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by joshmn 6y ago
That's really great, happy to hear. I didn't mean to refute what you shared. In fact I was reinforcing some of your points. Doing things the cheap way is arguably the best way. Learning new tech while building is good, but I would
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I'm a Rails guy. I've been working with it for the last 10 years and it (now) allows me to be hyper-productive. I've put other languages and frameworks into production but nothing allows me to focus like Rails does. There is
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by joshmn 6y ago
Serial one-man SaaS builder here with a pair of soft-landings and one big hit: I would agree with others who have opined that this is overkill. You couldn't pay me to use Terraform or Kubernetes for my SaaS unless it was a much larger
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by joshmn 6y ago
I'd beg to differ. It seems to me that these days, a domain name, WordPress install, and Facebook allows for anyone to be an expert or whistleblower anything and everything.
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That's why I said they produce the same result instead of saying they do the same thing. If you read further in my example, I mention that they perform very differently under the hood.
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Rails makes it really easy to do something 10 different ways to get the same result. Unfortunately, most of which aren't the most performant way. In my 10 years of building Rails apps of all different sizes, and seeing some very mature
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by joshmn 6y ago
Minnesota native here: Really sad to see it go. City Pages had a lot of really great information on everything from music to food. It and its writers took things too seriously, either, which was rather refreshing, regardless of your social
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by joshmn 6y ago
Anecdotal: they are also relatively straightforward to Hackintosh and are pretty stable. If anyone is looking for a MacBook Pro replacement (with MacOS), this might be your best bet. Lenovos are also good.
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> every sprint we either fail to deliver the work we commit to Are you committing too much volume? Too much complexity? You say that half the team is quite junior: I have found that junior developers often have a more difficult time judg
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I made something like this for my mom who had large B-cell lymphoma, amongst other disheartening diseases. At one point she was on 17 different medications — and no, you don't need to get me started on that. I wanted to know that she w
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I'm listening.
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Oh I Know. As a Rails developer for 10 years, I'm always interested what patterns are developed when straying away from what the original guts of Rails.
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> because the storefront of Shopify works in a very different way than a CRUD app Any interesting/successful patterns you can share/resources you can share on said patterns?
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Someone who has been in this field for far too long here: I like the initiative and I think this is a step for deterring credit card fraud. However, if someone wants your product bad enough, it's trivial — at an incremental cost — to b
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by joshmn 6y ago
Sorry, I didn't think we were talking about native support. I'm just so used to shipping something like videojs. In any event, nothing natively supports MPEG-DASH. https://caniuse.com/#feat=mpeg-dash Though there
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I can't think of a device that would support MPEG-DASH that wouldn't support HLS. What are some? HLS has been around for a decade. I think you're thinking of certain DRM mechanisms. HLS with FairPlay wouldn't work on an
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by joshmn 6y ago
Worth noting about the shared hosting argument: Dallas (author) is a co-founder of DreamHost. DreamHost, at the time, was very invested in selling "unlimited everything" shared hosting plans.
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Politics aside, this seems incredibly tone deaf.
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I can tell you for sure that Robinhood hasn't contributed positively the quality of content.
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> People aren't rioting because they want to destroy things There are people who want to destroy things. See: https://twitter.com/keithellison/status/1266127105621983238?... for a the current manchild of t
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by joshmn 6y ago
What I don't understand is why many of these small businesses — which have items of value to many people — were targeted. To me, that's burning to burn, damaging to damage, and looting to loot. https://www.startribune.c
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This is what I find most troubling. I don't mind if there's a disruption. But I do mind needlessly inciting chaos for the purpose of creating mayhem. We don't know this person, yet, but as AG Ellison said in his tweet he look
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Native Minnesotan here — living in Minneapolis — that has lived on both coasts: With all that's happening the last few days, please don't generally associate Minnesotans with the violent riots that have captured the attention of e
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There are a few things that genuinely please me in web development and one of them is how stupid-easy Netlify makes things.
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by joshmn 6y ago
Since you're using Rails, ActiveAdmin is pretty slick. It's an entirely new DSL (see: potential technical debt), but once you get the hang of it, it's hard to beat. There's also https://github.com/activea
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"That’s what I’m trying to introduce – that domains can be viewed as a trustworthy asset." To this point: My name is Josh and I'm from Minnesota (abbreviated MN in the states), and I have josh.mn. People seem to think I'
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Probably helps that Tobias also codes, not to mention contributed to Rails quite a bit.
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Your points are valid. Understanding the quirks and features of Rails is a lot, too. It sounds like you had to dive head-first into a mess where it was hacked together by non-Rubyists who learned "just enough" to push to productio
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by joshmn 6y ago
I haven't had your same problem and I've been working with Ruby for the last 8 years. I've also deployed Go, Python, Elixir, and Javascript to production. Here are my thoughts on Ruby in 2020: Ruby, between versions, doesn&#x
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I just want to say good luck. There's so much that can be done that isn't. Part of that is the system. Part of that is Securus. Part of that is lobbying. Part of that is just plain lack of innovation. There's room here to inn

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