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You realize it is walmart right? There is no bad word association. Any company the size of walmart, regardless of how you feel about their core business, is likely doing some cool …

I switched from Linode to Digital Ocean a few weeks ago. It's mostly for personal sites and hobby projects, so cheaper is better and $20 vs $5 is a no brainer. I've not had any iss…

The last time I tried to install it, it was a nightmare. This was a few years ago before they put helpful explanations of what different versions mean, so the first time I picked t…

I really liked slack but in the end we went for hipchat for a two main reasons. 1. It's 25% of the cost (although that has now shifted). This may not be a big deal for small teams …

Planet money also did a podcast on this and went into a bit of how the ACH system works (not from a development point of view). It's a very strange system and honestly the episode …

> Why would I ever want to start a million dollar business if I knew the majority of my earnings would be taken from me by the government to support people that didn't need to do a…

You guys need a little love on your page :) I've not heard of it before so I google it and get to what appears to be the home page, and am presented with a login box with zero info…

This is a big problem in the industry, in order to really be seen as a good candidate you have to make your work a second part time job so you have something to show off publicly. …

pssssh I had $66k in cash and a $33 million valuation by basically randomly clicking and assigning things and never changing my price. Also accepting every popup offer that came al…

> Which makes me question Uncle Bobisms, because it reeks of lack of practical experience. The thing people need to realize is that these two come from very very different worlds. …

It honestly seems like it's more prominent in the ruby community, and I'm not entirely sure why. Part of it may be that ruby is so expressive and nice to work in that it ignites pe…

> I'm not saying TDD is the only way to write code, I'm saying TDD is the only way to make sure that you will have minimal automated testing. We'll have to disagree there. It's a f…

I think fanatic and zealot is the key word. I'm more of a pragmatist. I think one size fits all is a bad strategy, and different projects have different needs. There is nothing I h…

Not that I agree with him, but if your project can get away with a local sqlite database for testing (that is, no stored procs or database specific queries) and you make sure you d…

There's a plan here in Oregon to try and work up a viable system to do this. The idea is called "Pay it Forward" and you would essentially pay a 3% tax for 20 years after you gradu…

The tradeoff to that is that DC has a horrible commute and exceptionally high cost of living. How many of these contracts would allow primarily working from home?

I've always done this naturally, some days I read a blurb about some technology I used to use and realize, huh, I used to do that all the time but haven't touched it in years. I th…

I don't think this life is for everyone though. One thing people often don't consider when going freelance is that your job shifts. Instead of just being a developer, you are now a…

> As we get older I suspect the demographics of our profession will change along with us, and there will be more older people in roles we stereotype as being for younger people. At…

Really depends on what your app is doing and how critical it is to a business. For a complex application that has been in production for years, whose original developers weren't ve…

One thing to consider here though is that often times when you realize splitting up a function will make it easier to test, it's because your implementation sucks and is doing too …

One of the things that appeals to me about angular is that you can compose your application of smaller angular apps. I think what you're talking about (and the original article) mo…

I would think something like lastpass is an even better workflow however. 1. click login button 2. there is no step 2

Sidekiq's retry and robust handling of jobs (at least with reliable queuing in pro) was the big win indeed. I had a app I tried switching over to it though and it did not go well. …

Download the desktop version. The mobile one is not a full fledged app, it's mostly a convenience to record transactions and check budget amounts on the go. 99% of the time I use t…