This plaster wall is cracked, crazed, and need of being redone. I know, I will just paper over it. CSS is broken and in need of being redone. I know, I will just paper over it with another layer of crap, and pretend it…
Simple question: why do the muppets at W3 pervert the open Web to suit the content barons flailing business model, and should we as a community be looking to fork and abandon at this point for truly open standards on…
Luckily for Uber, the protesters only protest a maximum of thirty five hours per week, Fuck off entirely for the month of August, and won't travel more than two miles from one of the dirty bistros to protest in the…
Or if you are actually going to perform an upgrade, consider a move to one of the more mature, stable, secure frameworks under Python, Perl or PHP. Less Rails - less fails. Simple!
Citations or evidence required for your claims that Twatter is absolutely one of the best around.
We owe Twatter a big thanks for showing Rails on Fails doesn't scale (via so many fail whales), and so guided many a new startup to explore Scala, Erlang, Python, C++11 - basically things with a good chance to help not…
I can see the conversations now: "..and they trust you with their wife data?" "Dumbfucks".
The fact is COBOL is still used, and useful today, all these decades later. I wonder what the sentiment about Ruby on Fails will be in thirty years time, and I don't think we will still be using it.
RESTful services still work in those situations where they are correctly applied. Maybe what has happened is some of the less mature and more shrill developers have stepped back from their war on any Web service that…
Boss has a problem, so he hires an MBA, now he has 300 problems, and he got fired as well.
Database administration - is not a fire and forget task. It dismays me greatly that so many developers do not see beyond the code in their IDE, and think they can just bring a DBA for a few days, and all will be well.…
The DBA is not dead! They just look and smell that way! But in all seriousness, if your app uses a database, you are incompetent not to employ an expert to help with the database, whether advising on the query plan of…
My old Nokia phones had a flashlight mode built in, very quick to activate and use, not as a separate app. Even if it does need to be an app on Android, at least include it in the base or core, as it is such a popular…
The key takeaway in the benchmarks seem is that Go is significantly slower than the rest, much much slower. Apart from the regular 30-sec interval postings on HN extolling the virtues of Go, it seems to me, people…
Sure - when restaurants take on a new cook or chef, they may well ask him to produce a dish or two, but none of those dishes will be sold to paying customers outside. The staff/management will check them, try them,…
Really? I am required to have an account with Github, to prove something? In the real world, some of us work on highly proprietary code bases, where putting any code up online could expose the risk of future lawsuits or…
Firstly, I think they wanted to 'assess' not 'asses', well at least I hope so (spell checking is not optional; even on a blog). Now, I agree with the blog post: if you want me to code at interview it has to be open…
Well, Martin should be happy Scala is getting discussed, even if he doesn't agree all that is being said. There are plenty of new and old languages that never get a mention on HN, let alone grace the front page. That…
The other day, my colleague received a wolf whistle, and turned around to remonstrate with the guy behind her. He then pointed out, it was actually the woman next to him who had actually whistled. She smiled and replied…
Are all the articles on Vulture Beat like this? "Someone said..", "Someone else said...", "This one time at band-camp..."
Wow - just read a more recent comment from Ben here: https://github.com/joyent/libuv/pull/1015#issuecomment-29568... The sad part of it all this: "I'm probably going to step back from libuv and node.js core development.…
The commit itself, and the events around that were already discussed on another thread, but about this blog posting specifically - this is a little extreme. I would have hoped at this point, an official posting, on the…
1. However well intentioned, this sort of pedantry (the change from 'him' to 'them') just alienates efforts to make things more inclusive, rather than actually helping . 2. Reverting the change appears to be fairly…
Hiring primer: 1. Hire based on ability, experience, and if the candidate has a good attitude and approach. 2. Hire based on company and team fit - this does not mean six of the exact same profile (i.e 3.25 years J2SE…
From the blog, it has the following piece of code: def outcome(hiring_procedure): allowable_candidates = [c for c in all_candidates if hiring_procedure(c)] candidate_values = [risk_profile(value(c)) for c in…
This plaster wall is cracked, crazed, and need of being redone. I know, I will just paper over it. CSS is broken and in need of being redone. I know, I will just paper over it with another layer of crap, and pretend it…
Simple question: why do the muppets at W3 pervert the open Web to suit the content barons flailing business model, and should we as a community be looking to fork and abandon at this point for truly open standards on…
Luckily for Uber, the protesters only protest a maximum of thirty five hours per week, Fuck off entirely for the month of August, and won't travel more than two miles from one of the dirty bistros to protest in the…
Or if you are actually going to perform an upgrade, consider a move to one of the more mature, stable, secure frameworks under Python, Perl or PHP. Less Rails - less fails. Simple!
Citations or evidence required for your claims that Twatter is absolutely one of the best around.
We owe Twatter a big thanks for showing Rails on Fails doesn't scale (via so many fail whales), and so guided many a new startup to explore Scala, Erlang, Python, C++11 - basically things with a good chance to help not…
I can see the conversations now: "..and they trust you with their wife data?" "Dumbfucks".
The fact is COBOL is still used, and useful today, all these decades later. I wonder what the sentiment about Ruby on Fails will be in thirty years time, and I don't think we will still be using it.
RESTful services still work in those situations where they are correctly applied. Maybe what has happened is some of the less mature and more shrill developers have stepped back from their war on any Web service that…
Boss has a problem, so he hires an MBA, now he has 300 problems, and he got fired as well.
Database administration - is not a fire and forget task. It dismays me greatly that so many developers do not see beyond the code in their IDE, and think they can just bring a DBA for a few days, and all will be well.…
The DBA is not dead! They just look and smell that way! But in all seriousness, if your app uses a database, you are incompetent not to employ an expert to help with the database, whether advising on the query plan of…
My old Nokia phones had a flashlight mode built in, very quick to activate and use, not as a separate app. Even if it does need to be an app on Android, at least include it in the base or core, as it is such a popular…
The key takeaway in the benchmarks seem is that Go is significantly slower than the rest, much much slower. Apart from the regular 30-sec interval postings on HN extolling the virtues of Go, it seems to me, people…
Sure - when restaurants take on a new cook or chef, they may well ask him to produce a dish or two, but none of those dishes will be sold to paying customers outside. The staff/management will check them, try them,…
Really? I am required to have an account with Github, to prove something? In the real world, some of us work on highly proprietary code bases, where putting any code up online could expose the risk of future lawsuits or…
Firstly, I think they wanted to 'assess' not 'asses', well at least I hope so (spell checking is not optional; even on a blog). Now, I agree with the blog post: if you want me to code at interview it has to be open…
Well, Martin should be happy Scala is getting discussed, even if he doesn't agree all that is being said. There are plenty of new and old languages that never get a mention on HN, let alone grace the front page. That…
The other day, my colleague received a wolf whistle, and turned around to remonstrate with the guy behind her. He then pointed out, it was actually the woman next to him who had actually whistled. She smiled and replied…
Are all the articles on Vulture Beat like this? "Someone said..", "Someone else said...", "This one time at band-camp..."
Wow - just read a more recent comment from Ben here: https://github.com/joyent/libuv/pull/1015#issuecomment-29568... The sad part of it all this: "I'm probably going to step back from libuv and node.js core development.…
The commit itself, and the events around that were already discussed on another thread, but about this blog posting specifically - this is a little extreme. I would have hoped at this point, an official posting, on the…
1. However well intentioned, this sort of pedantry (the change from 'him' to 'them') just alienates efforts to make things more inclusive, rather than actually helping . 2. Reverting the change appears to be fairly…
Hiring primer: 1. Hire based on ability, experience, and if the candidate has a good attitude and approach. 2. Hire based on company and team fit - this does not mean six of the exact same profile (i.e 3.25 years J2SE…
From the blog, it has the following piece of code: def outcome(hiring_procedure): allowable_candidates = [c for c in all_candidates if hiring_procedure(c)] candidate_values = [risk_profile(value(c)) for c in…