oscardelben

Fun fact: years ago I started building an ipad app for Github, but it was rejected multiple times by Apple because users could use it to create a new account but then Apple wouldn't get any commission.

https://github.com/oscardelben/GithubBrowser

"Im not going to be scrambling jets to find some 29 year old hacker."

I also found that gesture is much more used in the center and south of Italy.

Has anyone read the actual response from the book author? http://pastebin.com/zwHYzCZe

I don't want to argue freedom of owning a gun, and you may very wel be trained to deal in such situations, but a gun most likely wont help you if you get in trouble. You can take away guns, but it would take many years, perhaps decades. Lots of other countries have done it.

It's not like a criminal is going to give you a call letting you know that they're getting in so you get prepared. Fun exercise: did guns save more lives or took more away?

EDIT: this is for gp.

I'd like to see some real benchmarks with a real app, but I doubt moving to jruby would bring the magnitude of improvement mentioned in the post.

I know some people who speak latin, including in the US. They may not be fluent but people still study it. It also helps if you're a linguist interested in romance languages.

yes, all gems have been verified.

To solve the hash problem you can use association and substitution. For example, while learning the word bowler the other day I imagined a bowl that served as a "tana" (my first language translation) for animals. It's a ridiculous association but it kinda works. The nice thing is that I then put words on Anki too.

I'm pretty sure you can use Ruby without turning into a fanboy.

Oddly enough, I've tried SR multiple times in the past, with very bad outcomes. For example, if I added 10 new english words on day 1 (english is my second language), I would only recall ~10-20% the day after.

Then a few days ago I started reading The Memory Book which really emphasizes on visualizing things, making correlations, etc. The effort of visualizing and using imagination really made a difference: in one hour I memorized the list of 50 states forward and backward with almost 100% accuracy after 2-3 days (I had never head of some states before).

Quickly after I realized that my limited english vocabulary was also the weakness in this system, so I started visualizing and adding new words to Anki once again. The result is that my recalling after 24 hours is close to 80-90% for new words, which is encouraging.

I've been doing this for ~1 week, so take it with a grain of salt, but for me it seems that visualizing the words and using SR is helping. It takes 3 times the effort, but as long as I remember things, I don't care.

The idea of applying the system to programming sounds interesting, and definitely worth a try.

You may want to read "The Mythical Man Month".

Thanks. If you have any other ideas for improvement let me know. I've also open sourced the project at https://github.com/oscardelben/rubyxp

The traffic in the bay area is pretty bad, too.

Was there a prize for the first person that posted this?

Yes, use a mat guys it helps a lot

He's certainly not an idea guy, he's the founder of cd baby if you know what it is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD_Baby

I just moved here from Italy, and it's almost impossible for me to get an apartment that's near public transportation. I mean, other than caltrain there's little if nothing public transportation here, and that may be part of the problem too. I certainly can't rent a house in the hills if there's no way for me to get to work from there. I ended up renting from a colleague.

Yes, absolutely, even if you can't see how they did you'll get experience solving the problems they had to solve.

My github app was rejected for the same reason, users without an account could have bought one from the app if they wanted to.

Not yet, but will be soon.

No release date yet, but I'm sometimes writing about rails internals at https://github.com/oscardelben/words-about-code/

Great idea. FTIW I'm also writing a book on Rails Internals.

With all due respect we're not talking about kids across the street here. We're all professional developers trying to contribute something. I'm perfectly fine with people making money especially those who have contributed so much, but is it possible to continue to contribute like we always did without looking like some kid across the street?

I looked at your project and it looks very nice indeed. Nice work.

No I'll need time for that. This is just 4 hours of work. I posted it now because I'll need help from the community as it evolves (especially testing)

I hadn't. What I want to make though is a sandboxed environment that doesn't use rvm, etc and that provides everything you need. I also want to make an interface for beginners to easily run the server, execute commands, etc.

This is targeted at beginners with little/no programming experience.

Author here. I hope this can help the community, especially Yehuda with his own one click installer project.