Re:Show HN: Rails One Click Installer for Mac Os X
by atomical on Saturday April 14, 2012 @07:52PM
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It's hard to understand because none of the tools the typical developer works with are ideal. But trying to make something perfect that already works well? It's a waste of developer time.
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Re:Show HN: Rails One Click Installer for Mac Os X
by ericd on Saturday April 14, 2012 @08:27PM
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It doesn't work well, and many people spend a day or more setting it up correctly on OS X (there was one commenter in the thread announcing his project that said that he had spent 3 days getting it working right). That's the point.
I can see many ways he could spend 5 months making this great and configurable setup utility, and since so many people will use it if it's good, it's worth one person spending a long time on it. It will probably save 40k of value in terms of time for the world within the first day of its release, and after that, it will keep on giving.