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by sandal 16y ago
I would say that depends entirely on the subcontractor and your relationship with him/her. Someone you're bringing on just to meet availability demands, maybe. Someone who is already well known and respected for what they do, you should be
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by sandal 16y ago
Awesome, I've been looking for something like this as well. Thanks for sharing it!
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by sandal 16y ago
My book, Ruby Best Practices is listed here, but you can download a free PDF copy instead: http://rubybestpractices.com
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Ask HN: Recommended metrics/data-driven tools for smallish userbase?
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Startups: Learn the Difference Between Cowboys and Professionals(blog.majesticseacreature.com)
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Free Software and Entitlement(blog.majesticseacreature.com)
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by sandal 16y ago
wordsum is a vocabulary based IQ test. Maybe the author refers to intelligent people rather than people with exceptional taste. Though FWIW, I don't take much stock in the ability of most IQ tests to measure intelligence, since it seems a
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by sandal 16y ago
If only we could bring back smell-o-vision...
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by sandal 17y ago
Yay for the short half-life of HN! http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1198924 But for those who enjoy the book, I've already moved on to my next project: http://www.rubyproblems.com/
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by sandal 17y ago
I decided ahead of time that my book would be exactly 300 pages. I submitted an exactly 300 page manuscript, but I think my copyeditor shaved two pages of extraneous words :-/ Anyway, point being, I was pretty obsessive about not letting t
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by sandal 17y ago
Like most authors, I'll encourage you to think about not doing it, first :) If you're just looking to get your ideas across, you'll almost certainly get more mileage out of writing articles, doing talks, etc. And if you're looking to make m
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by sandal 17y ago
Can you recommend an Io book for me? I want to hunt down the author and try to encourage them to make their code more Rubyish. Because you know, that's helpful.
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by sandal 17y ago
BTW, going to experiment with using a wiki page for collecting reader questions. Once I have a few lined up, I'll cut a blog post reply on the RBP blog. http://wiki.github.com/sandal/rbp-book/questions-for-gregory
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by sandal 17y ago
The Ruby community has taught me so much, it seems the reasonable thing to do. Also, old books tend to go out of print, and then die sad, lonely out-of-date deaths. Maybe this will keep RBP moving forward, and keep it alive.
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by sandal 17y ago
So you mean that you prefer this: Point.with(1, 2).distance_to(Point.with(5, 6)) Over this? distance [1,2], [5,6] I guess it depends on how many interesting things you wanted to do with points. As things get more complicated, maybe somethi
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by sandal 17y ago
I'll run the book through asciidoc's html generator soon enough, but thanks for doing this for now. Looks like it loses some quality on translation to Google docs, though...
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by sandal 17y ago
I've already written an entire book on this and given it away for free. I suggest you read it and write a review. Be specific, and show good counterexamples. I'll be happy to link you when you do. Until then, stop acting like you're some
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by sandal 17y ago
I wasn't assuming you were a newb, just that you didn't have much exposure to what are commonly regarded as well designed Ruby libraries. It didn't occur to me that you'd have had that exposure and yet sound as if you were shocked and appa
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by sandal 17y ago
In all seriousness, all it takes is some code examples that make me and a few others say "whoa, cool" and it'll make its way in. If RBP becomes "Gregory Brown's Best Practices", it'll be epic fail. I am encouraging folks to prove whatever
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by sandal 17y ago
Hah, the irony here did not escape me. But good point. So... here's the tl;dr; for the book itself: "Ruby provides many ways to do things, many of them decent. But some are usually better than others, depending on the context."
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by sandal 17y ago
Yes, I started Prawn via the "Ruby Mendicant" project: http://majesticseacreature.com/mendicant/ I'm still active in the project as a maintainer. But really, these days you have Brad Ediger, James Healy, and Daniel Nelson, along with abo
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by sandal 17y ago
Wow, and this is exactly the kind of douchebaggery I was trying to get away from in my book. You know, I think on the first page I mention that the answer to "what the best way" to do something in Ruby is always "it depends". The notion t
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by sandal 17y ago
Well, I think that it can be profitable, especially if going EBook only. There is some great advice on it here: http://macournoyer.com/blog/2010/03/01/promote-cyopl/ But for me, I didn't want to spend a ton of time and effort on marketin
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by sandal 17y ago
I agree with you from a language design standpoint, but seriously, I doubt you have much Ruby experience if you're saying this. And if that's the case, you really don't have a basis to be commenting on my book in such a critical and dismis
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by sandal 17y ago
Actually, I don't think my advance was unfair. I self published a book a couple years ago and it was a logistical nightmare. When you think about what a publisher actually does, it's really a daunting task. I think there was a post here o
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by sandal 17y ago
It is exactly what was used to generate the print book, just with some web enabled features like links. And yes, this is the PDF you'd get if you buy it from O'Reilly. Marketing-wise, it was a gamble, because the open source release date w
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by sandal 17y ago
For the tl;dr crowd, this will take you straight to the PDF: http://sandal.github.com/rbp-book/pdfs/rbp_1-0.pdf (But please read the article, it provides context :)
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by sandal 17y ago
Now we're officially more than half way to a full creative commons release (manuscript asciidoc sources to come at the end). There's over 150 pages of content out now, so I hope folks can make good use of it. Enjoy!
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5 Chapters of O’Reilly’s Ruby Best Practices – Free(rubyinside.com)
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by sandal 17y ago
I think that maybe I could have stated my point more clearly. I was just pointing out that except for a few examples, RBP does not talk much about Rails at all. I can say with near certainty, however, that the dynamic toolkit chapter wil

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