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by generalk 16y ago
Why? RoR allows lots of HN-types (hackers, people prototyping web business, etc.) to build products quickly. In fact, that's exactly what TFA is an example of. I'm actually constantly surprised at the number of HN readers who seem to hate o
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by generalk 16y ago
I understand that based on the author's previous posts this seems likely, but I'm curious: Is this just snark, or are you familiar with cases where Rails' "black magic" stopped working and caused problems? Because I'm not.
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by generalk 16y ago
You understand that Twitter's issues weren't due to Ruby on Rails, but due to application architecture, right? If Twitter had implemented the same architecture on top of a Python web library, they'd have had the exact same issues.
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by generalk 16y ago
This post is extremely confusing. As soon as you attempt to step outside of what Rails is built for Rails is a tool for building database-driven websites. It does this well, and I'm confused as to how you can "step outside of" this. Admit
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by generalk 16y ago
When Americans say "free speech" we usually are referencing the First Amendment of the United States Constitution, which holds that the federal (and as of Gitlow v. New York, state and local) government cannot make a law prohibiting the fre
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by generalk 16y ago
Yeah. I've also got an N1, and the hardware flaws suck. The touchscreen is my biggest complaint, having previously used an iPhone. That said, I'm extremely pleased with it overall, and the lack of a carrier telling me what I can and can't d
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by generalk 16y ago
Generally correct: iOS offers a few more services than just audio and VOIP, but it is a fixed list. On the other hand, I've never seen an app on Android that sucked down battery life, and if it did, I'd uninstall it just like any other bu
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by generalk 16y ago
People that felt this way should have purchased the Nexus One from Google while they were generally available. If more folks had, it might have validated the carrier-less model of selling phones.
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by generalk 16y ago
that doesn't have a link to an explanation of the product It has demos. It's has example code. But it doesn't say what the library is meant to do . A quick one-line "Hey, we've released v1.5 of our awesome vector graphics Javascript libr
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Building artificial wear into video games makes you scum(joncanady.com)
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by generalk 16y ago
What's wrong with that? If you have a large working corpus of code in Blub, you absolutely shouldn't replace it just because a new version of Language on Locomotives comes out. What you should do is exactly what patio11's doing here:
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by generalk 16y ago
You don't? If that's the only way to get off the ground, then yeah, that might just be the start of your dream company. Better part-time than never.
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by generalk 16y ago
Absolutely. People keep asking me what software I use to sync my Nexus One with my Mac. I usually tell them that, while DoubleTwist lets me organize media onto the device easily, you really don't need to hook it up to a computer: applicatio
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by generalk 16y ago
What about MobileMe? I'd say they've tried, and they've been an also-ran since the beginning.
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by generalk 16y ago
I've known fantastic coders who were absolute assholes. The software probably benefit from them being on the team, but the rest of us were ready to resign. I'd rather have someone who fits the culture really well and who is a good enough
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by generalk 16y ago
That's tantamount to saying "I jail-broke my iPhone quickly, so I could use one of the many apps on Cydia to tether my laptop via WiFi" ... except you don't need an app for that because tethering is built into iOS. It's built into Froyo (
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by generalk 16y ago
Don't know if this is specific to the Droid X. My Nexus One doesn't need rebooting ever. The last time I can remember rebooting it was when I forgot to charge it overnight and it died.
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by generalk 16y ago
The deal with bcrypt is that you can increase the number of work units , so that bcrypt gets slower and slower as you like. That defeats the ability to very quickly iterate over a dictionary, because it simply takes too long to do effectiv
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by generalk 16y ago
> There is absolutely no relation between the openness of a source code and its security. That's simply not true. Open source doesn't necessarily mean it's always secure, but at least you, or someone you trust, can analyze it and find o
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by generalk 16y ago
It's like a game of poker: always leave yourself outs. Have a few plans for how you can scale beyond "more RAM and faster disks" if the need arises, but don't move on them until you have to.
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by generalk 16y ago
I design my personal website, for the experience. I'm not great, but I'm okay, and I can redesign whenever I feel like it. But since I'm not stellar yet, I'll either use a quality template service or hire a designer for projects where it ma
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by generalk 16y ago
It sure helps to write code live if you are pitching to developers. John got a big nod from the audience for doing that. In my experience, writing the code live is asking for trouble. It seemed to work for this particular audience though.
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by generalk 16y ago
This is what I've always told folks who ask about my Nexus One's need for a task killer: "Never used one, no need." On the rare occasion that you do find an app that backgrounds incorrectly, uninstall it like any other buggy app. Everythi
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by generalk 16y ago
Absolutely. Frontend is far more about design and usability than it is about whether or not you can remember vendor-specific hacks for CSS columns. I figure if I ever need to hire a "frontend hero" my checklist will be very short. Do you ha
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by generalk 16y ago
No. I didn't say that. The language you write in doesn't matter nearly as much as your attitude about writing the software. If you don't design for maintainability and readability, then modifying the code later will take much longer.
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by generalk 16y ago
The end user doesn't directly care, but if you solve their problem in a hacky unmaintainable way, they'll care when it takes you days to do what should take hours, weeks to do what should take days.
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by generalk 16y ago
This is part of the reason I don't like working in PHP anymore -- this reads to me like a clear case of an overengineered solution. For example, see the list of sanitiziation filters: http://www.php.net/manual/en/filter.filters.sanitize.p
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by generalk 16y ago
How is that different from a computer purchase? See: Apple.
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by generalk 16y ago
I expect developers and sysadmins to work together on these things. I'm always confused when they don't, and saddened when people think that's okay. For instance: I wanted to do a few projects in Rails. I made sure that my admins had links,
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by generalk 16y ago
There are some discs that make it mandatory that something be played back first. There's nothing stating you can't mute your TV and go do something else for a few minutes. That said, I consider this an acceptable workaround given the lack

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