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811.
by wonnage 14y ago
Most startups don't have HR resources to waste on that sort of thing. In any case, what kind of HR person would even understand a detailed story of programming-related failure?
812.
by wonnage 14y ago
I don't think that's true at all - every organization I've worked with has planned for a 1-2 month ramp-up program. Generally you start off doing trivial bugfixes until the codebase makes sense and move on from there. Hell, learning on the
813.
by wonnage 14y ago
The two are about the same with regards to employment and educational purposes. If you happen to like one, go with it, otherwise you can just flip a coin and get to the real problems!
814.
by wonnage 14y ago
I feel like there's not much point in any sort of VCS lesson if it doesn't go over the more complex areas though. For example, reverting commits and resetting to earlier points in history are pretty essential actions, but both have their su
815.
by wonnage 14y ago
Take a common behavior (an desire to show off), give it a special name, now it's a psychological disorder plaguing our community. Let's be serious now, we all understand that showing off is rude. A great majority of developers both male and
816.
by wonnage 14y ago
I've noticed this as well, and it seems to be a recent phenomenon - it's gotten to the point where I just open links in Safari when possible. Any idea why?
817.
by wonnage 14y ago
Personally I'd rather take heart looking at the private-industry space vehicles getting off the ground - if humans do avoid blowing ourselves up and make it to the stars, the ability to do it profitably and sustainably will be much more sig
818.
by wonnage 14y ago
Ideally you would preprocess your assets server-side (e.g Jammit), so templates end up being just another script to load. This is still ugly, in that debugging templates is an impossible pain the arse because there's no useful line informat
819.
by wonnage 14y ago
Maybe in that they communicated all their unsalted password hashes to hackers...
820.
by wonnage 14y ago
Heh, tried to share this on Facebook and got a "blogspot.co.uk is spam" warning.
821.
by wonnage 15y ago
My startup (WellnessFX) is one of those with healthier perks. Granted, we're a health company, so it'd be a little hypocritical if we were snacking on Doritos all day... Most of our snack cabinet consists of bulk nuts and dried fruits - pro
822.
by wonnage 15y ago
I've worked in these sorts of communal environments for the past six years and never had a problem. I happen to have friends and family who I have occasional disagreements with too. It's just eating together. Can't make it one day? It's not
823.
by wonnage 15y ago
Nice! Culture posts will always attract complaints from those that see this sort of thing as impinging on their personal time. But if you're in that boat, you have the choice to find a more fitting environment...
824.
by wonnage 15y ago
It's much more useful now, IMO. Now you can chain an error handler onto your view's render method, and the level of abstraction becomes "I couldn't render the view" rather than "I couldn't get some JSON from the server". Functionally the be
825.
by wonnage 15y ago
A good example of deferreds can be found in jQuery - every AJAX method returns a deferred that you can chain success, error, etc. handlers to. So it's not like this idea isn't a mainstream one. The main problem I see is that very few librar
826.
by wonnage 15y ago
While it might feel great to shit on the state of client-side JS error handling, doing so is pretty silly. Most well-written sites give some sort of indication when your connection flakes out. Gmail is a good example. This isn't something y
827.
by wonnage 15y ago
Interested to see how they'll handle file uploads, authentication, etc. Especially authentication, seeing as clients have full access to the database right now.
828.
by wonnage 15y ago
Let me explain: if you're going to rely on something as brittle and unreliable as the DOM for your extension, expect it to break. It's like building a house out of sticks, proclaiming "users don't care if my house is durable", and complaini
829.
by wonnage 15y ago
Not to mention the importance of cultural fit, too. People dismiss cultural fit because it seems superficial. In reality, programming ability is part of cultural fit - who wants to work with an incompetent? A good programmer does not exist
830.
by wonnage 15y ago
I don't think the problem is numerical parity. This is wholly anecdotal, but I've found working in mixed-gender groups is more pleasant. There's less of a tendency to goof off/take on a frat house mentality when the programmer team isn't al
831.
by wonnage 15y ago
And if the company isn't doing so hot? It's a lot more trouble to lower salaries than it is to cut food. Hence I'd rather not sit down and assume I'm making $5000 more. Plus it puts you in the position of feeling like you need to make 100%
832.
by wonnage 15y ago
I'm having a hard time sympathizing. At the end of her negotiation, this was the state of the world: the company didn't want to go any higher, and some handwaving about how much food was worth was enough to convince her to fold. Why bother
833.
by wonnage 15y ago
I can at least understand it takes a bit of engineering to heave a nearly million pound piece of metal in the air. Twitter just doesn't have the same cachet. Hell, it's only 140 characters, how hard could it be?
834.
by wonnage 15y ago
About the only problem I can think of here is that it makes it harder to filter/sanitize for XSS. But I don't think the problem here is Javascript. Look at SQL injection - trying to escape user input is just an endless game of whack-a-mole.
835.
by wonnage 15y ago
Jesus Christ. Can't a guy do anything without a corresponding pseudoscientific (actually, wholly arbitrary) blog post about "$anything considered harmful"? The thread through all these stories is an author's dissatisfaction with their own l
836.
by wonnage 15y ago
Seems like "this is why Javascript sucks!" is a common reaction here, which I find strange on a "hacker" community. It's a fun little brainteaser, not production code. Use your head a little?
837.
by wonnage 15y ago
It's a pretty app that looks like it's taken a lot of design inspiration from Google Reader. Which is a good thing, I think they nailed it in terms of UI. That said, I was really hoping you'd have your own sharing mechanism. The major thing
838.
by wonnage 15y ago
Testicular cancer is probably the more pressing matter.
839.
by wonnage 15y ago
It's hard to say in an individual case. Even with smokers, how can you really say with any certainty, that it was the smoking and not an independently malignant cell that was the seed for lung cancer? We have group statistics that say hea
840.
by wonnage 15y ago
Get off your high horse, it's an phone review.

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