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Right now, find a company doing something bad ass with HTTP and then make Mongrel2 blow their socks off. Then repeat it again and again until I've got somethin
by zedshaw 16y ago
Right now, find a company doing something bad ass with HTTP and then make Mongrel2 blow their socks off. Then repeat it again and again until I've got something.
Either that, or getting a Ph.D. in Education.
- jrosoff 16y agoWhat's your sales pitch for mongrel2 against things like Unicorn & Passenger. The new features of mongrel2 seem awesome (particularly multiple protocols over the same socket) and given the success of mongrel, I think we all have high hopes for mongrel2. But I'm curious what your thoughts are on what the "killer apps" are for mongrel2 that make it the superior solution to the alternatives.
- alnayyir 16y ago> (particularly multiple protocols over the same socket) > "killer apps" are for mongrel2 You just said it. Bypassing any connection limitations on the browser.
- ryan-allen 16y agoI'd say the pitch against Unicorn and Passenger is that it's language agnostic. There are other languages than Ruby, you know!
- zedshaw 16y agoDepends on who I'm talking to. Operations guy: Mongrel2 is a ops wet dream. Totally automatable and you can use it to easily carve your infrastructure up as needed to scale and deal with all the random crap programmers throw at you. Programmers: Mongrel2 is future proof and gives you want you need with low friction. Wanna do sockets? Got it. Use any language? Got it. Change up the request flow to work around a bug? Got it. Drop Scala for Rails? Got it. Or something like that.
- blasdel 16y agoZed, you do not want to go anywhere near an education graduate school. All these opportunities are yours except D.Ed. — Attempt no landings there. If you think you've been a poor fit at some companies, you ain't seen nothing yet. Education departments attract some of the very worst students, people pathologically stricken with know-nothingness. The graduate schools then take the more craven among them, the ones that realize that their school-system contracts give them huge automatic raises for getting higher degrees, often paid for too. They often come out as worse teachers after having had the recently recycled fad pedagogies pumped through them, which they then regurgitate in a game of telephone onto their students. If you want to work on some stellar CS education stuff, try to talk your way into Kay's VPRI. Stay the hell away from Ed schools, they'd make your blood boil.
- zedshaw 16y agoOh I know Education departments are mostly crap. Thanks to Constructivism and the influence of stupid communist dogma from Paulo Freire.
- blasdel 16y agoYou don't understand — those are the good parts The rest is far, far worse. Say what you like about the tenets of Constructivism, Zed, at least it's an ethos. I'm surprised that you'd have beef with it — you don't even like Papert's Constructionism? As easily misinterpreted and misapplied as liberation pedagogy can be, at least it gives the non-subject-matter-experts something to apply themselves at, something they could actually help children with even if they're as dumb as a bag of rocks. It's definitely not a good fit for you, but it's far from worthless.
- zedshaw 16y agoI'm a scientist mostly, so I prefer Direct Instruction from Siegfried Engelmann and Wesley C. Becker and learned quite a bit about how to teach effectively from them. What's interesting is DI is the only method with solid evidence backing its success. Lots of it. The others are mostly just bullshit rhetoric.
- alnayyir 16y agoReally? A Ph.D. in education? I'm not even sure what that would produce. Maybe a post-post-modern _why.
- stcredzero 16y agoStart watching Alan Kay talks. He explains.
- alnayyir 16y ago>Start watching Alan Kay talks. He explains. I'm not that jazzed about the idea of reminiscing about a Smalltalk. How about instead of making esoteric references, you just say what's on your mind? This is a thread, not a bibliography.
- bad_user 16y agoAlan Kay's talks aren't only about Smalltalk ... they are often about education, and the part computers might play in children's lives. The man is a genius. > This is a thread, not a bibliography. What is that supposed to mean?
- mkramlich 16y agoI'm a Devo fan so as I was reading your last sentence there my brain was auto-completing it as "a post-post-modern man.... 80's-keyboard-riff"
- ostso 16y ago> Either that, or getting a Ph.D. in Education. Is this a Heinlein reference?
- shareme 16y agosounds like facebook should recruit you :)
- abstractbill 16y agoWhat might "something bad ass with HTTP" look like in practice? It sounds like merely being a very big website wouldn't be interesting enough to you.
- Keyframe 16y agoWhy waste energy on finding a place, when you can make your own? Sounds like you need to make a startup and hold your feet up on a table.