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irahul
14y ago
That depends on what you need for building the said API. Rails does a lot of stuff. Lightweight frameworks leave out many things out of choice. You possibly get enhanced performance with lightweight frameworks, at the cost of having to buil
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irahul
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IMO you shouldn't do the benchmark. Let this project be a starting point for a Rails api project and/or a how to for people who want to customize Rails for their needs. "We are building an API. Rails has extra components which aren't used b
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14y ago
> That said, I don't think that it's ideal for heavy JS apps. Rails-api churns out JSON, JS consumes it. I can think of performance being an issue. What are the other issues?
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irahul
14y ago
> So wouldn't you be best just cherry-picking your own gems? I skimmed through the README. This project is picking up a default set of components needed for API. You can add or subtract components based on your needs. So instead of you
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irahul
14y ago
I am not questioning building a brand. As I said elsewhere, in blind tests, people have a hard time distinguishing google search results from bing. Brand name is one of the major factors when it comes to consumers. People preferred pepsi to
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irahul
14y ago
> The one you claim to do on your homepage talks about involving design, which is why I referenced it. My homepage talks about design doesn't mean I have to design. > I am not obliged to let you know that. But surely it isn't as shi
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irahul
14y ago
> What appears to be just a text box and a logo has a lot of details. And since it appears as a text box and a logo, doesn't it make the point about having a lot of details moot? It's slightly different than google or bing, but vastly s
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irahul
14y ago
So are you seriously saying brands which can be abbreviated aren't adapted as well by consumers as brands which can't be? And do you have anything other than "I said so" to back it up?
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irahul
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> Does anyone care about DDG anyway? The number of votes and comments tell me people on this forum do care. Personally, I care because DDG is doing something ambitious and competition is good(it helps keep people in line). Also, even if
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irahul
14y ago
> 1) Their design is very complex and un-appealing with no simplicity that a SE should posses Enough people have already said it. I feel like a broken record but what's very complex about a text box and a logo? > because they have
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irahul
14y ago
You probably already know that, but your "sponsors" page is completely broken on my system, and it blames adblock. Page: http://buysellads.com/buy/detail/158594?utm_source=shorturl&... Error message: Does BuySellAds look broken? Disable y
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irahul
14y ago
> A quick google search for 'oatmeal greeting cards' brings up oatmeal studios for me. In fourth place behind theoatmeal.com What I was saying was TheOatmeal started as random comic. He might have checked for existence of a similar enti
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irahul
14y ago
The selected answer from the OP has a reasonable explanation. The code is written by someone who knows the domain, and is using variable names which are commonly used to describe equations in textbooks. I think if the programmer used the sh
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irahul
14y ago
Trademark law requires the owner to protect it.
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irahul
14y ago
> Trademark owners have to defend their trademarks, or risk losing them. Should have worded it better. That's what I meant. I don't know how relevant it is. Suppose Oatmeal Studios sue some fictional "Oatmeal Cards" and "Oatmeal Cards"
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irahul
14y ago
This one is hard to call. Trademark owner should defend trademarks. Oatmeal studio has a legit case where it's not making up the charges or claiming damages - it's simple, plain trademark infringement(per the article). On the other hand, oa
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irahul
14y ago
What are you using? They are pretty convenient with WTForms. # models.py class Post(db.Model): id = db.Column(db.Integer, primary_key=True) name = db.Column(db.String(80)) title = db.Column(db.String(200))
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irahul
14y ago
> there's a good argument to be made that parts of (even of all of) Django is too complex. As long as those complex parts are encapsulated well enough that I don't have to peek 99% of the time, I don't think it matters. I am more concer
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irahul
14y ago
> At least you found the line for cant see when someone's being facetious You are a fucking asshole. Ha, ha. Just kidding. You just don't get my flippant sense of humor. Sorry. This doesn't work for me. Being facetious is different from
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irahul
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Oh the vitriol. I would have happily helped(except I didn't know any criminal lawyers in Delhi). All it would have cost me was a couple of phone calls. What exactly would I have lost if it were an elaborate con, and what does the conman get
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irahul
14y ago
A popular leader died. The city was closed down. A 21 year old woman posted on fb about people dying everyday and the vanity of closing down the city. Her friend liked it. Both of them were arrested for hate speech. http://www.ndtv.com/art
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> I'm not sure how politics and political warfare works in India. Maybe someone who knows about that can enlighten us? He is a former judge of Supreme Court(the highest court in India for the unfamiliar) and Chairman of Press Council o
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irahul
14y ago
> The problem is that if you don't like it, you really don't like it. Meanwhile, if you don't mind it, people who do seem like jerks. It's more like how you say it. "Hey Buddy, if you don't stop slurping, I am going to chew and then ope
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irahul
14y ago
Your story about the property sounds very believable with what I've seen so far, and I wonder what happened after you sold it, if the buyer got the same treatment that you had or if this was the last of it. Generally, the way it works is
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irahul
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> Let's hope that in the long run this whole thing can be laid to rest without any chance of repercussions or repetitions. Don't just hope. Evaluate the situation and avoid the areas where you(I mean your friend) might be in trouble. I
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irahul
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> Your friend was arrested in the state of Maharashtra and taken to the state of Delhi. Given these facts, you are claiming collusion among multiple state and federal agencies and judiciary, acting out on blatantly false information in
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irahul
14y ago
> What threat would cause a particular officer to do something against their oath is beyond my imagination. Simple threats work. Being transferred to a hellhole with little to no electricity, poor roads, far from where your family lives
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irahul
14y ago
> Eventually he told me he was going to leave because I was eating so rudely. Does this happen in a jovial manner, or people really take serious offence to simple inconveniences?
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irahul
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> Also looking at the code for pastie.org support in Vim and Emacs -- I would definitively prefer extending Emacs To each its own, but tpope's pastie is doing a lot more than the emacs pastie. Compare the usage https://github.com/tpope
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irahul
14y ago
> Although you might not want to debate whether Vimscript is better or worse than elisp, I don't mind. Most things are better than Vimscript. I've even written a language [1] that compiles to Vimscript because it sucks so bad. Vimscript
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