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gary4garon Ask HN: What do you want to see in Rails 4.1?

* Improved migration format: make it possible to create new initial migrations as a project evolves by rebasing. Meaning there's no need to keep or execute the whole migration history every time. On my current project running migrations from starch takes 30mins :(

* Improvement in performance in regarding to JSON generation or other thing is always welcome. following benchmarks can be taken as reference where rails stands currently. Any improvement in the above stats would be awesome http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r6

gary4garon Hugo: A Fast And Flexible Static Site Generator Built In GoLang

Go's Rising popularity is false assumption. Comparing to popularity of only modern languages; Go barely registers on the graph & you will have to very careful to note Golang is actually present. so practically, Go is still a niche language.

http://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=golang#q=golang%2C%20...

gary4garon Pkgr, make a package out of a Rails app in 5 minutes

Why a requirement for thin?

gary4garon Help with Rails?

Hey, I would love to help. no need of payment, just a thank you is enough. Contact me, email in profile

gary4garon Code Wars (JS, Coffeescript & Ruby)

        def multiply(a, b)

          a*b

        end

note the comma in params

gary4garon Code Wars (JS, Coffeescript & Ruby)

I fixed the code, click submit. nothing happens?

gary4garon Ask HN: What are some good free resources to learn Ruby (not Rails)?

The following resources are good & FREE

    - tryruby
    - rubymonk
    - ruby.about.com
    - Programming Ruby(http://docs.ruby-doc.com/docs/ProgrammingRuby/)
    - http://www.codecademy.com/tracks/ruby
    - http://rubylearning.com/satishtalim/tutorial.html
    - ruby.learncodethehardway.org
    - rubykoans.com
    - https://learn.thoughtbot.com/ruby
    - http://iwanttolearnruby.com/
    - http://www.tutorialspoint.com/ruby/
    - http://ruby.bastardsbook.com/toc/
    - http://ruby-doc.org/
    - http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/
    - http://mislav.uniqpath.com/poignant-guide/

gary4garon Release of Diaspora v0.1.0.0

Due to the focus on privacy, I think Diaspora makes perfect sense as intranet social network for Companies, Govt, Colleges etc. I would wish Diaspora pivots in this direction

gary4garon Docker - Way better than a VM

you can use any VPS provider who support ArchLinux or Gentoo Image. Both Distros will have linux kernel version > 3.8

gary4garon Ruby 2.0.0-p195 released

for rvm users, upgrade is pretty simple:

    $ rvm get stable
    $ rvm install ruby

done!

gary4garon Flat UI was Released - Framework for Designers and Developers,based on Bootstrap

Not open source. Its a paid product?

gary4garon RubyMotion: Year One

There should a trial

gary4garon Generational Garbage Collection for Ruby 2.1

Koichi Sasada first contributed Ruby 1.9 VM(YARV) & now new GC algo. Its amazing that how much big dent an single person can make to a language/ecosystem used by millions around the world #Respect.

gary4garon Ask HN: What IRC channels does everyone find interesting?

I find these interesting:

#archlinux #rvm #wordpress #jquery #rubyonrails #ruby

Lastly, don't venture in #cakephp. you will get trolled or be called a n00b for not knowing some silly cake specific stuff.

gary4garon India’s elites have a ferocious sense of entitlement

The reason is Population

there are just too many people fighting for same resources. hence it gets messy

gary4garon Learn Ruby

Rails.app which is now called Tokaido is not dead, see this:

Kickstart Update: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1397300529/railsapp/post...

Source Code: https://github.com/tokaido/tokaidoapp

gary4garon Web Framework Benchmarks

Woah....PHP is faster than Ruby in lot of results? I wonder why is this the case?

gary4garon DuckDuckGo Architecture - 1 Million Deep Searches a Day and Growing

DDG is using dynamic language like Perl[1] to achieve high-scalability which is slowest of all languages. This proves languages don't matter much, its all about architecture.

I guess its time to stop worrying about performance of your programming language & start building better high-salable architectures.

[1] Slowest of all languages http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32/which-programs-a...

gary4garon Canonical might switch Ubuntu to rolling releases for 14.04

<scarcasm>You know there is a nifty feature called bash aliases which is present in linux. so 'pacman -Syu' can simply be called 'upgrade'</scarcasm>

But seriously, alias commands you use, no need to remember the oddities.

gary4garon [dead]

Just noticed the new profile page. I like the focus on contributions. You can see the official announcement here:

https://github.com/blog/1360-introducing-contributions

Check yours & discover how much you have contributed. Also the profile now seems to display some numbers on user's activity.

gary4garon Thoughts on Go after writing 3 websites

even php has built-in webserver too! http://php.net/manual/en/features.commandline.webserver.php

gary4garon Improved User Profiles

WoW...this is nice. Now, only if they could fix their source code browser which si really slow compared to github's.

gary4garon The Future of Ruby

So, basically its People with ad-hoc system Vs Process advocates.

It would be interesting how these discussions pan our. something to keep an eye on

gary4garon Ask HN: Are there any remote internship opportunities?

interesting.

can give a list of few of the prominent companies that could do offer 5-6months internship & cover living costs.

gary4garon A Simple Tour of the Ruby MRI Source Code with Pat Shaughnessy

This is useful only for two kind of people:

- Looking to contribute to Ruby MRI or

- want to understand certain behavior

For rest of us, I don't see much value.

gary4garon Color schemes for Sublime Text 2 and Textmate

AFAIK, Portable version of Sublime Text 2 is only available on Windows

gary4garon Emmet shows-off super-charged way to write HTML & CSS

I found about this today. This allows us to write html in using CSS like shorthand, pretty cool & saves lot of time. Check the Demo Screencast on homepage. I found it quite nice, so sharing here

gary4garon Twitter survives election after Ruby-to-JVM move

  <!-- insert *evil grin* here -->

gary4garon Twitter survives election after Ruby-to-JVM move

Twitter's better performance is because of a better architecture than Java language. Further, the performance is from JVM, so you can use any of the JVM language including JRuby to get similar effects.

This articles seems more like link-bait to me.

gary4garon Meet the new Light Table

I get the following error:

  $ ./LightTable: error while loading shared libraries: libsmime3.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Instruction in how build/install LightTable on Linux? What the the dependencies or configuration directives?