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by josephmosby 14y ago
A large part of the push for crowdfunding has come from entrepreneurs and their advocates who believe that a larger pool of funds will be beneficial to the entire country. However, investors expect that the regulators are watching out for t
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From Python to Ruby: Layouts, Templates, Views, oh my(gist.github.com)
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by josephmosby 14y ago
As I stated in an earlier comment, I would likely have a different experience with Django now. Django was the first framework I attempted to learn, so I'll wholeheartedly admit that some of that was inexperience with web applications (start
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by josephmosby 14y ago
> It's pretty damn awesome to spend all day writing business code rather than support code. One-thousand times this. I've had some headaches with gems (chronicled earlier), but if you're building an app with minimal add-on gems then dev
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by josephmosby 14y ago
> if you know what apps and middleware to disable. And when I was learning Django, I didn't know this. I moved to webapp2 because I could put only what I wanted in an application. I'm sure that if I sat down and re-dedicated myself to l
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by josephmosby 14y ago
Actually, I started with Django, then got pissed off because trying to twist Django around to do something non-traditional gets messy fast. webapp2 is spartan by comparison and makes you do more extra work, but at least you know what you're
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by josephmosby 14y ago
IMO, Django's great if you want to make something regularly published (i.e., blog, news site, etc.). But you have to get creative quickly if you want to do something else. I eventually jumped to doing more webapp2, and I know there's a devo
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by josephmosby 14y ago
The scaffold boilerplate did a lot of extra work, but didn't seem to overstep its bounds with extra code too much. Does Rails encourage me to eventually complexify the application's routes and methods to a point that the scaffold won't make
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by josephmosby 14y ago
Auto-generated code is great - I'm more questioning if it's causing learning gaps when people try to move to languages that don't have the community or commonality as Ruby/Rails. Ruby seems to be an anomaly in that you can pretty much obscu
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From Python to Ruby: Mind Blown by Rails, the Framework(gist.github.com)
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by josephmosby 14y ago
I had not really thought about why Python development generally expected a virtualenv until now. If you haven't been in the Python world at all, virtualenv essentially sets up a miniature development environment within your working folder.
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Actually, I've tried to stir the comment pot on Python posts and have not received near the same feedback. Now, that could easily just be indicative of the languages of choice among Hacker News commenters.
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> My assumption is that devs in Python try to stick to the Pythonic way of doing things across modules, which helps maintain interoperability. Yep. And that's also what I tried to do when I first started with Ruby, until another comment
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by josephmosby 14y ago
True, but they aren't readily apparent to someone who isn't digging through the weeds of both languages. I looked at 'Hello world!' and FizzBuzz written in both Python and Ruby, and thought that the implementations looked fairly comparable.
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by josephmosby 14y ago
It is an attempt to get help, but not in the sense that you're thinking. Writing helps me solidify what I'm learning as I go, because I have to formalize and explain what I'm experiencing. When I wrote my first gist-post, I was simply tryin
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by josephmosby 14y ago
I think the "understands the language and ecosystem better" is critical, but my expectation is that I need to learn a subset of key gems better more than anything else. Every hardcore Ruby-ist that I've known has owned a Mac as their primar
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From Python to Ruby: Taking a Step Backward(gist.github.com)
37 points by josephmosby 14y ago|42 comments
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Your second paragraph was huge for me. I think that's a critical learning point for someone making the jump from Python to Ruby. I'll probably still have some frustrations, but knowing that gems are written to look natural by design rather
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by josephmosby 14y ago
Thanks for the feedback. It looks like there were plenty of approaches to doing easy unit tests... which is part of why I kept scratching my head with "why the hell did they do that..."
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by josephmosby 14y ago
I agree with you that RSpec is confusing as hell - thus the blog post. A lot of my frustration with Ruby tutorials is that a large pack of them are geared for someone who has never, ever coded before. Syntactically, Ruby isn't that bad. I t
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From Python to Ruby: week one of utter irritation with Rails(gist.github.com)
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You could twist that the other way, though. The Democratic organization was highly decentralized, leaner and more effective than the Romney campaign bloc, centralized and huge in Boston HQ.
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Two things to consider before immediately going to the "yay Nate Silver" default: 1. GOP had a consistent polling advantage on voter engagement, even going as far back as August. The Romney campaign placed a lot of stock on this. (see here:
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Show HN: usaframes, a Python library for standardizing .gov data(github.com)
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Struggling to wrap my head around the nature of the issue. If the White House has nuclear football data in the same network that handles the president's communications, then we have major network segmentation problems. There's a lot more in
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by josephmosby 14y ago
IT internal controls and audit support. Also, I don't just work for a CPA firm, I am a CPA. Subject to all the CPE requirements set by the state society if I want to maintain my title. For me this year, my requirements were satisfied by s
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Same thing for me as a CPA. Even though I'm not specialized in actually putting an entry into the books or doing taxes, I still have to keep up with forty formal hours of training a year. Courses have to be approved by state societies befor
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Using Amazon's Mechanical Turk for A/B Testing(josephmosby.com)
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Airflow [containment] vexes CDC bioterror lab(usatoday.com)
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The author doesn't make a very good case in favor of MBAs (or, in my opinion, college in general). He does, however, make a great case in favor of management and experience working with other people. Mark Zuckerberg might not have ever run

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