Rails isn't the barrier, it will work fine with a complex application. The scalability problem is where the program starts to require more than Rails 'MVC' pattern. But as I say, this is a problem only in the heads of the developers, they don't want to go outside of that pattern and the result is overloaded model classes.
I went to the first one in Wellington (New Zealand) this last weekend, and had an awesome time.
I'm also in Wellington:)
And people - if you're going to say [coding language x] is shit, you should say _why_:)
_why was the best part of Ruby.
I'm primarily a RoR developer for quite a large company. Ruby and Rails have plenty of problems, but I think they only attract so much vitriol on this site because they were overhyped for a period of time, and because some will pour hate into anything they disagree with or dislike. The most common technical things that are said against it are that the language runtime is slow (which was true, it is quite a bit better now), that it doesn't scale (which was true, it is quite a bit better now and there any many solutions depending on the particular problem).
My main gripe with it is that web apps written using Rails don't scale very well from an architectural/maintainable point of view. But my belief is that is because of the encouragement to work within the framework and take a "pragmatic" approach makes developers unwilling (and sometimes unable) to design a better program. It isn't an inherent problem with the language.
Man people must love working with you. I like taking an interest in what my colleagues are doing day to day. Our standups take about 10 minutes, and that includes the time to organise across 2 offices are remote workers (a chat room makes that easy). And yeah, it's not a replacement for one on one help, but it is a good time to let everyone else know what's going on.
Maybe it helps that the team I work in actually likes the company of one another, and the standup in the morning is a good first contact to get the day going, especially when working from home.
We get our groceries delivered by a small company, mainly local (mostly organic) and it's fantastic. Good quality, and they are very friendly and personable. Despite the extra cost we spend less due to not going to the supermarket and getting sucked into buying what we don't need. I don't know about greener though, they send it by courier.
The another one is of course: how can gravitons escape event horizon and attract anything?
I assume that you don't need a graviton to interact with the gravitational field in the same way that you don't need a higgs boson to interact with the higgs field. The particle is an excitement of the field, it doesn't carry the effect.
We've been looking for an office in Wellington over the last few weeks. I'd say the reason so many offices are empty is due to their state (earthquake prone, in serious need of refurbishment, etc) rather than demand.
Yeah but imagine you could put the electric engine in and take the gas engine to the garage and leave it there for repairs while still having the electric portion.
I also live in NZ. The problem here is that the reasonable lifespan is decided on a case by case basis making it very difficult for a consumer to go through the process, with the manufacturer arguing their case against you.
There was an interview with an Auckland professor this morning (I live in Wellington NZ). One interesting aspect to placing it in AUS/NZ is using it to measure tectonic plate movements using stable quasars. Obviously we get a fair amount of movement here, I don't know about South Africa.
It wasn't until I attended university that I realized the gender disparity in the IT community. Both of my parents are in IT, and both are programmers.
The company I work for now has about 15 programmers, all male. I think it'd be great if we could get a bit more of a mix, but there are problems. We're not a rowdy ladish type of company, so I don't see any positive bias. We've talked internally about passive bias; if we bought a woman in for an interview and they saw a room full of guys that is passive bias, and there's not much we can do about it (hiding under the desks until they're on the team is probably a no go).
The other problem of course is that we just don't get any female applicants. Because we're a small company, doing application development with Rails and other such like technologies, we tend to attract slightly more niche programmers who find us, rather than us them.
Of the women I've met who are programmers they've been as good, if not better, than their male counterparts. This might be because they need to prove themselves, or because only the very best actually persevere. I'd love to see more women enter the field. The only way I see them doing so at present is by taking the route that I took, which is self taught due to interest at a young age, and avoiding much of the community, because until there are more women the community is going to put them off (it puts me off and I'm a man, but I don't much like people, or the one upmanship when a group of geeks gathers).
OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice is notably slower, less user-friendly, and not particularly compatible with MS Office documents.
I'm not sure about that, I've been using LibreOffice more and more these days because it seems that with the latest version vs the latest MS Office it is actually lighter and faster. User friendly is what you make of it, I think it's friendly enough, the buttons all make sense, it looks less wizzy.
I just bought an asus transformer with keyboard for my partner. she thinks it's great, compared to the ipad we borrowed for a couple of weeks. It's flexible enough to use as a laptop, while still feeling minimally like a fully featured laptop, which the ipad did not. Then when we get in the car the screen pops off and we can give it to our kid to watch an episode of Thomas the Tank Engine.
The android marketplace is a bit crap compared the the apple store, but the hardware is better.
Or they were caught out unexpectedly (probably more than once) by the scale and escalation of these riots. Why assign malicious intent when it could be mere incompetence?
Agreed, I also prefer the look and feel of the white Macbook to the Pro. I was hoping on an update because I'm also thinking of updating. Not sure what to do now, probably wait another year.
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Rails isn't the barrier, it will work fine with a complex application. The scalability problem is where the program starts to require more than Rails 'MVC' pattern. But as I say, this is a problem only in the heads of the developers, they don't want to go outside of that pattern and the result is overloaded model classes.
I went to the first one in Wellington (New Zealand) this last weekend, and had an awesome time.
I'm also in Wellington :)
And people - if you're going to say [coding language x] is shit, you should say _why_ :)
_why was the best part of Ruby.
I'm primarily a RoR developer for quite a large company. Ruby and Rails have plenty of problems, but I think they only attract so much vitriol on this site because they were overhyped for a period of time, and because some will pour hate into anything they disagree with or dislike. The most common technical things that are said against it are that the language runtime is slow (which was true, it is quite a bit better now), that it doesn't scale (which was true, it is quite a bit better now and there any many solutions depending on the particular problem).
My main gripe with it is that web apps written using Rails don't scale very well from an architectural/maintainable point of view. But my belief is that is because of the encouragement to work within the framework and take a "pragmatic" approach makes developers unwilling (and sometimes unable) to design a better program. It isn't an inherent problem with the language.
Man people must love working with you. I like taking an interest in what my colleagues are doing day to day. Our standups take about 10 minutes, and that includes the time to organise across 2 offices are remote workers (a chat room makes that easy). And yeah, it's not a replacement for one on one help, but it is a good time to let everyone else know what's going on.
Maybe it helps that the team I work in actually likes the company of one another, and the standup in the morning is a good first contact to get the day going, especially when working from home.
We get our groceries delivered by a small company, mainly local (mostly organic) and it's fantastic. Good quality, and they are very friendly and personable. Despite the extra cost we spend less due to not going to the supermarket and getting sucked into buying what we don't need. I don't know about greener though, they send it by courier.
but his ability to do so might be hampered if the hardware wasn't in general use.
The another one is of course: how can gravitons escape event horizon and attract anything?
I assume that you don't need a graviton to interact with the gravitational field in the same way that you don't need a higgs boson to interact with the higgs field. The particle is an excitement of the field, it doesn't carry the effect.
I think this is the most insightful post I've read to date. Thanks.
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We've been looking for an office in Wellington over the last few weeks. I'd say the reason so many offices are empty is due to their state (earthquake prone, in serious need of refurbishment, etc) rather than demand.
well you save money on gas driving to the bookshop, and you have the convenience of being able to find and download it easily.
Yeah but imagine you could put the electric engine in and take the gas engine to the garage and leave it there for repairs while still having the electric portion.
I also live in NZ. The problem here is that the reasonable lifespan is decided on a case by case basis making it very difficult for a consumer to go through the process, with the manufacturer arguing their case against you.
Very enjoyable series but I wouldn't call them forgotten. They seem to be available at even small bookstores.
There was an interview with an Auckland professor this morning (I live in Wellington NZ). One interesting aspect to placing it in AUS/NZ is using it to measure tectonic plate movements using stable quasars. Obviously we get a fair amount of movement here, I don't know about South Africa.
oops. well actually it's a grammatically error I make fairly often.
It wasn't until I attended university that I realized the gender disparity in the IT community. Both of my parents are in IT, and both are programmers.
The company I work for now has about 15 programmers, all male. I think it'd be great if we could get a bit more of a mix, but there are problems. We're not a rowdy ladish type of company, so I don't see any positive bias. We've talked internally about passive bias; if we bought a woman in for an interview and they saw a room full of guys that is passive bias, and there's not much we can do about it (hiding under the desks until they're on the team is probably a no go).
The other problem of course is that we just don't get any female applicants. Because we're a small company, doing application development with Rails and other such like technologies, we tend to attract slightly more niche programmers who find us, rather than us them.
Of the women I've met who are programmers they've been as good, if not better, than their male counterparts. This might be because they need to prove themselves, or because only the very best actually persevere. I'd love to see more women enter the field. The only way I see them doing so at present is by taking the route that I took, which is self taught due to interest at a young age, and avoiding much of the community, because until there are more women the community is going to put them off (it puts me off and I'm a man, but I don't much like people, or the one upmanship when a group of geeks gathers).
Auckland isn't the capital of NZ
Scrum isn't a silver bullet to other problems, and logging time isn't part of the scrum methodology anyway.
OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice is notably slower, less user-friendly, and not particularly compatible with MS Office documents.
I'm not sure about that, I've been using LibreOffice more and more these days because it seems that with the latest version vs the latest MS Office it is actually lighter and faster. User friendly is what you make of it, I think it's friendly enough, the buttons all make sense, it looks less wizzy.
only the vocal ones
I just bought an asus transformer with keyboard for my partner. she thinks it's great, compared to the ipad we borrowed for a couple of weeks. It's flexible enough to use as a laptop, while still feeling minimally like a fully featured laptop, which the ipad did not. Then when we get in the car the screen pops off and we can give it to our kid to watch an episode of Thomas the Tank Engine.
The android marketplace is a bit crap compared the the apple store, but the hardware is better.
Because they didn't find oil in space ?
Except on Titan, where it rains from the sky.
Or they were caught out unexpectedly (probably more than once) by the scale and escalation of these riots. Why assign malicious intent when it could be mere incompetence?
Agreed, I also prefer the look and feel of the white Macbook to the Pro. I was hoping on an update because I'm also thinking of updating. Not sure what to do now, probably wait another year.
Maybe some indie developer can come up with a revolutionary game where you ride around on a Vespa and go to poetry readings at various coffee shops.
That sounds brilliant!