Locke

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Gnome DVCS Survey(github.com)
2 points by Locke 18y ago|0 comments
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by Locke 18y ago
It depends on how you define "lose". To keep all your data for a long time takes effort. Storage formats change. Disks die. Hosted storage bills need to be paid, billing needs to be updated (credit cards expire), etc. You really need
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by Locke 18y ago
On the other hand, perhaps it's good to allow data to be lost occasionally... I've lost old emails, source code, and other documents that I thought were really important (to me at least). Turns out I was wrong, I don't miss any of it. I
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by Locke 18y ago
Interesting list. At a glance I recognize a lot of ruby people near the top which is a pretty good indicator of how popular git / github have been in that circle. Github has really become the code hosting source for ruby developers. I
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by Locke 18y ago
Wow, I almost wish it were April Fools Day... For someone who loves Merb and had decided to leave Rails behind (as much as possible), I have very mixed feelings about this. If this means Rails will start to feel more like Merb, fantastic!
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by Locke 18y ago
Stack-based languages can be fun to play around with. Way back when, I used Quartus Forth ( http://www.quartus.net/products/forth/ ) to write a few small games for my Palm. Quartus is (was? looks dead...) an onboard Forth compiler -- Fort
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by Locke 18y ago
Yeah, this might make a nice tool for publishing any api docs (checkout a separate branch, generate, commit, and push your api docs), or code coverage reports, etc. I don't know if it's really taken off, but a bug tracking tool like ditz co
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by Locke 18y ago
Another (old?) rant about open classes aka "monkey patching". There's a lot of fear and hand wringing over open classes. It's certainly a language feature that can be abused, but it's also incredibly useful. There are things you can do t
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by Locke 18y ago
So what's the story behind this site? Has anyone tried it yet? Partially answering my own question: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/python/696912
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by Locke 18y ago
I don't know that I particularly disagree with you. The one advantage that a language scoped packaging system has over a system-wide system is developer adoption. Debian, Gentoo, Redhat, FreeBSD, etc all depend on heavily on volunteers to
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by Locke 18y ago
Wow. I'm not going to claim that rubygems is the best package management system, or that it's better than debian's packaging system. But, some of your frustration comes from the fact that you know apt very well and you don't seem to k
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by Locke 18y ago
Yes, it's clear that Rails blazed the path for Merb. At the same time, the Rails people really shouldn't be surprised (or feel badly) that their "opinionated software" has created a market for flexible, agnostic software. Both projects are
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by Locke 18y ago
Not that I follow it too closely, but I think Ruby was in the top 10 until it slipped a few spots recently.
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by Locke 18y ago
In what way do you feel like rails support for postgresql is an afterthought? I've noticed some books / documentation assume mysql, but that's usually limited to the "and now setup your database" section. I've been using rails + postgresql
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by Locke 18y ago
In my case the effort was minimal. I certainly wouldn't measure the effort in "man-months". Here's how it went for me: 0. Research. This is one small part of why I read HN, and other assorted "news" sites. I like to stay current with th
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by Locke 18y ago
He's so prolific that for a while I wondered if _why wasn't really a collection of people. But, he's just so consistently odd and unique (in a good way) that it's hard to imagine that there could be more than one _why. (Although, I wonder
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by Locke 18y ago
Yes. How do people buy cars? On credit. Harder to get credit means fewer people capable of buying cars. A bad economy means fewer people buying cars. GM et al, did not create the credit crisis. They did not create the bad economic con
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by Locke 18y ago
It baffles me that we'd blow 700 billion bailing out financial institutions that caused our economic problems. Money that's now going towards bonuses and acquisitions instead of buying "toxic assets" as originally intended. Toxic assets t
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by Locke 18y ago
I'm not sure your post deserves to be downmodded -- it seems honest and on topic. I can see how one bit in particular could come off as slightly offensive: 'Speaking only for myself, any candidate who starts going down the road of "I won't
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by Locke 18y ago
On a related note, if you find this line of thought interesting, you'd probably enjoy Steve Martin's Born Standing Up . It's a beautifully written memoir in which he tells the story of how he became one of the most successful stand-up come
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by Locke 18y ago
I think our opinions are informed by very different "real world" experiences. I've worked mainly at small companies where HR had very little power over staffing or other important decisions. When I have had hiring responsibilities, I work
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by Locke 18y ago
You're first point strikes me as incredibly jaded. That may be the case at poorly run companies, but hasn't been my experience. As in most business relationships, the goal is not to screw the other party. The goal is to arrive at a win-w
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by Locke 18y ago
In short, yes there are other advantages. If you just want a list, the release announcement is full of goodies. I was really just listing the things I noticed when working on one small app. As to features I haven't used, yet... I'm proba
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by Locke 18y ago
Okay, here's a situation I've run into: I want to create a web frontend to an existing library. Naturally, the existing library already has some nice model-like classes that I'll be working with. What I'd like to do is take those model-li
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by Locke 18y ago
This is great if you happen to love every design decision the Rails crew has made for you. If not... I don't think Merb will replace Rails. I think, ultimately, the two appeal to different crowds. Too some extent, I hope people who are
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by Locke 18y ago
I made one small demo app in Merb about a month ago -- so, slightly pre-1.0. Overall, it was a good experience and I intend to continue exploring Merb. A few points: * Not as much documentation... sometimes it takes a while to find the Mer
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by Locke 18y ago
The long list of skills is a symptom of a much larger problem. Too many companies are just clueless about hiring technical staff. These things don't work: using HR, resume databases, keyword searches, creating an overlong and too detailed
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by Locke 18y ago
Very nice. It'd be nice to see a little better relevance. For example, I searched for "game" then drilled down to one of my projects which was listed in the side bar. Towards the bottom of the results was a hit from "game.rb"... it seems
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by Locke 18y ago
It seems to me that the big disconnect here is this: When you're the game developer you know exactly what the user wants to do. They want to advance through the game and have fun. You can make early levels where the player learns one new
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by Locke 18y ago
I agree. At least he's upfront about his ridiculous standards in his blog. The amount of code and then the use of the code strikes me as unethical. I don't see where the company would own any of that code whether or not the coder is hired

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