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by carbon8 17y ago
"Everywhere I look ... they are most often told to learn Python ... in most corners of the programming world ... recommending Python" Combined with "Ruby's too trendy" There's that cognitive dissonance again.
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"I'm complaining about the extreme focus we put on the language being used rather than the products being made." What "extreme focus on the language"? Simply mentioning "Ruby" in the context of a Ruby-only hosting company's decisions does
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by carbon8 17y ago
"we hear more from the Ruby side than any other about how great their language is" Um, that crown unquestionably goes to a big chunk of the python community right now. Reddit alone provides a steady stream of both extreme fawning over p
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by carbon8 17y ago
I haven't been on the Capitol Corridor line and don't know if they use newer, nicer trains than most of Amtrak. I've been on all of the cross country lines and a number of the stretches in the east, which almost exclusively use Superliner c
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by carbon8 17y ago
It's a huge mistake to judge all trains by Amtrak's current condition. It's quite awful compared to modern trains in other parts of the world. You'd be surprised at how smooth and quiet modern trains can be, and that combined with wifi, nic
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by carbon8 17y ago
"you can't really hi-jack a train and do much damage" For an enlightening discussion on the subject: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDQNpr2RnFI#t=2m48s
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by carbon8 17y ago
"Won't this create more urban sprawl?" Trains contribute to sprawl, but differently than cars. American-style sprawl is the result of individuals using cars for all transportation. Communities that don't rely on cars and use trains for di
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by carbon8 17y ago
Before answering that question it's important to recognize that the future he's describing is the present in Europe, where there have been terrorist attacks for decades. Therefore, if security fears result in a system worse off than what he
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by carbon8 17y ago
No, it absolutely does not suggest that at all. For example, ROSCAs are inherently non-profit, they don't even hold money at all, and yet provide needed services to their users in ways that for-profits simply can't.
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by carbon8 17y ago
" The lack of storage space limits this to joy riding. You can't buy groceries, commute with a laptop" People typically bike with laptops in backpacks and messenger bags.
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by carbon8 17y ago
Indeed, it's former NGO that aggressively went for-profit. That's a good article and sums up some of the major debates around latin american microfinance. The problem with for-profit microfinance is that, as a general rule, financial perfor
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by carbon8 17y ago
"Grameen Bank provides small loans to poor people. It seems very possible that this NGO (and its many imitators) will be put out of business by commercial banks." Traditional, for-profit banking simply can't, which is the entire point. Ev
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by carbon8 17y ago
It's worth noting that "non-profit" doesn't always translate to charity. Microfinance, for instance, exists as a whole spectrum of quasi-for-profit operations. And on the strictly non-profit side you have things like ROSCAs, one of the foun
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by carbon8 17y ago
"Current PHP openings are more than likely for legacy web development." That's quite a massive assumption. If we do a job search on startup-specific job boards, (like startuply.com and startuphire.com), you'll see the same sort of thing.
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by carbon8 17y ago
Let's add a dose of perspective here. Do a job search on craigslist or simplyhired for "php," "rails" and "django" and you'll see that there are vastly more PHP jobs than either (10,726 on simply hired right now) and many more Rails jobs th
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by carbon8 17y ago
You can type next to move to the next lesson.
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"Busy people's calendars are normally kept by their secretaries" Maybe 20 years ago, but then software (including calendaring software), email and voice mail came on the scene. A couple decades ago every manager had a secretary. These day
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by carbon8 17y ago
Omnivore's Dilemma. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Omnivore%27s_Dilemma
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by carbon8 17y ago
It's an easy way to find recommendations for professionals like accountants and attorneys. When someone is connected to or, better yet, recommended by someone you know, it's basically what you would get with a verbal recommendation while el
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by carbon8 17y ago
Then you are testing two different things, and if you use tail recursion even Ruby 1.9 still runs it faster than Python. # 400 $ time ruby fib.rb real 0m0.017s user 0m0.010s sys 0m0.006s # 400 $ time python fib.py re
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by carbon8 17y ago
"how many meetings are composed of a caucasian woman, a black man, and an asian (?) man" I've never worked anywhere that this would be unusual at all. It's true that manufactured diversity is used in communications a lot, but workplaces t
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by carbon8 17y ago
True, they are all just methods, but it's basically just an altered version of Object#send, and the current Rails implementation only significantly differs from it in the specific situation it's intended for. I realize there are a range of
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by carbon8 17y ago
It's not really a Ruby vs Rails way of doing things. The Rails implementation is arguably more in line with the standard Ruby behavior since it throws a NoMethodError for everything other than Nil objects.
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by carbon8 17y ago
ruby-doc really should have this. Maybe if jamesbritt sees these comments he can let us know what's up. Here's a decent source for ruby 1.9 docs, though: http://railsapi.com/doc/ruby-v1.9/
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-moz-transform: rotate(6deg); [...] -webkit-transform: rotate(4deg); [...] transform: rotate(4deg); http://webkit.org/blog/130/css-transforms/ https://developer.mozilla.org/web-tech/2008/09/12/css-transf...
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by carbon8 17y ago
Me? Rails. You? Any mainstream framework. Whatever you want. It won't be a highly technical app so it doesn't really matter, and any mainstream framework will have the functionality you need. Be wary of anyone saying "[x framework], for sur
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by carbon8 17y ago
"Commercial apps don't do things like that." They do. Companies go out of business. They kill products. I went through it in a couple situations when I worked in IT. In one instance, a vendor was sued by another company and had to immedia
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by carbon8 17y ago
"what is wrong with the community" This communities in this case would be the entire online and open source communities.
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by carbon8 17y ago
"That's very subjective." No, taste is subjective. That _why is unique, a hacker, an artist and creative is not. "And I was claiming to be an outsider to the Ruby community" Yeah, hence why I'm highlighting the inanity of your insistenc
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"But the tone of this entire thread is suggesting that somebody who wrote a bit of Ruby code is some sort of creative visionary!" No, people are saying that a remarkably unique artist/hacker is a creative visionary, which he is. "I'm rea

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