rwhitnah

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by rwhitnah 13y ago
Taught myself to program BASIC on my TI-83 graphing calculator. Dad taught me VisualBasic, took high school classes in C++/JAVA, and taught myself Python, JavaScript, and Ruby while working terrible hourly jobs. Now do full-stack Rails
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by rwhitnah 13y ago
Some of your :hover transitions are a bit wonky in Chrome. Hovering over, say, "JavaScript" under your TeamCoco job bumps your span.label from 70px width to 72px width. My guess is that this is from Chrome rounding partial pixels
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by rwhitnah 13y ago
Some of the shortcuts taken by these quick studies are always really interesting to me. First, I wouldn't assume the same career duration for both GEDs and College Grads - generally, a dropout will start working earlier. A general "GED aver
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by rwhitnah 13y ago
Get help. Call a hotline, and see a doctor. Medication for depression isn't a sign of weakness - it can seriously give you your life back. Been where you are, made it through, happy to chat if it helps.
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by rwhitnah 13y ago
If your 'culture fit' doesn't allow this, it's time to build a new culture. Assuming equal skill levels, sure, I would.
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by rwhitnah 14y ago
PivotDesk (www.pivotdesk.com) Ruby on Rails, hosted on Heroku. PostgreSQL. Queuing is handled via Redis/Resque, and we're using Pingdom and NewRelic for primary monitoring. SendGrid powers our email, GitHub hosts our code, and we use Campfi
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by rwhitnah 14y ago
Yeah, it's pretty common practice to disable the root account from SSH access/never log in as root. Linode has a pretty good getting-started guide for basic Ubuntu VPS security: http://library.linode.com/securing-your-server