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by nupark2 14y ago
On top of that, the Rasperry Pi costs $25 and is full computer in of itself (which, in of itself, is a testament to the growth of the mobile system hardware market) Slap a case on it and a copy of Ubuntu, double (or triple) that price, and
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by nupark2 14y ago
I wish that they had taken this opportunity to discard the use of OAuth. These are native applications, not web applications, and there's near zero security value to using OAuth. When mixing OAuth and native applications written by non-nefa
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by nupark2 14y ago
The fact that you're setting up DHH as a foil to Linus is exactly why the old men are cranky; when it comes to technology, Linus has more qualifications in his pinky than DHH has all put together.
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by nupark2 14y ago
> I don't mean to be overly critical, but is it just me or are the 'godfathers' of computer science starting to sound like cranky old men? I think it's a response to the relatively recent over-abundance of attention and coverage given
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by nupark2 14y ago
Forks -- as top-level named entities -- draw attention and resources away from the original project, possibly leaving both projects with too-few resources to survive afterwards. This is why "forking" an open-source project was considered a
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by nupark2 14y ago
I would say the same about github's forks-as-top-level-entities system. Forking a project is a huge deal. Forking a git repository is no big deal. Github does the former, and it encourages too-broad forks, and at the same time, discourages
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by nupark2 14y ago
All they'd have to do to differentiate themselves in this market is: Create a clean, easy-to-use, app-store-enabled experience, without lots of cables, multiple boxes, and ugly UIs.
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by nupark2 14y ago
For us yankees that exist on the "coasts", anywhere outside of NYC, SF, and LA are foreign lands, and somewhere like NC may as well be the moon. That is a bit unfair, but unsurprising. People choose to work where they want to live, and they
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by nupark2 14y ago
Might be easy enough to do, but I doubt very many people would pay for it.
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by nupark2 14y ago
Since you're arguing by authority, I've been doing this for 15 years.
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by nupark2 14y ago
> Suffice it to say, in my entire software career I've kept track of the sum total of bugs I've fixed related to passing the wrong type to a method, or receiving a wrong type from a method, and that number, to date, is (whirring, calcu
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by nupark2 14y ago
I strongly disagree with your statement that Ruby excels and metaprogramming and DSLs. Other languages (Scala, C#, F#, etc) with coherent type systems have demonstrated an ability to define equivalently useful DSLs with the added property o
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by nupark2 14y ago
> Sure, things like that have occurred. They occur in many fields. The Linux kernel mailing lists could make your eyes water at times :-) And unsurprisingly, Linux is a terrible overall example of quality kernel development and desi
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by nupark2 14y ago
A simple Google search would show that issues with unprofessional, sexist, and outright ridiculous behavior in the Ruby community is hardly baseless. Its driven from the top, largely because most mature programmers that would provide a coun
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by nupark2 14y ago
If that describes said ruby programmers, then why are they using Ruby? > Nevertheless, it seems to me you've become the thing you claim to despise: insular and closed off to experiences that would contradict your dogmas. That would
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by nupark2 14y ago
Following up to note that: - Despite the opinion clearly being unpopular here, I stand by it: the ruby community is toxic-at-best, and totally technogically uninteresting. Individual Ruby developers may be very nice people, but that doesn
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by nupark2 14y ago
Honestly, I'm part of the mostly-silent majority of polyglot programmers that choose the best language for the job and have grown increasingly weary of Rubyists wheel invention and focus on rock star programming and rock star rants. It's th
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by nupark2 14y ago
I am personally concerned that the Rubyists will flood the iOS development space, bringing their culture and introducing a dogmatic and insular environment. We already have -- and without great fanfare -- Lua, JavaScript, C# (MonoTouch), et
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by nupark2 14y ago
Leveraging Java doesn't somehow make it impossible for someone to think about "low-level in-core performance details".
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Imposters and jerks: where are the real heroes in the tech community?(venturebeat.com)
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by nupark2 14y ago
> Are you willing to pay 23%[1] more for the convenience of not having to open a window? Yes. If the choice is between UX and cost, I'll almost always pay more. Not everyone will, but the people that don't are less profitable customer
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by nupark2 14y ago
In the long run the open market doesn't behave independently rational and doesn't 'win' anything -- it simply is. If Apple wasn't forcing the larger industry to learn how to turn a profit by putting users first, the market would simply satu
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by nupark2 14y ago
In terms of UX and as a consumer, I'd rather the Dropbox API not open a browser or even another app. That is not the best UX, it doesn't provide a security advantage, and it's simply not being done to benefit the consumer. This may not
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by nupark2 14y ago
I've supported (what I would expect to be) an equivalently large deployment. If you truly have half of a multi-hundred person development team scheduled simply to respond to emergency on-call events, you very, very likely have fundamental i
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by nupark2 14y ago
A requirement for 24/7 on-call programmers demonstrates a systemic organizational failure in the design and implementation of robust, well-architected software. 37Signals would see significant savings in development and maintenance costs --
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by nupark2 14y ago
"Professional to me is facade, fake sincerity, political correctness, not offending anyone, and everything else that makes life lifeless." Which only goes to support the notion that much of Ruby's community has issues from the top down. W
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by nupark2 14y ago
In a discipline such as computer science, appeals to emotion are inherently untrustworthy and distracting. A reader shouldn't have to shift through pandering rhetoric to find the kernel of a supportable argument.
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by nupark2 14y ago
Now, I'm not equipped to perform a statistically valid sampling of all conference talks, but pervasive anecdotal evidence lends credence to this notion. Specifically, this comes to mind: http://lifehacker.com/5859392/swearing-to-make-your-
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by nupark2 14y ago
The harsh language doesn't convey the point at all. It's an appeal to emotion, and has no place in a rational argument.
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by nupark2 14y ago
Well, he is a part of the Ruby community, and they do often seem to often favor emotional arguments conveyed through harsh language.

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