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When you were advised to consider Ruby over Python, what reason were you given? Also, you may not be aware but this is an almost daily question on StackOverflow so I would advise l…

I'm working on my online resume and having trouble with the personal statement. There's a part where you have to sum yourself up in two sentences. I guess this is supposed to be wh…

I have an interview where I need to talk about an app I created. The app is closed source and doesn't identify me anywhere on screen. How do you persuade someone that you're the cr…

I'm wondering what to put on the About page of my app. I'm debating whether to put up a friendly looking smiling photo of myself. As much as I'm a private person, I feel that my ap…

When you buy a domain do you buy a lot of related domains (.net, .org and other similar sounding names). I assume there's a chance that a competitor could buy these and take some t…

I don't know who is behind Gemcutter or how it came to be that I woke up a few days ago and Gemcutter was the newly appointed hosting service for Ruby gems. Was there a vote? Who d…

http://gemcutter.org/ Gemcutter seems to have displaced Github as the gem host of choice these days. That's not a plug - I have no dog in this fight. But I am wondering how reliabl…

There's an extensive Java contingent on StackOverflow that might be more helpful. Not much Java love on HN.

Seam, Tapestry, JSF. Take your pick.

Their business is based on selling an mp3? If the music industry is any guide, it won't be long before their therapeutic sound recording is all over the file-sharing networks.

You can't go wrong by picking up a copy of "The Ruby Programming Language" and "Agile Web Development with Rails". Between those two books you should be a master in no time.

It's a competition for jobs and influence within the industry. Nothing to sniff at.