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by mountaineer 9y ago
Right, it's not a perfect fit, but I put it up against the main Web frameworks as those are what PHP competes with.
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by mountaineer 9y ago
Thank you!
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by mountaineer 9y ago
Author here, the Rails drop was a strange one, since it just had a strong June, from 85 postings in June to 59 in July with similar total posting counts in both months. From what I've seen over the years, month to month changes can be
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by mountaineer 9y ago
This would be really good answer in my view and could go in several different directions to talk about performance and trade-offs. I'm much more interested in that, than in going into B-tree details.
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by mountaineer 9y ago
I'm posting here in part to get a feel for the "fairness" aspect, so appreciate the feedback. I haven't eliminated anybody over this single question, but do see many interviewees get frustrated with it which may hinder t
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by mountaineer 9y ago
Good question, and one of the reasons I'm posting to gauge if this is really a valid interview question. What I'm trying to understand in the interview is how deep their knowledge goes in the stack, to your point, these are not DB
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Ask HN: Can you explain how a database index works in an interview?
35 points by mountaineer 9y ago|62 comments
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by mountaineer 9y ago
Within the monthly HN "who is hiring" posts, Clojure and Ruby appear mostly flat[1], albeit with Ruby at a much higher level. [1] http://www.ryan-williams.net/hacker-news-hiring-trends/2017/...
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by mountaineer 9y ago
Version 3.0 is being announced which is compatible with Ruby 2.4 and Rails 5. With this being a popular gem in the Ruby community, I'm guessing those are important milestones many folks are happy with.
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by mountaineer 10y ago
Glad you found the HN trends site, thanks for the link! (I maintain that site)
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by mountaineer 10y ago
I've been tracking whoishiring for a few years now at http://www.ryan-williams.net/hacker-news-hiring-trends . Let's see how it plays out after a few days more of postings. There has been an occasional dip but is
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by mountaineer 10y ago
Oregon, but not Ashland resident, and that is definitely funny to see the 28 postings for Remote, OR. The latest Silicon Valley escape destination.
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by mountaineer 10y ago
DHH also answers a few other questions about Ruby and Rails in the same Q&A https://www.quora.com/session/David-Heinemeier-Hansson/1?sri...
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Q&A Session with David Heinemeier Hansson(quora.com)
1 points by mountaineer 10y ago|0 comments
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Facebook's data center jobs in flux as security contractor changes(oregonlive.com)
1 points by mountaineer 10y ago|0 comments
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by mountaineer 10y ago
This was making the rounds yesterday on Twitter, 1 per week. https://twitter.com/SUPGVNetwork/status/816283238285135872
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Betaworks' Scale Model Shut Down(scalemodel.com)
1 points by mountaineer 10y ago|0 comments
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Portland's paperless permitting software costs $8M, nothing to show(oregonlive.com)
20 points by mountaineer 10y ago|0 comments
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by mountaineer 10y ago
How does this compare with Hunter.io (formerly Email Hunter) in terms of pricing and accuracy?
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by mountaineer 10y ago
I started developing seriously in '99 and ColdFusion was how I got my start. Many fond memories as well.
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by mountaineer 10y ago
Can you add a link in the results to the comment on HN?
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by mountaineer 10y ago
You can track the language/framework trends in the whoishiring threads[1]. Subscribe to get notified when it's updated for September. [1] http://www.ryan-williams.net/hacker-news-hiring-trends/
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by mountaineer 10y ago
Also delayed in Portland[1] [1] http://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/index.ssf/2016/07/g...
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by mountaineer 10y ago
I just finished season 2 and was surprised by the similar lack of strong conclusion, though still an incredibly interesting and deep look at the Bergdahl case. Now, time to go back and listen to season 1.
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How to download Coursera’s courses before they’re gone forever(medium.freecodecamp.com)
5 points by mountaineer 10y ago|0 comments
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by mountaineer 10y ago
Thanks for sharing this, cool to see others analyzing this data. I've been compiling monthly trends for a few years[1] of languages, frameworks and databases too. I see you define the terms to search for as well. I need to do a better
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Victory: A Sliver of Light to Be Shed on Patent Case(eff.org)
1 points by mountaineer 10y ago|0 comments
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1 in 5 “Who Is Hiring” postings are for remote jobs(ryan-williams.net)
4 points by mountaineer 10y ago|0 comments
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by mountaineer 10y ago
Right, feels like Lists may come up on the chopping block soon.
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by mountaineer 10y ago
Nice, I remember seeing this on ProductHunt. I'm working on electoralhq.com which provides Twitter Lists search and management tools. Shifting into building scoutzen.com now though in order to be more independent of Twitter Lists since

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