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Re:Why I Deleted Uber and You Should Too on Thursday February 23, 2017 @05:31PM (#13718481)
Yup.
Re:I Turned Down Amazon 3x in a Year on Friday February 17, 2017 @08:01AM (#13667962)
Agreed, I wouldn't work for Amazon even if I was without a job and they offered me a 250k salary. My experience with them was negative x3
Re:What's your worst IT failure to date? on Monday February 13, 2017 @09:11AM (#13635278)
My worst failure was a 3am production database drop half-asleep. We had backups but we lost an hour of transactional data. My worst IT failure to date.
Re:Creating a swap file for tiny cloud servers on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @08:28AM (#11721391)
This is a good article, but I've found that using swap is a bit expensive and slow. Why not just purchase a cheap VPS from bitkumo.com and then use the swap only when necessary. Swapping is never a good thing unless it's absolutely necessary (IMHO)
Re:Ask HN: What language do you use for programming Job interviews? on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @08:21AM (#11721365)
Stick with what makes you happy. If you want to work in Ruby, target jobs that are Ruby/Rails oriented and keep on coding in Ruby. Unless you are interviewing for an engineer position that require C/C++ you're most likely better off sticking to Ruby jobs.

On the other hand I've had job interviews where they used a language I wasn't proficient in (Python, Scala) but they allowed me to craft the solution to problem in Ruby but expected me to port it to the other language. Employers these days seem to be flexible, especially when the candidate is intelligent and picks up technology easy.

Ask HN: How do I reach the next level as a developer?

Posted by shakycode on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @08:02AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I've been writing Ruby/Rails code for the last 4.5 years and I've noticed that I'm very weak on the front-end (JS/jQuery/etc). It's a pain point for me as I have a hard time wrapping my head around JS syntax.Are there any good resources you guys (and gals) might recommend for me to level up my front-end skills so that I'm more of a well-rounded full-stack developer?

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Re:Ask HN: How do you read books? on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @07:58AM (#11721264)
Technical books: via paperback/hardback Any other book: Audible
Re:Ask HN: Oldest code you have written that is still in use? on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @07:57AM (#11721261)
I've only been programming for 5 years and some of the original code I first wrote 5+ years ago has survived and somehow is still running. I'm tempted to go back and refactor it to make it more performant though.
Re:Disposable, Secure, Email Built in Rails on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @06:51AM (#11674131)
Thanks for your feedback, I'm hosted out of Canada so we're outside of the reach of US laws, however I will be adding a ToS and AuP to the service which people have to agree too. For me this was a fun service to build and I'm hoping others will find value in this. Cheers! -shakycode
Re:Built in Rails a disposable burner email service on Monday May 09, 2016 @10:30AM (#11660088)
This is in beta right now but pretty much everything works. Would love to get some feedback on this to see how I can make it better!
Re:Built a SMS Spoofing App on Xmas. Like a Burner for SMS on Monday December 28, 2015 @09:59AM (#10801350)
Not yet. That feature hasn't been implemented. For now it will send a message from a random burner number. But I'll put the santa claus feature in the queue :)
Re:Built a SMS Spoofing App on Xmas. Like a Burner for SMS on Monday December 28, 2015 @09:15AM (#10801136)
Built with Rails and a fun idea to do something different from the regular crud type app. Would love feedback, suggestions, etc to make it better.

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