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by jhancock 18y ago
This is good stuff. I certainly hope frameworks like ramaze stick around and gain their own niche market share. For http://shellshadow.com I had to make careful decisions about being able to eventually hire others to do the web app dev,
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by jhancock 18y ago
What kind of weird disease from far far away do you think you might get? I"ve lived in China for 8 years, am 40 years old now and have never contracted anything that I also couldn't contract in the U.S. Live healthy and smart and you most
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by jhancock 18y ago
I haven't used ramaze seriously enough to give an opinion on the quality of this work. I like the modularity and ORM and Template and HTTP server agnostic approach, which is similar to merb. One of key benefits of merb over the many other
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by jhancock 18y ago
merb http://merbivore.com is exactly the kind of full-stack framework ruby needs. Paired with datamapper http://datamapper.org it is a clean room rewrite of what rails could have been. I'm not knocking rails. It is what it is, but th
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The Birk Economic Recovery Plan- bad math warning
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by jhancock 18y ago
"The world is a prestige whore."... ...you said it. If you have lots of funding you can afford to pay the price premiums for people with resumes with prestige shwag on them. If you don't have that kind of funding and need to pay lower rat
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by jhancock 18y ago
Screen is a great tool, I use it regularly myself. ShellShadow is not a replacement for screen and screen's "collaboration" features are secondary to the tool's original purpose. There are problems with using screen for collaboration...
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by jhancock 18y ago
The PuTTY code base is not structured for "add-ons". You can only take the source and modify and release something new. I can say from my experience developing http://shellshadow.com that the PuTTY source is readable, lightwieght and wel
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by jhancock 18y ago
not at all. GNU screen requires changes to your server. Also you would need to change screen and run it as root unless you're really smart (in which case you wouldn't need support now would you?). Screen requires you grant access to both u
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by jhancock 18y ago
they missed one... "Collaborative PuTTY" - ShellShadow ... http://shellshadow.com
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by jhancock 18y ago
The Economist has lost lots of credibility with this one. I have lived and run companies in Shanghai for 8 years. The number for China is completely wrong. Firing someone in China is straightforward. There are rules to guard against impr
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by jhancock 18y ago
just as likely. I wasn't implying this was a heroic action. Perhaps my original post was misleading in that regard. I don't know anything about the person that did it or why. History gets to decide the import of people's actions. I thin
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by jhancock 18y ago
yes, the long arm of the arm will have its day on this one. However, it is important to remember that most/all revolutionary behavior involves breaking the law. I'm not saying this was an appropriate thing to do. But obviously, whoever did
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by jhancock 18y ago
actually, I may trust dropbox more than Bank of America ;)
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by jhancock 18y ago
more dropbox pandering!!! I certainly hope this dropbox thingy is actually easy to use as advertised by SO MANY!!! But seriously, the ONLY thing it can offer is something easier for shared file storage. Something that's been done many time
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by jhancock 18y ago
The promise JavaScript holds for server side web apps is that a programmer is far more productive with a tool he knows exceptionally well than with several tools he knows just enough. In this way, JavaScript can be used on both client and s
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by jhancock 18y ago
fully agree. From one 40 year old hacker to another, C is a very meaningful and useful language. It is not a "premature optimization" for someone who really gets unix/linux. I have built http://shellshadow.com with C and have been very
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by jhancock 18y ago
Dan's first point: never send an email when your angry. This is vital. It doesn't matter if you know the person or not. The chances of you seriously regretting an email sent in anger are very high.
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by jhancock 18y ago
This article is bunk and a clear propaganda effort. GM is dying because its a big old company and big old companies die..and..because as a nation, the U.S. does not protect its companies/citizens from the effects of global free trade. The
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by jhancock 18y ago
sorry, fact is few things are cheaper to create and replicate than software. Having investment before product, customers, and revenue provides advantage for some types of business models. It enables "failing-fast"; the "go big or go home"
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by jhancock 18y ago
I read the American Scholar Article http://www.theamericanscholar.org/su08/elite-deresiewicz.htm... . Its well written from a man who taught English at Yale for the last 10 years. Worth a read independent of this VC issue. This issue of
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by jhancock 18y ago
I have had similar thoughts recently. Although my desire to get better at maths is not to "make meaningful and significant contributions to the field". My desire is to make meaningful contributions to other fields. Reviving and extending
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by jhancock 18y ago
The article explains it well. My great-grandmother told me 30 years ago: a 25 minute nap in the afternoon is essential; over 45 minutes is not good. This old wisdom from a hard working farmer took how much scientific scrutiny to finally
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by jhancock 18y ago
The latest is http://www.sproutcore.com/ Its not mobile specific but is the new framework that Apple is using for its mobile me apps. This would allow you to dev apps for workstation or handhelds. The easy language to get started with sp
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by jhancock 19y ago
I've recently been through this decision process. I had v1.0 of http://shellshadow.com using mysql. I ran into one bug in my assumption about how mysql was handling unique constraints and from there started to look at postgres again. It