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jethrokuan

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    Comment #5427926

    Thanks everyone! I've tried doing it(amidst my school exams) but I think it doesn't quite drill into me best practices. I don't want to explore go and hack up something; I want to …

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    Ask HN: How do you start learning Go?

    Hi everyone, I come from a ruby background, and am recently getting a little tired of rails/sinatra being not as quick as I would like them to be. I'd like to start learning Go, bu…

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    Comment #4705683

    Just a question: what platform is this built on, and did you use any external library for infinite scrolling?

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    Ask HN: How to pick up algorithm programming?

    I would like to pick up algorithm programming. Divide & Conquer, DFS etc. May I know how you all picked it up? Any resources you have found particularly useful? Thanks.

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    Comment #4453991

    When beginning learning RoR, look through Rails for Zombies ( http://railsforzombies.org ) and Try Ruby ( http://tryruby.org/levels/1/challenges/0 ) to get a feel of the new langua…

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    Comment #4126273

    The error you get when you try to push to Heroku isn't one that suggest that Heroku is down. Took me a while to figure that Heroku is down (after many futile attempts I decided to …

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    Comment #4122201

    can't beat rvm. Run 3 commands and its done. Automated. Lazy people can just use the rails version preinstalled on macs (though that's like 2.something)

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    Comment #4122180

    I do understand HTML, CSS and JS to some extent. You could take a look at the following a my friend and I (new to Rails) built using Ruby on Rails: http://supernotes.herokuapp.com/…

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    Comment #4112004

    Continuous releases for now, probably make it major releases soon ActiveRecord, Postgresql Database Git for version control Deployed to heroku (easy web deployment with just "git p…

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    Comment #4093148

    Wow tmuxinator seems like real time-saver. Thanks for the tip!

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    Comment #4093134

    I've went through rails for zombies. Second thing i went through after poignant. Was following Nettuts suggested method: http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/ruby/the-best-way-to-lear…

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    Comment #4093124

    I'd second this, but it's difficult to follow it without the screencasts, that has to be purchased. I've been trying to follow the web version of this though. Not too bad. Was lear…

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    Ask HN: Best way to learn Ruby on Rails?

    Recently dived into Ruby on Rails, with no prior experience of ruby. Only some background in C++,C, php and the likes. I'm still juggling between learning RoR, CSS, javascript and …

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    Comment #4092014

    I'm currently using a HTC Flyer. Kinda regretted it... Only drawback was the fact that the apps really kind of sucked. There's this really good (currently beta) app called "Write" …

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    Comment #4091992

    I guess that makes sense. Been trying to revamp my coding environment, and decided to go with drbunsen's text triumvirate. http://www.drbunsen.org/text-triumvirate.html For now sin…

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    Ask HN: why use tmux if iterm2 provides tabbed windows

    It's personally more intuitive to navigate tabs using iterm and tmux just makes the screen space so limited. If I don't do pair programming is it recommended to just use iterm?

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