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If your company is put out of business by a feature from a competitor you can not copy it within 48 hours, you do not have a business.

They're coming now - or at least soon - e.g. * Vico ( http://www.vicoapp.com/ ) * Kod ( http://kodapp.com/ ) * Chocolat (Alpha) ( http://chocolatapp.com/ ) also don't forget SubEth…

It's also possible, that real world Ruby applications are - in Japan - generally not written using Rails.

Ruby was popular in Japan long before Rails.

AFAIK it is pretty common for most universities in Germany to start CS programs with either (S)ML, OCaml, Haskell or any combination of these depending upon the individual preferen…

Or AliceML, its Hindley–Milner typed cousin.

I am also quite familiar with the Java (and Ruby and pre iPhone Objective-C) ecosystem and invested quite a lot time in getting proficient with Scala since 2007 but recently got ho…

I can't talk for Python, but from my limited experience the Ruby community started to get the submerged in a wave of sub-par developers when Obie Fernandez et al. started to promot…

Ok, I will start to pitch the idea to the best of my abilities and will let you know what came out of it. :)

The last time I tried installing Batteries (on OS X) it was a big PITA and it looked like it was dead in the water (this was about 18 months ago). During the same time using GODI t…

The "Walz" is not for building primary skills (i.e. in our case Software Development or in their case Carpentry). It is assumed that carpenters doing it are already quite skilled i…

I guess a lot of hacker news reader work in said startup areas. So is anybody willing to give it a shot? I am located in Munich, Germany, not exactly a startup hup, but I have some…

What would we need to create one?

This guide is the most concise and bginner friendly introduction to an active lifestyle I have seen yet... I second the recommendation... additionally (sad as it is) I think a lot …

From what I heard (but I am no expert at all) Japanese culture encourages an extremely sharp (at least from the standpoint of Europeans and I would guess Americans) separation betw…

Can't you buy prepaid cards (vouchers?) for the App Store like you can for the iTunes music store? edit: I checked... apparently in principle it is possible if the App can be bough…

The problem with sleep deprivation is that unless you have an objective way of measuring your (mental) performance you're usually not able to realize when it declines, because your…

For the "current" standards of good looking and for skill levels attainable by people having a life (and/or job) it would be probably something like that (roughly in descending ord…

If Agile is about doing what works for your situation, how is it different from magic pixie dust solving all your problems? :)

Considering the amount of money governments are willing to spend on rootkits as compared to more benevolent activities, I suspect that these companies won't stay a minority for lon…

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Holy shit,according to your chart it is even bigger than C and Java! How did this happen without anybody noticing? http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=F%23,clojure,scala,+C,+Jav... B…

> Aggressively cut my calories and started going to the gym 5-7 nights a week... about 40 lbs between Feb and July You consider this a success?

Lean Gains is pretty good. I can also recommend Rob Wolf's Podcast - http://robbwolf.com/ he also explains when to be careful with IF.

That control and communication are correlated is one of reasons why feudalism became so 'popular' after the fall of the Roman empire.