I couldn't agree more: as a self-employed software engineer with degrees in literature and psychology, I am living proof that now (not one day, right now) programmers are working for liberal arts "managers" ;-)
same deal, started in 2001 on LAMP stack 2 years ago woke up and started exploring, Groovy, Ruby, and then, bing, penny dropped, Scala. New life at 40 ;-) In the end you need passion. I would be shocked if I am not…
uhhh, not sure what to say, I'm living in France. In the SW part of the country, the surf region, there are loads of foreigners, many of whom have been here year-round for more than a decade; still, the accent is poor,…
LMAO! Thank you. It's the same for me when I'm in England, the locals just don't understand me. "you know what I mean, right?", I say, and they respond with, "oh, royt, e means royt!" WTF is royt, can't these people…
Well, I'm not saying never leave the bedroom ;-) I'm also talking about living abroad, not hooking up with a foreigner in NYC and she plays teach the American to butcher X language
I come to France in the autumn and spring, have been doing so for 5 or 6 years; studied French as a kid, and lived off-and-on in Montreal for about 5 years. I would not consider myself anywhere near fluent; that is,…
absolutely agree, I would LOVE to hear the C1 French speakers demonstrate their savoir faire with la belle langue NOW, with further years of practice post-C1 mastery. I can guarantee that: 1) you will sound nothing like…
5 months without living/breathing the language amongst native speakers, fluency, methinks NOT ;-) I took 8 years of French growing up (10-18) and I understood nothing, literally nothing when I visited Quebec for the…
Yeah, good point, live usb has been a life saver beyond os install and preview. I've intentionally been sitting on the fence for over a year now. Once Fedora 14 goes EOL, going to have to make the move. What I have now…
I do miss cmd-`, toggle through currently focused app windows from Mac, one of the few features that I did not get in my switch to Fedora 3 years ago. Of course, so much more was gained, the point of no return has long…
At some point I'm going to have to get off of Gnome 2, not looking forward to it. Gnome 2 + Compiz + Gnome-Do completely and utterly rocks, particularly with a dual monitor setup. KDE was a bit of a mess last I checked.…
If I had sufficient karma, I would up vote you, but alas, made the mistake of bringing up a pro-Scala perspective in a why-did-Twitter-leave-Rails thread. At any rate MonoDevelop is actually quite awesome in some…
Rails is there to generate static content as the alternative, hitting the Rails stack for live data, is asking for trouble -- just ask Twitter ;-) Of course by saying such a thing on a Rails thread, I am clearly asking…
Bizarre, can find nothing on the net that backs that claim, would love to see concrete evidence here in 2012, was under the impression that Twitter was fully ditching Rails.
Facebook is PHP (with C++ pre-processor called HipHop). StackOverflow is, ta da, M$ stack (C#, SQL Server, etc.) State of the art in highly scalable web apps? Try this: 1) Apache 2.4 proxy/load balancer + mod_pagespeed…
Exactly, with caching the application server becomes far less of an issue. There's a catch, though. Twitter, is a live service, content is constantly changing, which means round-trip to app server required, and that is…
Wikipedia and CL largely serve static files, so no biggie there what the application server is, front end proxy (httpd, nginx, lighthttpd, etc.) does the heavy lifting. Wordpress is an interesting one, I wonder if they…
Yes, you're correct, it was not an either-or proposition, I'm sorry, they dropped them both. Seriously, I'm curious, what public facing, or any facing, components does Twitter use that is written in Ruby and/or Rails? A…
oh, Twitter (Scala/Java), American Airlines (Java), Facebook (on HipHop in C++), Stackoverflow (C#), ESPN (Java) I think by big that's a code word for enterprise. The big sites you have worked on are comparatively small…
Twitter did not think Rails was particularly adequate at serving up anything (for their extreme needs), so they dumped it for the JVM. Charles Nutter is doing genius work with JRuby, btw, that's where Ruby has a future…
quite the contrary, pjax reduces bandwidth and, properly implemented, reduces total # of requests (since once html, css, js, images are downloaded, you just hit the server for the content that varies; usually the page's…
Yes, agreed, generate static everything on first request; i.e. hit the application server just 1X for live data and generate static file(s) that represent the request on the front end server (httpd, nginx) That leaves…
I agree with the OP, pretty spot on, while bootstrap sites look good, they generally all look the same. For CRUD/admin, yes, bootstrap is a definite go; for public front facing, not for my clients. Client identity…
Same deal, but I left my iMac 2 years ago for a Linux laptop. In the same way that I had that warm glow of the post-Windoze-to-Mac conversion experience 5 years ago, I had the same feeling when I left OSX for Fedora,…
Had an iMac for 2 years, loved it for the first few months, and then, over time I grew less and less enamoured with the OS. 1) Finder just plain sucks 2) Window manager is complete azz I guess I prefer Compiz…
I couldn't agree more: as a self-employed software engineer with degrees in literature and psychology, I am living proof that now (not one day, right now) programmers are working for liberal arts "managers" ;-)
same deal, started in 2001 on LAMP stack 2 years ago woke up and started exploring, Groovy, Ruby, and then, bing, penny dropped, Scala. New life at 40 ;-) In the end you need passion. I would be shocked if I am not…
uhhh, not sure what to say, I'm living in France. In the SW part of the country, the surf region, there are loads of foreigners, many of whom have been here year-round for more than a decade; still, the accent is poor,…
LMAO! Thank you. It's the same for me when I'm in England, the locals just don't understand me. "you know what I mean, right?", I say, and they respond with, "oh, royt, e means royt!" WTF is royt, can't these people…
Well, I'm not saying never leave the bedroom ;-) I'm also talking about living abroad, not hooking up with a foreigner in NYC and she plays teach the American to butcher X language
I come to France in the autumn and spring, have been doing so for 5 or 6 years; studied French as a kid, and lived off-and-on in Montreal for about 5 years. I would not consider myself anywhere near fluent; that is,…
absolutely agree, I would LOVE to hear the C1 French speakers demonstrate their savoir faire with la belle langue NOW, with further years of practice post-C1 mastery. I can guarantee that: 1) you will sound nothing like…
5 months without living/breathing the language amongst native speakers, fluency, methinks NOT ;-) I took 8 years of French growing up (10-18) and I understood nothing, literally nothing when I visited Quebec for the…
Yeah, good point, live usb has been a life saver beyond os install and preview. I've intentionally been sitting on the fence for over a year now. Once Fedora 14 goes EOL, going to have to make the move. What I have now…
I do miss cmd-`, toggle through currently focused app windows from Mac, one of the few features that I did not get in my switch to Fedora 3 years ago. Of course, so much more was gained, the point of no return has long…
At some point I'm going to have to get off of Gnome 2, not looking forward to it. Gnome 2 + Compiz + Gnome-Do completely and utterly rocks, particularly with a dual monitor setup. KDE was a bit of a mess last I checked.…
If I had sufficient karma, I would up vote you, but alas, made the mistake of bringing up a pro-Scala perspective in a why-did-Twitter-leave-Rails thread. At any rate MonoDevelop is actually quite awesome in some…
Rails is there to generate static content as the alternative, hitting the Rails stack for live data, is asking for trouble -- just ask Twitter ;-) Of course by saying such a thing on a Rails thread, I am clearly asking…
Bizarre, can find nothing on the net that backs that claim, would love to see concrete evidence here in 2012, was under the impression that Twitter was fully ditching Rails.
Facebook is PHP (with C++ pre-processor called HipHop). StackOverflow is, ta da, M$ stack (C#, SQL Server, etc.) State of the art in highly scalable web apps? Try this: 1) Apache 2.4 proxy/load balancer + mod_pagespeed…
Exactly, with caching the application server becomes far less of an issue. There's a catch, though. Twitter, is a live service, content is constantly changing, which means round-trip to app server required, and that is…
Wikipedia and CL largely serve static files, so no biggie there what the application server is, front end proxy (httpd, nginx, lighthttpd, etc.) does the heavy lifting. Wordpress is an interesting one, I wonder if they…
Yes, you're correct, it was not an either-or proposition, I'm sorry, they dropped them both. Seriously, I'm curious, what public facing, or any facing, components does Twitter use that is written in Ruby and/or Rails? A…
oh, Twitter (Scala/Java), American Airlines (Java), Facebook (on HipHop in C++), Stackoverflow (C#), ESPN (Java) I think by big that's a code word for enterprise. The big sites you have worked on are comparatively small…
Twitter did not think Rails was particularly adequate at serving up anything (for their extreme needs), so they dumped it for the JVM. Charles Nutter is doing genius work with JRuby, btw, that's where Ruby has a future…
quite the contrary, pjax reduces bandwidth and, properly implemented, reduces total # of requests (since once html, css, js, images are downloaded, you just hit the server for the content that varies; usually the page's…
Yes, agreed, generate static everything on first request; i.e. hit the application server just 1X for live data and generate static file(s) that represent the request on the front end server (httpd, nginx) That leaves…
I agree with the OP, pretty spot on, while bootstrap sites look good, they generally all look the same. For CRUD/admin, yes, bootstrap is a definite go; for public front facing, not for my clients. Client identity…
Same deal, but I left my iMac 2 years ago for a Linux laptop. In the same way that I had that warm glow of the post-Windoze-to-Mac conversion experience 5 years ago, I had the same feeling when I left OSX for Fedora,…
Had an iMac for 2 years, loved it for the first few months, and then, over time I grew less and less enamoured with the OS. 1) Finder just plain sucks 2) Window manager is complete azz I guess I prefer Compiz…