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by yawboakye 13y ago
She's asking teachers to deliver "tough love" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tough_love
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by yawboakye 13y ago
> I think a truly effective teacher, at all levels, will encourage curiosity and creativity in subject-matter Yes. The question is how do you encourage curiosity and creativity in kids? No, we are not talking about adults. I see this hum
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Why we ditched Zepto for jQuery in Foundation 5(zurb.com)
5 points by yawboakye 13y ago|0 comments
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by yawboakye 13y ago
Browsers tend to cache 200 OK responses. When HN came up (as reported on Twitter) I kept getting the error page until I bust the cache and reloaded. Yup, that's what 200 OK for an error page can cause. A regular reload will still show
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by yawboakye 13y ago
For web applications, I think rapid prototyping requires a framework that performs a lot of magic, like Rails and Django. I don't think it depends on the language of the framework since you won't have to think of concurrency or an
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by yawboakye 13y ago
Really? Slow compilation or slow at runtime? Compilation, sure. Scala still has a slow compilation process but they're working to fix it. For a rapid prototype I don't think compilation time would be very material assuming rapid p
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by yawboakye 13y ago
I'm very aware I need experience. That's why I'm looking for a job. Okay so my main reason for looking for a job is because I want to grow and learn as much as I can while being on a team at my workplace. There are very few g
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by yawboakye 13y ago
I guess that works well when the 50 companies know what the fuck they're about. There are only 2 or 3 companies that have pragmatic programmers because they do real stuff. The rest on the list pop the champagne at mediocre results. No
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by yawboakye 13y ago
Yes, working remotely works for me. Freelance is a good thing but I wanted to be part of a company to learn and understand organizational structures and how hierarchy really works at software companies. I've read a lot about these thin
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Ask HN: Have you had any success with African developers?
13 points by yawboakye 13y ago|14 comments
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by yawboakye 13y ago
I dig into Rails by accident. Most of the time I don't have internet and don't remember exactly how a certain API is used. So I jump into the code with `source_location` or `bundle open ...` and get what I want. I usually see some
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by yawboakye 13y ago
If it has not been rewritten using modern (good) Ruby style I guess it's still turning a perfect cartwheel. While reading Eloquent Ruby (by Russ Olsen) Ruby's set standard library was recommended for source reading. It was an awes
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My wife's illness means no sexual intimacy. Now I've met someone else(theguardian.com)
2 points by yawboakye 13y ago|0 comments
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by yawboakye 13y ago
Do you realize the gravity of losing someone like Ben on a project like Node? I know you'd never get around to improving/contributing to Node but how does what you said get us closing to anything?
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The person they'll become(37signals.com)
1 points by yawboakye 13y ago|0 comments