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by joshmn 8y ago
You have to remember how people were writing web apps in 2007 in order for this to be contextually correct.
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by joshmn 8y ago
How do you figure Ruby in general is in decline?
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by joshmn 8y ago
Speech-to-text is great. I'm using it to transcribe voicemails in a product I'm building.
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by joshmn 8y ago
My mom is another one of these stories. I wish I was exaggerating. I bet there's still Round-up in the her garage. I've spent the last 4 years or my life have been devoted to working so I can afford her treatments and keep her aro
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by joshmn 8y ago
I have a very well-equipped Hackintosh that has been my daily driver for the last 3 years. I've upgraded from Yosemite to El Capitan to Sierra without any issues, even when using the official upgrade method via iTunes. It sleeps, has w
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by joshmn 8y ago
"Ruby on Rails for ___" is getting really old. Here's why: Nothing will compete with Ruby on Rails for the foreseeable future. That's not to say these attempts are meaningless, but trying to compare something to Ruby&#x2
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by joshmn 8y ago
Exactly this. It's merely a petty move. It doesn't benefit the country, it benefits his fragile, classless ego. Has he looked or been otherwise briefed on how these mandates have crippled the American automakers? I'll be damn
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by joshmn 8y ago
Good read. Like the author, I was also the kid at ball games who always wanted a ball. I frequent my hometown team's games as a season-ticket holder. I don't always get a foul ball, but when I do, I give it to a kid. When I don&#x
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by joshmn 8y ago
Same. It's fine for Elon to disagree with someone. It's fine for anyone to disagree with anyone, frankly. It's not fine to disparage the hard work with such a tasteless and baseless accusation. I don't know how thin his
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by joshmn 8y ago
Weird how in America that simple, fundamental idea is so seemingly fly toxic.
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Using this.
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by joshmn 8y ago
> I'm told it's delicious I can't be the only one who audibly laughed.
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by joshmn 8y ago
23 months ago, she was banned for 2 years from running a lab. Coincidence? https://www.engadget.com/2016/07/08/theranos-ceo-elizabeth-h...
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by joshmn 8y ago
Here's[1] a two-liner with Rack [1] https://gist.github.com/joshmn/66f715c65bc19784f95a0e2ce3c9d...
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by joshmn 8y ago
It was never far behind; it was simply off an overpass.
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I wrote one to get my Chipotle faster, back when Chipotle's online ordering didn't validate the order time server-side.
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by joshmn 8y ago
Regarding the Ruby (Puma) example: It doesn't say how many threads or how many workers were used. Assuming they used the default, of course it's not going to be great. The author ends with, > I hope this would help you to under
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by joshmn 9y ago
That's a bit of a false equivalency. That's like saying why not drop out of college? Bill Gates did and he turned out fine. Those positions are not a dime-a-dozen. For the regular working person, being a felon is a very heavy weig
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by joshmn 9y ago
The worst part for me has been finding a place to live. I've even offered to pay annually and up-front.
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by joshmn 9y ago
I have plenty of experience here, so I can comment. I've never had a problem finding a gig even though I'm a felon, but I don't work with BigCorp because that's not my scene (and it's probably harder to market mysel
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by joshmn 9y ago
OP: Put your plea at the top to get the attention of people; "Unemployed family man ran out of money". Also, regarding interviews, if you're very transparent with people they can usually find a way past what turns up in your
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by joshmn 9y ago
The article mentioned is https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-24/the-18-bi... At the very bottom, > Since 2015, WeWork has also leased space in some buildings in which CEO “Adam Neumann and cert
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by joshmn 9y ago
I keep hearing a cat but I don't see anything on my keyboard.
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by joshmn 9y ago
I just want to say that I've always thought you had/have the most beautiful site. One of the boys from your batch at Sixty introduced me to Guilded ~6 months ago and I've been smitten since.
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by joshmn 9y ago
LunarPages, a large web hosting company, does this too and doesn't see why it's a problem. It's terrifying.
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by joshmn 9y ago
Felon here! Being a felon has impacted my life in several ways. I'm going on almost 10 years of being labeled a felon, so I have some stories to tell as to how it's impacted my life: I've struggled with relationships ("o
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by joshmn 9y ago
I can confirm that Sierra and Capitan do have Nvidia drivers for Pascal series.
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by joshmn 9y ago
I guess the idea is that you don't need to only use what Rails provides you, and you're free to bake in your own Ruby as you see fit. Rails is just Ruby, after all, and its modular enough at its core to be extensible for all sorts
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by joshmn 9y ago
My personal favorite codebase is GitLab (thanks syste and team!) — they do a very fine job of pumping out Ruby while hanging out in the Rails ecosystem. https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce — points of interest are
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by joshmn 9y ago
The articles touches on this but just to reiterate because it's worth saying: The most important thing about Rails is knowing how the internals work and maintaining a clean code architecture. Too many times have I seen a mess in Rails

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