1) The use-cases in which not all JavaScript or CSS is (or should be) loaded up front. There are many such. You should be able to think of several just off-hand. I can. 2) "Basecamp isn't a trivial one page app; it has…
RSpec is not a "backfire" of Rails. It's a generalized Ruby TDD tool which has very little to do with Rails per se. The suggestion that RSpec was created to cover some failure of Rails strikes me as exceedingly strange.
Static typing is not a single issue. It is several. From a high-level-language standpoint, static typing is a crutch. It isn't necessary, but it forces you to do things "the right way"... according to some definitions…
Same here. AFAIAC, the default Rails setup has been leaning more and more toward a Basecamp-specific kind of use case, rather than the generalized tool it started out to be. Turbolinks messes A LOT with conventional…
Turbolinks is great for some use-cases (like Basecamp for example). But it is not for everybody. It absolutely sucks for other use-cases. Among other things, since its inception it has messed with the CSS heirarchy,…
But if you have a beef with how much of the domain logic is in the Model, don't blame Rails, blame MVC. I mean, come on. Either you want to use MVC or you want to go in a different direction. Fine. But don't blame Rails…
But this isn't a failure of "DHH/Rails" philosphy, it's inherent in the MVC paradigm. If we're going to "blame" something, we should be a bit more careful about where that blame actually lies. The disparity here is…
No, you're still not getting it. The VALUE is not indirect (i.e., extrinsic). The METHOD OF MEASUREMENT is indirect. Those are two different things. One does not imply the other. If I measure the "worth" of your…
But you CAN trade Bitcoins for things, not just currency. You can trade Bitcoins directly for more hardware to mine Bitcoins. So it IS a reversible transaction, and Bitcoins are DIRECTLY (not indirectly) valued at…
The exhaust from your Chevy also doesn't have the "intrinsic worth" of the oil that it ultimately came from, either. Nor does the electricity from my solar cells have the "intrinsic worth" of the silicon they were made…
No, it isn't. "Intrinsic" means "belonging to a thing by its very nature." The "value" here isn't "indirect". Only the method of measurement. This is economics, not quantum physics. The method of measurement (as long as…
Quote: "...but since mining isn't inherently reversible its not an intrinsic value." It IS "value", because the resources used for mining have measurable value, and can be traded for things other than Bitcoins. It may…
This isn't a failure of Bitcoin. It's a failure of the market. Bitcoin has an approximate "intrinsic value", which in economic terms is a bit above the cost of mining. Current market price has been very far from that.…
1) The use-cases in which not all JavaScript or CSS is (or should be) loaded up front. There are many such. You should be able to think of several just off-hand. I can. 2) "Basecamp isn't a trivial one page app; it has…
RSpec is not a "backfire" of Rails. It's a generalized Ruby TDD tool which has very little to do with Rails per se. The suggestion that RSpec was created to cover some failure of Rails strikes me as exceedingly strange.
Static typing is not a single issue. It is several. From a high-level-language standpoint, static typing is a crutch. It isn't necessary, but it forces you to do things "the right way"... according to some definitions…
Same here. AFAIAC, the default Rails setup has been leaning more and more toward a Basecamp-specific kind of use case, rather than the generalized tool it started out to be. Turbolinks messes A LOT with conventional…
Turbolinks is great for some use-cases (like Basecamp for example). But it is not for everybody. It absolutely sucks for other use-cases. Among other things, since its inception it has messed with the CSS heirarchy,…
But if you have a beef with how much of the domain logic is in the Model, don't blame Rails, blame MVC. I mean, come on. Either you want to use MVC or you want to go in a different direction. Fine. But don't blame Rails…
But this isn't a failure of "DHH/Rails" philosphy, it's inherent in the MVC paradigm. If we're going to "blame" something, we should be a bit more careful about where that blame actually lies. The disparity here is…
No, you're still not getting it. The VALUE is not indirect (i.e., extrinsic). The METHOD OF MEASUREMENT is indirect. Those are two different things. One does not imply the other. If I measure the "worth" of your…
But you CAN trade Bitcoins for things, not just currency. You can trade Bitcoins directly for more hardware to mine Bitcoins. So it IS a reversible transaction, and Bitcoins are DIRECTLY (not indirectly) valued at…
The exhaust from your Chevy also doesn't have the "intrinsic worth" of the oil that it ultimately came from, either. Nor does the electricity from my solar cells have the "intrinsic worth" of the silicon they were made…
No, it isn't. "Intrinsic" means "belonging to a thing by its very nature." The "value" here isn't "indirect". Only the method of measurement. This is economics, not quantum physics. The method of measurement (as long as…
Quote: "...but since mining isn't inherently reversible its not an intrinsic value." It IS "value", because the resources used for mining have measurable value, and can be traded for things other than Bitcoins. It may…
This isn't a failure of Bitcoin. It's a failure of the market. Bitcoin has an approximate "intrinsic value", which in economic terms is a bit above the cost of mining. Current market price has been very far from that.…