scottschulthess

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by scottschulthess 14y ago
""Not Invented Here" syndrome: Expressed most commonly in a desire for everything needed to be developed in house. E.g.: “Need a CMS? Let’s make our own from scratch!” Perhaps, you work at a place where all your teammates do is constantly b
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by scottschulthess 14y ago
A lot of people I know have 40 minute train rides each way. If they can get work done on the train, they can leave early and have more time for their family.
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by scottschulthess 14y ago
Open source apps can be in the app store, like openmbta
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by scottschulthess 14y ago
I think it would be hard to market a product without being able to show prototypes and mockups and whatnot.
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by scottschulthess 14y ago
As long as there are computer science students.
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by scottschulthess 14y ago
I find the new maps app really good, one of the best driving direction apps I've seen. It is an improvement over waze in UI and the enhance backgrounding is awesome. Maybe not as feature rich as some of the alternatives, but what do you ex
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by scottschulthess 14y ago
Is this in the app store or what?
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by scottschulthess 14y ago
I believe OP is referring to a service-based architecture. Basically you have a front-end, written in rails, and a back-end, written in java. The two communicate using REST service calls. Personally I think for a lot of apps this approac h
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by scottschulthess 14y ago
There are more downsides than "you need to switch the context between two languages" There are plenty of apps (i'd say the vast majority) where simply does not make sense to cut the codebase in half.
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by scottschulthess 14y ago
For designers on the team maybe this is just useful practice.
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by scottschulthess 14y ago
Yes they are definitely experiencing some load issues
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by scottschulthess 14y ago
"Everything you just said is exactly why Git is not simple and can not be learned in 15 minutes. " haha agreed "Just by operating from the command line you've already left the realm of "simple" in my opinion." It's all about the audience, p
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by scottschulthess 14y ago
There are lots of people who feel it (CoffeeScript) does indeed solve more problems then it creates. If it actually does create more problems then it solves then a lot of people are just plain making a mistake by using it :) which I don't t
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by scottschulthess 14y ago
Why refer to CoffeeScript as a buzzword in this context? Coffeescript has gained popularity recently because it addresses some of the concerns about writing javascript raised in the post. Coffeescript is not a buzzword, it's a relevant tec
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by scottschulthess 14y ago
Doesn't even mention coffescript
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by scottschulthess 14y ago
Well I think it depends, sqlite can behave as an entirely in-memory database I think - so what would be the difference between that and a pure ruby in-memory database, really? If you want to just fake 'em all, which does not sound particula
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by scottschulthess 14y ago
I don't hate on people being interested in it I'm just surprised that people are:)
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by scottschulthess 14y ago
I dont see why everyone is interested in sleep aide devices. I don't really give a crap about how much I roll around in my sleep, nor some BS about circadian rythms
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by scottschulthess 14y ago
Agreed, this has little to do with gender. Other common situations are going to bars for company outings when people don't drink; doing outdoor type outings when people are physically impaired (obese or old or whatever). Some people are goi
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by scottschulthess 14y ago
Agreed on the "changing service oriented architecture" parts. Once you split once big app into two medium sized apps, it can be hard to make radical changes to the application architecture. It adds a lot of complexity, like (deployment,
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by scottschulthess 14y ago
ruby-debug takes a little bit more work to learn in the beginning but in the end is more satisfying and flexible than any of the GUI debuggers I've used (eclipse, visual studio). Command line interfaces are cool especially for stuff you do
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by scottschulthess 14y ago
Having what is essentially one app split into multiple apps is going to introduce a whole lot of complexity to the business that isn't necessarily unless the amount of developers on your team is very large.
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by scottschulthess 14y ago
I'd probably recommend having an example app that uses the API anyways :)
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by scottschulthess 14y ago
It depends on how much traffic you have. If you have enough for 10% to quickly provide statistically significant amounts of data, then there is no need to provide more traffic to that variation to determine whether it is worthwhile or not
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by scottschulthess 14y ago
I know, the title of the article was "integration testing" with backbone
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by scottschulthess 14y ago
Why not just use capybara and the selenium or webkit drivers?
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by scottschulthess 15y ago
I think the issue is people use the Watch button like bookmarks.
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by scottschulthess 15y ago
In my experience, some people are better are forcing themselves to be interested in things.
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by scottschulthess 15y ago
The article was confusing a bit confusing about the Garbage Collection so I'll try to explain. 1. Dispora is slow, why? 2. Requests take a long time on the server, why? 3. Most of the time is spent in ruby doing processing. 4. Why is ru
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by scottschulthess 15y ago
IMO, GTW is decent for writing something like internal reporting apps. Even then, I think it's pretty dumb.

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