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by diveanon 7y ago
Really interesting stuff, I live in Malaysia now and will have to keep this in mind if I decide to get involved in the tech scene here.
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by diveanon 7y ago
I'm not trying to dispute the facts, but anecdotally I just don't find that to be true. 40% seems very high to me, but then again usage of ad blockers isn't exactly exciting conversation that I try to bring up when I'm a
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by diveanon 7y ago
I never really considered the economics of programming languages in this regard. Thanks for the thoughtful explanation. If you were starting up a web app in China what languages would you choose?
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by diveanon 7y ago
I read this as "Mass Tinder" and it gave me an idea for a group dating app that helps organize strangers into meeting up as a group for "activities".
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by diveanon 7y ago
This definitely reads like a cry for help to me. Depression is a disease, and it can make thoughts like this seem rational. They aren't.
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by diveanon 7y ago
Fair enough, I was thinking in terms of SV salaries and western compute resources.
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by diveanon 7y ago
A bunch of active rails developers.
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by diveanon 7y ago
Learning a language is trivial, as an educator it is your responsibility to teach them that in order to be a successful developer they should be flexible and well rounded. Tribalism in tech helps no one.
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by diveanon 7y ago
I am curious about your definition of scale, because in my experience this is just flat out untrue.
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by diveanon 7y ago
Hire this guy.
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by diveanon 7y ago
What's there to fix?
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by diveanon 7y ago
Testing is a breeze too because you are using the same tools across the board. I don't know why it fell out of fashion, but for your average web app it is the gold standard imo.
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by diveanon 7y ago
Most of my career has been spent building web apps in Rails, Node, a smattering of python frameworks. Python is pretty great, but the fragmentation of the ecosystem puts it behind Rails imho. Node is a constant headache and I have seen it b
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by diveanon 7y ago
Go to any con and you will find plenty. My experience with ruby devs is that they are usually employed and not actively searching. Since it isn't the flavor of the week anymore you don't have as many programmers entering the field
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by diveanon 7y ago
That's not a senior ruby dev, it's a full stack unicorn. I read a post like that and think "why bother when I can get paid the same for doing one of these things well somewhere else".
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by diveanon 7y ago
Talent availability is a major factor in building a viable tech stack for startups.
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by diveanon 7y ago
It will scale well beyond that point if ut is properly organized into services. Check out some of the comments above about "service oriented monolith". That being said, know your limits. If you are doing a lot of image processing
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by diveanon 7y ago
I don't really enjoy writing Ruby, but rails is the most productive framework I've ever had the pleasure of working with. I recommend it without hesitation for startups all the time.
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by diveanon 7y ago
Bingo. A properly organized codebase scales very well when partitioned into services. It is my default approach for all new projects for the last 10 years or so.
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by diveanon 7y ago
Or you can do poor man's microservices and use the same monolith with different production flags to load balance it. Keep all your code in one repo, deploy that codebase to multiple servers, but have it acting in different capacities.
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by diveanon 7y ago
This is the approach we used at a certain budget shaving startup and it worked very well. The boosts to dev speed from a monolith / monorepo over a more "scalable" approach are huge and allow you to focus on business problems
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by diveanon 7y ago
There are plenty of things to be outraged about in today's world. A lame joke by some DOE suits is not one of them.
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by diveanon 7y ago
Whenever I setup a computer for friends and family I install Firefox and ad blockers for them. Nearly every time I use their computer again they are running chrome as default. For the overwhelming majority of internet users it just isn&#x27
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by diveanon 7y ago
I'm sorry, but saying that a contractor who is making $25-$35/hour working in an air conditioned office a victim of sweatshop working conditions is hyperbolic and stupid. I understand the complaint about unpaid overtime, but the s
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by diveanon 7y ago
I think you are vastly over estimating the number of people who use ad blockers.
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by diveanon 7y ago
Unpaid YouTube is a train wreck, it will place an ad mid song and completely wreck any sense of narrative in an otherwise great scene. I download all my music from YouTube now and don't have to deal with their poorly thought out ux.
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by diveanon 7y ago
They are a reality and have arguably saved more lives than they have taken. We have systems in place to prevent their abuse and despite our personal dislike of them they serve purpose. If we have learned to be judicious and cautious with th
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by diveanon 7y ago
You do realize we have thousands of nuclear weapons right?
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by diveanon 7y ago
As I said in my previous comment, it's only oppression when implemented as such. Technology is a tool, the one who wields it bears the moral responsibility to use it correctly. Address the root causes of systemic oppression in your cou
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by diveanon 7y ago
"the losses far, FAR outweigh the gains" I disagree and think the topic should be open to public debate. Would I trust the US or China to implement a system like this fairly? No. However, in a country with a functional and imparti

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