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by leakycap 1y ago
Your claim would have more standing if 1) it made sense vs. the news and recent yearslong turn away from Ruby development, and 2) if you included any sources or information other than "nuh uh"
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by leakycap 1y ago
> When every company does the same thing, that tells you nothing about what the public wants. Widespread adoption across an industry is a classic market response to satisfying demand. > By your logic, every authoritarian thing gover
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by leakycap 1y ago
Do you include yourself in the group: average consumer
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by leakycap 1y ago
> Even MySpace required some basic knowledge of site building. You're experiencing nostalgia I get it, you should just know what is happening with your recollection of the past
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by leakycap 1y ago
Feel free to add to the conversation whenever you're ready.
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by leakycap 1y ago
> I wrote a book on Merb and was an active contributor. It might be a situation where you see it differently because you were involved or benefiting from the way things unfolded > That said, the Rails vs Merb era was mostly good na
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by leakycap 1y ago
Oh no, not the infamous baby-eating blue team! Care to comment on what happened to Voice of America recently when baby-loving red team had their way?
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by leakycap 1y ago
Please continue to convince me that 20000 * 3% ≠ 600 I'm enthralled > Makes controversial claim, provides no source. Still includes no sources, tries to distract with some sort of quasi-math
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by leakycap 1y ago
> things that happened over the course of over a decade Bad things happening to contributors year after year for a decade shows a toxic community that doesn't change even over a long period of time The latest harm is just the cont
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by leakycap 1y ago
I like these symbols as ways to contextualize info in files, similar to the bullet method Searchable notes and notes that can be selectively shared as text with LLMs have been my top uses lately. I think the thing I'd struggle with if
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by leakycap 1y ago
It's tough being an ethical person with a platform these days: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrLwxfnCSGg&t=1285s
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by leakycap 1y ago
"it didn't affect me so I didn't care" is a common and valid feeling up until you are aware of what is happening I developed with Ruby from the beginning and loved Ruby on Rails for many reasons. The community's bac
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by leakycap 1y ago
I would have never come across this except on HN & it's awesome!
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by leakycap 1y ago
"Actually, the Ruby community ripped itself apart a decade ago and has never changed and still suffering from the consequences except with the recent thing with the founder" is not a strong argument
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> No, I'm saying there's a lot of people who won't even know this happened. In the world of "I'm sorry to that man" this seems like a given about literally everything. Not knowing something happened is calle
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sneeze I do that by skimming things and clicking on every nth post that interests me
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by leakycap 1y ago
Having been there, I don't know what you missed but it sounds like a lot. The project promised a lot in the beginning and some folks new to a language like Ruby were so enthused by what they could do that they didn't pay much atte
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by leakycap 1y ago
Your critique of the author's writing style doesn't seem like your strongest argument. > It's true Ruby Central was a fiasco and the maintainers should have been treated better. Treated better as in ... not removed from th
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by leakycap 1y ago
If you don't realize the overlap in the Rails and Ruby on Rails community, I'm not sure what corner of the Ruby world you've been hiding in. Someone can shush away any behavior if they want, like you have done. Feel free to p
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by leakycap 1y ago
> How has it been “eating itself alive”? > There's been a ton of that, yes... What are you saying - because some people got rich off Ruby, it's OK that those things happened? Clearly not - Ruby will be lucky to have a shadow
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by leakycap 1y ago
A company I worked with in the US used Kaspersky, SolarWinds, and CrowdStrike even after each of those vendors had major strikes or red flags. Anyone still using SolarWinds after 2021 confuses me. I recall the supposed Tesla source code lea
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by leakycap 1y ago
I have a sinking sensation this phrase will pop up in a meeting now.
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by leakycap 1y ago
I think you're missing what I'm describing: which is that HN is a rare thing for what it is And for what it isn't Putting a little bit of what something specifically isn't (algorithmic personalization on HN) can change s
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by leakycap 1y ago
What is the just right level when tuning in one's echo chamber?
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by leakycap 1y ago
You never expect it to start with AppleScript & yet so many useful things have
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by leakycap 1y ago
This didn't get much traction last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45272456
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by leakycap 1y ago
Don't take this kind of advice off the internet; find & speak with a knowledgeable professional in your area who can help you with this and other local regulatory issues. This might be the 1 roadblock now, but I assure you there ar
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by leakycap 1y ago
Ruby promised programmer happiness and delivered programmer warfare. Predating the current hostile takeover: •••the vitriol directed at early critics like Zed Shaw •••mysterious departure of _why the lucky stiff •••the contentious Code of C
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> I bet given enough time you can show 3 occurrences occurring of just about anything. A nice way of saying you'll ignore any evidence you're presented. > I'm saying show that. You already told me you don't car
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What I like about HN is that it isn't an echo chamber of "my stuff" I often stumble across articles, blog entries, and even niche industry news that sparks an idea or thought or helps me understand a part of the world I didn&

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