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dkannan··on WTF Java? Why Not Overload == for Java.lang.Long?
Comparison works as expected in Ruby Have checked in ruby 2.1.2p95

code:

> (250).class #=> Fixnum > (250) == (250) #=> true > (2100).class #=> Bignum > (2100) == (2100) #=> true

dkannan··on Mapping Migration in the United States
Mark DiMarco gave a talk at JSConf 2014 called User Interface Algorithms which touches upon this

http://youtu.be/90NsjKvz9Ns?t=4m10s

relevant section starts at 4:13

rest of the talk is good as well

dkannan··on CSS Front-end Frameworks Comparison
would be nice to see http://susy.oddbird.net/ and http://topcoat.io/ as well
dkannan··on Will Rails be the new PHP
check http://www.amazon.com/Rails-AntiPatterns-Refactoring-Addison...

other than that, 1. write tests 2. good community. for some measure of good

dkannan··on Will Rails be the new PHP
most of the PHP devs i know write raw PHP. they do not use a framework. one team built their own (4 years back). And NONE of them wrote tests. Actually i have never seen or heard any php dev writing and evangelizing tests

In ruby, mostly everyone i know, uses rails and mostly everyone writes some test. either TDD or after writing the code.

It is not as bad as PHP but personally even for me, i should write better rails code

dkannan··on Uploadd: A minimal upload server powered by Rainbows (includes Rails plugin)
what is uploadd? how does it work, what problem does it solve and how is it different?

Was facing timeouts and general slowness, in file upload in my app and found uploadd. Although i am still debugging and it i am sure it is a network issue.