meesterdude

I love M1! But I have come to hate their "tech". Obscure URL's (what was that stock you looked at two days ago? good luck finding it in your history!), broken watchlist, can't explore adjustments to a pie (such as two windows to submit/revert a pie change), have to contact support to pause trading, backtesting breaks if stocks are listed <5 years ago... they recently added dark mode to their app with terrible contrast of red/green (the green looks black in white mode so you have to use dark)

I feel like their UX priorities are screwed up big time. But as a platform, they're my favorite as far as concept/functionality.

> I am willing to argue with facts but you just added another non-factual opinion to the pile.

I'm not interested in arguing with someone who doesn't respect others opinions, nor did I make baseless claims: I cited resources.

> ...Oh, and a Mario game implementation says nothing about the typical production uses of a language and its stack.

It's true, the mario runthrough was in pure ruby and not rails, and that rails has a slower performance vs. Ruby + Sinatra.

> All dynamic languages are deeply flawed in some way, especially Ruby

That sounds pretty dogmatic itself. You don't have to like dynamic languages - but that doesn't mean they are deeply flawed. The same could be said for statically typed languages with a different set of values.

I've seen conflicting benchmarks on this showing different results - possibly has changed over time, or run different comparisons. What you linked seems current at least.

Stop painting ruby as slow. In benchmarks i've seen it's handily beat out PHP, which still runs much of the web. the ruby 3x3 goal, of getting running super mario at 60FPS, was if i recall correctly, already reached (or close to it) in ruby 2.6. https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2018/03/22/ruby-3x3-perfo...

additionally: > Sinatra + Sequel is already very competitive in web performance with Go > Between Ruby 1.8 and 2.5, performance has improved around 13x in tight loops[2]. The Rails performance issue has been massively overblown since 1.9 was released.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17220967

The thing about rate limits is, there are often hard limits. Try querying the site a bunch and see what the data transfer rate is. if it's consistently incapable of going above say, 128K/sec, you've got your rate limit.

Other times, they'll allow for bursts but sustained get rate limited - these can be detected just the same depending on their approach; if it's per connection (and not IP) you may have to find a big file to download.

It also helps to establish that traffic to other sites is not rate limited, and to use 3rd party checkers that check for connection rate across the globe. Or DIY and spin up a bunch of EC2 machines that are geographically diverse.

Damn, guess I should have written a blog post. Yesterday I launched the MVP of my stock news site http://stockqua.com with (eventual) goal to help people build up qualitative & quantitative analysis of stocks & industries to make better investing decisions.

this x1000! By pandering to the algorithm of google, a lot of great content has become watered down, softened, or impacted in other ways. Titles have to be worded a certain way, article length has to be a certain length...

hoping someone else chimes in with other thoughts because I used to know more about this, and SEO cheapening quality content was one of the key takeaways I had.

I use omnigraffle every day. Recently tried to create penrose diagrams but discovered you can't create custom open-ended shapes; and modifying any of the few open ended shapes they have closes them. Guess I can't hope for any improvements any time soon.

OG is probably the main reason I'm still on a mac. Nothing else comes close. I hope they can rethink their plans and create a more sustainable & successful business. Their other apps are pretty good too. Easily the best software shop for mac.

maybe he's got the cash - but i'm doubtful he would blow it on them. As he's indicated, he's gotten better returns from buying parts of companies than buying them out whole. I would be surprised if he does any M&A during this downturn, likely instead opting to invest more into the positions he's already got.

Worst timing for me to be on the job market. Right as the pandemic hit, I got 3 separate job offers for Rails that all got subsequently delayed due to the city (philly) shutting down or because of the virus impacting customers for the one remote offer i got. They're all saying 2-4 weeks delay, but this is likely going to stretch on for months if we as a country don't making testing readily and frequently available to everyone. Easter is out of the question.

Interesting - can you share more about the bugs you found in your code that were being exploited?

Milligram does not look like a classless framework - maybe class-lite?

webkit is open source - can't this be changed (be it by fork, or a commit proposal?)

If you're interested in more of this, there's also cssbed.com which has a bunch of different classless CSS themes you can browse

Sure, Markdown isn't perfect - but it's good enough. It's not so bad that we all should start using asciidoc. For most documentation needs, markdown works great over it's real competitor, plain text.

My bicycle has been Ruby on Rails for over 10 years and i think it is hard to beat. most all of the underlying framework is easily inspectable and changeable to suit needs, while still providing sharp knives that one could use to cut themselves if not careful.

But I think this push for "stimulating curiosity" is academic wank. That's not what bicycles of the mind are for - they're tools for building, not naval gazing. It sounds like Mu was built more for ego or prestige than to actually do anything meaningful.

Show me Mu as a bike I want to ride - not as a philosophical introspection on why Mu is in some way superior. Reading this PDF it's clearly more ideal than practical. And while it may be "see through" it's shape, interfaces, interactions and surface area are convoluted and poorly presented.

Maybe I am wrong to expect humanities out of this, but humans are who have to use this stuff/ride these bikes.

> If you are 70+ or severely ill this IS pretty bad because, unlike the flu, their is literally no defense. If you don’t fit that profile it’s just a bunch of FUD.

The 34 year old Chinese doctor who spoke up about the virus died.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51403795

This is how I see it as well. Start making cookies with the kitchen oven before planning to start a bakery. Heroku lets you do both.

How long did it take you guys to build this?

Not sure why you think bonds are assets because they are not. Investment 101 stuff right there.

not here to people please, just being authentic.

> I think it is a bad idea to say this about him without providing a concrete example on how he made you uncomfortable.

They don't have to justify themselves to you. He saw what he saw, and felt what he felt. if you have any problem with that, that's on you.

The TLD is the question, the title is the answer.

> but then, of course, you open the system up to more latency issues.

Nope. Maybe "of course", if they just lazily hack something together. But the tech is there, today, for low latency.

I mean I get it - but, it doesn't feel like ruby to me. It lacks clarity. Maybe it's just me, but i'm not psyched to see this. It feels like a scope creep of some sort.

Wow - I should say I'm surprised? But It makes sense for scrum to congregate.

keep telling yourself that. in 2020, it's all about the hustle.

I think "higher order facts" is a shitty label. The premise's and grid outlined is right, but the labels used are simply not clear. Higher order thinking is a real thing that you can google for, but higher order facts is not.

Wow, they released a processor with 64 cores?! that's crazy. AMD is crushing it!