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by subbu 17y ago
Actually this advice is pretty difficult to follow IMHO. We tend to give-in to the demands of clients/users and add complexity without even realizing it. So it needs continuous hammering.
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by subbu 17y ago
Internet
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by subbu 17y ago
RDocs should still work if you generate them.
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by subbu 17y ago
Ah! Who else is better than Gmail creator to kill Gmail? Provided Paul Buchheit is still with Facebook after their acquisition of FriendFeed.
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by subbu 17y ago
Pratik Naik does a pretty good round up of the new AR here http://m.onkey.org/2010/1/22/active-record-query-interface
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by subbu 17y ago
I could be wrong. But let me say it anyway. Is it arrogance? The arrogance could come from the fact that you have clarity of thought. It's the same feeling I get when I see DHH, PG, Linus and a few more very bright people I idolize. Their a
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by subbu 17y ago
The best use case I can think of for this is writing automated test cases for a browser-based app. Selenium does a pretty good job of that already. The demo (automatically setting an IP) is a one-time job. How many times do we have to do th
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by subbu 17y ago
Its indeed a great book. It covers a lot depth which is unseen in other Rails books. But it hasn't kept up with the speed of Rails development. I really hope Obie revises the text and releases another version soon.
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by subbu 17y ago
Its good to see 2 major frameworks learning/borrowing from each other rather than trying to one-up each other.
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by subbu 17y ago
How does it work? He is still part of Twitter. Can you be part of multiple startups of commercial interests?
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In the Beginning was the Command Line(adam.shand.net)
1 points by subbu 17y ago|0 comments
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Idea: The Outlet Wall(ironicsans.com)
4 points by subbu 17y ago|0 comments
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by subbu 17y ago
30% would be an unfair expectation to set for John :)
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by subbu 17y ago
These R&D centers still depend on hired resources. People who sell their time and services for a salary. But as I understand it, Valley's big portion of success is in its startups and their founders. People who take risk to create wealt
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by subbu 17y ago
How many of these are widely used in production? Merb was close. But now its part of Rails. Leaving these 2 there aren't any in the Ruby world. I see Sinatra blinking somewhere. But its far far away.
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by subbu 17y ago
You made me google for Django core team just to make sure I remember all of their names http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/internals/committers/#t...
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by subbu 17y ago
Why not extend jQuery with all these functions? Then we can write things like: jQuery.makeArray(document.getElementsByTagName("div")).inject(..)
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by subbu 17y ago
I have built my own. It took about 4 hours to build a workable first draft with all those free Rails plugins available. Now I customize it bit by bit whenever there is a need.
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by subbu 17y ago
Ah! Somebody published a timely list of high quality rails apps http://jetpackweb.com/blog/2009/10/14/high-quality-ruby-on-r... . Discussion here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=882071
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by subbu 17y ago
I am starting to learn statistics. But I have zero knowledge in the subject. I have picked up a copy of Headfirst Statistics. Is that a good one? Any recommendations?
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by subbu 17y ago
Any good event-driven JavaScript (jQuery/Prototype is also fine) projects out there?
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by subbu 17y ago
Any recommendations for Ruby/Rails projects?
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by subbu 17y ago
Will his default data store choice (Tokyo Tyrant) solve this? It could be a bit too early to answer that.
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by subbu 17y ago
Its a bit late now. The last date was Sep 12 :(
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by subbu 17y ago
The original site where this was published first is gone. I am not able to find that. This link seems to contain too many junk characters. It's still a fine read.
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Freedom languages(journalhome.com)
2 points by subbu 17y ago|1 comments
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by subbu 17y ago
Related discussion http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=340107
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by subbu 17y ago
I'm hesitant to add more plans at the risk of creating too many options for users Read 'The Truth about Relativity' in Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely. He explains this problem really well. A quote from that chapter: most people don
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by subbu 17y ago
Xobni has identified such dumbness in Outlook. I am sure there are quite a few areas where desktop needs to learn from the Internet world.
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by subbu 17y ago
Precisely. We stopped supporting math subject completely in our e-learning product because we couldn't handle MathML. Its too cumbersome, takes way too many resources, and ugly.

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