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mullethunter | 8 years ago | on: The eardrums move when the eyes move

I can hear mine but only when I’m congested. My wife never has understood, but it’s my first signal that I have inflammation and some type of illness is forthcoming.

mullethunter | 9 years ago | on: Explain Shell

A quick shout out that I use explain shell in my teaching kids how unix and piping functions work. Cheers man!

mullethunter | 10 years ago | on: College Dropouts Thrive in Tech

This was me. I left my 4 year degree my senior year in 1999 for to write code for a living. After the crash I started to be declined even an interview because I didn't have a degree, even though I had been working for great, well known companies doing some great work. HR people literally shooed me away on phone interviews, and even startups were only looking at people with degrees. Four years ago it happened again, and I had enough. I went back to school (working full time with side projects, as well as 2 year old and newborn in my life), losing two years of credits to study business. I graduated last month with over $40k in student loans at 37 years old just so the next time I don't get the brush off for having completed 3.5 years of university.

The odd thing is that even without a degree I so see if the candidates I interview have one or not. I'll never not hire someone without a degree, but I do tend to ask about the lack of a degree or even about leaving school. I guess I do for personal reasons since I knew that it made me tense in some interview processes, but also to reassure the candidate that it's not going to hinder them in the consideration.

mullethunter | 12 years ago | on: HipChat Will Grant Employers Access To 1-to-1 Chat History

This is garbage. We have over 250 people using Hipchat and we use the 1:1 as the way to vent outside of the rooms that we're also part of. Better? I'm an admin and I'm so pissed that they decided to change a feature that I sung praises of for so long. Just like another company tool, we'll start to use another outlet to "really" communicate to each other while the HipChat rooms will be relegated to PMs and business owners fishing for updates.

mullethunter | 12 years ago | on: Why I use a 20-year-old IBM Model M keyboard

I own a 1994 Model M and recently bought the Das Keyboard for Mac, and the Das Keyboard is horrible. The keys wiggle a bit and feel mushy compared to the crisp clack of the Model M. Also the extra usb ports mean needing to use two ports on my MBP which is stupid. I'm still pissed at myself for not returning it when I had the chance.

mullethunter | 12 years ago | on: SQL Injection Galore

I second this. I manage a couple of teams and one is dealing with legacy a PHP stack where they've been refactoring things like SQL injection risks and whatnot. Having something as an automated second set of eyes would be brilliant.

mullethunter | 13 years ago | on: The ethical coffee shop freelancer

I hack at a local coffeeshop about once a week. My favorite place has an in-house special that's a cup and refill for $2. Since I drink too much coffee I take them up on that about every couple of hours. 4 hours = 8 12oz cups for $8. But I always buy a pastry or bagel when I start which is another $3.50. Also...I tip them. I make sure they know that I'm tipping as to not get "the glare" and so for my 4 hours and $11.50 I'll tip about $5. It's also because I know it's a business and I'm taking up space. $16.50 gets me a great spot to code and wifi that isn't my house with the kids running around

I think that the tipping is what's overlooked. Unless your barista owns the place, they just want tables available for other people and to make some money...that's the point of a job right? So tip them, let them know you're tipping because you appreciate the use of the their space and that's that.

mullethunter | 14 years ago | on: 334 Hours of Ruby on Rails

My only question is that after that time and money, did you learn anything about software engineering, or just how to code RoR apps? Did you learn about stacks and their options and nuances, even practical design patterns? Or was this more on hacking out some web apps in Ruby on Rails with RSpec? I'm just curious how much is taught about the process of software as a whole.

mullethunter | 14 years ago | on: .NET: So long and thanks for all the fish

Gotta admit that I'm getting to that point too, so good for you. I've been working with the .NET stack since the beta, and at this point in my career I dabble in other languages, but keep coming back to the bread and butter since "that's what I know". All the while I'm involved in the ALT.NET community secretly eyeing Rails and Python wondering when and if I can take a hard left and make the jump. I'm sick of working in the .NET box where we get excited about tools and features that were released years ago on other stacks, just to have a port done that's about 3/4 as good as the original.

tl;dr; good for you man.

mullethunter | 14 years ago | on: The plumber programmer

For the past 8 years I've been designing .NET enterprise integration solutions and I love it. I love the problem solving that is required and working on getting square pages to fit seamlessly into round holes. Recently I switched companies and was working with jQuery and PHP doing front end things like UI validation and was losing my mind. It's not the pencil and paper type of challenge as integration design.
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