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by poink 16y ago
Object property lookups aren't free. The 'global namespace chain' code has to lookup the util property in the Library object, then the add function in the util object. It's not particularly expensive, but if you do it in a tight loop 100k t
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by poink 16y ago
I work in a big shop. By and large our programmers don't venture outside their specialities (their choice). You could rephrase what I said as "even people who don't know anything about the code and have very limited experience with JS..." I
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by poink 16y ago
Strictly speaking, it sounds like Dojo is the one that's "for noobs". I mean, all the stuff that "happens" when you use jQuery are rookie mistakes: Including multiple libraries/plugins to do the same thing Not being ready to handle i1
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by poink 16y ago
Why would Google want fewer applicants? Hiring is a search problem, and negative results can be as useful as positive results in training a filter.
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by poink 16y ago
If you want to be a hacker, learn like a hacker. Build something you have no idea how to build, then when it sucks figure out why and either rebuild it or go find a new project that's more interesting/challenging. At some point you'll be ab
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by poink 16y ago
Of course it lowers your risk. Unauthorized users will make fewer connections, meaning fewer login attempts, meaning less of a chance of being compromised. Following from that, of course you should do it. In the vast majority of cases it's
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by poink 16y ago
2. One does not own web apps, one merely rents them. One does not own native apps, one merely licenses them.
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by poink 16y ago
The more complex your site gets, the harder making /foo/bar => #!/foo/bar dance becomes. This is hampered by the fact that, when you bring these issues up with business folks, it'll probably go something like this (from experience): 1)
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by poink 16y ago
I just don't get why this is supposedly a Ruby problem rather than a $LANG problem, when Lucas Nussbaum's complaints about Ruby's packaging situation (sans the whining about Japanese) apply equally well to every other language you might wan
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by poink 16y ago
Oh boy! I hope he takes people to task for writing Hello World programs next.
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by poink 16y ago
"Configurability is the root of all evil" I'm getting so tired of the overuse of this principle. Look, I don't care what options are available (really...) when I'm dealing with a word processor, or a spreadsheet program, or whatever. I expe
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by poink 16y ago
Personally, I think you should come up with what exactly you plan to do if you stop programming. I realize you may have a lot of things in mind, but eventually you'd have to pick one and try it. Try picking one now. Does that job seem par
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by poink 16y ago
Sad but true: Simply demonstrating you know what Github is would put you ahead of half the people who apply for our Rails jobs.
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by poink 16y ago
Adoption: Rails is bigger. Both are healthy, and neither is going anywhere. Community: These are roughly equivalent. The Rails community is probably significantly larger, but there's more than enough activity and information coming from bot
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by poink 16y ago
I used a FreeBSD box to setup Racoon and friends and wound up with a pretty decent setup that used certificates for logging in and was compatible with the built in OS X VPN support (L2TP + IPSec). The resulting solution is painless enough t
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by poink 16y ago
The more generalized takeaway from this is that you shouldn't use a heavyweight listener to handle polling (or websockets in the near future) if you can avoid it. PHP was the culprit here, but I can't help but think you'd have had the same
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by poink 16y ago
Just bear in mind that the SaaS Rails Kit has been around for quite a while. I don't know if the features page lags behind the actual code, but: "Compatible with Rails 2.3.8"
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by poink 16y ago
PHP is fast and just about everybody "knows" it (which is a curse as much as a gift). But as someone who made a living writing PHP and made the jump to another language: a) I find it more enjoyable to program in other languages. b) I can ge
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by poink 16y ago
Being behind a rather restrictive firewall at work, I certainly recognize the advantages of HTTP/HTTPS vs. SSH (or anything else). Still, when it comes to not having to remember or retype passwords for network connections, isn't that exactl
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by poink 16y ago
I make a living with Ruby and Rails, but I'd stick with JavaScript if I were learning today. Server-side JS is a LOT of fun.
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by poink 16y ago
I wish Google would have come up with a new name, and I feel bad for this guy, but it's just way too common a name to figure you'll have it all to yourself. I'd feel the same way if the language was called "Do" or "Run".
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by poink 16y ago
Don't worry so much about the "they will hate me" or "my team won't trust me" angle unless you know that to be a fact. Most people understand that business is business, management or not, and if you're a solid employee that your team could