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Some free Rails Tutorial screencasts(news.railstutorial.org)
51 points by mhartl 14y ago|13 comments
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by mhartl 14y ago
It seems that the main piece of 'evidence' here is a post by someone who wants to "disrupt poetry" (contra the OP, no mention is made of an IPO), admits it's a "longshot", and in fact is abandoning the project to join a different startup. M
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by mhartl 14y ago
Maybe there should be an official HN policy to post one-page stories when available, and perhaps even alter story URIs when necessary?
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by mhartl 14y ago
I saw that, too; it's from an interview at TechCrunch50 in 2008. You'll see that he actually bought the lifetime pass before Broadcast.com. Most people don't realize that Cuban was already rich when he started work on Broadcast.com, and c
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by mhartl 15y ago
Thanks for the data point (and for the purchase!). I hope you have a chance to learn Rails. Python is great, but Ruby is better (IMHO) at making DSLs, which is a big win in web development (among other places). Please let me know how it goe
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by mhartl 15y ago
Thanks for the feedback. The timing wasn't good on this, and I didn't know until today that this DRM thing was happening. I hate DRM so much, though, that I really wanted to do something. I may have gotten a little carried away. By the way,
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International Day Against DRM Rails Tutorial discount(news.railstutorial.org)
25 points by mhartl 15y ago|7 comments
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by mhartl 15y ago
starting the y-axis at 0 would have it more difficult to see any differences across the graphs. That's the point: the differences are small.
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by mhartl 15y ago
Going public creates a liquid market in the company's shares, which allows the owners to convert equity to cash. This ability is especially prized by investors, but founders and employees-with-options also benefit. (It's hard to buy a house
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by mhartl 15y ago
Such disasters could happen, and minimizing their frequency is an important engineering problem. But you have a long road to hoe if you want to argue that the average quality of private management isn't much better than the average qualit
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by mhartl 15y ago
California is "struggling" because of atrociously bad management. It's not like the state lacks in physical or human capital. I mean, Jeebus, the Golden State is home to the capitals of two of the world's greatest industries (entertainment
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by mhartl 15y ago
Since no one else seems to have noted it: the OP is not just a Fake, she's a famous Fake: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caterina_Fake You'd think the cofounder of Flickr would be treated with more respect by a computer...
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by mhartl 15y ago
I don't think he would be rejected, at least not for slowness of thought. If he were applying to YC with an idea he had thought about deeply, the answers to the questions in this simulation would be mere cache lookups, requiring negligible
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by mhartl 15y ago
Evernote is definitely changing the world. I use it almost every day, and my notes are automagically synced across all my devices. I get the impression that I am not alone. The amount of good a company does is the number of people helped ti
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by mhartl 15y ago
Is it obnoxious for a person to teach introductory French night classes, when fluency will take years and may never be possible for the students given their other commitments? I think the implication is that it's obnoxious when people equ
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by mhartl 15y ago
This only true the first time. The thrill of being a published author wears off quickly when you realize that this doesn't pay the rent. (In my case, the second time 'round I figured out how to get it to pay the rent as well. Believe me,
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by mhartl 15y ago
Andreessen Horowitz continues to show that they are among the classiest investment firms in the business, as well as being one of the best. Bravo.
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by mhartl 15y ago
I agree in principle, but the situation you describe would be a maintenance nightmare on my end.
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by mhartl 15y ago
Yes, I recommend switching to the 2nd edition. I suggest you start with Chapter 3.
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by mhartl 15y ago
The Rails version number is highlighted in the right-hand margin (3.2 indicating the 2nd edition). Also, to make the choice easy, the 2nd edition is now the default.
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by mhartl 15y ago
If you're finding the programming challenging, I recommend Beginning Ruby by Peter Cooper.
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by mhartl 15y ago
The Spork caveat is mentioned in the book ( http://ruby.railstutorial.org/chapters/static-pages#code:rsp... ): One word of advice when using Spork: after changing a file included in the prefork loading (such as routes.rb), you will have to
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by mhartl 15y ago
Check your email for a coupon code. As far as upgrading the app itself, so much has changed that I recommend starting from scratch. (It'll go much faster the second time around.)
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by mhartl 15y ago
From http://ruby.railstutorial.org/#new : Fully updated for Rails 3.2 and Ruby 1.9 All-new design using Twitter's Bootstrap Coverage of the new asset pipeline, including Sprockets & Sass Behavior-driven development (B
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by mhartl 15y ago
tl;dr: The Rails Tutorial 2nd edition PDF is out; early access to the 2nd edition screencasts is open; use the code "rt2ndEd" through the end of April to get a 20% discount. Go to http://railstutorial.org/ for more information. By the way
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Ruby on Rails Tutorial, 2nd edition(news.railstutorial.org)
174 points by mhartl 15y ago|33 comments
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by mhartl 15y ago
That's what the recovery codes are for. I keep them in my Dropbox. (This happened to me last year in Thailand, where I had zero cell reception.)
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by mhartl 15y ago
Wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-back ) links to a semi-rebuttal: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289610... Naturally, the full article is behind a paywall.
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by mhartl 15y ago
Thanks for posting this. I wondered why a YC company would go the Kickstarter route instead of raising money. Now I know. If VCs aren't worried, they aren't paying attention.
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by mhartl 15y ago
The title needs a question mark at the end (as in the original).

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