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New comment by rbxbx in "Ruby, PHP, MySQL, Perl, Free Hosting for geeks"

rbxbx — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 00:09:47 +0000

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 :)

Once Upon A Time At the MIT AI Lab

rbxbx — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 19:43:50 +0000

Article URL: http://twopoint718.github.com/blog.html#2012-05-05

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4471549

Points: 1

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RestKit Object Mapping with RubyMotion

rbxbx — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 18:14:46 +0000

Article URL: http://thunderboltlabs.com/posts/restkit-object-mapping-with-rubymotion

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4330111

Points: 10

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New comment by rbxbx in "Buildpacks: Heroku for Everything"

rbxbx — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 17:14:48 +0000

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.

New comment by rbxbx in "Got 15 minutes and want to learn Git?"

rbxbx — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 01:01:40 +0000

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.

New comment by rbxbx in "Haskell powered companies "

rbxbx — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 00:36:16 +0000

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.

New comment by rbxbx in "Objectify: A Better Way to Build Rails Applications"

rbxbx — Wed, 23 May 2012 17:20:15 +0000

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?

New comment by rbxbx in "The new emberjs.com"

rbxbx — Mon, 21 May 2012 21:53:08 +0000

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.

New comment by rbxbx in "Show HN: Habit List - my first iOS app"

rbxbx — Sun, 20 May 2012 18:22:14 +0000

Does Habit List use iCloud to sync it's data across my devices?

New comment by rbxbx in "Ivy League school janitor graduates with honors"

rbxbx — Sun, 13 May 2012 23:17:59 +0000

    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.

Parallel Haskell Digest #9

rbxbx — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 19:38:30 +0000

Article URL: http://www.well-typed.com/blog/65

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3869444

Points: 2

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New comment by rbxbx in "Redesign: Users: Thrilled. Conversion Rates: Up. Sales: Unchanged. "

rbxbx — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 22:24:54 +0000

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.

New comment by rbxbx in "Circa is a programming language for live coding, in development"

rbxbx — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 22:23:24 +0000

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.

New comment by rbxbx in "Avi Bryant Joins Etsy"

rbxbx — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:20:18 +0000

do keep us in the loop :)

Dave Thomas on OOP – Commercially successful but practically a disaster

rbxbx — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 17:42:00 +0000

Article URL: http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/SPLASH-2011-Dave-Thomas-On-Modern-Application-Development#time=5m30s

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3859215

Points: 2

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New comment by rbxbx in "First hundred days of Clojure"

rbxbx — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 22:21:02 +0000

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 ;)

New comment by rbxbx in "Light Table Is On Kickstarter"

rbxbx — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 22:14:23 +0000

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.

New comment by rbxbx in "First hundred days of Clojure"

rbxbx — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:47:29 +0000

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.

New comment by rbxbx in "A Node.js Framework Author Throwdown"

rbxbx — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:41:16 +0000

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

New comment by rbxbx in "Light Table's Numbers, And What's Happening Next"

rbxbx — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 02:23:44 +0000

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.