bobfirestone

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by bobfirestone 6y ago
I really want COVID-19 to be over soon so I can go do some adult ski camps. There is a park skiing camp I can’t go to right now in Europe and a steep skiing clinic at Whistler in Canada. Cannot do either with current travel restrictions and
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by bobfirestone 7y ago
10 minutes ago
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by bobfirestone 8y ago
Khan Academy has everything from basic addition to multivariable calculus and linear algebra. All free and online. https://www.khanacademy.org/
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by bobfirestone 8y ago
Otters https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/otters-are-not... I highly recommend not learning this about otters
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by bobfirestone 8y ago
I’m considering taking on some freelance programming work and am looking at using https://www.and.co for tracking hours and invoices. It’s free which is a plus. Playing around with it the software seems pretty easy to use.
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by bobfirestone 8y ago
If you want to give a good demo don’t leave it to chance. Write a script and rehearse it. Keep practicing until you are comfortable and can do it in your sleep.
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by bobfirestone 8y ago
The one thing I would add is the JavaScript standard library is deserving of some blame for the micro-library problem. Being bundled with the browser or server side in node doubling the size of the standard library to avoid situations like
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by bobfirestone 9y ago
Do you want 50% of a company with sales or 100% of a company with no sales. How many times does the inferior product with better marketing win? The reality is a lot.
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by bobfirestone 9y ago
One factor is programming is all random people. There is really no Beyoncé or Taylor Swift of programming that everyone in the world knows. A random developer saying “hey checkout this npm package I wrote to do XYZ” is something that could
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by bobfirestone 9y ago
You kinda answered your own question: YouTube is the site for this & unless it’s really good (or spectacularly bad) no one cares about music from random people.
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by bobfirestone 9y ago
No. There is no way that would ever be an acceptable work environment. If a company seriously tried it productivity would go to zero. You have invented a system that aligns the developer interest with gaming the system not shipping quality
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by bobfirestone 9y ago
I picked up a google nexus 5x for a development device. A couple of people I know have nexus 7 tablets for doing their android work.
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by bobfirestone 9y ago
Not a book but you should definitely watch Erlang the movie. It's on YouTube. Then watch erlang the movie 2, it's hilarious.
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by bobfirestone 10y ago
If I find out a company I do business with is charging me more because of where I live I'm never giving them another penny.
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by bobfirestone 10y ago
One of the big problems with financial data is there is no standard API to get data out of the financial institutions. Mint is a glorified site scraper. As a user you are giving mint your username and password to login and trust that they w
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by bobfirestone 11y ago
Depends on what you signed when you started your job. Standard I am not a lawyer disclaimer goes here. Seriously computers are cheap go buy one.
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by bobfirestone 12y ago
That sounds like a huge leap that because they are only going to test the solutions in chrome that he should have used angular.
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by bobfirestone 12y ago
To start as a couple of others have already pointed out you haven't implemented all the criteria. If I was evaluating your solution based on what they are asking for I would have passed on you as well. Your solution is unnecessarily co
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by bobfirestone 12y ago
If you are a traditional SQL kinda person adequate record from tender love seems to offer some performance increases. There seem to be lots of effort to make some of the larger key pieces of rails faster. I would't expect rails on it&#
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by bobfirestone 12y ago
I know several people who have architect titles that are horrible coders and over engineer everything they touch. None of them are as bad as your dream but none would be on my list of people to call when things need to get done now.
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by bobfirestone 12y ago
35, enterprise consulting, I write code every day
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by bobfirestone 12y ago
Growth hacking - A BS, sometimes rage inducing buzz word synonym for marketing
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by bobfirestone 12y ago
From my experience there are a few things that I try to keep in mind while working. 1) Keep your code as simple as possible. In the real world if you can call your code complex or clever it is probably bad. 2) When presented with a problem
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by bobfirestone 12y ago
At work we are using rails-assets.org to include bower packages as ruby gems. rails-assets.org gets added as a source in the gemfile and run bundler as usual. We looked at a couple of other integrations. rails-assets.org was the only one th
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by bobfirestone 12y ago
Averaged out I get about 6 hours of productive time a day at work. The project I am on I am one of the lucky ones. A couple of people on my team regularly spend all day in meetings and get maybe an hour to work on code.
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by bobfirestone 12y ago
I am sure you could find many stories of successful startups where the founders had no domain experience. The reality is they are the exception not the rule. If you don't understand an industries problems you can't solve them. To
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by bobfirestone 12y ago
Without a signed contract he might not own any of the "company" that doesn't actually exist. He does own 100% of the ip of the actual software.
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by bobfirestone 12y ago
No you should not sign it. Never sign away your rights to anything with out being compensated. You were not paid for the work you put into a non trivial piece of software. If your co-founder is serious about continuing with the company and
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by bobfirestone 13y ago
Think about this in absolute terms. On this deal you are stressing and risking a potentially profitable relationship for what $30/mo. Not only should you pay him the 20% he wants you should probably offer him 50% of the 1st month on ea
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by bobfirestone 13y ago
The companies that own the satellite images are not running charities.

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