rartichoke

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by rartichoke 12y ago
I'm not sure why I got down voted to eternity. If you have a great dev box with a ton of ram then using docker or a VM is irrelevant. You can just set the whole thing up in a ram drive and things are nearly instant, assuming you'r
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by rartichoke 12y ago
I almost got excited but then yawned. It's nice but it still doesn't fix the issue with people who have medium end machines where you develop in a VM full time and want to be able to run a VM within a VM. For example with fairly o
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by rartichoke 12y ago
I wouldn't sweat it too much. I've also noticed that really in depth questions with a lot of code examples and explanations doesn't help either because then they get no responses or votes. It's funny when you're ask
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by rartichoke 12y ago
I wish Netflix would just deny access to every Comcast subscriber. Maybe that will knock Comcast into reality after like 20% of their subscribers instantly cancel their account.
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by rartichoke 12y ago
You can't ignore things until it's a huge problem, that would be a mistake no matter what. Do you have a real code example from a non-trivial domain?
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by rartichoke 12y ago
The menu I was talking about wasn't the typical channel listing. That's even worse to the point where I never use it. When I goto my friend's house where he has a ton of premium channels you can literally spend 3 hours just l
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by rartichoke 12y ago
I never tried accessing it through a console. Only through a fairly modern $40ish DVD player and a web browser, no complaints. I'd drop them instantly without thinking twice if a better solution existed with equal or better selection,
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by rartichoke 12y ago
Are you a Netflix subscriber? Their interface is pretty good. It's about as good as you can ask for given the technology we have and the selection that Netflix has. Things are broken up by genre or new releases just like they used to b
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by rartichoke 12y ago
A beginner with a passion and goal to improve will eventually become a professional. You don't get to professional status by just research and reading, you have to actually do things and figure out first hand what works and what doesn&
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by rartichoke 12y ago
He never said don't learn patterns. He said it's not worth spending all your time trying to memorize them before you even write a line of code. Memorizing about 20 patterns for 3 months before you really write any code is way wors
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by rartichoke 12y ago
This is the best keynote he's ever given. It boils down to actually writing code and forget memorizing patterns. That can't be more true.
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by rartichoke 12y ago
It's not as simple as you think it is. You mentioned wanting to allow farmers to make an account and add in their details of various stuff along with having their own profile. That is much different than a typical e-commerce setup.
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by rartichoke 12y ago
Comparing an e-commerce site to what you want is like trying to compare a tarantula's fangs to the rudders on a speed boat. I'm not trying to bust your chops but I'd be curious as to what makes you think your idea is less tec
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by rartichoke 12y ago
Safe isn't immune, also people are really strange around money. What if I set a goal for 2 years from now. Suddenly I'm forced into maintaining a friendship with my accountability partner because if I don't then I run the ris
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by rartichoke 12y ago
It doesn't matter where the money goes to in the end, the only thing that matters is the risk taker loses the money. There's a very big difference between "internet friend I've known for 4 years and I would consider him
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by rartichoke 12y ago
What makes you think someone will do this for free for you? You're asking for a custom site with custom data that is searchable in many different ways. You're asking someone to come up with an entire implementation to your idea. I
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by rartichoke 12y ago
The big problem I see is how do you pick the accountability partner? It needs to be someone who you would trust with an arbitrary amount of money because as soon as there's an ounce of distrust then the entire idea falls apart. I'
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by rartichoke 12y ago
For some reason your "I had taken an hour out of my day" comment really bothers me. The guy you interviewed probably spent ~4 hours preparing for the interview and then all of the time in the actual interview. Let's say he ta
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by rartichoke 12y ago
Most people do need simple. Just having 2 or 3 servers is enough to handle quite a bit traffic and you can always vertically scale up to a certain point. Once I recover from burn out I'll likely look into an alternative to Chef.
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by rartichoke 12y ago
I spent months working with Chef and made a good amount of progress but I feel like it drained years off my life. It's not because "devops" is even hard, but it's because the tooling is still horrible and the community i
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by rartichoke 12y ago
I think you're missing an important option. If an issue is on github then I'm much more inclined to report any bug I come across. If it's on some obscure bug tracker that I don't have an account for then the odds of me r
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by rartichoke 12y ago
I skimmed it honestly, it didn't hold my attention long enough but your opening paragraphs were good and I definitely agree with what the article was saying. Also the current dev has no idea what the old dev's payment was like eit
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by rartichoke 13y ago
I think the problem with web versions of excel-like apps is the lack of trust when it comes to hosting your private information on the sites that would run them. Do you really want to have your expense/profit reports, customer lists, e
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by rartichoke 13y ago
Because it has mechanisms in place to make server side driven templates feel like they are client side for most use cases. I carefully included "such as rails" because I'm not saying only rails can do it. I can't speak f
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by rartichoke 13y ago
Why limit yourself to a client side JS framework? Certain server side frameworks such as rails let you build apps that feel very similar to client side js apps without having to use them.
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by rartichoke 13y ago
You don't have to treat generators as CRUD only things though. What's wrong with creating an app generator that spits out enough stuff to get you going on a certain app? If I don't have to spend 15 minutes making a bunch of s
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by rartichoke 13y ago
It's strange how so many people bag on rails and say its generators are useless but so many other techs have spent years trying to replicate that style of app development. I enjoy using generators btw.
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by rartichoke 13y ago
Yeah, that reminds me of the broken window tip from the pragmatic programmer book.
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by rartichoke 13y ago
It's not as simple as you think it is. A lot of them already use shared hosting from previous sites and want to stay with them because it happens to work in their case. So now you're stuck using some old version of PHP and mysql.
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by rartichoke 13y ago
It's definitely true. People don't really understand the circumstances the coder was in when writing the code. I sometimes come across low paying clients who try to take advantage of you at every chance. They also come to me with

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