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by bscofield 12y ago
This is great! I love to see people exploring mood tracking and looking for correlations and insights. I hope you write more about what this helps you discover. <shameless plug> I built Moodprint ( http://moodprint.com ) to
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Show HN: Moodprint – painless mood tracking(beta.moodprint.com)
2 points by bscofield 12y ago|0 comments
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by bscofield 12y ago
Sorry -- we're still setting up, so things are a bit muddled. I've moved the welcome message onto the homepage and made the discussions public, so you should be able to get a better idea of what's going on now. Thanks for the
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ReadOps: A virtual book club for people interested in Ops(readops.com)
13 points by bscofield 12y ago|8 comments
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A Refactoring Workout: Relentlessly Green(sitepoint.com)
2 points by bscofield 12y ago|0 comments
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by bscofield 12y ago
Good luck! I traveled that road for a few years with a site called MyPullList (2007-2010, RIP), and had a heck of a time with ... basically all of it. I did have a lot of fun talking about the data model and its challenges during the height
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Farewell, Jim(blog.phusion.nl)
2 points by bscofield 13y ago|0 comments
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Problems with self-organization(benscofield.com)
1 points by bscofield 13y ago|0 comments
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by bscofield 13y ago
Gawande is one of my favorite non-fiction authors; I've learned a ton from his books and articles. I second (and would third and fourth if I could) the recommendation for The Checklist Manifesto here.
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by bscofield 13y ago
I found it amusing that going without internet access and a cell transported him "to the early 1900s," as opposed to, say, the mid-1980s.
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by bscofield 13y ago
Sure, but that's not the point of this gem. This just allows deploys to continue when GH is unavailable.
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by bscofield 13y ago
I'm surprised there's only one "git is distributed" comment thread so far, but as a reminder: http://rubygems.org/gems/deus_ex may help with getting deploys running during a GitHub outage. Usage i
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by bscofield 13y ago
It should: I referenced the second formulation of the categorical imperative in the post.
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by bscofield 13y ago
Had the flights been issue-free, I would have started out neutral. Had BigCo had someone watching out for me and fixing problems proactively, I would have started out with a hugely positive impression of the company. Either way, the in-pers
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by bscofield 13y ago
I ... suppose? I like to think that I've interviewed and been interviewed enough to know when the other side has any interest at all in having an actual conversation, though.
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by bscofield 13y ago
Sorry you didn't enjoy it! In all honesty, the travel is what stuck with me more than anything else about that entire process, though, and it's what started solidifying my thoughts about all of this. Hiring has a user experience l
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by bscofield 13y ago
It's usually interpreted to mean that you need to respect that other people have ends of their own; they aren't just there for your benefit. I mentioned dating as a context where this sometimes happens, and I was thinking specific
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On valuing people(benscofield.com)
19 points by bscofield 13y ago|17 comments
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Include me out(braythwayt.com)
5 points by bscofield 13y ago|0 comments
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On Contact Management(benscofield.com)
26 points by bscofield 13y ago|22 comments
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by bscofield 13y ago
To the link: are any of the major CM toolsets not backed by a company? Opscode, Puppet Labs, Ansibleworks, SaltStack... they all have corporate backing.
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by bscofield 13y ago
(Post author here) Re: agents -- yep. I should've called that out explicitly, as it further supports the provisioning vs. ongoing factor in my decision-making.
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by bscofield 13y ago
(Post author here) Absolutely -- I developed my entire setup in Vagrant. It was fantastic, especially in the early stages where I'd just share my playbook folder into the guest machine and run them locally.
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On GitHub, DDOSs, and Deploys(benscofield.com)
1 points by bscofield 13y ago|0 comments
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by bscofield 13y ago
Talk selection varies dramatically from one conference to the next (as it should). That said, there are ways to get your content out there without going through a formal CFP process: * Many conferences have lightning talk sessions, which ar
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Steve Smith On Optimizing For Happiness(ngenworks.com)
44 points by bscofield 14y ago|11 comments
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Hungry Academy retrospective(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by bscofield 14y ago|0 comments
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Re-thinking Software Development Education(chadfowler.com)
18 points by bscofield 15y ago|0 comments
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by bscofield 15y ago
I included code samples from several of these in a presentation I did a little while ago: http://www.slideshare.net/bscofield/great-developers-steal/2...
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by bscofield 15y ago
Hack (Haskell) - http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/h... Paste (Python) - http://pythonpaste.org/ * * WSGI is a spec, Paste was the original (AFAIK) implementation. Interestingly, WSGI was itself inspired by the

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