joedev

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by joedev 14y ago
The author lost me at complaining that you need to know Ruby to know Rails. In case this was not self-evident, the Rails guide itself says plainly and early: "If you have no prior experience with Ruby, you will find a very steep learning cu
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by joedev 14y ago
I heard a good idea - the faster you walk, jog or run; the faster your internet connection.
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by joedev 14y ago
I love getting paid to program. The trick is in carefully selecting projects, teams, and clients plus actively setting expectations (e.g. staying in the driver's seat) such that you are not working on other people's schedules. Otherwise,
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by joedev 14y ago
I've tried fix-rate project delivery. It's a nightmare. Either you spend so much energy up-front to document in detail the finish line, or you spend so much energy on the backend fighting scope creep. Maybe I did it wrong the times I've tri
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by joedev 14y ago
make that 5
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by joedev 14y ago
Will you happily pay $20k if you know that someone else, billing by the hour for the same quality of work, will cost you $10k?
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by joedev 14y ago
"Ignore advanced web developers complaining about ‘not another Bootstrap website’" I agree. It's your customers that matter. And unless you're building a product for advanced web developers, pleasing them should be no matter to you. I've sh
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by joedev 14y ago
The image shown in this article does a good job of highlighting the usefulness of Glass. It's not just a heads up display. It's the smarts of knowing where you are, what you are doing, what you plan to do in order to provide relevant infor
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by joedev 14y ago
You forgot one type of person. "People who wait for the walk sign because they've got other things on their mind and make the conscious choice to leave deciding when to cross the street up to the street light." Waiting for the light lets yo
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What most schools don't teach(facebook.com)
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by joedev 14y ago
If "a colorie is a calorie", then why do you single out "eating too many carbs and sugars" as the cause of your occasional weight gain?
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by joedev 14y ago
When I compare my 15 years in the office to my 7 years full-time telecommute, I can say without a doubt that I get a lot more work done working form home. Anyone who hasn't experienced the huge amount of time wasted in big-corp office envir
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by joedev 14y ago
How do you know when a user is using stolen credit cards?
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by joedev 14y ago
I'm not convinced of the premise that credit card companies have no incentive to reduce fraud. "Fraud isn't costing them money, it is costing you money. [they] pass the cost on to you, the consumer." That's true of any business really. Inc
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by joedev 14y ago
Let me try another way. Some Rails apps that are too unwieldy are barely even Rails apps. They just happen to have Rails at some layer of the tech stack, but also have many other non-Rails components such that saying "Rails" has become too
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by joedev 14y ago
If it has no bearing, wonder why it's even mentioned in employees' bios. Just out of convention?
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by joedev 14y ago
You're doing it wrong! Do not slap frameworks and complexity on top of Rails. Rails' strength has been unchanged from day 1 - "favoring convention over configuration". Rails is for building web apps. 99% of the world's web apps will work fi
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by joedev 14y ago
Despite the consensus that college has little value to hackers, Stripe team members come largely from Stanford, Harvard, MIT and other major universities. Is this and the fact that Stripe's products are highly regarded just a coincidence?
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by joedev 14y ago
Why does success == exit? I guess to each his own, but I would hate to be working for years on something with the goal being some finish line, especially when often "exit" for the founders means being sucked into another organization where
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by joedev 14y ago
It's almost like the diet and weight-loss industry. We spend way more time and effort on trying to solve the problems than on preventing them in the first place. Want to balance work/life? Here's the secret formula which I'm giving away for
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by joedev 14y ago
"Electric word life, it means 4ever and that's a mighty long time" Forever is longer than a lifetime and we've seen how well just simple "lifetime" hosting promises go.
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by joedev 14y ago
Really? Working to keep customers helps keep customers?
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by joedev 14y ago
What's to be "Sorry" about? I don't get it.
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by joedev 14y ago
Why does the author keep hounding on "Again, I have not lived in MA or earned income in that state since 2003"? It sounds like MA isn't after anything to do with residency or wage income.
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by joedev 14y ago
In this post from Ryan Carson from six years ago http://37signals.com/svn/archives2/building_a_web_app_dont_f... he says adding a plan that cost "$80 more ($19 vs. $99)" increased revenue by 30% within two weeks. There are many posts like
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by joedev 14y ago
Interesting. Haven't seen these issues at my kids' school. In fact, I just saw a grade yesterday on a report that was specifically broken down with points for grammar and structure. My boy told me earlier in the quarter a project that was p
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by joedev 14y ago
Without controls in place, let's see how much "forgiveness" you receive from the SEC and Sarbox enforcers when things go awry and shareholders lose out.
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by joedev 14y ago
Many of these "I don't need anything" posts should be subtitled, "If I want to use something, I just mooch it off friends", "I let other people maintain and store the stuff I use" or "I don't have any hobbies".
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by joedev 14y ago
I have little fear that people are deferring life's enjoyment. Ask a professor today and they'll likely present an opinion opposite of how the author sees people. Many of today's youth expect an "A" grade just for showing up, easily accept
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by joedev 14y ago
The correlations between grandiosity and depression (among other disorders) are broadly discussed in scientific literature but are not well known in popular culture. The lack of public knowledge about the mental-health dangers of grandiosit

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