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smackjer

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About smackjer

VP Engineering at Form Health in Boston.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #37835155

    Passwords can be weak, reused, stolen, or shared.

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    Comment #36394510

    I think I'm gonna hurl!

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    Comment #27683266

    Yes, it's public source code.

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    Comment #25131521

    Nope. Any PillPack developer can look up any customer in seconds. Other employees have more limited access, but generally quite a bit of access. Access is logged in production, but…

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    Comment #22470521

    Form Health | Boston | REMOTE/ONSITE | Senior Software Engineer Form Health is medical weight loss. Delivered through your phone. Obesity impacts 40% of the US adult population, bu…

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    Comment #7885021

    "bundle outdated" will do that too.

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    Comment #5786979

    Sass can't do that, but the Compass framework (built on Sass) has sprite generation.

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    Comment #4692486

    Totally agree. It inspired me to build http://strfti.me , and eventually the stamp gem.

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    Comment #4224271

    The question isn't whether problems should be solved using engineering strategies -- in general, I agree that they should. Rather, it's whether everything in life is an engineering…

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    Comment #4224130

    IF engineering strategies are not always inappropriate, does that necessarily imply that they are always appropriate? I think the point of the post is that there's more to life tha…

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    Comment #4058023

    Terrible Labs is looking for a Lead UI/UX Designer to help us build great apps and an even greater team! https://sites.google.com/a/terriblelabs.com/careers/ You’ll collaborate clo…

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    Comment #3803557

    And it's other people's prerogative if they choose to not use that code due to the license.

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    Comment #3585766

    I've used Rails for almost 5 years. I've implemented Stripe, KISSmetrics, and Bootstrap each on at least two different projects. Even with my experience, I'd estimate that using a …

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    Comment #3220245

    I think truthiness and validity/completeness are different things. Overloading truthiness sounds to me like a recipe for confusion and less expressiveness. That said, I'm all for e…

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    Comment #2754539

    http://foamee.com/

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    Comment #2631492

    That's fine for a simple DOM element, but quickly gets out of control. Imagine a list rendered in a loop from a JSON array.

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    Comment #2467413

    I use Rubular all the time, and it inspired me to build http://strfti.me .

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    Comment #2210090

    I've used http://www.zendesk.com before. Using http://tenderapp.com now and liking it.

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    Comment #2154478

    This kind of transparency should be the norm, rather than the exception. Kudos.

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    Comment #2153395

    A few alternatives: https://teambox.com/ http://goplanapp.com/ http://www.assembla.com/ http://www.codebasehq.com/

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    Comment #1826181

    http://www.twackit.com Track any numeric metric over time using your Twitter account. People have used to to track their weight, mpg, jogging, movie ratings, etc. Most of the users…

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    Strftime Date and Time Formatting Reference and Sandbox

    Can't remember how to format your dates and times using strftime? Ruby, C, and PHP programmers: rejoice!

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    Comment #1153389

    Escape the quote. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL_injection#Preventing_SQL_in...