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At Facebook female engineers have their code rejected 35% more than males(theguardian.com)
30 points by rickr 9y ago|38 comments
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by rickr 10y ago
Michael Hartl's Rails tutorial ( https://www.railstutorial.org/ ) is a great example of this. It'll run you through building a twitter clone and introduce you to git, heroku, a bit of CSS/HTML, and even goes in
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Quick-sort with Hungarian (Küküllőmenti legényes) folk dance(youtube.com)
1 points by rickr 10y ago|0 comments
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by rickr 10y ago
I've been working on creating a platform for a non profit to get veterans coding ( http://operationcode.org/ ). We're a slack based community and have been rolling out some home grown slack bots and we currently hav
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by rickr 10y ago
Operation Code ( http://operationcode.org ) Operation Code is an open source project that helps military, guard & reserve troops, veterans and their families get coding and building software to change the world. We're ove
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by rickr 10y ago
Operation Code ( http://operationcode.org ) Operation Code is an open source project that helps military, guard & reserve troops, veterans and their families get coding and building software to change the world. We're ove
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by rickr 10y ago
Using Firefox/Chrome on a linux box doesn't really compare to getting a dev environment setup. For a rails app it's not a stretch to have to install postgres, rvm, ruby, some compiled gems, and redis. Then you need to make su
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by rickr 10y ago
As long as they didn't state you can't use external libs it IS a good solution. Their response lets their team dynamic and environment shine through. They came across an unexpected but valid solution and instead of accepting their
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by rickr 10y ago
The actual roadmap is here: https://trello.com/b/ZnTQyumQ/slack-platform-roadmap
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What I learned migrating a Rails app to Elixir/Phoenix(medium.com)
5 points by rickr 11y ago|0 comments
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by rickr 11y ago
FYI your page is empty of any content with ghostery enabled.
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by rickr 11y ago
My team at a recent Startup Weekend did this. RasPI with a PID loop turning a fan on (increase heat)/off (decrease heat). The RasPI fed this into a backend server via websocket. We through a front end on to graph the temp, humidity etc
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by rickr 11y ago
I haven't done much with Phoenix but I think there are a few libraries out there. I think addict is the front runner: https://github.com/trenpixster/addict https://github.com/opendrops/passpor
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by rickr 11y ago
Learning a functional language (and way of thinking) was pretty enlightening to me. I've also been looking into learning a bit about machine learning and data science via https://www.kaggle.com/ . They run contests with
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Core Elixir: IO.Puts(variousandsundry.com)
2 points by rickr 11y ago|0 comments
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by rickr 11y ago
You've got a weird issue with your text/register button: http://imgur.com/zbhpFY3 (FF 39 on a MBP)
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Phoenix app with authentication(meatherly.github.io)
1 points by rickr 11y ago|0 comments
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Pentagon outreach to Silicon Valley stirs a fuss(politico.com)
4 points by rickr 11y ago|0 comments
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by rickr 11y ago
LeMons racer? That's the first application I thought of but when are you ever alone on track? You could throw one or two of these in common passing places and combine that feed with in car video. You could get some really neat video.
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by rickr 11y ago
I've just started messing with elixir. It's a functional language that runs on the Erlang VM but it's syntax is ruby-ish. I'm a newbie but I've been impressed by the tooling so far. And once you change how you think
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by rickr 11y ago
Is there a compatible browser list? Found it on github: IE10+ Latest Stable: Firefox, Chrome, Safari iOS 6+
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Show HN: Foghorn – Add a little Foghorn Leghorn to your ruby(github.com)
6 points by rickr 11y ago|1 comments
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by rickr 11y ago
If you've got a basic prototype and something you can show people you should be out talking to potential customers seeing if they'll buy it. In talking to a bunch of potential customers you'll find out a ton of actionable inf
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by rickr 11y ago
Not exactly what you're wanting but there was a poll a little while ago asking what people prefer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8815512
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by rickr 11y ago
Why do you think it's too much? I think it could probably be named a bit better but what's the downside to having a ~25 char method name?
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by rickr 11y ago
Interesting idea! Some UI feedback - the 'I agree/disagree' buttons on your mission component are kind of weird. I clicked on both just to see what would happen. I think the CTA to sign up as an expert was a bit hard to find
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by rickr 11y ago
I've been using bootstrap for a while now too and lately I've been trying out new libraries just to see if anything is better yet. On feel alone I didn't love foundation. For a project that required pretty heavy customization
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by rickr 11y ago
I added an RPM package to a project that used a Makefile to spin up a docker container which then built various packages via FPM: https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm I didn't use the build system heavily and it ma
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by rickr 11y ago
talk has been around for like...30 years now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_(software)
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by rickr 11y ago
If you don't mind me asking - how do you manage that? Do you use inline CSS a la https://speakerdeck.com/vjeux/react-css-in-js ?

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