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g3rald··on The Age of AI has begun
My primary concern with recent advances in AI is the imbalance it will create. Most optimistic views on AI come from people already employed by the major players (OpenAI, Microsoft, Nvidia, etc.), and one their main arguments is that while they acknowledge AI will displace numerous jobs, it will also generate superior ones. However, the main problem arises when these "better" jobs replace the lost ones, but are performed by fewer individuals. One developer will be capable of accomplishing the work of at least three, and the same applies to lawyers, analysts, and so on.
g3rald··on Ryan Bates returns
Welcome back Ryan. Many people, including me, began learning Rails with your very helpful tutorials :)
g3rald··on José Valim on the Elixir Language, Concurrency, Iteration
I started getting interested in Elixir, especially after seeing the amazing benchmark of Phoenix, built on top of Elixir >> https://github.com/mroth/phoenix-showdown
g3rald··on My product failed
One problem i can see is you build an isolated system. People when look for a solution like inventory, hopes that in the future they can intregrate it into a bigger system. Someone talk in this discussion about ERP, but i think that build an ERP require too much resources and time, about all for an startup, but is desirable to have a product that have more than just an inventory system. I think you have two ways, first integrate your system with some big alternatives of market [some one mention shopify] or create more systems and integrate them [consider see openerp or openbravo]...
g3rald··on Show HN: Goodbye Old Editor – Reinventing coding with the cloud
Hey man, i just found a problem with Ruby. When i run the demo code with sinatra, tries to download dependencies with Bundler, i got this error:

Installing dependencies using Bundler version 1.3.2 Running: bundle install --without development:test --path vendor/bundle --binstubs vendor/bundle/bin --deployment The source :rubygems is deprecated because HTTP requests are insecure. Please change your source to 'https://rubygems.org if possible, or 'http://rubygems.org if not. You are trying to install in deployment mode after changing your Gemfile. Run `bundle install` elsewhere and add the updated Gemfile.lock to version control. You have added to the Gemfile: * source: rubygems repository http://rubygems.org/ * sinatra (= 1.1.0) * thin ! ERROR: Failed to install gems via Bundler.

g3rald··on Show HN: Goodbye Old Editor – Reinventing coding with the cloud
That's incredible. I've been trying all morning, and do not stop to amaze me.
g3rald··on Riding Rails: 2013 Rails Google Summer of Code Projects
I just was waiting for that. I was recently searching for a new open source project in Ruby on Rails where i could collaborate to improve my skills and generate some value...
g3rald··on Frameworks Round 3
I want to try Gemini. Can you give me some tips to start?
g3rald··on Frameworks Round 3
Consider that we are talking about web oriented programming languages ​​and frameworks.
g3rald··on Frameworks Round 3
Wow I'm surprised that Rails has obtained better performance than PHP frameworks, and on many occasions has proved better than DJango...
g3rald··on Expunging Google
For companies like Google we are mere merchandise, as we do not generate sufficient profits they discard us, well done ...
g3rald··on Ruby is too slow for programming competitions
There is a huge difference between Ruby and Go, in terms of performance. I wonder if anyone has any experience with Python, considering that both are interpreted programming languages.