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by choxi 14y ago
I'd really love to write up a blog about this, but I'll do my best to summarize my thoughts here: It's a legitimate question. Empirically, it seems like it is possible since DevBootcamp in SF has been able to do it and 88% of their students
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by choxi 14y ago
so, my startup used to be a Codecademy competitor but we allowed users to build full blown Rails applications in their browser. our customers ran into the same problems you described and we also felt like an online environment was cheating
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The Grocery Store Analogy(blog.bloc.io)
43 points by choxi 14y ago|9 comments
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by choxi 14y ago
we do an online version of Devbootcamp/App Academy. http://bloc.io if you're interested
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by choxi 14y ago
It'll get you Rails installed on your computer, but it doesn't resolve the limitation mentioned in the SO article. The Ruby community is just too coupled to Unix, any setup you have directly on Windows will incomplete.
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by choxi 14y ago
One major reason not to install Rails directly onto Windows is because of all the gem incompatibilities you'll run into. JRuby would have the same problem. The problem is even worse when you're learning Rails because you'll see an awesome R
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A Better Way to Set Up Rails on Windows(blog.bloc.io)
31 points by choxi 14y ago|13 comments
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by choxi 14y ago
That's awesome, I have a lot of respect for your conviction.
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by choxi 14y ago
I totally agree but with the caveat that I don't blame anyone, including the judges. We chose to participate in a competition and they gave us their feedback on what we did -- nothing malicious, we just pitched the idea prematurely.
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by choxi 14y ago
that's a really good point -- I was thinking myself how you'd consolidate this with being lean and I think you articulated the difference very well
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by choxi 14y ago
haha, thanks! I wouldn't mind if they did well at all, they had the grit to keep pushing on with it where we didn't.
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Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time(roshfu.com)
88 points by choxi 14y ago|42 comments
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by choxi 14y ago
Hey Ahsan, Sorry about that, things got a little hectic and it just slipped my mind. Sending you an email right now.
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by choxi 14y ago
i'm doing a thing at http://bloc.io too, similar to RailsTutors
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by choxi 14y ago
Here's one overlooked reason why apps are better than websites: no passwords! I absolutely hate that every time I had to use the mobile GMail app I had to enter in a password again, even though everything else has a native app feel.
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Natural Motifs(roshfu.com)
29 points by choxi 15y ago|12 comments
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by choxi 15y ago
lol
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by choxi 15y ago
this made me chuckle :)
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by choxi 15y ago
installed AP Mobile. I think there's still gems out there, for example I love Planet Money. I'll give AP Mobile a try, thanks!
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by choxi 15y ago
ok, added. I wasn't thinking, thanks for calling me out :)
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by choxi 15y ago
ah crap, sorry about that I'll add a reference right now
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by choxi 15y ago
really interesting perspective, I hadn't thought about it from the perspective of "richness of life" I guess my rebuttal would be that the news i was reading didn't make my life any richer. it's all so pandoring that it's intentionally not
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by choxi 15y ago
haha, that's fascinating -- I can appreciate that some perspectives don't form correctly until you're older. i'd like to mention that i wasn't really writing this from the perspective of productivity. i think it's a wellness thing to fade o
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Did You Hear We Got Osama?(roshfu.com)
524 points by choxi 15y ago|204 comments
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by choxi 15y ago
we liked it too and designed ours inspired by it: http://www.trybloc.com/ we took out the error message though because it looked a bit confusing and wrote our own copy.
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by choxi 15y ago
it's the same problem as allowing users to create millions of identities. if it gets to be a problem, you can just start removing unclaimed identities from oldest to newest.
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by choxi 15y ago
That's a good point, I just thought the model of having the identity be separate from the login credentials made more sense. It has some nice benefits to separate them mentioned by ch below.
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by choxi 15y ago
wow that's a great idea, I hadn't thought of that! I guess that's just another benefit of dissociating the identity (Identity) from the login (User).
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The Anonymous User Pattern(roshfu.com)
110 points by choxi 15y ago|21 comments
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by choxi 15y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3441176

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