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by thenduks 15y ago
If you recall back in the Rails 1.x days, it wasn't exactly pleasant to learn -- if only because of the awful documentation. Point being, Rails' first priority is to improve developers' productivity, sanity and happiness - all developers
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by thenduks 15y ago
Joke or not, I have to point out that just because someone's screen resolution is 2560x1600 doesn't mean they have their browser that huge. Personally, my browser is never wider than 1100px. I do usually go as tall as the screen, but on a s
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by thenduks 15y ago
That's exactly what hellbanning does. It enforces the no-feeding-the-trolls rule. You can't keep a conversation alive with a troll if the troll is hellbanned. The site ignores them for you.
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by thenduks 15y ago
Yea, he means acceptable from a performance standpoint since in node the event loop will just stop and wait for that to finish before doing anything else. http://nodejs.org/#about The `*Sync` methods are really only there for convenienc
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by thenduks 15y ago
The funny part is that your parents probably wont understand the comprehension either. Even if they were likely to, I prefer to leave things the way they are when the only reason to change it is "now my kid brother can do it!"
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by thenduks 15y ago
Fair enough, I'm only saying that 'like English' isn't some kind of holy grail of understandable code. I like code, I can read code, not every line needs to be turned into a sentence.
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by thenduks 15y ago
I would love the split keyboard on my iPad too, oh and thumbs that are 1/4 the size of my current ones :)
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by thenduks 15y ago
I just don't think that forcing code to read like English necessarily makes the code any more readable. Sure, if you read it out loud it comes out sounding somewhat like a sentence. That's cool and everything, but when I'm reading code to,
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by thenduks 15y ago
I completely agree. English is English, code is code. I prefer `map`, especially when the function is any more complex than `i * 2`. And suffix conditionals (and the like) are mostly useful to me when it's much shorter and sweeter, but does
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by thenduks 15y ago
Yes exactly. I definitely didn't mean to say I wanted the numbers for profitable as opposed to the '1% chance of being Google'.
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by thenduks 15y ago
Well, it still has to be a good sandwich shop to succeed, and I'd rather invest in a successful sandwich shop than one which will flop. So I'm just curious to know the overall track record of success had by YC funded companies - from a pers
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by thenduks 15y ago
Please enlighten me if I'm missing something obvious here, but wouldn't a pretty interesting number be the percentage of funded companies that are profitable today? I mean, maybe not as a measure of YC's success monetarily, but certainly
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by thenduks 15y ago
Yea sorry I tangent-ed a bit there. Probably because I just think this is a non-issue. It's in the UI in that it's listed in your repositories you have access to, but not on your profile. I don't see what kind of UI change they could make t
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by thenduks 15y ago
The thing is that this is amazingly rare. The handful of times it's happened, the 'victim' most likely just removes the repo (which has always been possible) and that's the end of it. Others might say to their friends on IRC "Hey, can you
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by thenduks 15y ago
Your comment [1] is a direct reply to one where kneath explicitly states it [2]. [1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2606063 [2]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2605804 For me, it was pretty obvious because it doesn
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by thenduks 15y ago
A mere 1 day later: https://github.com/blog/862-block-the-bullies This was not some kind of conspiracy inside the Ruby community to troll Zed.
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by thenduks 15y ago
I'm not disputing that it's annoying. Props to GitHub if they improve it soon for sure. I just have better things to do than start a big flamewar over something like this. If you add me to some joke repo and start doing these 'certain actio
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by thenduks 15y ago
This whole thing is a waste of bytes. Simply adding someone to a repo makes it show up in their private repositories list and nowhere else. Annoying? Probably. A big deal? Hardly. (To have it show up anywhere else you have to commit to
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by thenduks 15y ago
Yea, it's not permanently dead in the traditional meaning of 'bricked' -- but one does have to wait for new firmware before they can get their device working again.
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by thenduks 15y ago
Indeed. How does the poster figure Apple got their image? It was pretty bad, their image I mean, in the 90s. It surely couldn't be something crazy like they make great products :)
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by thenduks 15y ago
I normally would agree. But I think this is a unique discussion because the OP is asking why he should use something other than PHP. One might use Ruby because of Rails. So it's not a comparison of PHP and Rails directly, just reinforcing
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by thenduks 15y ago
Modern frameworks and platforms have incorporated and improved a lot of ideas (some would consider) made popular by PHP. Spend some time getting to know Rails for instance and you'll find that none of the problems you just described apply
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by thenduks 15y ago
Eh, I don't really get your question here. Why would you rewrite all your apps with something other than PHP? You wouldn't, of course. Why would you consider a language that wasn't "designed specifically for web scripting"? Because that's
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by thenduks 15y ago
I figure option 2 there is referring to day-job work. I most often (not always) eat alone (sometimes at my desk, sometimes at home with the cats) and work. But I work on side projects, open source stuff, etc.
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by thenduks 15y ago
I had a similar first reaction. But then I realized this was talking about thing(s) that make meetings as useless as they are. My next thought was "well, what you can do about it is not have the meeting " :)
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by thenduks 15y ago
Interesting read. But, don't skip the intro (even though it gives you an easy way to) because it clearly calls out: > The optimal target audience is the following group of people: Professional software developers ...in junior positions
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by thenduks 15y ago
Non-eye-burning: https://www.readability.com/articles/9likw7md
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by thenduks 15y ago
Yea I think you hit the problem with that at the end there. Besides killing you it's also: 1. Expensive 2. Stinky 3. Addictive :)
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by thenduks 15y ago
Unfortunately, eating lunch with a group of people every day tends to get very expensive. You either need to be working at a big company with a cafeteria (pass) or for a fancy place like FogCreek, otherwise it's $10-20/day to eat out all th
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by thenduks 15y ago
Very interesting, almost makes me want to try it. But I'd like to see a version that isn't focused on price, but just on the 'healthiness' part. When it comes to eating right, money is no object.

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