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IanMalcolm | 10 years ago | on: Vim setup for Go

[Spacemacs](https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs)

IanMalcolm | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2014)

  Location: Brazil
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Absolutely. Pretty much anywhere in Europe or USA / Canada would be awesome.
  Technologies: C, C++, Ruby, Python, Javascript, Java and anything else
  Resume: Experience in high availability / large scale systems. Email me for details.
  Email: [email protected]

Preferably part-time for now. Any language / framework - I'm a programmer, not a <X> programmer. (Although I prefer Python).

IanMalcolm | 12 years ago | on: 19-year-old hacker reveals how he rigged voting machines and election in Brazil

This is old - and unverified - news.

This has been posted verbatim in several places already.

http://www.lucaspeperaio.com.br/blog/hacker-de-19-anos-conta... http://www.pragmatismopolitico.com.br/2012/12/hacker-fraude-... http://www.tecmundo.com.br/brasil/34010-em-evento-no-rj-hack... http://jornalistaflavioazevedo.blogspot.com.br/2013/01/hacke...

All from blogs. Not a single major news source.

This is, most likely, complete bullshit.

IanMalcolm | 12 years ago | on: 19-year-old hacker reveals how he rigged voting machines and election in Brazil

I worked in the last elections in Brazil.

Every machine (which is never online) prints a sum of all votes at the end of the day, and several copies are given out to those who are working the poll site.

So there is a hard copy of the votes, and anyone can check.

IanMalcolm | 12 years ago | on: Here’s Why Firefox is Still Years Behind Google Chrome

I still use Firefox mainly because of Pentadactyl. If there was a proper alternative for chrome I'd switch back.

That, and the whole privacy thing.

IanMalcolm | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: Should I employ TDD as a Rails beginner?

How is your programming experience overall? I'd suggest learning ruby first, rails later.

IanMalcolm | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: Should I employ TDD as a Rails beginner?

Also, I like to add a test for something every time someone reports a bug, to make sure there are no regressions (specially if it's a security problem). It also helps reproducing the bug and documenting it.

IanMalcolm | 13 years ago | on: Show HN: HackerNews reimagined without tables or center elements.

Just add a big sign up link to a bar on the top. Your potential userbase is smart enough to scroll up and figure it out.

Edit: I can type good

IanMalcolm | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: Should I employ TDD as a Rails beginner?

As a beginner, you won't be building anything big, probably. Focus on learning the stack, the language, MVC. Get to know the libraries. When you are comfortable with that, learn how to test.

Now, I believe 100% test coverage is plain silly. There are things you don't really have to test, and you are the only one who can tell.

I just started building a new app, and haven't done any testing until I was half-way through the first iteration (what I considered to be my first public alpha). I wrote a few tests to make sure the functionality I'd implemented would still work when I changed the code, then I moved to a more TDD dev style.

I wrote a few (maybe 10) tests for things I wasn't sure how they'd behave, noticed I could fix some of my code.

So, TDD can help you, for sure. But don't get too caught up in writing tests if it's getting in the way of actually writing your code.

IanMalcolm | 13 years ago | on: Heroku Releases Free PostgreSQL App for OSX

And no silly kickstarter was needed for that.