gnclmorais

Same here

By ready your comment, I just realised that this is what I’m doing instinctively, instead of crossing my eyes :o

That is one way of looking at it, but it is not a ranked nor chronological list. The amount of people that belong in the newsletter is vast and the newsletter will eventually cover most of them, in due time. Steve Wilhite’s issue came our shortly after his passing, it felt like a timely release.

Small notes/link manager that will be a standalone page and, hopefully, a browser extension. Sometimes I find myself hoping I could have a list of the links/documents I’m working on at the moment on my New Tab page, so I’m making one. It’s mostly a reason to learn Elm.

Could you elaborate on the “most” part? Coming from my experience on Rails over the past couple of years, I’m quite happy with what I’ve found so far.

I don’t think it’s the number of people the problem, but rather the demand for resources a few people from the Western world create.

My biggest question about this “meat” is how it compares to the real deal, nutritionally speaking.

> The government is there to serve the people.

I think you could ask twenty people about what does this mean and you’ll get twenty different shades of ‘serving the people’.

Interesting, I feel like I have the opposite issue. Coming from Portuguese, learning Spanish was a breeze and I can usually surprise French speaking people with “hard” words in my basic French sentences — just because I reached out to a Portuguese word and “frenchyfied” it.

I can’t recommend this book enough.

I agree that food doesn’t have enough vitamin D, but supplements really made the difference for me. Just get the right dosage (which is probably higher that you think).

That’s a pretty nice report on being a parent, quite inspiring… Thank you.

Quality assessment is not necessarily the same as popularity, surely.

That’s a nice way to put it.

That definitely works for me. I’ve tried to work on side projects after my daily job but I often got home drained and with zero will to code anything. Since then I started moving this time into my mornings, before work. It definitely feels short and like you’re on a time constrain more than the evenings, but I’ve made progress on my projects like this, bit by bit.

This book was so effective on changing my views about placebo effect. I very much recommend it.

Hey, nice to meet you! This is a pretty cool project and it does strike a cord with us. This is one of the several things we’re trying to do with our platform. I don’t think I could sway you to move to London, right? :D

BridgeU | Ruby on Rails engineer | on-site, full-time | https://bridge-u.com

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BridgeU brings the power of big data to your university preparation process. Our system processes over a million data points every day to ensure up-to-the-minute accuracy and relevance, and our matching algorithm weighs academic, professional and social preferences to recommend best-fit universities and courses for students from over 100,000 options.

Tech stack: Ruby on Rails, HTML5, CSS3 (SCSS), JavaScript (jQuery, Vue.js, Paloma.js), Postgres, Docker, AWS

More info about the job at https://angel.co/bridgeu/jobs/320301-senior-software-enginee...

The ability to set a hotkey to toggle the terminal is a must. I assigned ± to it (i.e. pressing it will toggle the window).

This one is pretty cool as well: http://element.eleme.io

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BridgeU brings the power of big data to your university preparation process. Our system processes over a million data points every day to ensure up-to-the-minute accuracy and relevance, and our matching algorithm weighs academic, professional and social preferences to recommend best-fit universities and courses for students from over 100,000 options.

Tech stack: Ruby on Rails, HTML5, CSS3 (SCSS), JavaScript (jQuery, Vue.js, Paloma.js), Postgres, Docker, AWS

More info about the job at https://angel.co/bridgeu/jobs/320301-senior-software-enginee...

That will probably create another industry sector, so I’m not worried.

I’ve written about Makefiles for the web before, you can’t say they can’t be readable: http://blog.gnclmorais.com/makefiles-are-for-the-web

No, lay on your stomach.

Adding the the examples aianus posted here, Ruby needs no `__self__` or `self` being passed everywhere. You only use `self` when you really need it.

If we’re talking about Rails, even there Ruby is possibly better. Rails has been around for a long time and its community is very clear on readability and maintenance.

I wish it were like that on WeWork offices…

I would say Ruby is closer to the dream than Python.

> WeWork offers freelancers a chic workspace and beer on tap—but are people productive?

Not really. That was my experience at a WeWork space in London. It was not quiet (glass walls), it was hard to focus, social events starting at 4pm (who finishes work at that time?), and if you end up being close to the common spaces, near the kitchen… well, I suggest you get a good pair of sound cancelling headphones.