Hacker News: rickr

At Facebook female engineers have their code rejected 35% more than males

rickr — Wed, 03 May 2017 04:11:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/02/facebook-gender-bias-female-engineers-code

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14252978

Points: 30

# Comments: 38

New comment by rickr in "Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building one project?"

rickr — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 15:49:00 +0000

Michael Hartl's Rails tutorial (https://www.railstutorial.org/) is a great example of this.

It'll run you through building a twitter clone and introduce you to git, heroku, a bit of CSS/HTML, and even goes into AJAX a bit.

I can't recommend it enough to people looking to get into rails.

Quick-sort with Hungarian (Küküllőmenti legényes) folk dance

rickr — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 19:30:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywWBy6J5gz8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13646377

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by rickr in "Ask HN: Docker, Kubernetes, Openshift, etc – how do you deploy your products?"

rickr — Wed, 01 Feb 2017 16:11:39 +0000

I've been working on creating a platform for a non profit to get veterans coding (http://operationcode.org/). We're a slack based community and have been rolling out some home grown slack bots and we currently have a rails app hosted on heroku. Managing and keeping track of the different apps was getting unwieldy so in an effort to consolidate our apps and reduce costs I evaluated a few different options. I ended up going with rancher and after working with it a bit I'm pretty happy.

I have github hooked up to travis. When a new PR (or commit) is pushed travis shoves the app into its container, and runs the test suite inside the container.

If that passes AND the branch is master we push the image to docker hub. As of now we manually update the app inside of rancher but I think automating that will be a simple API call. Once we get more stable I'll be investigating that.

I still haven't quite figured out secret management but outside of that and a tiny learning curve it's been pretty smooth sailing.

An example travis config: https://github.com/OperationCode/operationcode_bot/blob/mast...

New comment by rickr in "Ask HN: Who needs contributors? (October 2016)"

rickr — Mon, 03 Oct 2016 15:01:13 +0000

Operation Code (http://operationcode.org)

Operation Code is an open source project that helps military, guard & reserve troops, veterans and their families get coding and building software to change the world.

We're overhauling the signup flow to make it easier for software mentors, new signups and contributors to get started.

HTML/CSS, JavaScript, Ruby on Rails

https://github.com/operationcode/operationcode

https://github.com/OperationCode/operationcode/blob/master/C....

MIT

New comment by rickr in "Ask HN: Who needs contributors?"

rickr — Thu, 01 Sep 2016 15:02:19 +0000

Operation Code (http://operationcode.org)

Operation Code is an open source project that helps military, guard & reserve troops, veterans and their families get coding and building software to change the world.

We're overhauling the signup flow to make it easier for software mentors, new signups and contributors to get started.

HTML/CSS, JavaScript, Ruby on Rails

https://github.com/operationcode/operationcode

https://github.com/OperationCode/operationcode/blob/master/C...

MIT

New comment by rickr in "Cloud9 Acquired by Amazon"

rickr — Thu, 14 Jul 2016 14:58:34 +0000

Using Firefox/Chrome on a linux box doesn't really compare to getting a dev environment setup.

For a rails app it's not a stretch to have to install postgres, rvm, ruby, some compiled gems, and redis. Then you need to make sure postgres and your rails server are running.

These aren't insurmountable and we can write documentation around it but compare that to 'Log into c9.io, copy this workspace and work on a ticket'.

I work with people that want to learn how to program and I hear feedback that getting an environment setup is overwhelming somewhat regularly. These online IDEs look like they can really combat that.

New comment by rickr in "People suck at technical interviews (2014)"

rickr — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 14:58:21 +0000

As long as they didn't state you can't use external libs it IS a good solution.

Their response lets their team dynamic and environment shine through. They came across an unexpected but valid solution and instead of accepting their question was beaten within the rules they rejected it. I'd wager they didn't fix the wording of the question afterwords either.

New comment by rickr in "The Slack Platform Roadmap"

rickr — Fri, 08 Apr 2016 17:02:35 +0000

The actual roadmap is here:

https://trello.com/b/ZnTQyumQ/slack-platform-roadmap

What I learned migrating a Rails app to Elixir/Phoenix

rickr — Fri, 29 Jan 2016 21:58:32 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@stueccles/what-i-learned-migrating-a-rails-app-to-elixir-phoenix-f707436749aa#.5k4lozaie

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10998826

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by rickr in "We built a Twitter-powered robot who reads your tweets, and we're livestreaming it"

rickr — Wed, 02 Dec 2015 18:06:28 +0000

FYI your page is empty of any content with ghostery enabled.

New comment by rickr in "Smoking Meat with the Internet of Things"

rickr — Fri, 30 Oct 2015 00:09:48 +0000

My team at a recent Startup Weekend did this.

RasPI with a PID loop turning a fan on (increase heat)/off (decrease heat). The RasPI fed this into a backend server via websocket. We through a front end on to graph the temp, humidity etc. We could even set the temp and turn the fans on/off via the site.

New comment by rickr in "Phoenix 1.0"

rickr — Fri, 28 Aug 2015 17:46:14 +0000

I haven't done much with Phoenix but I think there are a few libraries out there. I think addict is the front runner:

https://github.com/trenpixster/addict

https://github.com/opendrops/passport

Also here's a nice blog post that was in the elixir newsletter that may help!

http://nithinbekal.com/posts/phoenix-authentication/

New comment by rickr in "Ask HN: Time to update my skills. What should I do?"

rickr — Tue, 11 Aug 2015 18:35:22 +0000

Learning a functional language (and way of thinking) was pretty enlightening to me.

I've also been looking into learning a bit about machine learning and data science via https://www.kaggle.com/. They run contests with some very interesting problems.

I don't know if these are the next 'big things' but i certainly don't regret learning them.

Core Elixir: IO.Puts

rickr — Wed, 05 Aug 2015 17:23:45 +0000

Article URL: http://variousandsundry.com/cs/blog/2015/07/16/core-elixir-io-dot-puts/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10011319

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by rickr in "Show HN: Publicize – PR for Startups"

rickr — Mon, 03 Aug 2015 16:28:18 +0000

You've got a weird issue with your text/register button:

http://imgur.com/zbhpFY3

(FF 39 on a MBP)

Phoenix app with authentication

rickr — Mon, 20 Jul 2015 14:22:13 +0000

Article URL: http://meatherly.github.io/2015/05/11/phoenixauthentication/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9916190

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Pentagon outreach to Silicon Valley stirs a fuss

rickr — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 15:06:54 +0000

Article URL: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/pentagon-outreach-to-silicon-valley-stirs-a-fuss-120177.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9903073

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by rickr in "Soloshot: Automatically film outdoor activities without a camera operator"

rickr — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 17:27:28 +0000

LeMons racer? That's the first application I thought of but when are you ever alone on track?

You could throw one or two of these in common passing places and combine that feed with in car video. You could get some really neat video.

New comment by rickr in "Ruby Is Defined by Terrible Tools"

rickr — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 19:13:27 +0000

I've just started messing with elixir. It's a functional language that runs on the Erlang VM but it's syntax is ruby-ish.

I'm a newbie but I've been impressed by the tooling so far. And once you change how you think about everything the learning curve isn't too bad. =)

It has a rails-y framework that I haven't heard much about (and nothing particularly bad):

https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix