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by danneu 14y ago
I'd wager that people pledge because they want your product, not because they get t-shirts and mugs.
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by danneu 14y ago
Privacy probably doesn't strictly monopolize HN's concerns because cloud services are Good Enough when it comes to privacy for our Ruby on Rails MVPs, our benign blogs, and our JSconf slideshows. Conflating privacy where privacy is needed w
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by danneu 14y ago
The award to Blizzard, Inc. for memory scans to prevent cheating in an MMO video game (something that I'd wager most players would accept) sort of cheapens the award when it's shared by widespread government-disseminated trojans and citizen
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by danneu 14y ago
Same. Firefox on Debian. Could only sign up (if it even worked) because I could access my browser's dropdown list of emails.
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by danneu 14y ago
Web development was never friendly. All the tools you mentioned including Rails are only making it easier and easier. You have to pay the toll somehow. Whether that's the structured , straightforward learning curve of a framework or managin
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by danneu 14y ago
Forum spam is a generally solved problem. And a non-issue for a forum with no traffic. If you are ever getting hit with xrumer blasts, you just need to rotate your "What is 5+5?"-type registration questions because someone hard-coded your r
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by danneu 14y ago
Rest assured that your attitude is far more insufferable and real than the "culture invasion" you're concerned about.
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by danneu 15y ago
Doing what anybody else would do after looking at those two projects, I googled "railwaysjs vs towerjs" and found the question on Stack Overflow with an incredible comparison made by the creator of towerjs: http://stackoverflow.com/questio
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by danneu 15y ago
There really isn't a Rails vs Node dichotomy, though. More like Sinatra vs Express -- you can write glue code in the Ruby ecosystem as well if that's what you want to do. You use Rails because you want and understand the magic, not because
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by danneu 15y ago
The majority of my free time goes into the Ruby/Rails ecosystem, but I decided to finally jump into javascript for real and force myself to grok things like closures and context (still strugglin'!) the past month. Node isn't a new language.
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by danneu 15y ago
I plucked the relevant points of discussion that reveal the thought process. Q: "I've heard for years that pagination should remain outside rails since it has to be lightweight, and now that !?" homakov: good example, but "pagination" is a
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by danneu 15y ago
I mean to specify higher level design conventions, as in the structuring decisions you'd have to make in a non-trivial app. For instance, my experience with Express. The popular Peepcode screencast makes a Django'esque `apps` directory and
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by danneu 15y ago
I've been learning Haskell on the side for a while and was hoping for something more after reading the title, but the post pretty much just points out a few preferences that OP has. I spend very little time in Rails hung up on any of the is
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by danneu 15y ago
Looking back on my highschool years and previous, my parents tried to encourage me to grow out of all sorts of phases. They'd barrage me with empty platitudes like "just be yourself" when my primary frustration in life was that I didn't kno
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by danneu 15y ago
I'm too am comfortable with Rails and the Ruby ecosystem but jumped into Express recently with Socket.io and MongoDB and think you should too. My curiosity was shortly satisfied and I decided to stick with synchronous code instead dealing w
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by danneu 15y ago
Here's the same functionality written in Ruby using Chris Kite's crawler called Anemone[1]. Gist: https://gist.github.com/2475824 . Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/cbv9A.png [1]: http://anemone.rubyforge.org/doc/index.html
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by danneu 15y ago
Maybe the ruby community is a secret sanctum I've yet to be granted access, but I've never identified with or understood these sort of posts. Granted, I'm a superficial participant in things ruby. But if this vogue opinion of the ruby commu
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by danneu 15y ago
This week I'm finding it really hard to cognitive-dissonantly validate why I don't know javascript yet. But you're breaking me, O constant-plethora-of-awesome-javascript-submissions.
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by danneu 15y ago
That's good, thanks. While we're here, I'd like to drop a link to every BBC Radio 1's Essential Mix from 1993-2011 on Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/das-boy/sets/essential-mix .
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by danneu 15y ago
Another smooth genre is "deep house", also found in genres like slowmo, nu disco. An example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tD74t6K7mI
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by danneu 15y ago
Energy and water consumption projections seem to just take current per capita consumption rates and raise them against projected population growth. Then they ask the question of "how will energy producers cope with these demands?" and start
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by danneu 15y ago
Given that it's called "BrowserQuest" at "browserquest.mozilla.org", I doubt too many people went in expecting Ultima Online.
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by danneu 15y ago
Since Railscasts.com is now making money through subscriptions, I'm surprised nobody's made a Djangocasts.com. Back when I was only flirting with web frameworks, Railscasts' bite-sized videos were the easiest way to get a taste of Rails.
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by danneu 15y ago
I use the Compass library which works great with Bootstrap. The recent Railscast also got me testing out the [Bourbon gem]( https://github.com/thoughtbot/bourbon ) (a similar Sass libary) on a new project along with Bootstrap.
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by danneu 15y ago
I think this entire assertion has the wrong idea. This idea would be valid if the universal alternative to using Bootstrap is some impressive design stitched together by your in-house crack team of designers. But I'm sure the alternative to
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by danneu 15y ago
Honestly, I think it'd be awesome if Facebook showed me pictures uploaded by people I don't know that may have me in them. There are valid reasons why Facebook doesn't do this right now (random people able to see your photos even on false p
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by danneu 15y ago
Because Adderall is cheap, easy to get, amphetamine works, and it's worlds different from things that are not amphetamine (homeopathic pills?!).
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by danneu 15y ago
I think you meant Ruby instead of Rails-based. Some alternatives that come to mind are Toto (Git-based like Jekyll) and Typo (Rails-based). Frankly, I'd rather have a Rails blog with page caching than use Jekyll.
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by danneu 15y ago
I used OKCupid (free) to give more spontaneity to my dating and the vibe I get is that nobody identifies with it as a serious pursuit. Paying for a site can seem try-hard if you aren't one that feels very invested in it (despite how investe
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by danneu 15y ago
I just graduated from university and have been relishing in the sudden freetime. I can easily spend 8-10 hours per day just consuming and practicing new technology, or just reading unrelated literature that I had little time for. I've been

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