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06-09-2014 , 02:35 PM
Feel so bad at negotiating.

So my former manager (who left for another company a year ago) came calling last week wanting me to apply for an opening under his new boss. I put it in through their job site this morning and went for a run at lunch. As I got home I received a call from an unknown number and ended up doing a 30 minute interview with their IT HR guy. Anyone beg off and reschedule? Didn't feel very prepared and definitely didn't handle talk around compensation as well as I would like.
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06-09-2014 , 02:58 PM
Seems like JetBrains has released a "database-guys" IDE. Might interest dave
http://www.jetbrains.com/dbe/features/
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06-09-2014 , 10:29 PM
Why would people spend so much time and money on these things when you can have all of that, plus much more, plus a consistent environment for free? This isn't an open -vs- closed source debate thing. It just makes no sense to me.

And also, do programmers really type that slow?
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06-10-2014 , 07:33 AM
Well if it saves you a minute a day on average and you work like 240 days that's 4 hours per year.

Obviously the question is if it does save you a minute a day compared to other tools etc.

Consensus seems to be that they are the best at building IDEs for programming languages and I thought it was somewhat interesting that they branched out to data bases
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06-10-2014 , 07:50 AM
I'd guess even the 'placebo' effect is worth the cost. Meaning that even if a specific IDE isn't likely to increase your efficiency directly the increased 'utility' for using an IDE that you 'like' is worth it in most cases. Or something like that.

Dave, I'm also still surprised when I come across a programmer that just can't type very fast. Kind of blows me away even though its not really rare.
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06-10-2014 , 08:03 AM
can anyone tell me how common or rare it is to be able to work remotely as a programmer?
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06-10-2014 , 08:17 AM
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Originally Posted by pewpewpew
can anyone tell me how common or rare it is to be able to work remotely as a programmer?
I don't know a percentage - but its not that rare (although I wouldn't say its common). I currently work remotely.

I suspect its hard to start a job with the condition that you're going to be remote. Or at least, it will severely limit your options. Once you've proven yourself its easier to switch to remote. Although I would guess this also depends on the location/company.
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06-10-2014 , 08:31 AM
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Originally Posted by jjshabado
I don't know a percentage - but its not that rare (although I wouldn't say its common). I currently work remotely.

I suspect its hard to start a job with the condition that you're going to be remote. Or at least, it will severely limit your options. Once you've proven yourself its easier to switch to remote. Although I would guess this also depends on the location/company.
hmm, thanks, that's about what i figured. any particular career paths/niches that lend themselves to working remotely more than others?
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06-10-2014 , 08:43 AM
I don't know if there are particular career paths/niches that lend themselves to working remotely although there are certainly paths that lend themselves to NOT working remotely.

When I first went remote I had to give up all of my management roles. I've managed some people since then, but with a much smaller team. It's actually really hard to manage people remotely and for me it really only works with specific personalities and company structures.

There are also certain roles where you just need to be easily accessible to people and/or specific hardware (thinking more IT/support roles) in which case being remote isn't really an option.

I'd also add that I don't actually love being remote full time. For me the perfect mix would be 2-3 days in the office and 2-3 days remote.
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06-10-2014 , 09:16 AM
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Originally Posted by pewpewpew
can anyone tell me how common or rare it is to be able to work remotely as a programmer?
Full-time is very rare. I work in a 1000+ person technology organization and we only have two full-time remote employees. I've been to the office for one week in the past year. I'm interviewing at another organization of a similar size and the HR guy had never onboarded a full-time remote employee.

Working one day a week from home is very common in these same organizations.
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06-10-2014 , 09:52 AM
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Originally Posted by Scary_Tiger
Full-time is very rare. I work in a 1000+ person technology organization and we only have two full-time remote employees. I've been to the office for one week in the past year. I'm interviewing at another organization of a similar size and the HR guy had never onboarded a full-time remote employee.

Working one day a week from home is very common in these same organizations.
thanks for the input, it is disappointing tho. are sites like this effective for finding said jobs? - https://weworkremotely.com/ (it was just the first result that google turned up). i'd think remote jobs would be more competitive than the local equivalent, or have to sacrifice pay or something, but i dunno. anyway they seem to have a pretty varied list of jobs on their site.
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06-10-2014 , 10:16 AM
So I'm about to create a series of permissions in a model. Basically it'll be about notifications. There are 3 options for each category (for now), so web app, mobile app, and email.

I was thinking about storing them in a bitmask (like unix permissions, mapping a combination of values in an array to an integer). I searched how to query it, and the one answer I found suggested against it. Anyone have any other thoughts on how to accomplish this? Does it make sense to use the postgresql array type to just list the chosen permissions for each field, or to include another table, or just include like 20 booleans?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3...n-activerecord
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06-10-2014 , 10:18 AM
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Originally Posted by jjshabado
I'd also add that I don't actually love being remote full time. For me the perfect mix would be 2-3 days in the office and 2-3 days remote.
Agree with this. When I was working full time at an office last year I eventually negotiated two days at home, which made me happier and more productive.

I'm also very productive at home, but do enjoy human contact... and working remotely definitely makes it harder to work with others.
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06-10-2014 , 11:04 AM
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Originally Posted by pewpewpew
thanks for the input, it is disappointing tho. are sites like this effective for finding said jobs? - https://weworkremotely.com/ (it was just the first result that google turned up). i'd think remote jobs would be more competitive than the local equivalent, or have to sacrifice pay or something, but i dunno. anyway they seem to have a pretty varied list of jobs on their site.
Of course it's more competitive, and there would be some salary considerations. For example, you aren't likely to get a NYC or SF salary working remotely since you are competing against people who live in Idaho. Most of the jobs I see listed there are for somewhat experienced people, so if you have the right skillset, you will probably be pretty happy with the salary.
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06-10-2014 , 03:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Nchabazam
So I'm about to create a series of permissions in a model. Basically it'll be about notifications. There are 3 options for each category (for now), so web app, mobile app, and email.

I was thinking about storing them in a bitmask (like unix permissions, mapping a combination of values in an array to an integer). I searched how to query it, and the one answer I found suggested against it. Anyone have any other thoughts on how to accomplish this? Does it make sense to use the postgresql array type to just list the chosen permissions for each field, or to include another table, or just include like 20 booleans?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3...n-activerecord
If anyone is curious, I just used postgres's array to store the combinations of settings for each field. Seems fast and fine. Mainly I wanted to play a bit with the postgres array stuff because I just switched my app over to postgres locally.
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06-10-2014 , 04:33 PM
I'm not sure why use the bitmask. Seems more complicated and less flexible for not very much performance gain.
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06-10-2014 , 05:08 PM
and opaque. i think the array solution sounds good.
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06-10-2014 , 10:59 PM
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Originally Posted by clowntable
Well if it saves you a minute a day on average and you work like 240 days that's 4 hours per year.

Obviously the question is if it does save you a minute a day compared to other tools etc.

Consensus seems to be that they are the best at building IDEs for programming languages and I thought it was somewhat interesting that they branched out to data bases
Yeah, my post came across a little prickish.

I do agree that the tools for using databases could be better, more user friendly, and... more Windows compatible, but there isn't anything from the videos that I feel is compelling or earth-rattling.

But there was one post on HN that had me scratching my head:

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> You'd be buying a license for 7 IDEs? What happened to the good 'ol plugin model?

+1, it's ridiculous. My colleague switches between PhpStorm and IDEA depending upon which language she is writing in, so it's two licenses for us to absorb.
I mean, if that is how people want to roll, that is fine, but what happens if said colleague has to program in something other than the languages they support? I guess IDEA will do okay, but yikes.

With that said, there hasn't been many compelling features on any of their IDEs that made me think: "Gee, why isn't that in Emacs" since 90% of it is here with a plugin or a little bit of code, and thus I have no desire to switch over. I can't speak irt to Java development, obv.

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Originally Posted by jjshabado
I'd guess even the 'placebo' effect is worth the cost. Meaning that even if a specific IDE isn't likely to increase your efficiency directly the increased 'utility' for using an IDE that you 'like' is worth it in most cases. Or something like that.
Yep.
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06-11-2014 , 09:08 PM
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Originally Posted by _dave_
unless set up to do something else (using jquery or whatever fancy libraries), submitting a form by default will redirect to whatever page is listed in the form's action - in this case contact-form.php. this is why we are expecting something to happen when you hit the submit button, regardless if actual email sending is functional or not. hitting submit should be equivalent to typing domain.com/contact-form.php in to the address bar of your browser.

I do notice you will get zero output if this fails, it seems to wrap the whole thing:
Code:
if(isset($_POST['message']) and isset($_POST['name']))


regardless, for now I suggest to try something more simple, like this:

contact.html
Code:
<html>
<body>
<form action="contact-form.php">
  <input type="text" name="name">
  <textarea name="message"></textarea>
  <input type="submit">
</form>
</body>
</html>
[n]contact-form.php[/b]
Code:
<html>
<body>
<?php
print "php at least executes" . <br><br>;
print "Request:<br>";
print_r($_REQUEST);
?>
</body>
</html>
If you get nothing from this simple form, try accessing contact-form.php directly and see if it can print it's message.
Thanks for this recommendation.

I looked into it more deeply, and the form is actually set up to use jquery to handle the request. That's why I wasn't getting a redirect as expected.

I made an html page and a php script with the simpler form, as recommended.

Successfully got a php redirect, but no visible action or network request was performed by php (that I could tell).

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06-11-2014 , 10:42 PM
view source on that blank white page - does it show anything?

It looks like PHP may not be configured on this server perhaps, but that would be odd indeed.
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06-12-2014 , 12:43 AM
Finished the the BNR Obj-C book and now halfway through the BNR iOS book. It's now starting to get fun since now whatever you program you can actually see. It's absolutely satisfying when you overcome a problem and see it through fruition.
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06-12-2014 , 05:15 AM
anyone WHO knows a person with good programming skills in C# that is willing to coach/teach me?

PM please.
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06-13-2014 , 12:17 AM
So this db girl we got keeps getting better and better and doing more and more interesting things with the PL/pgSQL.

Turned out that the thing the company wanted to be done was a little more involved than I had originally thought, though nothing extraordinarily difficult. Regardless, I can't help but think we are exploiting her.

Guess I should go buy a bottle of gel tomorrow and get working on those spikes.
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06-13-2014 , 12:28 AM
Do i hear wedding bells?
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06-13-2014 , 12:52 AM
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Do i hear wedding bells?
????

I just mentioned that we are exploiting her and I am divided about how to feel about this.

The gel comment being that I must be the spiky-haired boss now.
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