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by jhancock 17y ago
cool. can't wait to see more reviews and see this book evolve out of beta. I used their original release to learn rails and was happy with the results. I've been on merb for the past 2 years, basically boycotting rails. It looks like I c
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by jhancock 17y ago
Your comments are pretty fair and your feelings on what your family went through in '60s Taiwan I take as genuine. However, it was not only hard work that bootstrapped Taiwan out of poverty. Some part of Taiwan's current comfort is due to
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by jhancock 17y ago
Its my understanding China's constitution does protect unions. China is a nation of many provinces, each differing in their respect to national rules. Even within wealthy, better regulated provinces like Shanghai, behavior is highly uneve
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by jhancock 17y ago
Can someone provide feedback on this release as to if it "includes rails 3" coverage or is "totally focused on rails 3". I would prefer the later; a book that doesn't take into account migration or trying to explain 2 vs. 3.
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by jhancock 17y ago
China is in no way a communist country. What is was before can be left to the opinions of those that experienced it. What it is now is most certainly not communist by any definition I know. China is very uneven in its protections. Wal-Ma
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by jhancock 17y ago
thanks grellas. As always, you provide clear and professional understanding for us laymen. My own personal attitude when I post something is that I don't own it. Since I lose most controls associated with traditional ownership, it helps m
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by jhancock 17y ago
Although I would like to agree with you, I'm not sure its clear that the commenter is the owner. If I am the owner of my comments, I should be able to delete them anytime I wish and not based on pg's time window for retracting a comment, r
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by jhancock 17y ago
Couldn't agree more. The last 2 years, I've used iPhone, Android, and for the last 2 weeks, WebOS (Pre). WebOS is limited in some ways but the entire package comes off well for the end user. I find it a refreshing alternative to Apple and
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by jhancock 17y ago
Our new Chinese site stats for the first month (march 2010): - 18,000 sessions - 65,000 page views - IE 6 > 60% The Chinese do not upgrade their systems. Part of the problem is the various Microsoft approaches to piracy and blocking up
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by jhancock 17y ago
I've been playing with Palm's WebOS. I think they've made some good trade offs in their development stack. I see no reason Palm or someone that acquires them couldn't upsize the Pre into a tablet.
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by jhancock 17y ago
Martin's arguments (summarized well by beilabs and stcredzero) are interesting and represent various real problems. But none are what killed Smalltalk. As always, everything points to money... 1 - Smalltalk tech was owned by a small clutch
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by jhancock 17y ago
Why 18 months to get your green card? Is yours a recent marriage? Is your wife not a permanent resident? Not sure why a spouse-sponsored permanent residence process is estimated at 18 months for you. I'm going through this with my wife r
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by jhancock 17y ago
yep..I'm in the middle of immigration process with my wife. Fortunately, the one place the USCIS and IRS do not look is on your home PC to find out if you've been programming for the startup that probably won't make any revenue until after
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by jhancock 17y ago
You mean SAS as in the products made by bigco sas.com ??? If your talking about writing your own SAS competitor which infringes on SAS patents, thats one thing. But your comment seems to indicate your talking about software piracy, which d
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by jhancock 17y ago
The job candidates and recruiters may be leaning in the direction of Asia. The experience once they get there may be underwhelming. I know many young investment bankers in Shanghai that have lost their high paying jobs in the last year wi
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by jhancock 17y ago
It is an impediment to running some new site you just want to throw at the wall and see what happens. This is truly a loss. But for the most part these rules have always been challenging. I've had to run down to a Shanghai IDC in years p
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by jhancock 17y ago
I live in a reality where I can read public U.S. documents. Here's one where Apple requests to keep it a criminal act to unlock an iPhone: "Apple Inc. submits this responsive comment in opposition to proposed Class #1 contained in proposed
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by jhancock 17y ago
"So far as I can tell they haven't." The threat of imprisonment is not a deterrent for millions of people to have unlocked phones?? Don't confuse the home ownership issue. The actions you are talking about (law officers arresting you) come
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by jhancock 17y ago
I found the story to be a well told description of what many will discover during this "lost decade" the U.S. has just begun.
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by jhancock 17y ago
oh come on froo, you can't drop "I'm making 18k/month passively" and not give at least a tickle as to what your doing ;).
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by jhancock 17y ago
What's wrong with it? Apple (and many others) are using federal criminal laws to enforce their business model. It is very possibly a criminal act to unlock your iPhone. Why should the FBI and our criminal judicial system be used to prote
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by jhancock 17y ago
The CCP _is_ the government. The distinction is that government is operated with officials that sit on the administration side and others that sit on the "party" side. They all have their functions. Here's an anecdote for you: a young ch
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by jhancock 17y ago
That's not a correct statement. Your Chinese company has the rights set forth by their laws. It is true their judicial process is prone to more corruption than in the U.S. But thats spotty and changing as well. You just can't always cou
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by jhancock 17y ago
Yes, and unfortunately most in the U.S. don't know the real effects of the South Africa divestment. Here's what happened: Coke, IBM, etc had to get out. They couldn't own the parts of their companies in SA. So they created new entities a
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by jhancock 17y ago
I worked as an IT consultant to USAA in '95. During the 90s, I had worked as a consultant to many large companies. USAA and one other large private company were the only two I would have considered full-time employment, with USAA coming o
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by jhancock 17y ago
I'm not completely against TDD. However, one thing I've found is bugs are caused by things you didn't think to write a test for (or write your code to handle sans tests). The mundane stuff I see in the vast majority of unit tests are thin
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by jhancock 17y ago
I'm not forced to program at all. I do it because its most always held my interest. I've passed my 10,000 hour mark years ago. So for those that program well and do so by choice, why can't we spend our time focusing on defining good clea
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by jhancock 17y ago
Not done for, we just become undefined.
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by jhancock 17y ago
Why? The folks that hit it big know why.

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