elsurudo

Thanks, I forgot about crystal. Now we just need Crystal on Rails :) It would force out some of the magic for sure, but that may be a good thing.

Yes, rails is very pragmatic – it includes a lot of what you need, so you don't end up reinventing the wheel. I like the philosophy still, and the third-part libs (gems) are top-notch.

The problem I have with it now is that I am growing tired of untyped languages. What would a typed & compiled ruby look like? I know some things wouldn't be possible, but if we could keep the philosophy of rails, I think it would still be a great framework.

Important to point out Elixir as well, which is touted as a "more modern" way to write code that runs on the Erlang VM (so you get the same concurrency features, etc.)

I already commented on this, but have you tried Colloquy for Mac?

http://colloquy.info

For Mac, Colloquy is quite good: http://colloquy.info

Works well, and is a native app that fits well into the general ecosystem.

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The modern developer's curse... We get better at choosing tools, but worse at building them.

Nice – what a simple, elegant solution. Like the others are saying, sometimes there's no need to reach for the heavy toolbox...

How did you measure the effectiveness of having the walkthrough on the front-page? Did you (or did you think about) hooking this up to some analytics? Perhaps see where people tend to drop-off?

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I've had experience at organizations large-and-small in the US & Canada, and have subsequently spent 7+ years freelancing, as well as working on my own projects (a couple: http://sign2web.com and http://snowbird.aero). I specialize mainly in web and mobile technologies, and have great communication skills. I also love to teach others.

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What I can do for you:

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- organize and manage development efforts

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- interface confidently with clients and other stakeholders

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- subcontracts welcome

I currently live in Kraków, Poland, and sometimes team up with other talented developers for larger projects. If your org has a need for an external development shop, I can also help set that up.

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Expert in: Ruby on Rails (full-stack), Objective C, Swift, Vue.js/JavaScript/TypeScript, Architecture, Relational schema design

Worked with: C, C#/VB.NET, Python, PHP, Java, Ember.js, + others...

Currently learning: Node.js, Scala, Elixir/Phoenix (would love to work with these technologies, and will offer preferential rates)

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Nice! Active Storage is a welcome addition, as file uploads are used in probably 90% of apps...

Here are the full docs, for anyone interested: http://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/active_storage_overview.ht...

Worth noting is that direct upload to cloud providers is supported already! Really nice, a crucial feature IMO – I had created my own set of libraries of deal with this in the past, so we'll see how this stacks up.

That's really neat!

With my tongue somewhat-in-cheek, I wanted to point you that you may want to be careful with that sample pic of the Eiffel Tower at night!

See: https://petapixel.com/2017/10/14/photos-eiffel-tower-night-i...

The problem with this is that many people have that thing out every other song, recording video, and blinding me.

Knowing Jack White, not necessarily. He's all about authenticity, and being in the moment. Mobiles (for me) tend to ruin this at a live show.

Maybe, but he was a bit of an idealist and has strong thoughts about how people should and how society should be structured. And the resources to make a noticeable change. HAve you heard of Fordlandia? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fordlândia

Exactly right.

Yeah, but each company just thinks in isolation. It's a bit of a prisoner's dilemma.

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Ehh, I use Safari as my main browser (it feels more "native" than Chrome & FF, has seemingly lower CPU usage than Chrome, and is WAY better for the battery), and I rarely suffer for it. Once in a while there is a site that does something fancy that requires Chrome, but it is rare.

Cool! It would be awesome to see the trains moving in real-time (even if it wasn't "live", and just based on posted schedules).

Cool – I sometimes used a notation like this (the visual form of this) myself to (attempt to) remember melodies I heard on the radio... before Shazam existed

There is an argument to be made that hijacking the word "freedom" for this was already half the battle for repealing net neutrality. Good luck battling "freedom" in America... If only the other side could have gotten there first.

IMO it's a good "first game", but after playing for a while and with someone of similar skill and experience, the strategy is less varied than Catan. The benefit of Carcassonne is you can play with just two people.

Ehh, if your main concern if obfuscation of the primary ID, you can... obfuscate your primary IDs to be used in your URLs.

This is kind of the answer that I expected, doing some web dev myself. It's sad, isn't it? One would think we would be solving _different_ problems 20 years later...

Also related, the abandoned underground shopping mall in Barcelona: http://www.ultraswank.net/stores/avenue-of-light-the-lost-un...

Some amazing pictures... really conveys the mood.

Quite impressive for 1998! As someone who's been doing it for so long, what are your feelings about where web tech currently is, and where it is headed? Did you expect it to be farther along at this point? Replaced entirely?

Awesome. Did you guys host gave servers? Or perhaps co-op members? For some reason I remember a lot of game servers with "Speakeasy" in the name – I think this would have been Q2/Q3A/CS1.6 days

No kidding, and I am surprised this is the only comment on here pointing this out. This article is really quite sad, except for the small historical tidbits.

It really reminded me of the sad state of affairs that capitalism has brought us to: we are all tugging at the cart in different directions, not really caring which direction it ends up going in. As long as it is _our_ direction – as long as it is us making the money.

Wow, yeah. That is quite close. The front especially, but the entire shape of the car is similar as well.

Yeah, this is a much-better comparison than the rather ham-fisted one with Apple squeezed in at the end of the article.