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Re:Ruby, PHP, MySQL, Perl, Free Hosting for geeks on Saturday September 08, 2012 @08:09PM (#4494473)
Any plans to support JVM based languages? I imagine something like Tomcat would work with your ideology of uploading a file (in this case a .jar) via FTP and being up and running. Adding JVM support would add many languages to your supported list quickly :)
Re:Buildpacks: Heroku for Everything on Tuesday July 17, 2012 @01:14PM (#4256681)
I've heard good things about http://www.appfog.com/ who used to specialize in heroku-esque PHP deployments. Perhaps they'd be worth checking out.
Re:Got 15 minutes and want to learn Git? on Wednesday July 04, 2012 @09:01PM (#4201332)
Github wants to explain what Git has to offer you. I assume they want to see you as a potential customer, and if nothing else it gives you a real live low-risk git repository to play with after you're done with the tutorial.
Re:Haskell powered companies on Friday June 22, 2012 @08:36PM (#4149648)
It's not that crazy if you think about it. If you're a freelancer working small contracts for people that "want a website", you're pretty free to use whatever technology you'd like. Doubly so if you "provide hosting".

Outside of tech and corporate circles people could really give a damn. They just want to get things done.

Re:Objectify: A Better Way to Build Rails Applications on Wednesday May 23, 2012 @01:20PM (#4014100)
At first I thought this was an attempt at trolling, but then I noticed that Mr. Golick is the commenter so therefor I must assume serious intent.

Care to give an answer better than "some book some java dudes wrote 20 years ago said so"?

While I generally agree with SRP, when that single responsibility can be expressed in a single function, I don't see the win with have a class dedicated to it. Smells of pedant OO nonsense.

Is not instantiation etc a cross-cutting concern that violates SRP in this instance?

Re:The new emberjs.com on Monday May 21, 2012 @05:53PM (#4005113)
It has a "Railsier" "Convention over Configuration" type ethos. Certainly more opinionated, if nothing else, where as Backbone is more of an empty canvas & instruments to cover it.

There are technical difference as well, but I think that's less of an issue.

Re:Show HN: Habit List - my first iOS app on Sunday May 20, 2012 @02:22PM (#3999568)
Does Habit List use iCloud to sync it's data across my devices?
Re:Ivy League school janitor graduates with honors on Sunday May 13, 2012 @07:17PM (#3968722) 

    He's not interested in furthering his studies to make more money.

    "The richness is in me, in my heart and in my head, not in my pockets," said Filipaj, who is now an American citizen.
Re:Redesign: Users: Thrilled. Conversion Rates: Up. Sales: Unchanged. on Thursday April 19, 2012 @06:24PM (#3865482)
This is a wonderful example of "Working Code Wins". Keep in mind though that often this complexity doesn't scale, for those of you on a team looking to implement similar A/B test code ;)

Way to be scrappy, Patrick.

Re:Circa is a programming language for live coding, in development on Thursday April 19, 2012 @06:23PM (#3865474)
Obligatory mention of "Inventing on Principle" by Bret Victor (https://vimeo.com/36579366) which explores a lot of similar turf. With Circa though we get to have these things today though, and with C integration to boot. Great work.
Re:Avi Bryant Joins Etsy on Wednesday April 18, 2012 @02:20PM (#3859427)
do keep us in the loop :)
Re:First hundred days of Clojure on Tuesday April 17, 2012 @06:21PM (#3855338)
I'm also a pretty big proponent of distributed teams :)

That said, as others have noted, if you're hiring quality people, there's no reason they can't learn Clojure on the job. Plus if you make an investment in your people they're more likely to be invested in you ;)

Re:Light Table Is On Kickstarter on Tuesday April 17, 2012 @06:14PM (#3855308)
ahem

    Will it be open source?

    I'm a firm believer in open source software and open
    source technologies. I can guarantee you that Light Table 
    will be built on top of the technologies that are freely 
    available to us today. As such, I believe it only fair 
    that the core of Light Table be open sourced once it is 
    launched, while some of the plugins may remained closed 
    source. At some level, this is an experiment in how open 
    source and business can mix - it will be educational for 
    us all.
Re:First hundred days of Clojure on Tuesday April 17, 2012 @01:47PM (#3853974)
I think this is a moot point, as we've seen time and time again using technologies such as Clojure/OCaml/Haskell/Etc is a boon for hiring great talent, not the other way around.

http://janestreet.com/minsky_weeks-jfp_18.pdf See part 4 "Personnel" for Jane Street's experience hiring OCaml devs.

Re:A Node.js Framework Author Throwdown on Monday April 16, 2012 @02:41PM (#3848672)
If you're into this type of thing, I imagine http://throneofjs.com/ would be up your alley as well.

  Speakers:
    Alex MacCaw — Spine.js
    Steve Sanderson — knockout.js
    Dan Webb — Top Secret
    Erich Ocean — Blossom
    Miško Hevery — Angular
    John Bender — jQuery-mobile
    Jeremy Ashkenas — backbone.js
    Yehuda Katz — ember.js
    Tom Dale — ember.js
    Nick Small — batman.js
    Harry Brundage — batman.js
Re:Light Table's Numbers, And What's Happening Next on Sunday April 15, 2012 @10:23PM (#3845622)
Perhaps a tool similar to [Titanium](http://www.appcelerator.com/products/titanium-desktop-applic...) would suit the needs of this project.

Essentially you write your application in standard html/css/js and are then able to distribute OS-specific applications for all major platforms.

Similar to PhoneGap, but I think the results are a bit better with desktop apps :) (especially something as "simple" as a text editor.

Re:Show HN: Working on my wife's idea on Sunday April 15, 2012 @06:07PM (#3844935)
So it's "Hot or Not" for puppies?
Re:Kickstarter: Make a Better CoffeeScript Compiler on Saturday April 14, 2012 @01:29PM (#3841440)
Also bear in mind that the community behind Rails is more mature, and a lot more companies have stake in it being an effective solution than do CoffeeScript, not to mention the fact that Yehuda Katz probably has a bit more reach than Michael Ficarra.

... also also a student's cost of living as opposed to a seasoned software engineer's is probably pretty disparate (for better or worse).

Re:Show HN: Meteor, a realtime JavaScript framework on Wednesday April 11, 2012 @12:16PM (#3828219)
Fairly certain that they're playing off of [Comet](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_(programming))
Re:Announcing Backlift: Deployment and Hosting for Backbone.js on Monday March 26, 2012 @08:31PM (#3759350)
2) Wouldn't http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/docs/backbone-local... work for local development?
Re:Create your own programming language in JavaScript on Monday March 26, 2012 @01:11PM (#3757621)
You're correct. That's why the first version was written in Ruby :)
Re:Rails is just an API on Wednesday March 21, 2012 @07:53PM (#3737458)
https://github.com/lightness/lightrail would seem to be of interest :)
Re:Ask HN: more sites like HN on Wednesday March 21, 2012 @05:45PM (#3736875)
Does litlet have an official or 3rd party rss feed? A quick search turned up nothing of note.
Re:The Anorexic Startup: A Tale of Sex, Drugs, and C++ on Wednesday March 14, 2012 @01:49AM (#3701996)
Did anyone else find this to be skeevy/pervy typical male nerd fantasy bullshit?

Too often Sci-Fi books go down this path as well, taking what could be an otherwise compelling story and turning it into ... this. (Daemon by Daniel Suarez is the first thing that comes to mind)

I should make it a point that frank discussions of sex and human sexuality don't bother me in the least, but drugged-up-sex-power-struggle-bullshit? Mer.

Re:Mari0=Mario + Portal ..Open source game on Monday March 05, 2012 @02:31PM (#3667939)
According to their forums, disabling sound (ie: turning the volume all the way down), fixes lag/stutter. In practice that seems to be mostly true. Still find the controls slightly unintuitive (but I imagine with an external mouse things would be better).

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