chidevguy

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by chidevguy 12y ago
I actually just did this. Started a new job in June last year, ended up moving across the country in Dec, but really liked my job and wanted to keep it and work remote full time. Here's what I did: 1) In the months leading up to my mo
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by chidevguy 12y ago
Here's a fairly simple strategy for beating challenges 1 - 5. Basically drop off people in the elevator according to whoever's floor is closest. Then once the elevator is empty go to the closest floor that has people waiting to
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Ask HN: Advice on turning your employer into a client?
4 points by chidevguy 12y ago|3 comments
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by chidevguy 12y ago
I found Apollo, by Catherine Bly Cox and Charles Murray, quite interesting and entertaining. http://www.amazon.com/Apollo-Catherine-Bly-Cox-ebook/dp/B003...
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by chidevguy 12y ago
Neat idea thanks for sharing. Much better than my current method of emailing myself links when I want to quickly swap between devices.
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by chidevguy 12y ago
Failure Before Success - http://youtu.be/PJKz0JbEZcw I find this motivating, especially when I'm feeling down.
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by chidevguy 12y ago
My jaw dropped reading that the rocket could be re-used the next day. That seems like an enormous leap forward for space flight.
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by chidevguy 13y ago
I was able to get 2048 building off of your solution. As you said, always keep your highest number in the top right corner. Try to build the next highest numbers up along the right edge, so that you have say, 256, 128, 64, 32 along the ri
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by chidevguy 13y ago
The only reason I still use Google over DuckDuckGo is the keyword suggestions as I'm typing. I find that to be very useful when I'm searching for something but not quite sure how to phrase it. I would for sure switch over if DDG
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Ask HN: What to do if you see your coworker job searching?
8 points by chidevguy 13y ago|14 comments
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Ask HN: Question about caching and HN error page
1 points by chidevguy 13y ago|0 comments
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Avegant Glyph: The Mainstream VR Headset(mobile.theverge.com)
1 points by chidevguy 13y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Biggest pet peeves with job posts?
4 points by chidevguy 13y ago|6 comments
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by chidevguy 13y ago
One thing that I like about Knockout is that you can easily drop it into a legacy site, allowing you to have some pages that use it and others that don't. Forgive my naivete, but is this something that is easy to do with Ember or Angu
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by chidevguy 13y ago
01 - Found it a bit confusing as to which link I should click first. Add fuel to your business? Let's get started? Current - Interesting idea but I found it difficult to mouseover a particular portfolio site due to the small hitbox fo
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by chidevguy 13y ago
Check out KnockoutJS, I've found their documentation to be quite good and it's a pretty easy framework to learn.
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by chidevguy 13y ago
I've dealt with this same problem for many years as well. Recently I just completed a side project ( http://www.randolunch.com ) for the first time ever. Three things really helped me get it to the finish line: 1) I listed ou
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by chidevguy 13y ago
I'd love to hear your reasons for this, as I've been looking at moving away from the Microsoft stack. Thanks!
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Show HN: Randolunch - Random Restaurant Picker. My First Rails Site.(randolunch.com)
2 points by chidevguy 13y ago|0 comments
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by chidevguy 13y ago
Hi all, Randolunch finds random restaurants for you to try based on your location. I'm a .NET dev, but I began learning Rails a few months ago and this is my first Rails site, so I'd love to hear any feedback. Thanks!
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by chidevguy 13y ago
Great suggestions! I'd also add Octopress ( http://octopress.org/ ), which is built on Jekyll and works well with Amazon CloudFront (haven't tried CloudFlare, but I'd imagine that works just as well).
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by chidevguy 13y ago
Completely agree. The other problem I've seen with getting stuck on the same project for X years is that you'll have a very limited portfolio to show for it, unless you're working on side projects as well.
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by chidevguy 13y ago
I've been dealing with similar issues for a couple of years now. At the worst point I was unable to talk in groups of unfamiliar people without my heart rapidly pounding and face flushing. Not sure if it's quite that bad for you,