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by compay 15y ago
Yeah, but if you're recounting what has worked well for you in your career, you're giving advice - even if you qualify it at the last minute with a totally wishy washy ending like that. Also, if you've followed Kaplan since his (awesome) "F
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by compay 15y ago
To clarify though, I believe the success he's had is most certainly NOT luck but rather hard work and merit. My comment was referring just to that specific article.
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by compay 15y ago
"Just be lucky like I was" is rather poor advice.
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by compay 15y ago
Agree 100%. The fact that Javascript is the only language you can realistically use to script the browser is a terrible limitation and legacy of bad technical decisions at Netscape more than a decade ago. I'm always surprised at the lack of
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by compay 15y ago
I would assume that's because using a .ly domain for pornography is a violation of the terms and conditions, and Libyan law.
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by compay 15y ago
I believe the larger adult businesses will in fact use it, if just for the branding, and to make a case for their legitimacy by having their site on an easily filtered TLD.
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by compay 15y ago
Kudos to Github. Hard to think of a better endorsement than that.
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by compay 15y ago
Want to know Modern Philosophy? Just read Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason." After all, how hard could one book be?
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by compay 15y ago
I gave a presentation on this topic at Rubyconf Brazil last year, and would be hard pressed to describe Ruby as "good" at dealing with Unicode, unless by "good" you mean "avoids making almost any decisions at all" (which might actually be a
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by compay 15y ago
Ha, can't believe I completely missed that.
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by compay 15y ago
I'm really happy to see this feature. Sometimes I see a small problem in somebody else's code or documentation and out of sheer laziness I don't go though the trouble of forking, cloning, editing, pushing and sending a pull request. I think
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by compay 15y ago
I think root of the problem is, do we want a site that reflects in-the-trenches Ruby developers' reality, or a site that reflects the Ruby core team's vision? It seems that there's room in the world for both, they are different needs and pe
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by compay 15y ago
That's a very useful library, and also great example of how easy it is to hook into C code from Lua. Another one which I prefer personally because it's more comprehensive, is Steve Donovan's Penlight. If you have a background in Python you
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by compay 15y ago
The term entered widespread use after the AntiPatterns book was published. The authors were referring to "patterns of failure" commonly seen in software projects.
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by compay 15y ago
I've been trolled by people in lots of different "communities." PHP, Postgres, Java, Perl and Lua just to name a few. IMHO if a software community doesn't have jerks and trolls, it's because nobody is using the software. Ruby has its share
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by compay 15y ago
Sometimes you have to look at what somebody says, and not how they say it. I personally wouldn't have approached the trolls the way Zed did, but he was right that this was broken and needed to be fixed. Github did a great job - as far a
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by compay 15y ago
Ironically, the article's header has Facebook "Recommend" and Twitter "Tweet" buttons. The Facebook one has 4,000 "likes" and the Twitter one has 235 Tweets.
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by compay 15y ago
True. Good point.
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by compay 15y ago
It's a shame so many of the comments here are criticizing this guy for not lying more.
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by compay 15y ago
Tip of the cap for the fun hack factor. People asking if this is practical are missing the point, I think.
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by compay 15y ago
> why do you insist PHP is my "favorite language?" Sorry, I guess I just assumed that because of the amount of time you've dedicated to writing about PHP on your blog, and the fact that all but one of your projects on Github are impleme
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by compay 15y ago
So do you stand by your claim that PHP's "Speed & Scalability" is "maybe the best among script-based languages"? Because in the benchmark I cited it gets spanked by pretty much everything, including other interpreted languages like Ruby
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by compay 15y ago
Obviously benchmarks have their deficiencies. I'm referencing one of the most standard, frequently cited set of benchmarks for programming languages but make no claim that they're perfect. You can read all about them here: http://shootout.
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by compay 15y ago
I posted some generally supportive comments on his post, but dared to point out that PHP's interpreter is in fact rather slow compared to pretty much everything else, so he shouldn't claim that PHP has "maybe the best speed and scalability
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by compay 15y ago
Yeah, I tried to be careful to criticize only the Ars article, since I imagine there's a strong possibility the original may have been misquoted or misinterpreted.
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by compay 15y ago
Well, I was admitted to a PhD program in linguistics which required more than passing familiarity with the basic concepts of Chomsky's research, of which Universal Grammar is the basic concept. In my comment UG = Universal Grammar.
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by compay 15y ago
I studied linguistics in the 90's, including a class and a few seminars with Chomsky, but left grad school after a year. At this point I'm neither a linguist nor an expert but maintain a slightly more than passive interest in the field. The
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by compay 15y ago
> Extradition is unlikely An understatement, to say the least. > but getting back into the US could be sticky to say the least Really? They're not going to allow you back into the USA, or arrest you at the border for defaulting on a
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by compay 16y ago
I believe it. I know quite a few developers from there and aside from being quite talented at what they do, their English is excellent. But having spent little more than a weekend in the country I didn't want to assume they were a represent
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by compay 16y ago
Argentina was #16 overall and #1 in Latin America. As an American living in Argentina I think that sounds about right. Knowledge of English is definitely more widespread here than in other countries in Latin America that I'm familiar with,

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