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Re: Lapwing Labs

omouse — Fri, 03 Oct 2014 07:52:53 -0000

It's funny, 90% of the stack you're using is Free/Open Source Software. Why not go full free software and use GNU/Linux? I hear the distros have sane package management systems.

Re: Using Django and MongoDB to Build a Blog

omouse — Tue, 23 Sep 2014 11:57:43 -0000

anyone know if mongoengine has support Django 1.6 and 1.7?

Re: Setting up Django with MongoDB

omouse — Tue, 23 Sep 2014 11:57:13 -0000

do you know if mongoengine works with Django 1.6 and 1.7?

Re: Out in the Open: The Abandoned Facebook Tech That Now Powers Apple

omouse — Mon, 04 Aug 2014 18:46:20 -0000

Apache runs the world: Tomcat, Apache web server, Cassandra, CouchDB, Hadoop, Cordova, HBase, Lucene, Solr, SpamAssassin, Struts, Subversion.

https://projects.apache.org...

Feels like they're a dumping ground for all the useful projects out there.

Re: TMBA255: How People Fail at Sustaining the Digital Nomad Lifestyle

omouse — Mon, 04 Aug 2014 00:49:12 -0000

take a page from software consultants like Brennan Dunn:

http://brennandunn.com/

there's a previous podcast on TropicalMBA about productized services. you're going to have to figure out what specialized tasks you can do and sell them as products to businesses:

http://www.tropicalmba.com/...

most CS masters seem to find a home at a company or go consulting or go academia which is all 40+hrs dictated to you by someone else.

Re: This design concept shows how beautiful Wikipedia could be

omouse — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 11:06:31 -0000

Yep, agreed, one thing I particularly hate is the removal of the table of contents. Hiding the TOC is a HORRIBLE navigation idea. It's something I dislike in most web pages too where there are headings but no quick way to get to them.

Re: How To Do SEO The Lazy Way

omouse — Tue, 08 Jul 2014 00:47:50 -0000

You weren't kidding about Squidoo and Weebly. I created a blog a few years back about EVE Online and some tips I learned along the way. The last post was over a year ago. I checked it today and apparently it's still getting 20+ hits per day. That's twice the traffic I get on my personal/programming blog which is more up-to-date.

Niche blogging ftw.

Re: Sales Strategy: LinkedIn InMail vs. Email

omouse — Tue, 03 Jun 2014 14:14:54 -0000

I'm trying to do get some more web development contracting gigs and I'm working on a client contract at the same time, building my lead list is something I do 1-2 times a week at most. So I guess it isn't worth it for me?

Re: How I used Criticue to quickly iterate on my PaidCodeReview design

omouse — Tue, 03 Jun 2014 14:12:32 -0000

what happened to PaidCodeReview? It looks like it's shut down now?

Re: Sales Strategy: LinkedIn InMail vs. Email

omouse — Tue, 03 Jun 2014 11:22:28 -0000

Doing a quick google search comes up with nothing to show the results of using InMails vs cold emails which doesn't help when you're trying to figure out if you should invest $60/month.

Re: SEO Agency Case Study: Why Should Prospects Choose You?

omouse — Sat, 31 May 2014 19:25:10 -0000

do digital marketing agencies next! :D they're all very image heavy with awful copy imo

Re: Google Camera for Android adds 16:9 cropping, brings back timer, expands panorama options

omouse — Thu, 29 May 2014 00:35:34 -0000

There's another difference too, the source code for this camera app may *not* be open-source. This has happened with other apps like the Photos app which is NOT open-source while the Android Gallery app is.

Re: Rapper ‘Mos Def’ Undergoes Gitmo Force Feeding as U.S. Defends the Practice

omouse — Sat, 17 May 2014 19:10:47 -0000

This is a lie. This is FORCE feeding. This is against their will. This is not only about the physical pain it's about the psychological pain.

What are the crimes of the prisoners in Gitmo? Why aren't they put on trial if there's evidence of those crimes? Why is this hell on earth still allowed to operate when Obama promised to close it as soon as he was elected in his first term???

Re: Rapper ‘Mos Def’ Undergoes Gitmo Force Feeding as U.S. Defends the Practice

omouse — Sat, 17 May 2014 19:09:16 -0000

That's not *force* feeding.

Re: Reality check: What you may have missed in Hudak’s ‘Million Jobs’ Plan

omouse — Fri, 16 May 2014 10:51:10 -0000

Something you should mention in the article is *why* corporations don't create new jobs. It's because of unstable government. If I had an Ontario company, I'd save that extra cash or put it into R&D instead of expanding just because I don't know *what* the province and federal government will do next. One day they're subsidizing other big companies, the next day they're cutting taxes, the next day they're raising taxes on gas or on something else that could affect my supply costs

Re: Millennials richer than their parents at that age: BMO report

omouse — Fri, 16 May 2014 10:48:31 -0000

They need to fire this analyst and get a new one. Don't try and tell the younger generations we're well off when we know precisely how much worse we are. We have 24/7 access to all sorts of stats and to *life* to see how much worse off we are.

I guess getting a part-time job is a lot of opportunity! -_-'

Re: Dear Internet: Let’s Demo The Slow Lane

omouse — Wed, 07 May 2014 18:03:25 -0000

This is a great idea, similar to the STOP SOPA stuff, you just insert a little button or some JS and you're good to go. Much easier than modifying server side configurations

Re: The Moderately Enthusiastic Programmer

omouse — Sun, 02 Feb 2014 13:16:13 -0000

Professionalism isn't something that coders are being trained in at all.

Re: The Moderately Enthusiastic Programmer

omouse — Sun, 02 Feb 2014 13:05:24 -0000

So you're saying he's the guy that gets paid $100k for fixing the mess that allowed you to cash out in the first place?

Re: Fat Models - A Django Code Organization Strategy

omouse — Tue, 28 Jan 2014 21:34:31 -0000

You're saying that we should always keep in mind the basic principles of computer science and software engineering? Amazing how many developers have to re-discover things that were known over 30 years ago, isn't it?

Re: Fat Models - A Django Code Organization Strategy

omouse — Tue, 28 Jan 2014 21:33:35 -0000

This is *the* only logical thing to do. I'm surprised others don't work like this. Your model needs to contain as many methods related to it as possible. Once you have a lot of methods in the model, *then* you break it off into utility classes that accept your model as a parameter when you can easily see which groupings of methods make sense.

I'm currently dealing with a PHP model that has 400+ methods and at that scale it's much easier to see that there's a logical grouping of utility methods that should be in their own utility class.

Re: Ontario will hike $10.25 minimum wage retroactively to 2010, could go up several dollars

omouse — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 16:41:20 -0000

Only because they have a union. Everyone else gets screwed because their wages go to the CEOs and executives.

I was looking at software developer jobs and in the US you can make 80k just out of university. In Canada you're lucky to get 60k.

Re: How I used Criticue to quickly iterate on my PaidCodeReview design

omouse — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 16:12:19 -0000

People actually hire outsiders to review their code? I'm impressed, it's hard enough just getting the internal team to review code.

Re: Accenture's six tech trends driving change in the enterprise | VentureBeat | Enterprise | by Dean Takahashi

omouse — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 14:31:49 -0000

It's too bad tech trends don't include "better management" or "less ambiguous requirements" as those are two critical factors that contribute to project failures.

What's the use of all this tech if there are severe budget and schedule overruns? What's the use if you have to abandon the effort halfway through?

Re: GruntJS + MochaJS + ChaiJS + SinonJS

omouse — Tue, 21 Jan 2014 21:04:46 -0000

Awesome thanks!