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Well, he credited the author, built a plugin around it, developed and designed a website so more people could use it.

Plus, he only recommends a $3.00 donation, and what indication do you have that he isn't sharing the money?

Read benbsholz's comment (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3243628)...

It really doesn't hurt to remind people about this and make sure they take action. The future of open source software is at the core of HN, and it could really get affected by this legislation.

This is a genius name. Sounds catchy, but still nails what the product actually does.

I love this, I use it to keep myself in perspective from time to time when I alt-tab to Reddit fifty times in a minute without thinking. Also, use of the Lost soundtrack was awesome. Really underrated music IMO.

Thought this was really funny. Makes fun of the buzzwords we like to use and the "trendy" startup atmosphere.

I know, I saw. My question is, how did they do that?

This is great, developers could use a voice at the W3C. Wait, how did they do that awesome effect with the screenshot that's slanted and angled like that? Is that a special filter, or did they do that in Photoshop?

Aw, man... saw "PA" and thought "Pennsylvania". You know, not everyone gets to live in California so long that Palo Alto becomes shortened to an acronym. :(

Looks like an awesome barbecue though! Will there be coding involved?

Thanks! Nothing wrong with deciding not to re-invent the wheel, right?

Yes, it should gloss over those things. If you're getting into Rails, there's an understanding that you know what the terminal is. That's like complaining that a tutorial on how to make a good sandwich doesn't explain how to open a refrigerator.

Not only did you write this article in an unreasonably sarcastic tone in response to a blog post that isn't the best "intro to Rails", but it's also clear that you clearly lack the programming experience to say that installing Rails is "insane".

> If you want to use Linux, sorry, you’re kind of on your own.

Rails does run best on a Mac, and there are reasons for that. However, it can also run on Linux or Windows with cygwin.

> Open the Terminal. Don’t worry about what it is or where it resides on your computer.

This is where I seriously doubt your ability to have a professional opinion on that. If you've never used the terminal and you're so unfamiliar with it then you're scared the author might be using an unfamiliar program, then how are you expecting to get started with a web framework that works exclusively out of a command line?

> Install a package manager. What’s that, you ask? Don’t worry about it!

Once again, if you don't know what a package manager is, maybe you should learn about things like this first- RVM works wonderfully with Rails gems, but you don't appear to have anywhere near the amount of technical knowledge to know that.

> Now quit the Terminal and re-open it for some reason.

Yes- you have to restart Terminal before using newly installed frameworks. This is basic terminal knowledge.

> I want to see people programming, and learning to program.

Excellent! Yes, the article you responded to isn't great, especially if the reader has little programming knowledge. But slamming Rails because it requires some basic skills around Terminal is inappropriate and reflects upon poor technical awareness.