up specializing but since you feel that you can't at the moment the best way is to understand the underlying concepts. One thing I've found helpful is to keep example applications and work you've done local
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How do you document compicated processes
1 points by twunde 12y ago|0 comments
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by twunde 12y ago
1) if you haven't already take a vacation. 2) What do you want to do? What do you want to focus on? You used to have a lot of different tasks that you probably did a good job at given your constraints but probably didn't excel at.
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by twunde 12y ago
As someone who currently works in energy here are some practical thoughts in no particular order. a) Try to partner with someone who has an energy background, or at least try to find an advisor. It's a bit of an odd space b) To be succ
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by twunde 12y ago
I believe most issue trackers will allow you to create tickets through email, so a low-tech solution may be to simply forward tickets to the appropriate email address, possibly with a some specific meta-data attached
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by twunde 12y ago
Definitely take a look at Mongo's recommendations: http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/administration/monitoring/#di... This has gotten much better since I last used mongo heavily. I ended up using the slow q
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by twunde 12y ago
I second the idea of denormalizing your data. It feels odd because that's exactly what you're trying to avoid with relational databases, but honestly, mongo is designed to handle denormalized data http://blog.mongodb.or
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by twunde 12y ago
Just posted the same thing. Definitely hacked: https://twitter.com/arstechnica/status/544587442305523712
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Ars Technica hacked
4 points by twunde 12y ago|0 comments
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by twunde 12y ago
1)Memories of the older days where mysql_escape vs mysql_real_escape 2)It's 2014 and Drupal just got exploited by a sql injection attack. 3)Because of php's weak typing, php will accept a lot of strange input such as arrays with v
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by twunde 12y ago
For anyone else that's interested in music copyright: If you just want to cover a song, you can get a mechanical license, which have federal-defined rates. There are several sites that can do this(I do dev support for one. If you want
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by twunde 12y ago
There are several solutions that work well in conjunction: 1. Start moving code into code libraries. These can be reused in multiple projects, are framework-agnostic, and can be managed via composer. 2. Once you've reached a certain c
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by twunde 12y ago
It looked pretty heavy. Can you describe how your team uses it?
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What's the best way to do Database Versioning?
2 points by twunde 12y ago|2 comments
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by twunde 12y ago
They CAN work depending on what you're selling. Affiliate leads are usually low-quality and sometimes fraudulent. A few steps you should take 1) Limit the amount you're willing to spend over the first few days. Like any marketing
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by twunde 12y ago
1) Rails is more popular than Django. Rails was the first MVC web framework, and it has been embraced by the startup community for it's ease of prototyping applications. Because of this and the high-profile successes of major companies
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by twunde 12y ago
I believe that Google is changing as I read somewhere that they found no correlation between a good degree and good gpa after a few years of work experience. In general, most places have figured out that you don't need a college degree
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by twunde 12y ago
I just want to thank everyone who replied. There is a lot of great information in this thread. Who knows, maybe in a while I'll have a blog post about going solo
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by twunde 12y ago
Upon login, an application that created a new database for the user and then imported ALL the data from the api before allowing the user to continue to the next screen. The database would be dropped upon logout. Login times were in the hou
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by twunde 12y ago
Is there a reason why you don't do 40 hours a week? Also I really like your idea about working with other consultants. That may be what I try to do first (especially since I'm not a front-end dev)
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What do I need to know before I start consulting?
18 points by twunde 12y ago|14 comments
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by twunde 12y ago
I've worked on a number of inherited projects of varying quality. The biggest trick is to figure out what is working and what is broken, what's minor vs major. In that regard, you should try and get someone who uses or used to us
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by twunde 12y ago
I've seen several strategies like this to improve startups/sideprojects Keep statistics on people who have: signed up but not set up your product <- Contact these to see if they need help setting up signed up and set up your pr

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