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An Open Source Workflow with Ruby on Rails(hkarthik.me)
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by hkarthik 15y ago
...locations with high unemployment and lots of developers Do such places still exist? Even with high unemployment numbers, I don't see many unemployed developers right now. A lot of the work in other areas is a little boring and En
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Top Chef: Cloud Edition(jessedearing.com)
1 points by hkarthik 15y ago|0 comments
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by hkarthik 15y ago
Can you not start writing tests against those monster methods so that you've got a refactoring safety net? I totally agree on being practical and not refactoring methods that work correctly. But if you find yourself in the monster methods m
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I just don't like Object Mappers(openmymind.net)
2 points by hkarthik 15y ago|0 comments
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by hkarthik 15y ago
Accountability eh? I'll remember this next time I'm using a paid web service, it goes down, and they put up a Status page saying "Don't worry folks, our lawyers are on it."
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by hkarthik 15y ago
Healthcare software has the same kinds of problems. New regulations, rules, and ways that each party in the system attempts to skirt the rules bleed into the code bases of every system. Thats why a lot of the technology in healthcare is so
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by hkarthik 15y ago
As a former .NET guy, I was just going to comment on the fact that the Enterprise adoption of Java nearly exactly mirrors the Enterprise adoption of .NET. All of the complains and justifications sound exactly the same.
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by hkarthik 15y ago
I think a good strategy to insulate yourself from .NET is to slowly move your .NET code into RESTful services and isolate the dependencies there. The one big downside is that most of the alternatives are designed to work better with Unix ba
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by hkarthik 15y ago
If you are looking for a new web framework and new database that will last you for 5 years, you're better off sticking with something mature. I'm a bit biased, since I went from .NET to Ruby on Rails, but I realize that RoR may not have the
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by hkarthik 15y ago
Thanks! I've found the Ruby community to be very open and welcoming. It took some ego busting to pull the trigger and make the switch, but I'm very glad I did it.
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by hkarthik 15y ago
I'm curious what Netflix has in the works to move off of Silverlight. I remember reading that their biggest problem with HTML5 players was the lack of good DRM options to please the studios.
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The Current and Future Ruby Platform(weblog.therealadam.com)
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by hkarthik 15y ago
The big advantages to the startup in this case are the following: 1) More potential for upside since you own it yourself and can potentially reap the financial benefits more easily. 2) Potentially less oversight and freedom to pivot/pursue
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by hkarthik 15y ago
I did this for about a year while bootstrapping a project and it was extremely tiring. Also, I had a one year old at the time. I recently abandoned the project for other reasons, but even had I continued, I'm pretty sure the pace would have
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by hkarthik 15y ago
Agreed on BF3 being an awesome game on the PC. I've been catching up with my old college buddies to play it and we haven't had this much fun since Counter-strike Source was released. Those of us that were around in the early days of Steam r
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by hkarthik 15y ago
Of the things you listed, they are all reasonable for a tech founder to do. The key difference is that a tech founder should timebox all of these activities to make sure the majority of their time early on is spent building the tech that po
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by hkarthik 15y ago
Once you start to have more of a personal/family life, the 40 hour (or slightly more) work week becomes a lot more essential. Kids need more consistent time from you, they can't take 20 hours one week and zero hours the next. Same with spou
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by hkarthik 15y ago
C is the best thing we have that's truly cross platform and has consistent performance everywhere without any company to claim ownership of it. Until that changes, C is here to stay.
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by hkarthik 15y ago
Sphinx and Solr are both options to consider, and there are few Search as a Service providers that you can use. Flying Sphinx and WebSolr are two of the more popular ones. We use Flying Sphinx and it's worked out well.
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by hkarthik 15y ago
This is a great example of how competition spurs innovation. Rdio has always been a great service with a poorly done trial period that probably discouraged a lot of people from using it long enough to love it. The only reason I stuck with i
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by hkarthik 15y ago
My cousins and friends from India have explained to me that this is due to a lack of legitimate "fees" for government services that we are accustomed to here in the US. Those extra $10-$25 fees for things like getting a birth certificate ar
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by hkarthik 15y ago
Like I said, there was a lot of luck involved with finding their first CTO that carried them to the first 2 million in revenue. Unfortunately for him, he was let go after 10 years and didn't negotiate enough equity to be comfortable afterwa
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by hkarthik 15y ago
I like this strategy. To me it's reminiscent of someone writing a software dev tool, book, or screencast and pricing it low enough for an individual to purchase it themselves rather than try to get their employer to purchase it for them. Wh
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by hkarthik 15y ago
I have worked for a company with two non-technical founders that built a $1.5-2 million dollar business over the course of 10 years. The first founder had a wealth of specific industry knowledge (Insurance Denials management for physician p
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by hkarthik 15y ago
Part of the problem is that any typical Web Application framework is ill suited to building a full real time system like Twitter. I doubt their story would have been much rosier if had they gone with Spring MVC, Hibernate, and Oracle from t
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by hkarthik 15y ago
I shudder at the thought of writing Node apps in Windows only to later deploy them to a Linux environment. Sounds like a debugging nightmare. Didn't we learn these lessons from the early days of Java when it was "write once, debug everywher
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by hkarthik 15y ago
This isn't abnormal for Apple, they usually project lower than expected revenues every quarter. However, I think iCloud is going to require a lot of capital expenditures. It's going to be free and will likely be utilized by nearly their ent
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by hkarthik 15y ago
I've pitched this idea before, and the standard argument is that by doing something like this, you lose the tax benefits around capital expenditures that become depreciating assets. However, I'm sure the tax benefit is small compared to the
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by hkarthik 15y ago
Well put. When I wrote "broader .NET community", I was mostly speaking to the vast majority of .NET developers, which are unfortunately stuck in typical Enterprise environments. There are definitely small shops out there doing interesting t

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