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Re:Graduating into One of the Nastiest Job Markets in History on Wednesday July 08, 2009 @05:33PM (#694751)
Take comfort from the fact that you are graduating into one of the nastiest job markets in the history of the United States and still don't have to face the kind of competition that you would in any of these countries:

Liberia (80%)

Zimbabwe (70%)

East Timor (50%)

Bosnia (40%)

http://www.aneki.com/unemployment.html

Graduates in any of those countries would gladly swap places with you.

Re:Can You Be Too Perfect? on Tuesday July 07, 2009 @10:45AM (#691547)
despite his accomplishments, Liu teeters on a mental precipice: "It feels shameful, like, hey, I’m in my early 30s, I should have had a Yahoo by now or I should at least have had a company I sold for tons of money."

Sounds familiar.

Re:Remind HN: Father's Day on Sunday June 21, 2009 @02:06PM (#667582)
I know. Makes me a little sad though.
Re:Remind HN: Father's Day on Sunday June 21, 2009 @01:27PM (#667530)
An email is the best I can do. I don't like talking to my father.
Re:Building Successful Long Term Relationships on Saturday June 20, 2009 @04:13PM (#666768)
If your opening paragraph hadn't been misperceived as the rantings of a sociopath, people who read your second paragraph ("love the one you're with") would have been pleasantly surprised by your insight.
Re:Ruby Is The Future on Wednesday April 01, 2009 @11:56PM (#542891)
I wasn't sure whether the latter firms had found some new pixie dust by now. Good to know. Obie Fernandez has a talk online somewhere about billing where he says something like no one working in Rails should bill less than $150/hour and that he bills himself and his developers at $250 but will occasionally give discounts for various reasons. Maybe I have numbers wrong - just found it - http://www.infoq.com/presentations/fernandez-sales-do-the-hu...

I recommend watching it. Good talk. Takeaway point - always err on the side of charging too much :)

Re:Ruby Is The Future on Wednesday April 01, 2009 @08:10PM (#542699)
Ad hominem.
Re:Ruby Is The Future on Wednesday April 01, 2009 @07:48PM (#542676)
Best thing I learned today. Thanks.
Re:Ruby Is The Future on Wednesday April 01, 2009 @07:43PM (#542670)
Not so different in Ruby:

for x in 1..10; print x end

Re:Ruby Is The Future on Wednesday April 01, 2009 @06:29PM (#542565)
"I don't see where Ruby syntax is particularly more concise than C# 3's."

1.upto(10).each{|x| print x}

I'm curious - how would you print 1 through 10 in C# 3 by comparison?

Re:Ruby Is The Future on Wednesday April 01, 2009 @06:02PM (#542532)
"I mean stuff like having better documentation, for example, online, free, in googleable format"

Do you mean for the core language? Are you not happy with http://www.ruby-doc.org/ ?

Re:Ruby Is The Future on Wednesday April 01, 2009 @05:58PM (#542526)
You're lucky that in those cases you were able to recover in only two days. The time it takes to get back on track can be proportional to the size of the project so imagine if you were dealing with an enterprise system written in and monkey patched in Ruby and you had a similar problem. Depending on your luck, you might get back on track or you might end up having a lot of extra time to work on your resume.
Re:Ruby Is The Future on Wednesday April 01, 2009 @05:53PM (#542514)
It's not a very good Java either but does that really say anything? Java's not a very good Ruby. We can go round in circles.
Re:Ruby Is The Future on Wednesday April 01, 2009 @05:50PM (#542509)
I'm not qualified to respond to your points about Phusion and mongrel but on the previous point about the size of the community, are you also finding as a result that the job market for Ruby positions is sparse (forgetting about the economy for a second)? That's the impression I have from the job boards but you work in the field so maybe you have a better idea.

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