montblanc

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by montblanc 5y ago
> How does having cheap access to internet makes the quality of your life better Whoa that's a bit of a reach no? How about the ability to drive around with GPS? Or stay easily in touch with family living far away? Taking photos of
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by montblanc 5y ago
> most Americans are significantly worse off since the 1970s > I think this is obviously false and hurts the credibility of the rest of this comment. In terms of mental health, job security, stability (e.g marriage/divorce
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by montblanc 5y ago
I don't know that that's the big issue with dyanmicism, at least not for me. In Ruby the main thing that bugs me once in a few months is a silly typo - calling a misspelled ivar or method. It happens maybe once in half a year but
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by montblanc 5y ago
That doesn't mean much. He came from Rails and then switched direction to a functional, Erlang based new language. The historical "initial traction" also doesn't mean much. The two languages aren't similar at all.
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by montblanc 5y ago
What for? I know nothing about it but why not Python? Still haven't heard of anyone using it where I live.
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by montblanc 5y ago
> But yeah, I've absolutely been consulting for more than one company whose primary product was thin models, gargantuan controllers, and no service abstraction to speak of. I don't get why this is still happening. It's kin
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by montblanc 5y ago
Ah yes my bad, confusing names.
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by montblanc 5y ago
I partly agree with what you're saying but still - you're exaggerating. Doing Rails without a decent knowledge in Ruby is exactly what you said - it's being a junior. You'll rely on the existing codebase without any abil
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by montblanc 5y ago
> E.g. quite recently a scraper, wrote it in Ruby -obviously-, found out that we couldn't get performance acceptable, rewrote it in python How is Python gonna improve performance when writing a scraper, it's mostly about doing
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by montblanc 5y ago
> But most Rails programmers write Rails, not Ruby You're really exaggerating.
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by montblanc 5y ago
> you think companies are choosing to write their entire stack in python just because ml tools are in python? Going with the masses (e.g Java/Node/Python) is the easy thing to do. It feels "safe". But who knows where
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by montblanc 5y ago
Old Angular wasn't such a bad framework actually...
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by montblanc 5y ago
That Ruby performance is horrible. Also - it's constantly changing. What was true last year might not be true next year. Source - https://speed.yjit.org/
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by montblanc 5y ago
I'll give you surface syntax in common, other than that not much. I think a Rails dev would have a much easier time picking up Django or Laravel than Phoenix. How hard is the switch from Rails to Django? Probably trivial. But Ruby to E
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by montblanc 5y ago
> JS does make sense given it's what you're using in the client. Well JS is forced upon us on the browser and not everyone is tremendously happy about it. It has improved, but still. Plenty of folks out there will seek other la
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by montblanc 5y ago
Getting to that scale on the side is a nice problem to have. Maybe it shouldn't be on the side anymore.
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by montblanc 5y ago
A lot of engineers take great pride in improving performance even if it's mostly meaningless to the company. The users don't really care if the number of instances went down from 30 to 20. It is what it is, engineers will be engi
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by montblanc 5y ago
Elixir and Ruby have nothing in common as languages and ecosystems, I really don't get why the 2 keep being brought up together. Oh I do get it - whenever someone mentions Ruby some Elixir user will say - hey have u tried Elixir?
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by montblanc 5y ago
Will JS/Node become further fragmented by Typescript/Deno? That could make it a bit nasty to build with JS.
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by montblanc 5y ago
Compared to static languages (with the exception of JS) yes. Compared to Python/PHP? I don't think so.
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by montblanc 5y ago
> Despite me writing off Ruby as a career path for the last five or six years (and I stand by that) I don't think you need to write it off, especially if you're a consultant. That's just bad business thinking, knowing Ruby
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by montblanc 5y ago
What have you built lately in Python/Node that "the libraries, documentation, education and off-the-shelve solutions are far, far better and move available." ? I'm not saying those use cases don't exist at all, but
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by montblanc 5y ago
Ok the Tiobe => Fortran is complete horse shit and we all know it. Fortan and Perl are both more popular than Go in that ranking I mean come on. But sure I agree Ruby is a nichey language, usage-wise about the same as Swift/Scala or
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by montblanc 5y ago
Juniors have a hard time getting jobs period, I don't think it has anything to do with Ruby.
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by montblanc 5y ago
Stay tuned about performance, the Ruby JIT being built by Shopify is gonna narrow the gap. It's now 25-30% faster than CRuby , we'll see in a year how faster it gets. Source: https://speed.yjit.org/
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by montblanc 5y ago
They will figure out monolith Rails makes a lot of sense eventually. Or maybe I'm wrong who knows.
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by montblanc 5y ago
Yes, funny.
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by montblanc 5y ago
> So, Elixir isn’t just a functional Ruby. It’s more like a functional Ruby running on a custom-built operating system that we can design and control from the very language itself to create self-healing applications. I get that this was
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by montblanc 5y ago
I have a problem with the demonization of Israel going on.
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by montblanc 5y ago
I dont really give a crap about NSO.

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