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Link to the real article http://mashable.com/2011/06/15/tumblr-surpasses-wordpress/

Also the comparison only includes hosted wordpress blogs at wordpress.com

Doctors and lawyers have continuing education requirements that have to be fulfilled to keep their licenses. This is in addition to day job.

For the record, enabling UUIDs in rails is straight forward. It's not the default though.

Why turn on UUIDs? They are not as guessable as normal IDs.

But if you started programming at 50... that's different than having done it for the last 30 years.

Interesting.. I hadn't thought about using git as a form of rsync

it replays your local commits on top of the changes you pulled down.

It depends (on the particular startup). In my experience there isn't an average startup, they all vary quite a bit.

the site could use a FAQ. I'm not sure I'd like to give up my address and email and all that, not knowing exactly how the site works first.

pretty cool, but after 7 cards it repeatedly bugs me to register. I'd rather just run through the commands quickly, not register, and not necessarily rate how well I knew them.

That said, it did teach me a few new rails commands that I didn't know.

if you're worried about the startup community in your city, you can always try telecommuting

Anecdotally, I got 130 upvotes, and something like 8000 visitors on a recent article posted here ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2597973 ), which is more like 60:1

A better solution for monkey patching is in the works: http://yehudakatz.com/2010/11/30/ruby-2-0-refinements-in-pra...

That being said, any language feature can be abused and misused

If you don't like Mac don't use it. I find it to be a good dev platform, however I run prod on ubuntu and am familiar with using ubuntu too. I wouldn't expect my MacBook to solve deployment / sysadmin issues for me.

I agree with designing for mobile first, makes for a less cluttered UI

Pay the first developer fairly. Then move on

Looks like it's time for these apps to pivot. More / different functionality than what's coming in the new operating system

also disks are cheap, and flac amounts to a digital copy of the physical CD. You could decode it to the original WAV files from the CD if you wanted to

or telecommute

Oddly enough, that's a point I didn't say much about. I've found that online communities like HN can be pretty good for getting interviews.

Especially the monthly "Who's hiring" posts.

Build a free version of your app. I suspect some of the pirates want to try your app for free.

I find that emacs ruby-mode slows to a crawl when editing a 6000 line ruby file. Now I realize the file is way too long ( these things take time to fix / refactor ), any tips on getting it to be more responsive?

Maybe they'll learn how along the way

there's always merb 1.1

IMO it improves developer happiness... whether that improves productivity dunno. For me, I doubt it would, I am using the very good js2-mode for emacs, which is able to issue warnings and error messages as I type, checking my javascript syntax as I go.

I'm using it for my sideprojects. Heroku has an addon for mongohq. If it goes down, no biggie, it's just a side project.

I wrote about the other side of it (the interviewee) here http://rawsyntax.com/post/6112439871/interviewing-for-progra...

FWIW, I don't think coding exercises help. I think the employer should require and example project that runs, and the source code to it. Many good developers have a side project that they can show off.

Personally I prefer to use github gists

can you fix the link? it's simply a signup / login page...

I would love to see improved notifications for iOS

Interestingly, they are trying out Apple and Android devices, but not Blackberry