The tools/languages he mentions all do their own things. And since when are html, xml, json and css a language? Might as well call headers in C a separate language.
HTML - Hypertext Markup Language XML - Extensible Markup Language
The names seem to indicate that those are actually languages. Actually JSON and CSS are also languages. If you're not convinced you might want to read about what a language is:
A language is a system of signs (indices, icons, symbols) for encoding and decoding information.
Puppet is a tool made to do exactly what you're asking for by abstracting the specific operating system into a generic interface. It might be worth checking out. Also there's a newcomer called chef. And then there's the oldies like cfengine.
Difference is, Facebook is still using php, Twitter is going toScala.
PHP was a mature environment when facebook was launched. RoR was (and still is to a certain extent) a fad environment, popular primarily because of its differentness. People who build sites on a platform because it's the latest thing are less likely to stick with that platform than people who choose a platform that has a solid reputation but is boring. Scala, at a guess, is going to be the next fad platform. Like Ruby, it has some interesting ideas behind it, but it needs a lot of development before we can consider a stable platform for serious applications, I think.
What a load of bullcr*p. What are the arguments that RoR is a fad? The fact that people build great businesses on it? The fact that what seems like every other language now has a least one RoR clone - including Microsofts.Net?
I wonder if you've ever even tried implementing anything with RoR. If you had I would expect you to have found plenty of reasons to use RoR over PHP, not because it's different, but because it provides you with a lot of great tools not present in PHP.
Of course I might be mistaken. You might actually have done a serious attempt at using RoR for a project and found it to be worse than PHP. In which case I would love to hear what your objections to RoR are.
Finally I would love to hear what you mean by serious applications. Obviously you don't consider Ruby stable enough for Twitter, Basecamp, Yellow Pages or LinkedIn. Or maybe you just don't consider those serious applications?
You're right, there's no need to discuess when the choice is given. Belgian of course. Who would settle for german beer when a good belgian is at hand?
Through my 5 years of studying computer science I was exposed to: SML, Java, C, some variant of assembly, prolog, C# and smalltalk. Might have missed one or two there. Now of course none of these were taught in any kind of depth. Actually the only two that were really taught was SML and Java, the rest was more or less a question of self-study.
To answer the OPs question: Don't specialise in a language, specialise in getting things done. As an employer I couldn't care less if you know every last detail about C++ if you can't get the work done. Keep the real goal in mind.
Also, don't think that being a super programmer is something you'll learn sitting at home with your nose in a book. Get out into real life, get a job. Building software is so much more than just programming and the only way to really learn that is doing it in a real environment.
Chiropractic treatment worked for me
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I had a serious fall when skiing in february. A muscle in my back was so sore that I could not tie my own shoelaces or sit down without severe pain.
After having consulted three different medical doctors who all told me to just go home and lie down and just wait for the pain to go away I consulted a chiropractic. He was able to make some of the pain disappear immediately.
So I have to say that for me at least it worked. YMMV.
For all the things people dislike about Microsoft, even the stuff people sees as evil one should still acknowledge the contribution made by Bill Gates and Microsoft to the world as it is today. I am by no means a fan of Microsoft, yet had it not been for the visions of Bill Gates I sincerely doubt that computers would have gained the same traction in society as they have today.
I often seem to forget this when shouting my mouth off about how bad Microsofts software is or how evil Microsoft is. I will try to remember this the next time I get into a "how I hate Microsoft" frenzy.
It's rumored that Exchange was based of Sendmail. Which (at least in part) explains why it's such a great piece of crapware. Disclaimer: I've never even worked with Exchange I'm just karma whoring.
Anyways, I guess it's the business people whining about OSS and the developers (or developer leads) who chose to include BSD code in the network stack. As such it might not be totally fair to call them hypocritites.
Why is it that every time somebody mentions Ruby on Rails people have to say it's slow and unscalable? I'm getting kind of tired seeing this myth propagated. Ruby may be slower than $LANG but it's not that much slower, and the Rails shared nothing architecture makes it infinitely scalable up to the point where the database backend can't keep up anymore. And once you get there it's not really the framework that doesn't scale anymore is it?
Additionally the expressiveness of Ruby combined with the conventions of Rails leads to comparatively little code, making it easy to change the app to take advantage of advanced deployment strategies like using memcached scaling the app even further.
So unless you can come up with concrete examples of unscaling Rails apps or arguments as to why Rails does not scale please keep quiet. Statements like yours without any arguments doesn't really provide much value, even if they are true. Thank you.
Karl Fogel of Subversion fame has written Producing OSS which contains many good pointers on how to run a OSS project. Perhaps you can find some pointers there.
Make a "package" make target that copies all relevant files into a package directory, zips the directory and ship of the mail. If you're using OS X or another un*x variant you can do all this with a single make target.
Why you aren't using version control is another question.
A warrant is not required to listen to communications between foreign nationals outside of the United States
Apparently the legislation covers communications between U.S citizens and foreign nationals also. The NY Times has a piece on it saying that:
President Bush signed into law on Sunday legislation that broadly expanded the government's authority to eavesdrop on the international telephone calls and e-mail messages of American citizens without warrants.
So perhaps the intention of the law is pointed towards foreigners, but your statements that this law will only fix problems with foreigner to foreigner communication seems to be false if the NY Times are right.
If the police is omnipresent you're basically living in a police state IMHO. I don't care if it's a camera on every corner or a policeman on every corner. And "fix the police if they're corrupt" is just not an argument for giving the police unlimited power. Things that were totally accepted 10 or 20 years ago are illegal today, who knows what it'll be like in another 10 to 20 years. That's why I oppose giving unlimited power to the police at least.
The ultimate definition of "Spam" is pretty simple: it's email that people don't want to receive
While this may be the ultimate definition it's really not a very usable one: One persons spam is another persons ham. And what you want and don't want tends to change over time. If you don't speak up the people mailing you stand no chance of accommodating your wishes.
Now of course it should be easy to get off mailinglists and stores should not start mailing you offers unless you've previously accepted it. In Denmark it's illegal to send commercial email to private persons without prior consent. You must at least check a checkbox on a webpage before mail can be sent legally.
An American visiting Brazil is far less likely to be a criminal, than a Brazilian visiting US
I'm speechless.
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The parent is right now modded funny. Actually I believe he's right on target. Rails _is_ slow. Very slow. Compared to whatever other framework / language you might be wanting to implement your web applications in. That is executing a Rails app is slow.
The development time on the other hand is amazingly short. You can go from zero to app in times you would only dream of coming from a PHP or Java world. I personally can only vouch for PHP, but there's plenty of Java people out there who will tell you the same.
So the question is: Do you value execution speed or developer time more? To me developer time is more expensive than hardware so I prefer shorter developer time. And yes, Rails does scale - at least enough for my purposes.
Actually both the parliament and the Queens habitats are all very close to if not on the waterfront of the harbor of Copenhagen. I would say this somewhat contradicts any expectations of rising water levels in the people who built these places.
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The tools/languages he mentions all do their own things. And since when are html, xml, json and css a language? Might as well call headers in C a separate language.
HTML - Hypertext Markup Language
XML - Extensible Markup Language
The names seem to indicate that those are actually languages. Actually JSON and CSS are also languages. If you're not convinced you might want to read about what a language is:
A language is a system of signs (indices, icons, symbols) for encoding and decoding information.
Puppet is a tool made to do exactly what you're asking for by abstracting the specific operating system into a generic interface. It might be worth checking out. Also there's a newcomer called chef. And then there's the oldies like cfengine.
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha....
*deep breath*
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha....
*another deep breath*
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha....
No seriously.
Difference is, Facebook is still using php, Twitter is going toScala.
PHP was a mature environment when facebook was launched. RoR was (and still is to a certain extent) a fad environment, popular primarily because of its differentness. People who build sites on a platform because it's the latest thing are less likely to stick with that platform than people who choose a platform that has a solid reputation but is boring. Scala, at a guess, is going to be the next fad platform. Like Ruby, it has some interesting ideas behind it, but it needs a lot of development before we can consider a stable platform for serious applications, I think.
What a load of bullcr*p. What are the arguments that RoR is a fad? The fact that people build great businesses on it? The fact that what seems like every other language now has a least one RoR clone - including Microsofts .Net?
I wonder if you've ever even tried implementing anything with RoR. If you had I would expect you to have found plenty of reasons to use RoR over PHP, not because it's different, but because it provides you with a lot of great tools not present in PHP.
Of course I might be mistaken. You might actually have done a serious attempt at using RoR for a project and found it to be worse than PHP. In which case I would love to hear what your objections to RoR are.
Finally I would love to hear what you mean by serious applications. Obviously you don't consider Ruby stable enough for Twitter, Basecamp, Yellow Pages or LinkedIn. Or maybe you just don't consider those serious applications?
You're right, there's no need to discuess when the choice is given. Belgian of course. Who would settle for german beer when a good belgian is at hand?
Through my 5 years of studying computer science I was exposed to: SML, Java, C, some variant of assembly, prolog, C# and smalltalk. Might have missed one or two there. Now of course none of these were taught in any kind of depth. Actually the only two that were really taught was SML and Java, the rest was more or less a question of self-study.
To answer the OPs question: Don't specialise in a language, specialise in getting things done. As an employer I couldn't care less if you know every last detail about C++ if you can't get the work done. Keep the real goal in mind.
Also, don't think that being a super programmer is something you'll learn sitting at home with your nose in a book. Get out into real life, get a job. Building software is so much more than just programming and the only way to really learn that is doing it in a real environment.
I had a serious fall when skiing in february. A muscle in my back was so sore that I could not tie my own shoelaces or sit down without severe pain.
After having consulted three different medical doctors who all told me to just go home and lie down and just wait for the pain to go away I consulted a chiropractic. He was able to make some of the pain disappear immediately.
So I have to say that for me at least it worked. YMMV.
Notably, it's impossible to do a quicksort in a functional language
Some Haskell guy seems to disagree.
This picture got me thinking.
For all the things people dislike about Microsoft, even the stuff people sees as evil one should still acknowledge the contribution made by Bill Gates and Microsoft to the world as it is today. I am by no means a fan of Microsoft, yet had it not been for the visions of Bill Gates I sincerely doubt that computers would have gained the same traction in society as they have today.
I often seem to forget this when shouting my mouth off about how bad Microsofts software is or how evil Microsoft is. I will try to remember this the next time I get into a "how I hate Microsoft" frenzy.
It's rumored that Exchange was based of Sendmail. Which (at least in part) explains why it's such a great piece of crapware. Disclaimer: I've never even worked with Exchange I'm just karma whoring.
Anyways, I guess it's the business people whining about OSS and the developers (or developer leads) who chose to include BSD code in the network stack. As such it might not be totally fair to call them hypocritites.
Why is it that every time somebody mentions Ruby on Rails people have to say it's slow and unscalable? I'm getting kind of tired seeing this myth propagated. Ruby may be slower than $LANG but it's not that much slower, and the Rails shared nothing architecture makes it infinitely scalable up to the point where the database backend can't keep up anymore. And once you get there it's not really the framework that doesn't scale anymore is it?
Additionally the expressiveness of Ruby combined with the conventions of Rails leads to comparatively little code, making it easy to change the app to take advantage of advanced deployment strategies like using memcached scaling the app even further.
So unless you can come up with concrete examples of unscaling Rails apps or arguments as to why Rails does not scale please keep quiet. Statements like yours without any arguments doesn't really provide much value, even if they are true. Thank you.
Karl Fogel of Subversion fame has written Producing OSS which contains many good pointers on how to run a OSS project. Perhaps you can find some pointers there.
Make a "package" make target that copies all relevant files into a package directory, zips the directory and ship of the mail. If you're using OS X or another un*x variant you can do all this with a single make target.
Why you aren't using version control is another question.
Apparently the legislation covers communications between U.S citizens and foreign nationals also. The NY Times has a piece on it saying that:
So perhaps the intention of the law is pointed towards foreigners, but your statements that this law will only fix problems with foreigner to foreigner communication seems to be false if the NY Times are right.
If the police is omnipresent you're basically living in a police state IMHO. I don't care if it's a camera on every corner or a policeman on every corner. And "fix the police if they're corrupt" is just not an argument for giving the police unlimited power. Things that were totally accepted 10 or 20 years ago are illegal today, who knows what it'll be like in another 10 to 20 years. That's why I oppose giving unlimited power to the police at least.
You say it like it just happened...?
Now of course it should be easy to get off mailinglists and stores should not start mailing you offers unless you've previously accepted it. In Denmark it's illegal to send commercial email to private persons without prior consent. You must at least check a checkbox on a webpage before mail can be sent legally.
An American visiting Brazil is far less likely to be a criminal, than a Brazilian visiting US
I'm speechless.
The parent is right now modded funny. Actually I believe he's right on target. Rails _is_ slow. Very slow. Compared to whatever other framework / language you might be wanting to implement your web applications in. That is executing a Rails app is slow.
The development time on the other hand is amazingly short. You can go from zero to app in times you would only dream of coming from a PHP or Java world. I personally can only vouch for PHP, but there's plenty of Java people out there who will tell you the same.
So the question is: Do you value execution speed or developer time more? To me developer time is more expensive than hardware so I prefer shorter developer time. And yes, Rails does scale - at least enough for my purposes.
Actually both the parliament and the Queens habitats are all very close to if not on the waterfront of the harbor of Copenhagen. I would say this somewhat contradicts any expectations of rising water levels in the people who built these places.
... and paying for the staff administrating the systems.
Easy question: Non-Microsoft veterans.
Try substituting Americans with Iraqi's and you'll see how that statement is just wrong.
So soon we won't be able to bring liquids nor laptops onto planes. Thank god nobody has found a way to make books explode yet.
Right, because simply calling someone up and saying "The police is on the move" wouldn't do it?