Viewing profile — rjspotter

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 ful…

" 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 / …

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 e…

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 …

Not always true from my experience at ANL

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 …

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 s…

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 valu…

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…

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, us…

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…

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…

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.

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 allevia…

How many lines of code have you written that are in production with actual users right now?

What kinds of things to recruiters say or do (or not say and not do) that annoy you the most? Especially in their cold emails and cold calls.

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 /…

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

SEEKING Work - Remote only - SF Based Learned Ruby in 2002 and started working with Rails professionally in 2006. http://www.intentionally-blank.com/

Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb