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by dkubb 15y ago
IMHO if you have even the smallest doubt I would remove the child from the daycare and either move them to another, or bring them home. With my first son we ignored some of the doubt, thinking we were being overprotective first-time parents
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by dkubb 15y ago
Even more perl-awk-ish would be to use the -F and -a switch and move the regexp onto the command line, eg: https://gist.github.com/942975
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by dkubb 16y ago
It's nice to see people thinking about processing input as a stream rather than waiting for the entire message to be received before doing anything. If you start to think about input and output in web app as streams rather than buffered dat
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by dkubb 16y ago
No. I don't believe there ever can be. For a specific technology choice to become useful -- and more importantly to remain useful -- I think it needs strong competition.
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by dkubb 16y ago
To expand on this, I'm not saying that I think alot of programmers are idiots. (I realize now it could be taken that way) What I mean is that as an industry, we're in the stone ages. What we're doing will be looked back upon the same way th
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by dkubb 16y ago
Funny, I always like it when people have strong opinions. Maybe that's not the same thing as "too many" opinions; like when people have opinions on something they have no experience with. I've always preferred it when people have strong, bu
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by dkubb 16y ago
That almost no one really knows what they're doing.
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by dkubb 16y ago
I know you were asking about design, but the first thing I usually do with a new project (usually commit #2) is to make sure the deployment process works. Then I usually setup a CI service that runs the specs on each commit, and deploys to
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by dkubb 16y ago
Maybe it's not the norm, but I've read about new findings in the past, mentioned them to my family doctor and found that he's familiar with the same studies. Like developers, I'm sure there are doctors who just do their 9-5 and go home, whi
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by dkubb 16y ago
I believe it's a good thing when I see code I wrote 6 months ago and think it sucks. If I thought it was perfect then that would be a sign that I hadn't learned much since I wrote it.
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by dkubb 16y ago
This works predates Rails 3 by about 2 or 3 years. I would bet it indirectly influenced AR3, and I know it has influenced DataMapper (which I maintain). One major difference with Ambition is that you're writing the queries in the same code
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by dkubb 16y ago
How do you set this by default? I looked through git-config, and elsewhere, but I couldn't find any way to do it, short of using a shell wrapper.
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by dkubb 16y ago
When I was more a user of open source software I would've agreed with you, but as I've become more involved as a developer I've come to understand Brett's point of view. Now, I don't think the correct approach is to tell users to shut up. T
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by dkubb 16y ago
We're just getting started with DataMapper too. Lots of things planned in the future as we refine the API and internals. For example, we're looking towards allowing normal ruby objects to be persisted, not just objects that include DataMapp
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by dkubb 16y ago
This reminds me a bit of Edge Side Includes (ESI), although I realize this is done on the client side more than the server side. ESI got alot of attention about 10 years ago, but then sort of fell out of favor in the tech media/blogs. Some
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by dkubb 16y ago
Whenever I've tried to reuse the same controller for two URLs, I usually end up with some conditional logic within the controller to handle difference in parameters available from the URL. I think a better approach would've been for me to s
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by dkubb 16y ago
Agreed. I always thought that Rails controllers violated the Single Responsibility Principle ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_responsibility_principle ) by mixing collection and member concerns into a single class.
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by dkubb 16y ago
I've often wondered why we don't have any standardized test cases for email validation. A simple list of known good, and known bad addresses to use as test cases would really help. You could almost make a game out of finding valid addresses
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by dkubb 16y ago
From here maybe? http://tfletcher.com/lib/rfc822.rb
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by dkubb 17y ago
FWIW, I just visited your link and with a cold cache it took ~5 seconds the status bar to report every asset was downloaded. Definitely not a scientific measurement by any means, but I thought you might like to know. I also ran the site thr
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by dkubb 17y ago
You are correct that SEO people would latch onto the idea and start producing faster sites. But so will many legitimate sites that want to provide a good user experience. Is that really so bad? I think that site speed does correlate with
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by dkubb 17y ago
That was my thinking too. With PageRank Google is trying to find a way to measure the perceived quality of the user experience for each page. Except there's no way to do that directly, so they look at indirect methods, like counting the n
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by dkubb 17y ago
I love that Google is focusing on how to speed up the web, but they are missing the most obvious thing they could do that would have a dramatic impact on the speed of the web: Update their PageRank algorithm to take into account website spe
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by dkubb 17y ago
Regardless of what anyone says here, you have to test several approaches and pick the best performing one. One company I worked for was famous in it's niche for running tests. We'd run 30/45/60 day free trials, bundle offers, one-time offe
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by dkubb 18y ago
$2500 for 50 hours of work works out to $50 p/hour. I don't know what the fair market rate is for freelance client side app dev, but that sounds a bit low. Most web designers I know bill higher than that. For $50 an hour I'd either expec
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by dkubb 18y ago
As a freelancer myself I think it's really important to finish what you start, and keep your promises. Sure, there are times when you have to walk away from a project, such as when there are personality conflicts, or unreasonable expectatio
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by dkubb 18y ago
YSlow's primary purpose is to help you make sure the browser renders each page in the minimum amount of time. However YSlow does not only apply to browser rendering, following 6 of the 13 YSlow rules will result in a reduction of the tot
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by dkubb 18y ago
DataMapper is about 60% faster overall than ActiveRecord, and as much as 20x faster in a few key benchmarks at the moment: http://is.gd/3xwR In fact we, the core DM contributors, have spent very little time optimizing the library. Up unt