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by mhartl 14y ago
Many of these are good, but why are so many of the quotes coming out as question marks?
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by mhartl 14y ago
This morning I tried to use the same password and it wouldn't let me, so maybe they fixed this issue.
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by mhartl 14y ago
It took me seven years and two failed startups (one of them through YC) before I finally had a hit (the Ruby on Rails Tutorial). I think part of what made it work was intentionally taking a medium risk for a medium reward. My first two star
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by mhartl 14y ago
20/20 hindsight, etc. A lot of people thought Zuck was crazy to turn down the acquisition offer from Yahoo in 2006, even when the offer got lowered from $1b to "only" $850m. Now Facebook's market cap is more than twice as big as Yahoo's. Al
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by mhartl 14y ago
The presentation incorrectly identified Python dictionaries as “lists” From the context (I was there), that was obviously just a typo, probably carried over accidentally from a previous slide.
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by mhartl 14y ago
Now that the technical criticism is out of the way, holy crap this guy is arrogant. Tom's not being arrogant; he's just being irreverent.
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by mhartl 14y ago
My favorite tool in this vein—and one of my favorite examples of an essentially perfect one-page web app—is Rubular ( http://rubular.com/ ).
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by mhartl 14y ago
I'd guess they're upvoting it because the idea sounds ridiculous before you read the article, but after you read it you realize that it's probably right.
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by mhartl 14y ago
The hover design, while nice, doesn't work well on tablets.
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by mhartl 14y ago
You're not. Maybe Google tested it and can prove it's good, but to me the landing page seems terribly confusing.
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by mhartl 14y ago
N.B. I should have written "Lees" instead of "Yews", as Lee Kuan Yew (born "Harry Lee") uses the Chinese (and Korean) convention of listing the family name first. His successor as Singapore's prime minister is his son Lee Hsien Loong, much
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by mhartl 14y ago
I'm sure I'm not the only one who routinely calls it "Whole Paycheck".
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by mhartl 14y ago
The company pronounces it as-AH-nuh rather than AS-uh-nuh .
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by mhartl 14y ago
for some strange reason Singapore is a thriving metropolis with negligible crime and essentially no graffiti, has the third-highest per-capita income in the world, and manages to govern four major ethnic groups without devolving into pogr
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by mhartl 14y ago
have no nature Have you been to Singapore? It wasn't nicknamed "The Garden City" for its skyscrapers.
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by mhartl 14y ago
It's #1 as of this writing: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5224616
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by mhartl 14y ago
This is a great response, and I'll look forward to the follow-ups in the days to come. Kudos to the Heroku team. Bravo.
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by mhartl 14y ago
The lack of correlation between success and IQ is interesting, but I suspect it's only true on the margin, and is largely the product of selection bias. For example, I wouldn't be surprised to find that, among full professors of physics, th
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by mhartl 14y ago
This is a cool idea. I'd like to see something like Wevorce on the other side, i.e., a startup that gives couples more flexibility in creating a marriage contract that meets their needs. Does anyone know if that already exists?
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by mhartl 14y ago
I use exact gem versions because experience shows that even minor gem updates can break the tutorial. (RSpec is particularly guilty of this.) I generally recommend '~>' for more advanced users, but when getting your bearings I think it'
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by mhartl 14y ago
On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog—or at least, they didn't until Facebook came along. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f8/Internet_dog.j...
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by mhartl 14y ago
Looks like it. Thanks!
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by mhartl 14y ago
I suppose that means they'd be putting all their baskets in one Newegg.
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by mhartl 14y ago
In a way, it gets worse as you get better. Once people start thinking you're awesome, you start worrying that, if you make your code public, they'll realize how much you suck.
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by mhartl 14y ago
We can both strive to provide mental health services to those in need and work to prevent overzealous prosecution (which in this case was a major contributory factor to an avoidable tragedy). The two aren't mutually exclusive.
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by mhartl 14y ago
I'm reminded of the time MIT threw Star Simpson under a bus when she wore a breadboard on a sweatshirt to Logan Airport and the local authorities freaked: http://tech.mit.edu/V127/N40/simpson.html At least some faculty got it: http://tec
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by mhartl 14y ago
git, github or heroku are not needed at all for web development. You're missing the forest for the trees. While it's true that those particular technologies aren't necessary, professional-grade development does require version control
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by mhartl 14y ago
2. Do not have them use git or other RCS tools. They're here to learn code, not git. This is good advice for Zed's LxTHW brand, because those books are geared toward learning one particular language at a time. But in some contexts having
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by mhartl 14y ago
It depends on your goals and your audience. The Ruby on Rails Tutorial teaches web development to those who already have some programming experience, and in this context including Git and Heroku is, for many readers, a big win. True, the
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by mhartl 14y ago
In this context, The Oatmeal is on point: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/game_of_thrones

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