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bparanj

24 karma · joined May 7, 2014

Founder of http://www.rubyplus.com
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bparanj··on A Git forge for the agentic era
This is very shady. How is this different from Github. Can you explains how this deals with the AI code generation at machine speed? Does human still in the loop of reviewing the AI slop?
bparanj··on Building a CLI for all of Cloudflare
I will be adding support for Cloudflare for https://github.com/sufield/stave soon. Currently it supports AWS, Azure and GCP. I have been using AWS CLI for end to end testing. Where can I get support if I run into problems during development?
bparanj··on RailsCasts Retrospective Part 1: The Fuel
Ryan Bates Success Formula

1. Apply the "do the simplest thing that could possibly work, get feedback, and iterate on that" principle to any project or idea to gauge interest and get feedback. 2. Reach out to relevant sponsors or partners for support and collaboration. 3. Create content in a consistent and dependable manner to build an audience. 4. Promote content through personal networks and relevant forums or communities. 5. Request feedback from viewers or users to improve and refine content.

bparanj··on Ask HN: Before accepting a job or interview, what are red flags to look out for?
If you have to pull their head out of their ass during the interview process, you will have to do it everyday several times. It is better not to work there. If they give you an offer, give an outrageous salary range as your compensation to work in that kind of environment.
bparanj··on Ask HN: Before accepting a job or interview, what are red flags to look out for?
Too many changes in who will interview. This shows that they are not organized.

They expect you to use your magic wand to make their problems go away.

bparanj··on Ask HN: What is your go-to example for a good REST API?
-1 for Stripe. The API is designed without any thought how the use cases need to use it. Leaks the JSON structure of the document to the client. This breaks your code when they change the JSON structure.
bparanj··on Why I'm taking a long startup investing vacation
Maybe you can write an article on how you traveled the world with free miles during your investing vacation? Where do cheapos like this guy get money to invest in startups? Money laundering?
bparanj··on Programming by poking: why MIT stopped teaching SICP
Great concept! Soon monkeys will do all the poking. Humans can just watch.
bparanj··on Show HN: I made an interactive Bootstrap 4 cheat sheet
What did you use to implement the copy to clipboard feature?
bparanj··on [dead]
Very useful Ruby resource.
bparanj··on Ask HN: What should I learn next?
The demand for every programming language / framework follows the bell curve. You are correct that Android demand will drop off at certain point. It's difficult to predict what will be the next big hit. The best thing to do is keep an open mind and try out different things that has the potential to become very popular. It's like managing your stock portfolio. You have to spend time in some risky technologies which has big rewards, if it takes off.
bparanj··on Ruby String Basics: Ruby Silent Cast
Ruby Silent Casts Why silent? What's in it for you? - Your brain has to fill in the blanks - You will be able to connect the dots and develop the understanding yourself - No one likes to read documentation. These videos will be live coding with no reading. - You can listen to something else while you watch the videos - Easy to brush up basics before the interview - Free to watch on browser and reasonable price for download option
bparanj··on Ruby Plus – Coding in the Browser
Learn C, C++, C#, Elixir, Go, Haxe, Java, Node.js, PHP, Python 2, Python 3 and Ruby on a browser in any device for free.
bparanj··on GoRails – Ruby on Rails screencasts for web developers
Screencasts take a long time to produce. I got burned out at 73rd episode for rubyplus.org (within 6 months). I was publishing at a much faster rate. Now I have only articles at http://www.rubyplus.com
bparanj··on GoRails – Ruby on Rails screencasts for web developers
Checkout http://www.rubyplus.com for articles.
bparanj··on What's is wrong with BDD? Mock Abuse
Paying attention to design that you end up with is far more important than blindly doing BDD.