rjspotter

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by rjspotter 2y ago
Just a heads up: The first thing the coding challenge asks you to do is choose a Node track or a Django track in order to complete a number of simulations including stuff about full-stack development. I was very confused as to what this ha
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by rjspotter 5y ago
" In order to make those attributes truly irrelevant we have to correct for the massive, obvious influence they have in human decision making" Which is exactly what blind-hiring / blind-auditions are meant to do. The problem
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by rjspotter 6y ago
I'd suggest you try spending a little more time up front defining the what and why of the project before you start. If you don't define what winning looks like ahead of time it's easy to quit 5 minutes in when you're co
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by rjspotter 8y ago
Standing Desk: Just a desktop from IKEA and some pipe from Home Depot I get memory foam bath mats and replace them approx 1-2 times per year. I also have a yoga block and lacrosse ball at my feet so I can change my stance. I've a 48&q
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by rjspotter 9y ago
Not always true from my experience at ANL
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by rjspotter 9y ago
Apartment Therapy Media | Back End Engineer | REMOTE http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/jobs/#positions Just another media company but, we punch way above our weight class. We handle 10s of millions of uniques a month wi
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by rjspotter 9y ago
Apartment Therapy Media | Back End Engineer | REMOTE | http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/jobs/ The job posting in the link does a good job of describing what we do and how (if I do say so myself). Short version; No hero
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by rjspotter 10y ago
Apartment Therapy Media | Backend Engineer | NYC, US Timezones | REMOTE http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/jobs We're a small team relative to the amount of traffic we handle. We value going home on time, sleeping throug
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by rjspotter 10y ago
Apartment Therapy Media | Backend Engineer (Rails) | REMOTE If you're tired of commuting into an office just so you can put on headphones and try to ignore everyone. If you want to see your work actually make it into the world and be s
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by rjspotter 10y ago
Apartment Therapy Media | Back-end (Rails) | Remote (US) | ~= $100 - 110K Use Rails 4. Get things done. Sleep Soundly. Reach Millions. We see 10s of millions of uniques a month, use the latest stable versions, go home on time, and don'
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by rjspotter 10y ago
Rails Dev | Apartment Therapy Media | REMOTE Use Rails 4. Get things done. Sleep Soundly. Reach Millions. Reports from a private #slack channel Here’s what people who actually work on this team have to say about working here: "smart, a
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by rjspotter 11y ago
That is not Documentation that is Specification. How do you Document something that isn't built yet unless you have perfect foresight? Last I checked humans could not yet perfectly predict the future. Thus, the value of Working Soft
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by rjspotter 11y ago
Healthcare.gov was also a healthcare application developed waterfall style and was an enormous failure on launch day because of it's interactions with 3rd party systems.
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by rjspotter 11y ago
That isn't an answer to the question. Your response is selection bias. Every project that you've seen is a ball of technical debt. There is no argument to how documentation alleviates technical debt. If you document a poorly
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by rjspotter 11y ago
How many lines of code have you written that are in production with actual users right now?
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Ask HN: What do recruiters do that annoys you?
6 points by rjspotter 12y ago|9 comments
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Want to be more productive? Take a break(evidentproductivity.com)
1 points by rjspotter 12y ago|0 comments
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Stop going to work drunk: You are not Don Draper(evidentproductivity.com)
6 points by rjspotter 12y ago|0 comments
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by rjspotter 13y ago
I agree completely that the Interactor pattern makes for cleaner Models and Controllers in a Rails codebase. I've used both the Interactor gem and PORO (in a directory outside of /app or /lib). Having worked with the Interac
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by rjspotter 13y ago
I use /app/interactors or /use_cases (per some Uncle Bob talk about architecture). I don't consider them models in the 'Data Model' sense so I don't put them in /app/models
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by rjspotter 13y ago
SEEKING Work - Remote only - SF Based Learned Ruby in 2002 and started working with Rails professionally in 2006. http://www.intentionally-blank.com/
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by rjspotter 13y ago
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb