No, he's a musician turned coder. The fact that this is his first foray into anything that isn't php is just one of the reasons the project failed. Really, read the comments - it's clear that rails works just fine.
Easy - rails has a particular way of doing things - if you try to accomplish a task some other way, it'll be harder and not work as well. The original poster as much as admitted that the limitation was in his skill as a developer, which was what I awas trying to convey with that post. Basically, Rails is just fine, but it's different that php.
I never said "the project was cancelled because of limitations of Rails" - more like I spent two years trying to make Rails do something it wasn't meant to do, then realized my old abandoned language (PHP, in my case) would do just fine if approached with my new Rails-gained wisdom.
That's all.
I work at a decent sized company. We have a number of internal sites running on linux for various things; the only one that routinely pisses me off is an Oracle App thing that requires IE for some godforsaken reason. Fuck Oracle. Fuck them right in their ear.
Well sure, if you have the meth lab in your basement and the warrant is actually based in actual evidence - can't just go traipsing through someone's basement because they might be doing something naughty.
The risk itself is so low that you are better off teaching good habits and living your life than trying to prevent incidents. Seriously, it's not a credible threat - it's just hype.
Listen, sport, you stop feeding the throttle when the brakes are on. Never mind that every braking system out there is capable of locking the wheels on oem tires. The thing that changes how brakes work is bigger, stickier tires, not increased engine power and the feedback loop for abs is between applied brake torque and a sensor that measures wheel spin. Oh, and designed linear region? You just don't know what you're talking about.
You're missing part of the equation - the power imbalance allows the employer to gang up on each employee individually. That's why collective bargaining tends to improve things. Not that I'm supporting the Teamsters, but a number of unions make things better without screwing the employer.
The fact that someone in China, India, or Costa Rica costs a fraction of his American counterpart in terms of salary (a statistic that's becoming less true in India these days), is only part of the equation.
There's also the quantity of cheap workers available. They're lots of people available in China, but most of them can't write code. Many of them aren't what we'd call literate.
raise your hand if you've heard on the news about the "critical shortage of IT workers in the US".
Yeah, the whole H1B scam - I'll buy it when people offer more money or cut back on what they plan to do.
Without the government interfering in this way (the flip side of mandatory overtime), things are better for *me*, because I have more opportunity.
This is true until you aren't in demand. Then they have all the power and dictate what you will make.
I'm far from being fatalistic, I just want to be able to make what I'm worth without everybody in the world trying to decide on that for me.
You have no worth - you make what you can negotiate.
The fun part is when you ask for changes - most places arent' willing to do that, or require VP approval for it. Grunt level contracts, such as they exist, aren't usually meant to be negotiated.
Extorting money from the society, that is vastly disproportional to the provided service, does not qualify one as having a better life, as far as I am concerned.
Whatever you call it, not looking out for your own best interests will get you stepped on.
The OP's point was that we don't want to make a change that will push *more* jobs to India and China.
I'm sick of this fatalism - every time someone tries to shift the balance towards employees, the employers are just going to shift everything to some low wage country. Sure, it'll happen to some extent, but don't fool yourself - they'll do it regardless of whether we ask for a fair shake.
That doesn't make any damn sense. Adding 100 hp may make my car do 130 instead of 120 - BFD. ABS is not calibrated based on HP, it's a sensor-based loop that tries to prevent wheel lock.
Apple will very easily be able to prove that there is no way for it to predict the state of the hardware when it does updates when it has been altered, perhaps irreparably depending on the method, in an unknown fashion by the user.
But can they prove that the alterations are what caused the iPhone to fail? Probably not, especially if there's a year between the mod and a failure.
Remember: it's "legal" to do a lot of things which also might end up voiding the warranty of a particular product.
But it isn't clear that unlocking an iPhone voids its warranty.
Don't act like Apple is somehow bound to support all unlocked phones via any mechanism, some which may damage the phone, in any and all future software updates, especially when it can't possibly predict all iterations. You don't have to buy an iPhone.
If I did, I would expect Apple to stand behind it. Unlocking the phone doesn't free Apple from that obligation.
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No, he's a musician turned coder. The fact that this is his first foray into anything that isn't php is just one of the reasons the project failed. Really, read the comments - it's clear that rails works just fine.
Actually, free speech trumps censorship - the city can't restrict that sort of thing without getting sued.
Easy - rails has a particular way of doing things - if you try to accomplish a task some other way, it'll be harder and not work as well. The original poster as much as admitted that the limitation was in his skill as a developer, which was what I awas trying to convey with that post. Basically, Rails is just fine, but it's different that php.
From the comments:
I never said "the project was cancelled because of limitations of Rails" - more like I spent two years trying to make Rails do something it wasn't meant to do, then realized my old abandoned language (PHP, in my case) would do just fine if approached with my new Rails-gained wisdom.
That's all.
I work at a decent sized company. We have a number of internal sites running on linux for various things; the only one that routinely pisses me off is an Oracle App thing that requires IE for some godforsaken reason. Fuck Oracle. Fuck them right in their ear.
Now, there's still room for abuse (train the system to recognize likely politically unpopular groups and send police to intimidate, for example),
Come on, this is Chicago - that'd never happen, right?
Well sure, if you have the meth lab in your basement and the warrant is actually based in actual evidence - can't just go traipsing through someone's basement because they might be doing something naughty.
Sorry, missed that one - when did some woman blow up a plane from the curbside checkin?
No, but I'd work out more.
Think about it: they aren't requesting that people prove they're MEN when playing as male characters.
Of course not - most men would just whip it out - game over.
you don't get tenure because you plan to get rich.
The risk itself is so low that you are better off teaching good habits and living your life than trying to prevent incidents. Seriously, it's not a credible threat - it's just hype.
Listen, sport, you stop feeding the throttle when the brakes are on. Never mind that every braking system out there is capable of locking the wheels on oem tires. The thing that changes how brakes work is bigger, stickier tires, not increased engine power and the feedback loop for abs is between applied brake torque and a sensor that measures wheel spin. Oh, and designed linear region? You just don't know what you're talking about.
What do you think could keep Apple from muscling in right there?
The lawsuit by Apple records in the 60s.
You're missing part of the equation - the power imbalance allows the employer to gang up on each employee individually. That's why collective bargaining tends to improve things. Not that I'm supporting the Teamsters, but a number of unions make things better without screwing the employer.
The fact that someone in China, India, or Costa Rica costs a fraction of his American counterpart in terms of salary (a statistic that's becoming less true in India these days), is only part of the equation.
There's also the quantity of cheap workers available. They're lots of people available in China, but most of them can't write code. Many of them aren't what we'd call literate.
raise your hand if you've heard on the news about the "critical shortage of IT workers in the US".
Yeah, the whole H1B scam - I'll buy it when people offer more money or cut back on what they plan to do.
Without the government interfering in this way (the flip side of mandatory overtime), things are better for *me*, because I have more opportunity.
This is true until you aren't in demand. Then they have all the power and dictate what you will make.
I'm far from being fatalistic, I just want to be able to make what I'm worth without everybody in the world trying to decide on that for me.
You have no worth - you make what you can negotiate.
And you think they'll be able to keep those coders? I wouldn't accept a 50% salary cut because my PM didn't know how to load the project.
The fun part is when you ask for changes - most places arent' willing to do that, or require VP approval for it. Grunt level contracts, such as they exist, aren't usually meant to be negotiated.
Extorting money from the society, that is vastly disproportional to the provided service, does not qualify one as having a better life, as far as I am concerned.
Whatever you call it, not looking out for your own best interests will get you stepped on.
The OP's point was that we don't want to make a change that will push *more* jobs to India and China.
I'm sick of this fatalism - every time someone tries to shift the balance towards employees, the employers are just going to shift everything to some low wage country. Sure, it'll happen to some extent, but don't fool yourself - they'll do it regardless of whether we ask for a fair shake.
That doesn't make any damn sense. Adding 100 hp may make my car do 130 instead of 120 - BFD. ABS is not calibrated based on HP, it's a sensor-based loop that tries to prevent wheel lock.
If you buy a Chevy arnd replace the engine with some aftermarket engine, Chevy isn't going to fix it when you break it.
They still have to fix the radio when it breaks.
IANAL, but I'm pretty sure that the M-M act trumps this. Apple has to prove that the mod contributed to the failure.
Apple will very easily be able to prove that there is no way for it to predict the state of the hardware when it does updates when it has been altered, perhaps irreparably depending on the method, in an unknown fashion by the user.
But can they prove that the alterations are what caused the iPhone to fail? Probably not, especially if there's a year between the mod and a failure.
Remember: it's "legal" to do a lot of things which also might end up voiding the warranty of a particular product.
But it isn't clear that unlocking an iPhone voids its warranty.
Don't act like Apple is somehow bound to support all unlocked phones via any mechanism, some which may damage the phone, in any and all future software updates, especially when it can't possibly predict all iterations. You don't have to buy an iPhone.
If I did, I would expect Apple to stand behind it. Unlocking the phone doesn't free Apple from that obligation.
Yeah. In return, you can pretty much copy anything you like.