Returning From the Threshold of Misery
I’ve been a poker player for over a decade now, and even though the landscape of the game itself changes rapidly, there’s a number of lessons that have stayed the same over the years.
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a developer & lackwit gadabout in Seattle
I’m a Senior Software Developer and Team Lead based in the Pacific Northwest. I mentor and teach as an instructor at Ada Developers Academy. Having an insatiable curiosity, I have worked as a lighting designer, marionette puppeteer, sous chef, and professional poker player, and enjoy hiking, collecting Vespas, and working with glass.
I’ve been a poker player for over a decade now, and even though the landscape of the game itself changes rapidly, there’s a number of lessons that have stayed the same over the years.
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It is “simple” in many ways to deconstruct an application.
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In poker, one of the rules is “All players must protect the integrity of the game.”
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One of the things that I explicitly try to model when I’m teaching people is the idea that There Ain’t No Such Thing As An Expert.
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I didn’t have any idea I would ever do anything with computers until after I left college.
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4 or 5 years ago I was working for a startup that was at a critical inflection point in its growth.
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Blocks are not a unique features of Ruby, but they’re one that many people talk about (and more people use without realizing it!) What is a block?
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Recursion is most commonly defined as “a process wherein a method can call themselves until they reach a goal.”
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API stands for Application Programming Interface, and it’s one way for applications to communicate and share information with each other.
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CarrierWave is a gem that adds a fairly simple and flexible way to users to upload files to our Rails application.
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