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How One Missing `var` Ruined our Launch
Well, that was a veritable shitstorm (sorry for the language). Long story short, MelonCard was featured today on TechCrunch (along with other500Startups companies, also on VentureBeat, Forbes, …) and everything broke all at once. Every. little. thing. We had rolled out a huge change to MelonCard over the last few days to make our site a seamless “everything just updates†look-good / feel-good product using NodeJS lo...
JavaScript,NodeJs,jQuery,Variable,Scope,Global 2011-11-02 13:01:22
Your Code is My Hell
It occurred to me recently that my experience as a Rails developer may be somewhat unique.I often get brought in to help preexisting Ruby/Rails projects evolve and mature in a sustainable way. As a result, the vast majority of Ruby projects I’ve worked on have been well-established by the time I arrived. In fact, offhand I can only think of one commercial greenfield Ruby project I’ve participated in. All the rest have been “legacy†from my perspective, in the ...
Code style,Clean code,Code paradigm 2011-09-15 08:39:16
Why I Hate Android
Why do I hate Android? It’s definitely one of the questions I get asked most often these days. And most of those that don’t ask probably assume it’s because I’m an iPhone guy. People see negative take after negative take about the operating system and label me as “unreasonable†or “biased†or worse. I should probably explain. Believe it or not, I actually don’t hate Android. That is to say, I don’t hate the concept of Androi...
The Anatomy of a Perfect Web Site
Many sites on the web are good. They are well-designed, clear, have great information architecture and are easy to navigate. Often, web designers emphasize the “design†part too much, and neglect the other equally important things. However, there are sites which aren’t that aesthetically pleasing, but still are the best sites in the world. They may look like a big, sad bag of wrestling underwear on the outside, but their underlying user experience is really, really refine...
Website,web design,Anatomy,Interaction,Feature 2011-11-08 09:00:34
Fear of Ignorance
This past week, I was interviewing a candidate for a VP role along with two of our engineering leads. Everyone in the room excluding myself was classically “technical†– they could write code, had experience solving hard software problems and a background in computer science. I wrote my last line of PHP in 2004, and it had to be rewritten by a real programmer within 6 months.During the interview, we had the following exchange (due to an imperfect memory, I’ll ...
Leader,Team,Technical,Leadership,Ignorence 2011-11-21 10:03:03
A brief guide to tech internships
Planning to be an Intern in the Bay Area during Summer 2012? Make sure to read an Intern's Guide to the Bay Area, and join the 2012 Facebook group. (via this guy, via this guy) Joel Spolsky, from the Joel On Software blog and StackOverflow, wrote an article with Advice for Computer Science College Students back in '05. According to Joel, No matter what you do, get a good summer internship. As such: here’s everything you ever wanted to know about tech inter...
Internship,Advice,CS student 2012-02-01 04:48:31
Don’t Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice
If there was one course I could add to every engineering education, it wouldn’t involve compilers or gates or time complexity. It would be Realities Of Your Industry 101, because we don’t teach them and this results in lots of unnecessary pain and suffering. This post aspires to be README.txt for your career as a young engineer. The goal is to make you happy, by filling in the gaps in your education regarding how the “real world†actually works. ...
Career,Programmer,Advice,Low level,Development 2011-10-29 07:09:23
Why Software Projects are Terrible and How Not To Fix Them
If you are a good developer and you’ve worked in bad organizations, you often have ideas to improve the process. The famous Joel Test is a collection of 12 such ideas. Some of these ideas have universal acceptance within the software industry (say, using source control), while others might be slightly more controversial (TDD). But for any particular methodology, whether it is universally accepted or only “mostly†accepted, there are a multitude of o...
Software,Development,Debug,Design 2011-11-21 10:27:05
The 10 Greatest Hacks of My Life
My co-founder and I briefly considered applying to YCombinator for the Winter 2012 session. We eventually decided to bootstrap Curvio initially, and raise a seed round on our own after we launch (so far so good!). But looking over the YC application, one question intrigued me:Please tell us about the time you, tansey, most successfully hacked some (non-computer) system to your advantage.Now, there are a lot of ways to interpret this. A mechanical interpretation would be about...
Hack,Most important,Example,Curvio 2011-10-22 12:47:42
10 Questions with Facebook Research Engineer – Andrei Alexandrescu
Today we caught up with Andrei Alexandrescu for a “10 Question†interview. He is a Romanian born research engineer at Facebook living in the US, you can contact him on his website erdani.com or @incomputable. We will talk about some of the juicy stuff that going on at Facebook, so let’s get started. Hello Andrei, welcome on Server-Side Magazine. 1. Tell us a little bit about yourself. Who are you? Where and what do you work? Who am I? Ah, the coffee breath of one talki...
C++,Facebook,PHP,Future,Machine learning 2012-02-06 08:08:12
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