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Key point here is that it isn't a new kind of "developer," it's an entirely different approach.

Alan Greenspan coined “irrational exuberance” to describe investors driving asset prices beyond what fundamentals justified. What’s happening with AI model selection needs its own …

Claude Code is a lock-in play. Use Cursor or OpenCode.

Definitely not the only model doing this, but this one's a little more complicated. The GitHub repo for R1 just has an MIT license, and most people commenting on this across both t…

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Look at the list of acceptable uses, and then look at the governing jurisdiction. Never have I seen so many people celebrate something as being "open source" without bothering to u…

OMG who cares. I'm sorry, but this is just technology startup navel gazing nonsense.

If you are really good at what you do, and if you understand how real startups work, it becomes clear that location is the most irrelevant factor to success. I second Jason's views…

Some background, this database stores data in a hierarchy data structure using a B+tree. I did some writing about this a while back, and talked to some of the developers. What's in…

Ah, watch out for JSF, it's a dangerous place. JPA on the other hand is surprisingly good these days try Spring 3 Oliver Gierke has done good things.

Spring 3 is excellent BTW. I originally started to blog about a Spring 3 application I wrote, but then it turned into this Rails rants. And, I don't hate Rails at all. Really. I do…

"An admirable direction and quite the opposite of Java." What are you talking, specifics please? Is Java a framework with features comparable to Rails? Why is the laundry list of t…

You are joking right, "Try not to stuff your app with everything you can possibly think of." Like providing a admin interface on Refinery as well as authentication with Devise is "…

Hey, don't forget Gradle - http://www.gradle.org - Gradle syntax for declaring dependencies is similar to Maven. But there's a very close comparison between Bundler and managing de…

Hey, don't forget Gradle - http://www.gradle.org - Gradle syntax for declaring dependencies is similar to Maven. But there's a very close comparison between Bundler and managing de…

No Java is like a Lepton and Rails is like a Neutrino. Neither interact with the Strong force. Got it?

No, please don't let this article affect your experience with Rails. Rails is awesome. It is. It's a great framework to learn and the problems that the author of this piece was dis…

I don't know. I'm running a business on a Rails site and it's sort of sucking right now in terms of what I can get done and how fast I can get it done. Why? Because learning rails …

Who said anything about Dynamic typing? I agree with you that Rails still excels at allowing you to slap together a quick prototype, but I think that the world has caught up with R…