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I'm happy you're happy, but do you really need all that fancy file syncing/diff/resolution stuff? Wouldn't FTP have been enough? Vim over SSH? Seems like overkill. :P

It feels like the constraints/expectations we face building in 2017 are different from those of 2004 (when Rails was created) or 2005 (when Django was created). Both of these preda…

Location: Ottawa, Canada Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Node.js/Javascript(ES6/7), Ruby, Rails, TDD, GraphQL, React, React-Router, Postgres, NoSQL (MongoDB, Aran…

Wikipedia has lots of disambiguation pages but somehow this idea has never made it into the search world. Perhaps the idea of a single text box that you can type "Michelangelo" int…

Bill Blunden: "In this editorial he asserts that American spies are motivated primarily by the desire to thwart terrorist plots." Glen Greenwald: "In one sense, this blame-shifting…

I think FSF could learn a lot from what Micah Lee is doing at the Intercept. He's been doing a bunch of articles that are a nice blend of why and how with a nice conversational fee…

Because a blunt, rude, & brutal response to the observation that the community around the kernel is blunt, rude, & brutal is obviously the way to go...

That would be cool. I'm not sure it would change much though. I know someone working with search data who recently tried out Neo4j with a test data set of 500,000,000 nodes and app…

I think the idea with "native multi-model" is that Arango was explicitly designed to do k/v, documents and graphs rather than it being something that is bolted on afterwards.

I've been using ArangoDB for a year now and I think they are definitely on to something cool. Having stumbled upon some really complex data a few times now, I am increasingly appre…

Fair point. Assume a vanilla Rails app, with RDS for the Database. Perhaps a configuration something like this: https://medium.com/@jatescher/how-to-set-up-a-rails-4-1-app-...

Hey, I'm curious about what kind of money a "healthy" startup can expect to spend on hosting in the first year(s). I say healthy because I am not assuming full on hockey-stick grow…

I second this. One for Rubyists coming from, say, Sinatra would be great. Or maybe focusing on the language transition separately from the tools/library transition: "the X things t…

By all means, unapologetically build your startup with C#/.NET. Every Linux/OSS based startup you will be competing with agrees with this recommendation.

I took some classes with Marc-André Cournoyer ( http://classes.codedinc.com/ ) and really enjoyed the format he used of online video, 4 hours a day for two days. FWIW, I think what…

Apparently this is done with Ruby/Rails... any chance this is going to find its way onto Github?

That's true, they're now worse. They are now a patent troll both directly (with the money they are demanding, and getting, from Android manufacturers) and indirectly (see link to b…

Well how about that. I take back two or three things I said about the Canadian Government. :) Seriously I am really happy to see this kind of thing finally happen.

If you could dig up that link to the study I would love to read it.

This really makes no sense. Pointing to someone who is 5 years into learning the Microsoft ecosystem and who got their last software update two years ago is the worst possible way …

Seems like a good moment for some Emma Goldman: "If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal."

"The goal is to create a happy, healthy and capable person - not an impressive 5 year old" I totally agree with this. This is a life long project. What you are looking for has to c…

My brother works as a Graphic Facilitator, a job/discipline that did not seemingly exist before 2008 (according to google): http://www.google.com/trends/explore?hl=en#q=graphic%20f…

For anyone interested in retro graphics programs, you should check out Wright Design. I wrote up a post about it and it includes a zip file of the actual program and tutorial files…

Relevant and hilarious. Good find!