Slokun

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bio	website	belligero.org
	location	Toronto, Canada
	age	24
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	1,241 reputation	bio	website	belligero.org	visits	member for	2 years, 9 months
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Apr 4	comment	What should you leave behind for your successors? I'm happy I answered this. I recently left the job I was at where I wanted all of this, and this gives me a good checklist of what to write up.
Dec 22	comment	Getting management to hire a new developer? @DeveloperDon Never did convince him to hire a new dev, and gave up after awhile. I also started a new job about 2 months ago, where we can't find enough people to hire. However, being a new hire now, that question is definitely worth contributing to.
Jan 14	comment	Ruby but not Rails on my Resume @Ken Been a few months since I last looked at my resume, but pretty sure I have it under either technologies or languages. Also, meant to put a ":P" at the end, guess I forgot.
Jan 14	comment	Ruby but not Rails on my Resume @Josh The OP has already stated in his question that learning Rails isn't an option right now. He also never said that he had no interest, just that it's not relevant to his thesis. Going to guess that's why the downvote.
Jan 14	comment	Ruby but not Rails on my Resume XML counts as a database now?
Dec 1	comment	Where can I find statistics on worldwide developers and software companies? @Thorbjørn 13,591, assuming one in every hundred people is a professional programmer.
Nov 26	comment	What is the right level of site blocking for you as a developer? @JW01 If not social networking, they'd find somewhere else to waste their time. StackEchange, solitaire, phone, reading newspapers... These people (likely 10-25%) will waste time no matter what. You're wasting the other 75-90% of people's time by blocking sites.
Nov 18	comment	Getting management to hire a new developer? Thought I should say, I showed my one boss my todo list (was about 70 odd items at the time), and made occasional comments about how much I have to do. Was told last week they're going to hire somebody to help me out.
Nov 17	comment	Where can I find statistics on worldwide developers and software companies? This sounds like one of those interview questions; "How many piano repairmen are there in San Diego?"
Nov 12	comment	Do you use code names for your projects? Ah, but did you follow the alphabetical order Ubuntu does?
Nov 10	comment	Divisional/Sectional comments, good or bad? In effect, the `#region` grouping would be doing the same thing, just makes folding a lot nicer
Nov 8	comment	how do early stage startups hire ninja programmers @Tim you wouldn't want to be called a ninja?
Nov 2	comment	Questions to ask before someone leaves "And then tell him to show you it all...." That sounds so... dirty...
Oct 28	comment	Why do websites restrict the number & choice of characters in a password? a good read. Reminds me why I like sites (the few and far between) that let you enter your own question. Mine becomes a single word with a question mark that nobody could ever guess the answer to.
Oct 25	comment	Which things instantly ring alarm bells when looking at code? Not really that bad with the second two, at least the discount is explained, and the "Overdue" is intuitive. The `200`, on the other hand...
Oct 21	comment	Tips for debugging with very little info? Sad part is, this isn't even legacy code. I'm pretty sure most of what I'm working on was started earlier this year.
Oct 20	comment	How do you portray to non programmers what programming involves? @Yaakov Now it's programming your PVR. Note, I saw my girlfriend's dad programming a VCR last week, brought back memories...
Oct 13	comment	What's the worst question you were ever asked at interview? @Kyralessa True, but another part of the reason they're round is so they're easy to roll to the side. Solid steel, do you think they're light enough to pick up?
Oct 13	comment	Explaining technical things to non-technical people @Nikki Or, in my case, my grandmother's sister
Oct 13	comment	Explaining technical things to non-technical people @Arkaaito Usually using individual cards as good examples of inheritance and/or properties (depending on who I'm talking to and about what), and the deck as a container class that has functions like `shuffle()`, `deal()`, `dealOne()`, etc.