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jonsmockon Learn You An Ruby, a mix of LYAH and LPTHW

Relinked, because the name of the repo seems to have changed:

https://github.com/krainboltgreene/learn-you-the-ruby-for-aw...

jonsmockon 37Signals: "We Compete With Email"

I was about to suggest the same thing, except it basically turns you into a computer. If the app (/api) is small enough, this could work really well. But even for something as "small" as Basecamp, the "protocol" could get decently complicated fast. Somehow this equates to the Terminal vs. GUI apps debate to me.

jonsmockon Ask HN: Considering quitting my day job to work on my startups

The only pushback is that you are risking your savings on this, so it's still a big decision (maybe not gamble exactly, depending on how you look at it). There's always opportunity cost at risk.

However, I know I personally work best when I focus on one thing, or at most two. Seems like you have too much on your plate, so I would recommend cutting something as soon as you reasonably can.

jonsmockon Ask HN: Is anyone still excited by Diaspora?

I was sad that it raised so much money, when Rails 3 only raised a little over $37K for Charity Water just two months later. Just felt weird to me, since this was a purely speculative project, while Rails 3 is real and delivered, and Charity Water effects change in a very real and direct way.

http://mycharitywater.org/rails3

jonsmockon Boolean operation "trick"

I would laugh, but I know I've written similar clunky code while thinking about the more complicated problem at hand (especially if in a rush).

Also, this is a neat example to show how novices/beginners learn how to program. They don't think about conditionals operating on booleans, the result of an expression like (1 == 2). And, they overall just seem to treat booleans differently. Seems silly once you've internalized it, but I'm sure we all make this realization while we're learning.

jonsmockon Rails 3.0: Release candidate 2

I know you're being facetious here, but I do think most of those commits are internal changes and not API changes. Things like removing unnecessary instantiations of variables, adding/removing deprecations, docs, and cleaning up tests.

jonsmockon Ruby and .Net Developers solve two different kinds of problems

It certainly made me reevaluate my thinking on the two languages and problem domains. The only small bit I'd disagree with is that Ruby is only used for websites, but I'll hardly create a fuss over that.

If people are looking to poke at you, they'll do it, but otherwise, I'd say, yeah, it's a reasonable observation/opinion.

jonsmockon [dead]

StackOverflow comes to mind.

jonsmockon Linus vs C++, again

I think a lot of this will improve with Rails 3's new query syntax. It looks a lot like LINQ for .NET.

Yeah, a lot of times you're using the same keywords you might use in SQL, but the new chainable extensions are really nice for building up queries and reusing common chunks (either in LINQ or in Rails 3)

I should note that this new relational syntax is provided by a library called Arel (http://github.com/nkallen/arel)

jonsmockon There Are No Famous Programmers

Wow, I really needed to hear this right now. Thanks.

jonsmockon Ask HN: SOAP vs REST, which one do you prefer working with ?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/686634/soap-whats-the-poi...

[Disclaimer: I answered here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/686634/soap-whats-the-poi... ]