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by knwang 14y ago
30 years later, future generations will see the mbp i'm using now with the same amazement.
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by knwang 14y ago
Hey Barry, we teach an instructor led online Ruby on Rails course at http://www.railstutors.com - would like to be in touch.
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by knwang 14y ago
And this is CPU bound or memory bound?
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by knwang 14y ago
how many concurrent requests killed it?
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by knwang 14y ago
Really good job guys.. I have a couple questions: 1. How does the Meteor community look at Coffeescript? 2. Can the backend database be anything other than Mongo?
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Declarative Thinking with Higher Order Functions and Blocks with Ruby(railstutors.com)
1 points by knwang 14y ago|0 comments
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by knwang 14y ago
This is exactly the sort of thing I am concerned about. Definitely don't want it to be a place to piss people off. Thanks for the reply
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Ask HN: I made a list of Ruby / Rails learning resources, should I open it up?
6 points by knwang 14y ago|4 comments
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by knwang 14y ago
If you are a beginner, I wrote a post about how to start with Ruby / Rails as a beginner that you may find interesting: http://www.railstutors.com/blog/the-best-way-to-learn-ruby-o...
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Read this before you pick a Ruby Gem(railstutors.com)
1 points by knwang 14y ago|0 comments
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by knwang 14y ago
Nice. very useful gem.
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by knwang 14y ago
Youtube also has the advantage of discoverable. The downside is that you don't "own" the comments. If someone puts in a bad comment everyone else will see. I'll give SublimeVideo a look.. seems interesting
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by knwang 14y ago
The Ruby programming language and the Ruby on Rails framework would be your best bet. The ecosystem is quite polished on building web apps.
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by knwang 14y ago
Learning to code is a bit too general for concrete advice. what would you like to code for? websites? mobile apps? games? algorithm? or automating systems? do you have a language / framework in mind?
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by knwang 14y ago
Thanks for the feedback. We do have a separate page talking about details of the course, but looks like that's not obvious for people coming to the front page. I like your suggestion of HN search and will do that - thanks.
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by knwang 14y ago
Thanks a lot for the feedback! appreciate it very much.
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Ask HN: Effective ways to attract visitors to your site
7 points by knwang 14y ago|5 comments
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by knwang 14y ago
>> My point is that this is a Chinese national who lives in China and has actually worked at the plant. Regardless of journalistic pedigree, the writer is vastly more capable of writing an honest story from the Chinese perspective
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by knwang 14y ago
just want to point out that merely "being Chinese" does not make the journalist as qualified as you may think. Think it like some journalist in NYC working for a major media company goes to some manufacturing plant in the Midwest, finding p
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by knwang 14y ago
And to put the "working hours" thing in perspective, it is typical in cities like Shenzhen to work their programmers 10 hours a day, five and a half days a week. So what sounds like horrible from a Western perspective may not be "too horrib
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by knwang 14y ago
The point is that just on salary, it's not bad at all, for where the factory is. But they work a lot more hours.
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by knwang 14y ago
Foxxcoon pays about 400 USD a month - http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/technology/foxconn-to-rais... and if that's for 7 days a week 10 hours a day as the reporter said, that's 300 hours.. so 1.33 dollars per hour. BTW, the typical salar
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by knwang 14y ago
We do this type of online tutored program at http://www.railstutors.com . We focus on Ruby on Rails, with a less ambitious goal - instead of aiming to prepare you as a junior developer at twitter, we want to get you started, learned Rails
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by knwang 14y ago
I have to give you my live secret key, which means you can basically do anything you want with it - charging people with my account, etc. How do you store that? How do you make sure it's not going to be breached? Also, I suggest that you pu
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by knwang 14y ago
I am not sure to put yet another middleman between me and customer's credit cards. Stripe's 'Capture the Flag' stuff kinda makes me feel they are serious about security. I am getting the same level of comfort with easybill.
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The Best Way to Learn Ruby on Rails as a Beginner(railstutors.com)
4 points by knwang 14y ago|0 comments
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by knwang 14y ago
thanks. good to know
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by knwang 14y ago
Do you use CoffeeScript with Angular? I am curious if that combo works well.
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by knwang 14y ago
Great guide.. Spine.js is definitely friendlier than backbone for Ruby devs
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BLiNQ Media is sold(techcrunch.com)
2 points by knwang 14y ago|0 comments

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