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it also leads to proof by intimidation which often masks errors.

this seems to be a lost art, unfortunately.

au contraire. I have worked on what I suspect is one of the largest Rails apps out there. autoload has been off for a long time (along with many other "convenient" features) for pe…

> JSON rendering performance is a major concern for most of my Rails apps I've always wondered why this is the case. Faster JSON libraries don't seem to help. Similar frameworks do…

I think the issue is monorails (monolithic rails apps). If you have a single domain object you're representing that's that complex, you'd done a poor issue of modeling your domain.…

as much as I don't want to quote dhh about anything: http://david.heinemeierhansson.com/2012/rails-is-omakase.htm... in short, since Rails 3 there is no "Rails Way"

it's useful in practice for denoising file names. unfortunately rails doesn't do this at all, and every controller file is something like `app/controllers/foo_controller.rb`. in Py…

this, i'm not sure why it is hard to see that this is easy to implement without storing passwords in plaintext.

there are lots of problems (particularly with versioning/backwards compatibility) that using better protocols (i.e., protobufs) can solve.

2010, python (wxpython to be exact, the Python version IIRC was 2.5). pretty fun, I think the biggest development since then is the degree to which the browser has improved as a pl…

I think it's less important what you've done and more important how you've done it. Replace all this with a single well-written, well-documented open-source project that people act…

hopefully all my cryptic perl5 1-liners will still work.

just because the dataset is sharded doesn't mean that one query has to hit every shard. for example, suppose you're looking for documents with `parent_id = foo` and your sharding k…

fantastic work that's long overdue. any commitment from the zend team to implement it? if not it's a specification for HHVM, not PHP.

I was a little disappointed to not see anything I don't use regularly. Some explanation of reflog might be helpful, in addition to a bit of detail on git internals that explains wh…

my language was too harsh. see my edit in response to ptarjan.

really, the big problem was that the HHVM team didn't use CMake, so there was no concern with how long the build took and it was frequently broken. I had two instances where I spen…

depends on what you define as good quality. it's efficient code, but it's sparsely commented, and a style nightmare.

you're probably interested in the downsides of HHVM, not Hack. Hack is really just a PHP frontend built on top of HHVM. HHVM is the JIT. - it runs really well on expensive, FB hard…

I'm curious -- what is your use case is for writing and deleting?

you shouldn't be surprised, FT and the economist have always had a deep right skew.

defaults to SF for me. closest airport to me on their list is IAD, but it is ~6 hours away.

> anything you do while employed belongs to your employer have you ever signed a software engineering contract? surrender of IP created at work or working for the company is _very_…

My intention wasn't to label anyone. Xah has been a disruptive and counterproductive presence in the emacs community, but I think it's because he needs help he's not getting. He sp…

Xah needs to seek help for his mental illness. Look at his posts on comp.lang.emacs for evidence. He's been spending all these years on $3 a day trying to figure out a more "ergono…