Argorak

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by Argorak 13y ago
You probably won't reasonably run most of these applications in your frontend framework either. Also, the example was the Twitter frontend. So I respond to Twitter frontend. Don't derail.
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by Argorak 13y ago
Does it help that I know far more companies using Chef and Puppet for that then Python and Java?
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by Argorak 13y ago
Except that little thing that shows you new tweets immediately...
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by Argorak 13y ago
As much as you didn't understand the point that I was trying to disprove, which was the bare assumption that big business is uninterested in Ruby.
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by Argorak 13y ago
Heck, RedHat even has a big JRuby Application Server on top of JBoss. http://torquebox.org/
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by Argorak 13y ago
I agree with the Rails-centrism issue. Even alternative web frameworks have a hard time in the Ruby world. I disagree with the assumption that Ruby is web only. E.g. Chef and Puppet are huge efforts that have no direct connection to fronten
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by Argorak 13y ago
Are you 100% sure that no department has ever used or commissioned software that runs Ruby? My experience is that most companies have and still do. Be aware that this includes deployment automation for some software. Two of the behemoths in
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by Argorak 13y ago
Twitter is a one-in-a-thousand company with traffic amounts that most of us here will dream of ever achieving. Even the more people that don't take specific interest in running large scale deployments. Even writing you frontend in Java
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by Argorak 13y ago
That is certainly one factor. But companies are also selective and rarely send someone on conferences for a language that doesn't interest them _at all_. On top of that, the initial statement was "almost no big business uses Ruby&
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by Argorak 13y ago
Most of these stories also contain a lot of "we used a monolithic approach first and then split it up". A lot of companies I know kept their frontends in Rails, because its frontend tooling is really good. But you'll never wr
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by Argorak 13y ago
The story that Big Business is not using Ruby is just that - a story. On the first RailsConf i've been to (RailsConf Europe 2007), most attendees were actually working for Big Biz. I have spent most of my ruby career in large companies
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by Argorak 13y ago
The book "Thinking, Fast and Slow", quite often favourably quoted on HN, contains an interesting chapter on how what we perceive as "inborn ability" is much more the result of a very long chain of decisions (willingly or
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by Argorak 13y ago
Although shortsightedness is easily corrected nowadays, it should still be counted as a disability from a certain degree on. Considering the numbers here, I would not expect the parents numbers to include all cases, though: "A recent s
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by Argorak 13y ago
"Wheelchair bound" is discouraged nowadays, as it implies that the wheelchair is something negative. The opposite is the case: the wheelchair enables the user to freely move around, enabling his personal freedom.
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by Argorak 13y ago
For those that don't get this: if you visit the site on a mobile device, you get a keyboard. If you press one of the keys, you will create a sound on the (desktop) page. It's reasonably instant, so you find out which sound was you
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by Argorak 13y ago
If you don't mind running development versions: Notifications can be a part of building that. Problem: you (currently) have to be connected when it happens. http://redis.io/topics/notifications
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by Argorak 13y ago
Final Doom included Doom95 and used it by default on Windows, so I would expect that many players were aware.
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by Argorak 13y ago
Thats actually not unusual for elasticsearch. While not always including images, a lot of the new features start as something like this: https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/issues/3376
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by Argorak 13y ago
The local story (in short) actually is: The director of the museum saw a documentary about a plane graveyard in Bahrain that was aired next to the Formula 1 race there. He saw the Buran in the background, contacted the relevant people and g
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by Argorak 13y ago
No, it's not. The one in Speyer is 0.02 OK-GLI, forgotten and found again in Bahrain (which is a whole story by itself). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK-GLI (BTW: living in Speyer is very cool for tech-freaks: eve
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by Argorak 13y ago
Which is out of place, as the ship will be scuttled in Italy, so why the comment?
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by Argorak 13y ago
I don't know what you want to imply with the comment, could you please explain? It will be moved to a close harbor that can hold the ship (to my knowledge http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piombino is discussed, curren
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by Argorak 13y ago
Even as an RPG it was much worse than many competitors at that time. It is (basically) linear, your choices don't influence the ultimate ending (you get a final pick), which, at that time, some pure RPGs already provided. But you basic
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by Argorak 13y ago
Which, depending on how much you appreciate the scope of an endeavour, can be valid. Some of the most appreciated games of generations are deeply flawed. An example is Deus Ex, which is a very mediocre shooter, but was enjoyed by many.
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by Argorak 13y ago
The problem here is not just that it trashes the method cache for this object. In most versions of MRI, this trashes _all_ method caches, not just the ones for String. A sufficiently clever JIT could find out that there is only ever a Strin
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by Argorak 13y ago
How much work do you expect it to be capable to replace MRI?
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by Argorak 13y ago
For example method cache invalidation is a hot topic in dynamic languages that is often ignored in synthetic benchmarks. A Ruby example for this is: output.extend(ContentTyped) (thats from Sinatra: https://github.com/
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by Argorak 13y ago
Yes, but PyPy was not written in 6 months. For a rather comprehensive (but not so recent) benchmark, see: http://etehtsea.me/the-great-ruby-shootout http://igor-alexandrov.github.io/blog/2012/11&#x
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by Argorak 13y ago
Most Ruby implementations started with awesome numbers in a ridiculous short time. Remember the time when MacRuby was 6 times as fast as MRI? Those times are over after they implemented Ruby proper and ran real world programs.
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by Argorak 13y ago
While certainly not as strict as PEP8, the Ruby community also has accepted style conventions that all bigger projects follow (especially Rails) and that you can call out people on.

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