angelbob

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by angelbob 15y ago
If this whole mess is entirely built of libraries built by this one guy (Ceki Gülcü), can't we just stop him ? :-)
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by angelbob 15y ago
True. But if they don't have that, it's hard to tell if they're really good. In a startup, that may be a reason to reject them by itself :-/ With engineers, at least there's a semi-reasonable way to see in a few hours if they can code. I
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by angelbob 15y ago
But I think that the startup culture would do well to evolve away from using recruiters and rely more on networking. The problem with that is that it makes it even more incestuous and hard to enter from outside. Yes, yes, if you can't fi
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by angelbob 15y ago
I watch for places I could refer friends. But at this point, I probably get 8-10 job queries per week between LinkedIn, email and phone. I don't know 1% as many Rails programmers (or embedded/mobile programmers, or misc other things I get
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by angelbob 15y ago
So you're saying it needs a half-man-half-bat logo to make sure it can evoke more than one image? :-P
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by angelbob 15y ago
I get why we should teach our kids to code. I'm just hung up on how . Existing games and non-boring instructional material is pretty thin on the ground, and much of it is of low quality. To be fair, most college instruction in programmi
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by angelbob 15y ago
MongoDB is a surprisingly short hop from SQL databases in a lot of ways. It makes retraining your already-SQL-competent developers much easier than with many other datastores.
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by angelbob 15y ago
This seems like a really interesting step toward HTML/CSS 'libraries' where you have reusable styles on reusable small chunks of DOM. The to-do list example they use is a good one. You'll occasionally see jQuery used like this, to instanti
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by angelbob 15y ago
It's a seductive-sounding model, isn't it? I couldn't find a way to make the business model work. It sounds like you've departed from that model pretty completely (not a bad idea, I say now that I've tried it out).
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by angelbob 15y ago
I'm sad that this is what it is. We could use a real Hadoop alternative.
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by angelbob 15y ago
I'd kinda suspected. I've spent a lot of stray moments thinking about the whole "recruiting is obviously broken" thing (and congrats for taking it on). And I have yet to come up with a genuinely good solution. I put together something cal
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by angelbob 15y ago
Interesting that they're full up already. I guess that's either a good sign for their business or a bad sign for their business model :-)
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by angelbob 15y ago
I share your experience. We had to do a huge amount of maintenance to upgrade from Java 5 to Java 6. It was definitely not just drop-in. Does that mean the code was written badly? Possibly. It wasn't amazing. Still, that seems more lik
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by angelbob 15y ago
Ruby breaks these things. But Ruby is not generally even considered for a lot of what Java is used for. Those two things aren't independent. Don't get me wrong, I like Ruby far better than Java. But Ruby is simply not considered a stabl
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by angelbob 15y ago
I taught myself Ruby and Rails on my couch, by myself, over years. But I did it after a more-than-ten-year C/C++ career. I continued to be amazed and nonplussed that a community could do so well and know so many technologies so fluently wh
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by angelbob 15y ago
Less so than you'd think. There's a great previous thread about it here on HN. Similarly, the proxy isn't something you can do without, unless you fail to catch several significant classes of errors.
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by angelbob 15y ago
Sure, but browsers work hard to keep web sites from doing arbitrary things to your computer, and mostly succeed, most of the time. It's also a huge deal when they fail. Extensions get extra permission to do stuff, so it would be nice if the
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by angelbob 15y ago
Probably primarily for developers. A $100/mo investment to get more out of your developers (who cost at least $30k, and usually $100k+) isn't a problem. If you're looking at much cheaper office staff, you can presumably pay less to make t
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by angelbob 16y ago
His example code isn't really about mock versus stub. It's about only depending on the parts (parameters passed, mostly) that you actually use, not creating extra bits that mock other objects. I agree that your test code should only specif
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by angelbob 16y ago
Rails 3 is a very substantial effort to upgrade to. There are definitely actively-updated apps that are doing it more gradually (add no_xss, add bundler, convert in bits) but haven't made it to Rails 3 yet. I expect that's more the rule t
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by angelbob 16y ago
That's true. And yes, devise doesn't do that by default. Basically, you'll want to have Devise (or better yet, all of Rails) set to only use secure cookies. Unfortunately, most Rails apps run without SSL, so that's not going to be the def
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by angelbob 16y ago
Thank you. I don't think this will do any good, but I'm still glad somebody is saying it loudly.
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by angelbob 16y ago
If you need to ask, I recommend starting with an existing implementation that has been vetted by security folks smarter than you or I. I use Devise, based on Warden, for Ruby on Rails. Depending on your platform, that may not work for you.
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by angelbob 16y ago
Have you used those magnetic MacBook Pro power cables? Apple can bring something even smaller than a case and have it be the tipping point.
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by angelbob 16y ago
Sony does less of it that used to be advertised. They control most of their own fabrication, so while the PS2 and PS3 weren't profitable from day 1, they got there very quickly.
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by angelbob 16y ago
And yet in electronics (computers, smartphones) this is still innovation, alas.
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by angelbob 16y ago
I try hard not to assume "top 1%" == "smartest 1%". I tried being very smart for awhile, and I'm really pretty good at it. Turns out that "dedicated" and "hardworking" trump "smart" nine times out of ten. So now I'm trying for that. It's
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by angelbob 16y ago
Looks a lot like Mint. Wonder if that's intentional on Mint's part.
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by angelbob 16y ago
Phusion's a great group - Passenger is absolutely fabulous, especially for NGinX.
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by angelbob 16y ago
Do you think it's more or less tacky than "Firewire"?

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