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by techiferous 11y ago
We follow a similar process where I work and it works really well. Something being merged into development means that it is 100% complete and ready to be deployed to production at any time. This means all QA and acceptance testing had to h
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by techiferous 11y ago
> The aspect of Ruby that frustrates me the most is over-use of anonymous blocks when a good name would help me enormously. Ruby gives you enough tools to write code clearly with good names if you want to. I think your complaint might b
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by techiferous 12y ago
This design does not account for non-weekly parking rules, like "No parking during street cleaning on the third Tuesday of the month."
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The $100,000 Career Mistake Rubyists Make(techiferous.com)
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by techiferous 13y ago
The motivation of the law is to raise revenue for transportation, not close a legal loophole.
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by techiferous 13y ago
Cambridge is a wonderful place to live: extremely walkable, pretty architecture, good food, plenty to do, tolerant social atmosphere, very tech-friendly. Not sure if it's fair to call Cambridge/Boston a "terrible" place to live. I would sa
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by techiferous 14y ago
Good Rails devs are hard to find and in large demand. As a beginning Rails developer, though, you'll need to convince your new employer that you are a net gain. A junior dev can need so much hand-holding that they can steal away precious
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by techiferous 14y ago
This actually sets up a single point of failure for many apps. If a hacker were to hack rails.org, they could take down any site polling it.
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by techiferous 14y ago
Being a dvorak user, I must say, the "rolls" are extremely comfortable and fun. I love typing the words church, tenth, school, etc.
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by techiferous 14y ago
"Dvorak, with a larger support failed." If by failed you mean widespread adoption. But I have been using Dvorak since 1999 on a variety of platforms without a problem. It's a personal success for me. "the trouble it is for them to manage
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by techiferous 14y ago
An on-topic but not well-known fact: "The present currency of Ecuador is the United States dollar." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_of_Ecuador
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by techiferous 14y ago
Thanks for pointing this out, and I don't disagree. It's debatable whether TextMate was revolutionary or a huge leap ahead of the competition at the time. But batista claimed that "Textmate was always a sub-par editor" and implied that it
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by techiferous 14y ago
Community effects can never bring a poor technology to the top. They can keep a great technology from overtaking a good technology, though. But TextMate's success was not only from the community support, but also from its capabilities. S
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by techiferous 14y ago
Very good point. This could still perhaps be solved technically, although it would take a lot of effort and is probably not worth it. You can detect cheaters. People who give up/downvotes on the "value add" dimension that are not well cor
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by techiferous 14y ago
"I don't think upvoting-on-agreement problem can be fixed technically." I think there is a technical fix: two orthogonal upvotes. One upvote/downvote pair for agreement, another for whether the post/comment added value. It's a pretty simp
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by techiferous 14y ago
> With regard to the "giving", I wonder what theories there are about why many people feel good when giving things up to benefit others. Imagine two cultural scenarios: one where everyone is looking out for themselves and helping no one
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by techiferous 14y ago
The bunny or toaster example seems to me like someone still thinking in a statically-typed paradigm in a dynamically-typed language. If you stop relying on instanceof and start using duck typing it would probably work out better. Or maybe y
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by techiferous 14y ago
Well said. I think this is the best way of putting it. I temper my original position of saying that server-side view rendering is "on its way out".
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by techiferous 14y ago
It depends what you are trying to do. If you are only targeting browsers, and especially if you don't need a lot of responsiveness, it's much simpler to just render views on the server side and optimize your server for speed. It takes a l
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by techiferous 14y ago
Thanks for the courtesy of a constructive discussion. :) Yes, that's a valid point, if you mean that smartphones have less resources (memory, CPU) to handle JavaScript execution. But keep in mind that a native smartphone app is a thick clie
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by techiferous 14y ago
I'm really not sure why this is being downvoted. It's not trollish. I believe what I'm saying to be true: mobile is increasing, and this is leading to thicker clients and more JavaScript and therefore less server-side view logic. Please cor
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by techiferous 14y ago
Agreed, it will be hybrid for a long time, but I expect the trend toward view logic being more on the client and less on the server to continue, simply because the web is less and less about "pages" and more and more about "apps" and "resou
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by techiferous 14y ago
The Rails MVC architecture is already past its prime, since it solves the problems of 2004. It's possible that startups may move more toward backend-as-a-service + JavaScript front-end instead of using Rails as their MVP. In any event, the
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by techiferous 14y ago
We really need a quantum leap in language technology. Currently the Internet technologies have grown organically and because of this, most of what we use to program has been repurposed. HTML was meant to describe text, now it describes regi
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by techiferous 14y ago
It's hard to predict 10 years out, but not too hard to see 5 years ahead. Generally speaking, what's popular now existed in some form 5 years ago. JavaScript has a monopoly as the only language that runs in browsers. If this were to change,
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by techiferous 14y ago
It's not a fad. It's driven by the increasing growth of mobile devices ( see http://www.digitalbuzzblog.com/2011-mobile-statistics-stats-... ) The Internet is becoming more ubiquitous. Being "on the Internet" will mean less and less being
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by techiferous 14y ago
If you are just starting out as a web developer and aren't planning on changing careers anytime soon, the #1 language you should learn is JavaScript. It, or languages that compile to it, will still be in fashion in 5 or even 10 years. Tha
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by techiferous 14y ago
It's hard to do advertising well where the interests of all parties are aligned. I think Google did a very good job with this, since the ads it serves you are more likely to be genuinely helpful to what you are trying to do. Most Internet a
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by techiferous 14y ago
Velocity is imperceptible, since it depends on a frame of reference. For example, I'm traveling at about 700mph around the center of the Earth because of the Earth's rotation. Acceleration is perceptible, because it is felt as a force. So
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by techiferous 14y ago
They are, last I heard.

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