paozac

Rail Europe (https://wwww.raileurope.com/) | Hiring in Paris and REMOTE | Senior SWE | Full-time

Rail Europe is a global travel tech company and the reference brand for European train booking. We're looking for experienced Ruby on Rails developers.

Stack: Ruby on Rails, Hotwire, AWS, Postgresql

Open roles here: https://www.welcometothejungle.com/en/companies-v1/rail-euro...

I'm happy someone's challenging the Rails almost-monoculture in the Ruby ecosystem, but Hanami doesn't seem to bring much to the table. Is there anything in this release that Rails hasn't had for years?

Yes, some features now require a subscription - it's clear where this is going

Mac office suite is moving to the subscription model, too

A good article on jet engines: https://www.construction-physics.com/p/why-its-so-hard-to-bu...

In the 80s it was fairly common to consider C64, Amstrad 464 and ZX Spectrum 8 bit, while Amiga and Atari ST 16 bit. In Italy we even had two separate video game magazines: Zzap! for 8 bit and The Games Machine for 16 bit.

Same here, I tried all combinations with BetterDisplay but kept getting fuzzy fonts. It was very frustrating on a large 5k2k display

Buy second hand books if you can: wider selection, good for the environment, lower price (usually), supports small businesses (usually).

Yes, I've seen that, too. The rails way of doing things can feel like a terrible limitation to some developers, while others enthusiastically embrace it

Javascript handling in Rails was easy in the early versions, then became messy with the asset pipeline and webpacker, and is becoming simple again with the latest versions

I love rails and the recent improvements are great.

I have the impression, though, that these days it only appeals to those who picked it up before version 3 or 4, when it was smaller, maybe more understandable, and incredibly better than all the competing frameworks (except Django maybe).

If your first contact with rails is version 7+ and you’re only comfortable with JS/TS, then you’re not going to get it and might actually strongly dislike it

Planned obsolescence is sure at play here, but I blame the design choices of Jony Ive and his team (thinness above all).

Nice improvements. If you like a clean revision history and hate messy git rebases then you should dedicate a couple hours to jj.

Asus ProArt

I've got that display, too, and quite like it. Matte finish is essential (IMO) if you're annoyed by reflections.

As a kid I spent a lot of money with the arcade version, finding it very difficult. Reaching the second or third stage was quite challenging, I was always hoping to find the knives as a weapon.

This might actually make Anthropic very popular among those who do not support the current US presidency, a significant market share.

Very nice, but on an A4 sheet the last row is cut off and you need to manually shrink it

Me, me, me and an ugly picture of Anthony Bourdain covering himself with a bone

Mazda owner here, love the physical controls but using Google/Apple maps with the joystick is painful

Trailers give away the entire film these days. No surprises allowed

I’ve always wondered why they didn’t use the Fate of Atlantis script instead of the awful crystal skull

He's been the most polarizing figure of italian politics of the last 30 years. It will take decades to reach a balanced assessment about the guy. IMO future historians will not be kind to him.

You can find them for many companies here:

https://github.com/OpenTermsArchive/contrib-versions

I used to like Postman, when it was a simple browser extension. I basically used it as a curl gui. Now

> Postman is an API platform for building and using APIs. Postman simplifies each step of the API lifecycle and streamlines collaboration so you can create better APIs—faster.

I guess I’m no longer their target user. Back to curl/httpie.

50TB is not so big these days. I read that in 2008 (!) Yahoo had a 2+ PB PG database. What is the largest you know of, 14 years later?

Not sure about this, I wouldn't like having to look up the FK name every time or hope it was named following the convention.

The first thing (among many others) that I would change in SQL is the position of the SELECT clause:

FROM .. JOIN .. SELECT .. WHERE ..

instead of

SELECT .. FROM .. JOIN .. WHERE ..

That would make the construction of many queries more natural.

I'm sure they've put some thought in the pricing strategy, like with the infamous $999 monitor stand. If you think $19 is ridiculous for a cloth (I do) then you aren't the target buyer.

I like Postico, but it is mac-only and not free.