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by compay 15y ago
That sounds like exactly the kind of self-awareness and humility that will make you stand out and be successful in your profession. Kudos to you.
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by compay 15y ago
After many years I was back in the job market earlier this year. I ended up writing to 6 carefully-chosen companies. I got responses back from 5 of them, interviewed at 4, and got job offers from all of them. The fact that you applied at 50
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by compay 15y ago
Inevitably there would be some kind of misbehavior by either the employers or employees, and I'm curious how legal conflicts would be handled. What would the jurisdiction be if, for example, if a worker needed to take a company to court for
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by compay 15y ago
Right on. I don't mean companies need to have a project spec in hand from day one though, but rather that their own goals are clearly defined. I'm happy to help them come up with the spec. But if the client can't give you an elevator pitch
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by compay 15y ago
A lot of companies are looking to build simple, mainstream projects. For example "add a shopping cart to my site." Those are easy projects for outsourcing. If the client is looking to do something that has never been done before, then outso
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by compay 15y ago
I'm a partner at a Ruby outsourcing company in Argentina. I sympathize with the author, but I think the conclusion that outsourcing doesn't work is overly broad. The crux of the problem is that working with a remote team is a very diffe
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by compay 15y ago
It's also worth mentioning Ignacio Burgueño's LuaNode, an older project with similar goals: https://github.com/ignacio/LuaNode
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by compay 15y ago
Hate to be the grammar cop here, but the consistent misspelling of "its" in the article is distracting. If the author is here, could you please fix that? It's taking away from a very well-written and insightful piece of writing.
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by compay 15y ago
If you have to ask yourself this question, I think there's a chance you might be suffering from the kind of self-esteem issues that often plague bright people. Take a peek at this Wikipedia article on the "Dunning Kruger Effect" to have an
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by compay 15y ago
Here's Evan Phoenix's answer from a while back: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2265163
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by compay 15y ago
It would be great if somebody added some tests.
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by compay 15y ago
Yeah, I agree. Lua is actually my favorite language ahead of Ruby. I have F3 mapped in Vim to run my tests; one of my projects is an implementation of Haml in Lua, and even that runs all of its tests in a small fraction of a second. The mor
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by compay 15y ago
Glad to hear you had such a better experience. There are definitely a lot of factors to consider. Luckily since our initial terrible experience, we've had nothing but good ones with the US Consulate in Buenos Aires. So I'm hopeful that if w
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by compay 15y ago
I'm American. My wife is Argentine. We live in Argentina in large part because when we wanted to marry in 2006, we couldn't get her a permanent visa to live in the USA. Her fiancee visa was in fact quickly approved, pending an interview at
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by compay 15y ago
For most of my apps it's "fast enough" too. But I definitely wouldn't call it "fast."
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by compay 15y ago
Yes. What's your point?
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by compay 15y ago
* Written mostly in Ruby * No GIL * JIT * Better garbage collector * Better debugging tools Unfortunately, Rubinius is not yet complete, so it's not a suitable MRI replacement for now.
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by compay 15y ago
MacRuby also already comes with OS X - though it's currently still a private framework. By the time MRI 2.0 is ready to be released, the world will be a different place, MacRuby could by that time be the default Ruby on OS X. I understand t
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by compay 15y ago
Yes, it would not be a painless change. But neither has the switch from 1.8 to 1.9 been pain-free. Just because it's hard doesn't mean it's not worth doing.
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by compay 15y ago
Rubinius has a different performance profile from MRI. It's considerably faster at some things and slower at others.
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by compay 15y ago
It's not like MRI 2.0 is right around the corner either. A lot of work will be needed to get 2.0 out the door - potentially years. That work could instead be applied to Rubinius, and the release schedule could end up being similar. If it's
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by compay 15y ago
A lot of folks in the Ruby community were hopeful that Rubinius would replace MRI to become Ruby 2.0. Looks like that's going to have to wait a little longer now.
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by compay 15y ago
Lua is not perfect. But saying you shouldn't use it because of 1-based indexes is an overreaction. > Maybe I've been spoiled by Python, Perl, Java, C++, C, and other languages Probably. :) One of Lua's main goals is to provide a languag
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by compay 15y ago
> No basic string manipulation, only RE-based stuff It's trivial to write, there are lots of libraries that do this. I've worked on a lot of string processing code in Lua. It's not as easy as Perl or Ruby but it's not by any means har
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by compay 15y ago
Travelers using the computer at an internet cafe or a hotel lobby.
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by compay 15y ago
The Lua team at PUC-Rio still use RCS. They have a "closed development/open source" model, and they only need to coordinate patches between 3 or 4 people who all work at the same university, so it's probably not as crazy as it sounds.
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by compay 15y ago
I was a regular on PHPBuilder.com back in '99 when I was a rookie programmer; Tim answered more than a few questions for me and was always a supportive and encouraging guy. Very sad to hear this news.
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by compay 15y ago
Cool, thanks for the inside scoop!
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by compay 15y ago
There are probably lots of reasons, but I'd imagine one of them is that a simple Sinatra app consumes less resources than a simple Rails 3.1 app, and if Heroku is going to be adding tens of thousands of them, the savings probably adds up.

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