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frostymarvelous··on What's New in Ruby on Rails 8
I'd say this speaks more to the metaprogramming capabilities of rails rather than the team itself.

Rails simply does more for you out the box with just a few macros.

frostymarvelous··on What's New in Ruby on Rails 8
That's not completely accurate. Rails 7.2 added fiber support.

Only action cable still doesn't fully support falcon using http 2. But that's coming soon as well.

frostymarvelous··on Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp Down Globally
Ghana. Whatsapp is fine but Facebook is down.
frostymarvelous··on Good Overview of Modern Visual Application Builders?
If you're building internal facing apps, you can't go wrong with retool.

We've used it in production since before it became public and its served us well.

frostymarvelous··on Racist, Sexist maintainer should be removed from project
It's a really sad state of affairs.

There's clearly hatred being directed at a certain gender and race, but that seems to be fine since "they are the oppressors".

frostymarvelous··on ReactXP – A library for building cross-platform apps
I think flutter fills that space. Apart from lacking proper background task support, it's a good offering.

As a very adopter of react, flutter tickles me the same way.

frostymarvelous··on Show HN: Retool – build internal tools faster
I've been using this for the last 3 months and it's a pretty amazing tool. We need to spin up tools quickly for our operation teams and this has been a godsend.

The support has been amazing as well. Very quick response times and fixes when we report any bugs.

frostymarvelous··on A letter about Google AMP
It is obvious Google is doing it for their own benefit as well. The faster your page loads, the faster they can crawl.
frostymarvelous··on A collection of things software developers should know
For one thing, I do know my life revolves around programming.

I work from home and so get to spend time with my kids and have a pretty chill time, but everything I do, is calculated towards solving that next problem.

E.g.when I'm stuck on a problem, I go play with my kids to rest and passively process it.

To me, this is a pretty chill life. This is what a "life" means to me.

Traditionally, people's careers have always been their lives. Blacksmiths, farmers etc, why can't it be now?

frostymarvelous··on The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs
I have more than 100 tabs on mobile. FYI, the indicator changes to a smiley.

It's easy to cross that threshold when you're doing research.

frostymarvelous··on Why a Successful Valley Entrepreneur Started a Tech Incubator in Ghana
Escape? Those who wished to escape took different paths, visa lotteries and the like.

Those of us who've stayed back and are actively involved in tech entrepreneurship have little desire to leave. We would have already, we have the skills.

Ghana might not have it the best, but every country started like this. It takes dedication from its citizens to grow and that mindset is catching on now.

Not to detract from the rest of your answer though.

frostymarvelous··on Is it unethical for me to not tell my employer I've automated my job?
In that case, should he tell his employer he mechanized his work?
frostymarvelous··on My Uber driver robbed me, so I took Uber to court and won
There were 4 of them out that night. And the driver closed for the day to hang with them.

After he dropped them, they realized the devices were still in the car, and immediately tried to reach him. And he never picked up.

Well, he never pursued the issue further and left it at that.

I've had some rather good experiences e.g. where the driver called me, and brought back the stuff to me after he was done at the end of the day and refused to take any money as a reward.

I guess it all depends on the person.

frostymarvelous··on My Uber driver robbed me, so I took Uber to court and won
On a night out drinking, a friend invited their uber driver to join them as they had a great connection (this is Africa so its not really strange). At the end of the night, said friend forgot all his devices in the ride and after trying to reach the driver for days and failing, we reported the issue to uber. Uber called the driver and he denied he'd seen the devices. Uber basically gave us the finger and told us they could do nothing.
frostymarvelous··on Telegram founder: US intelligence tried to bribe us to weaken encryption
And TOR is no longer (was it before, I don't know) a secure tool.
frostymarvelous··on President Trump Dismisses FBI Director Comey
A nitpick.

He didn't actually say "nepotism is a beautiful thing".

While I absolutely do not agree with Trump or his family and what they are doing, I hate to see when people, with a subtle twist change the meanings of what people say.

Trump has done enough to fuel negative press for decades. We don't need to make stuff up.

frostymarvelous··on Why Use Postgres?
Interestingly, I just yesterday published a post about pglogical. http://thedumbtechguy.blogspot.com/2017/04/demystifying-pglo...

Postgres is an amazing piece of software.

frostymarvelous··on Caterpillar found to eat shopping bags, suggesting solution to plastic pollution
Especially if we're adrift and starving. In that situation, the more complex the nervous system, the better.
frostymarvelous··on Caterpillar found to eat shopping bags, suggesting solution to plastic pollution
The fact that I just erased my comment out of fear that it would be misunderstood and downvoted to hell scares me.
frostymarvelous··on Hans Rosling has died
Exactly the same argument I advanced to @YeGoblynQueenne.

Where there's no option, you have to split the roles.

And where you split the roles, you can't make one party burdened unnecessarily.

frostymarvelous··on Hans Rosling has died
You don't have to believe it for it to be true.

> I'm very familiar with the alleged social necessity of keeping women home with their washing machines.

I think you missed the point where I mentioned it was her choice to stay at home and take care of the kids.

No where did I try to advance an argument to keep women at home with their washing, rather, I tried to explain that for most people, they have no choice, and this lack of choice doesn't mean they should continue to do it manually.

You speak about it being an excuse. Again, basing this on your reality. One that has only experienced western culture and life styles.

In a region where much of the population is poor, and the only jobs available to them are hard and laborious with long hours, you have no option but to leave that kind of work to the men.

So yes, it is indeed a necessity to many of these people to split their roles and not just an excuse to lord it over the women as you try to make it sound. The reason this is difficult to end is due to the difficulty in ending the underlying cause itself, mostly poverty.

frostymarvelous··on Hans Rosling has died
When I read statements like this, I realise how detached many people are from the African reality.

I'm a Ghanaian/German and my wife is a house wife. Indeed, I go to work while she stays at home to clean, cook and take care of the kids.

The point is, it's her choice to do so. Because she doesn't work, we can't afford to get help. And she prefers to take care of her kids herself at this young age (oldest is 4).

Does that mean we need to change so I leave work and come help her with the washing?

Well, I bought her a washing machine due to the sheer volume of laundry my kids generate in a day so she doesn't have to, on top of her other chores spend her whole time washing.

Now she has more time to study as she's done with chores sooner and is less tired after doing them.

The split of roles is mostly a necessary evil in our part of the world. Mothers are some better suited to taking care of their children than fathers are. Slice it whatever way you want, it's a fact of nature.

Our realities are different, sometimes I wish people would understand that.

frostymarvelous··on Amazon Web Services in Plain English (2015)
This is very annoying to read on my S6 in chrome 55.0.2883.91
frostymarvelous··on Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It
Similar pattern but on mobile. Now chrome doesn't bother with the tab count, just a ':D'
frostymarvelous··on Show HN: Make an app by adding JSON to this app
Is anyone working on an Android port? I'd definitely want to give it a go.

Haven't checked yet, but is there a spec for the json?

frostymarvelous··on MacBook Pro
> The Mac Pro is overpowered for them. I'm not sure if you are trolling?

Moore's law has slowed down btw and is predicted to end in 4-6 years (2020 - 2022) as it would be physically impossible to shrink transistors any further /unless/ there is a change from the current silicon CMOS technology.

In fact, manufacturers are no longer even targeting the doubling of transistors anymore! Instead they are focusing speeding them up.

frostymarvelous··on Taking PHP Seriously
This is why I first build my projects in PHP and only move them to ASP when they succeed!
frostymarvelous··on A Javascript journey with only six characters
For those not in the know or too lazy to Google, that's "the answer to life the universe and everything"
frostymarvelous··on I'm choosing euthanasia etd 1pm. I have no last words.
> It's not their business unless I share their belief, which I don't.

And even if you do share it, it's not.

frostymarvelous··on Bike manufacturer sees huge reduction in delivery damage by printing TV on box
That was pretty good.
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