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How much do you get paid per-hour?

Hoe many hours will you spend wrangling you servers?

Each month.

If heroku doesn't make sense you aren't getting paid enough.

oof

This feels less like a prank and more like an insult.

An insult to me, the paying textmate customer.

Yup. This is what I want at my desk.

Now I just need to find a great window with a view :)

Well color me stupid. I suppose I'm going to have to be more careful about what I call RPC.

I tend to agree with you, but don't just take it from me: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rest-discuss/message/6735

I don't think it's fair to say the original dissertation is the final word on REST, but I do think almost all of the discussion on REST is way off target. It feels like almost all the discussion is about the construction of URLs.

REST has become a buzzword, people use it just to project credibility.

I've about had it reading discussion after discussion on the topic of REST between people who haven't read the damned paper.

Here is my takeaway:

There isn't much to do with URLs in here. One URL, One resource (collection counts as a resource). Talk about URLs all you want, there can bee good resource identifiers and bad ones. But REST doesn't care as long as you don't break the golden rule.

REST is an RPC system. You call remote procedures, GET, PUT, DELETE etc. on remote resources. You are probably not smart enough to do better than what naturally emerged as HTTP. Behemoths and industries have tried. But HTTP won, and it will win again.

The infinite universe needs not repeat itself.

Some infinities are bigger than others.

I'll let you know when I'm done.

So far, as a high school drop-out I've figured out how to code, and I can say the years I have had in the field have given me a competitive edge on my peers. ( in terms of qualifications and hourly rate )

But I'm about as happy as an employee as I was being a student. I can do better for myself.

Still have some things I want to learn. I'm focused now on building my own business. As of late the web has become a great resource to learn about this. Things like the LAN startup movement and the recent surge in interest in the four steps to the epiphany have been wonderful.

I'll let you know how it goes when I'm done.

How are you doing on customer development?

One needs not inherit wealth through death to carry it on.

That's what living is for.

The privileges afforded from wealth certainly give you a leg up. Take it, or get out of the way.

The point of rails is that when there is something "you could always do" you find a way never to do it.

I think it's pretty awesome that you can fire up less than a movie ticket worth of computer via credit card and process something you'd never have a ghost of a chance to do on your desktop in a reasonable amount of time. And then do it again the next day. And the next day. Repeat until you have some useful output.

$10 gets you ~ 1000 hours on an EC2 Micro spot-instances. !!!!

Big data is a minefield of opportunity. Do go walk in it.

Maybe you could use the wiimote in combination with the physical tracking to get more precise telemetry + precise physical location and AR.

Here's a guy I know in NYC who can do wordpress: http://gregorygallagherdesign.com/

I think things like this are what Steve was talking about when he spoke of strategic opportunities coming up in the near future.

Entire categories of business are about to be disrupted by the mobile revolution.

Heck, just a few years ago a Visa IPO was floated in the ~20 billion range.

Not saying that Apple will buy Visa, but they have enough cash and a very powerful position. There could be some very interesting ways for them to take advantage of a "PC in every hand."

I suppose my point is that, even with the new hosted suff, chef doesn't have the a polished "wow, I feel like I didn't do anything" feel yet.

If you can capture that you win in my book. If I run chef, or apt-get, or you-name-it through StackFu, then yes. StackFu is my replacement X.

For me the best part is the github-esque "username" / "scriptname", and what I imagine will be the social components behind it.

I think the real show-stopper would be a way to dump in my amazon/rackspace/etc. keys and get a real full stack in one click.

The flow in the video looks great.

Easier to get into than Chef :) Hope it works as well (or better)

Signed up for the beta

Heck, I want this in my hacking. Grep for all the TODO/FIXME and run it through MTURK....

hmmm

Might work better if you write a test for the code.

Do you have a specific example of something you feel Rails doesn't do? Maybe that way somebody can tell you where in the rails ecosystem that falls.

Hmm, you might be out of luck, but it does bring up the question of why Heroku doesn't have load-triggered scaling, or some sort of dead-man's switch option.

Not really, in Rails, you might have this controller code:

@things = Thing.where(:it => "good")

And this view code:

<% for thing in @things %> <%= thing.name %> <% end %>

But the SQL query doesn't fire in the controller. It gets kicked in the view when you "for x in y"

Concerns still wonderfully separated.

I really can't approve of this notion more.

After reading your title, I'd love to hear what you think REST is.

The only truly new and interesting thing about this is how big Facebook is.

What exactly is the danger of people having my email address(substitute me with you if it helps)?

I'm solidly anti-text. And as a hobby work on non-text programming tools.

It's entirely unproven. But I hope one day I can say it's a better way to do things.

I agree. But the name problem is only one small piece of the text problem. Text is a great deal better than punch cards and that is even a greater deal better than writing things on paper and physically setting the switches.

There exists a grotesque obsession with text and the tools to edit text among programmers.

My editor of choice can give me a great deal of help when writing HTML markup. It's actually quite amazing how good an editor can be.

But I can still jump off the track and remove a "<" where there really should be one. No, that's not really useful to me at all. I'd be much better off in a world where the angular brackes, quote marks wrapping strings, and other arbitrary delimiters of the ENCODING didn't really exist at all.

I'd much rather edit a DOM directly than through the looking glass of text.

An film editor would never open up his final cut project files and tweak them by hand. He has far better tools that more appropriately fit his domain. Why not me?

I like the look of this. I'm excited about the possibilities of languages that target JavaScript. It's quite a shame that the "open" web has only one language.

Great. Nine votes worth of concessions we didn't need.

Do you mean the Django admin stuff?