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by willstepp 11y ago
I come to this as a self-taught programmer and I think like most Ford-Chevy arguments the reality is somewhere in between. After working as a professional software developer for eight years on desktop apps, web apps, and mobile apps, I can
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by willstepp 11y ago
Amazing. I remember sending Jeff Atwood an email to join the beta in 2008, voting on the name and logo, all that early excitement. Now its a programming institution. The knowledge of the community has gotten me out of more binds than I want
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by willstepp 11y ago
In certain cases I use target blank myself, but there is some thought in UX design that its often better to let the user decide how to open a link for themselves.
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by willstepp 11y ago
display:table and its kin are the greatest thing I ever discovered in css. No more centering problems and easy to reason about. I'm not sure if people just don't know about it, or there are use-cases where it doesn't work for
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by willstepp 11y ago
The combination of euphoria with the other side effects of Ambien is what leads to the behavior I described, but I can see this is really about you being right at all costs. Lighten the hell up.
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by willstepp 11y ago
What are you talking about? The euphoric feelings (a sense of uncontrollable excitement and happiness) led to me saying and doing strange things.
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by willstepp 11y ago
Those effects exist. Trust me. I've said and done some truly insane things when staying awake on Ambien. Not on purpose either, just didn't fall asleep for whatever reason, and when those euphoric effects kick in you don't ha
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by willstepp 11y ago
Great satirical video. That essay by PG lost me a lot of respect for him. It's the kind of out-of-touch fantasy perspective you'd expect to hear from a multi-millionaire businessman, but not from someone who so famously identifies
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by willstepp 11y ago
Such bull. Its inconsideration plain and simple.
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by willstepp 11y ago
The deal breaker for me is always how sluggish these free, open source editors are (Atom, Brackets, Light Table). I would love to move away from a paid, closed-source tool but these just aren't as fast and therefore not acceptable to m
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by willstepp 11y ago
Elitist. Look past your awesomeness for a moment and understand that a company is about generating revenue, not always producing the greatest code. Use your experience with best practices as selling-point how they might benefit from hiring
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by willstepp 11y ago
Abstractions are necessary to write software, unless you speak binary code, so calling them evil is a bit hyperbolic. My point is at some level you have to trust the abstractions of a system or else nothing would get done. That doesn't
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by willstepp 11y ago
This is exactly how I feel about processed nutrition. We don't yet know what we don't know, so we think we have it all figured out. This is true for medicine as well, but the difference is we already have a solution that works in
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by willstepp 11y ago
Yeah, it sounds great and definitely would fill a need. I know a lot of non-devs who are trying to do their own thing using Wordpress and its just non-stop pain and frustration, so they ask me to help out sometimes. I will keep an eye on yo
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by willstepp 11y ago
What kind of software do you envision being created with App Factory? If you can create a system that is both easy for non-technical users and yet powerful enough to make something genuinely useful, I'm all for that. I would love a n
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by willstepp 12y ago
Stop feeling sorry for yourself. Everybody is an imposter on some level. Everybody is making it up as they go along. Once you figure that out, a lot of things start making sense. The solution to feeling like an imposter is courage and persi
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by willstepp 12y ago
Not sure how experienced you are already, but if the goal is 'getting a job' your best bet would be to focus on web or mobile technologies. Not that learning C++ and algorithms would be a waste, most definitely not, but it's
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by willstepp 12y ago
As a junior developer you do have flexibility, but there will more eyes on your work to make sure you're going down the right path, following the best practices...etc. Then as you establish a positive track record you are given more fl
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by willstepp 12y ago
I've worked at both large corporations and early-stage startups and for me a small software company is the ideal size (I've been at a company with < 100 employees for the past two years). From my experience you have more job se
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by willstepp 12y ago
I have written two novels (unpublished) and about to start a third. These days I use a minimal writing app called iA Writer. The file is saved to DropBox automatically and I also push commits to GitHub everyday as a way to keep track of rev
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by willstepp 12y ago
Thanks. When you are logged in there is a tab at the top called 'Builder' that lets you submit your own kata instructions. You even earn experience for it. :-)
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by willstepp 12y ago
I will definitely consider opening it up, a bit ashamed of the code at the moment.
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by willstepp 12y ago
Thanks, good tips for usability.
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by willstepp 12y ago
Great advice, thanks for those ideas. They are now on my list of things to do.
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by willstepp 12y ago
That would be an amazing feature, but it seems extremely tricky from an algorithmic perspective. Anyone have any ideas?
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by willstepp 12y ago
Thanks. Right now the only validation is that you put in at least 10 characters. It might change in the future though.
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by willstepp 12y ago
Thanks, I plan to make it more obvious in the near future, but if you click on a user profile from the 'Board' you will see 'public cycles' towards the bottom. If you click on those you can read cycles people have made p
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by willstepp 12y ago
That is an excellent idea. I want to do something where once you complete an exercise, only then can you see how others answered the same one. Kind of like Project Euler if you've ever used that.
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by willstepp 12y ago
Hi, thanks for checking out the site. When you complete a cycle, you will be presented with the choice to make it public or private. Public will earn you some experience.
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by willstepp 12y ago
I am a (web) programmer by day, writer by night. I've written a couple novels, unpublished so far. A few weeks ago I sat down to sharpen the saw and after struggling to come up with something to write about, I realized I could use a to

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