just3ws

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by just3ws 3y ago
Rails made Microsoft change its entire web strategy. It influenced so much. Rails is so mainstream that it doesn't get talked about like a hot new tech anymore. If you were a web developer in 2006~2016 it was still hot tech but kind of
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by just3ws 3y ago
This has been so deeply politicized in Illinois the last gubernatorial candidates for the Republicans have propagandized the subject so fiercely in Illinois that nuanced debate is nearly impossible. I say this as a person who lives outside
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by just3ws 3y ago
This has been so deeply politicized in Illinois the last gubernatorial candidates for the Republicans have propagandized the subject so fiercely in Illinois that nuanced debate is nearly impossible. I say this as a person who lives outside
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by just3ws 3y ago
I'm dealing with this at my currently. It is a fairly large org and has good people and not so great people like any large enough group will have. What they don't have in my estimation is someone who actually knows how to engage w
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by just3ws 3y ago
IME convoluted is often mistaken for clever. I've seen systems where the author was proud of how complicated their knots were but the reality was just a tangle to everyone else. Personally I guard for when I need to solve a problem but
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by just3ws 3y ago
No. Getting too cumbersome for my preference but I haven't learned a good enough alternative to invest learning. Bias is I made the switch to Ruby well-over a decade ago and it is still useful, fun to write in, and pays the bills.
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by just3ws 3y ago
Looking at that I am still wondering how it got there. That isn't something that just happens, someone wrote that code and that means someone put some thought into it. I am not saying it can't possibly be irrelevant but it isn&#x2
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by just3ws 3y ago
They walked away from a 6B acquisition by Google. They did believe the sky was the limit. I was not in the specific meetings but was there for everything around it. There was a sense of optimism no matter how naive it was in hindsight.
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by just3ws 3y ago
I was a developer at Groupon in that early era and remember IPO day. I am literally wearing the IPO shirt as a pajama top right now and stumbled on this. It was such an interesting and exciting place to be at the time. I still miss those da
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by just3ws 4y ago
> The HN crowd is not known for kindness, but you can use sincere and reason-based advice, something for which the HN crowd is excellent at. ITT: How about both? :D Scrolling through the comments and this Grinch's heart grew three s
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by just3ws 4y ago
Just turned 47 this morning. I do have the kids, house, and accomplished most of the things I wanted to when I was a kid... but there's always more, there's always the things I haven't done, the things I have failed at, and t
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by just3ws 4y ago
Thanks, I really needed to be reminded of that this morning. I've been beating myself up over the same types of thinking and it can be hard sometimes.
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by just3ws 5y ago
It will be interesting now that competitors know that all they have to do to appeal to a large segment of the workforce is simply not require a commute.
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by just3ws 5y ago
And it is my son's 12th birthday today. He's my second child too since we're on the subject of Two's.
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by just3ws 5y ago
And it is my son's 12th birthday today. He's my second child too since we're on the subject of Two's.
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Interview with Gil Tene, CTO Azul Systems and JavaOne Rock Star GOTO Chicago(youtube.com)
3 points by just3ws 11y ago|0 comments
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by just3ws 12y ago
Hi, I'm that "1 guy". AMA
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by just3ws 12y ago
The point made about "bias towards merging" is my favorite. It's hard enough to get people to contribute without compounding the problem by kicking back their work over minutiae.
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by just3ws 13y ago
What seems to be misunderstood is that working more than 40 hours per week isn't the problem. It's what and where one is working and how much they value their time. I regularly work and study well over 50+ hours per week but not a
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by just3ws 13y ago
I was just let go from a company the day before yesterday and this was a primary reason. It was a startup and the CEO said that it's just how things had to be. I did in the end explain my position and why what they were doing was chaos
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by just3ws 13y ago
Okay, followed the script but the VPN won't connect to the internet. :( Even blew away the first build of the VPN server and rebuilt from scratch, no dice. :(
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by just3ws 13y ago
Thanks! I was able to get to it via the blog post link. Just configured my own VPN. Been meaning to do that for a while and was already planning to use DigitalOcean. Thanks for the boostrapping!
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by just3ws 13y ago
Did they take the site down? The link is 404'ing.