I agree and I'm also curious how someone would integrate all the React ecosystem into an already exiting app (Rails specifically). Starting a new project is easy, rewriting one is a huge challenge.
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Let's face it, nowadays unless you are designing a content site there is an immense amount of work needed to handle all the complexities of designing a web or mobile app. This is why things like Bootstrap or other frameworks are so popular, they allow a designer or developer to cover 90% of those scenarios and focus on the important things.
Some of people also use their CI tools for running arbitrary one-off scripts (like deploys). Is this possible with Concourse? Currently we have a few Jenkins jobs that just execute a fab task that then does the actual work.
RaceCapture/Pro has 7 analog inputs, timer inputs, digital I/O and PWM inputs. Also it has 2 CANbus connections and a serial connection. So if you want to hook up more stuff directly you can. RaceCapture/Pro can be a little big depending on the motorcycle.
Realtime telemetry for race and street cars. Open source firmware, hardware and mobile app. https://github.com/autosportlabs . Our tech is used by many people, from car enthusiasts, to professional race teams to even race boats that go nearly 200mph.
I focus mainly on the website and telemetry infrastructure. It's awesome because we work with people who are passionate about racing, we truly do mean 'realtime' when we say it and we get to race and go to track days :)
Most of the incumbents are using 1990s tech and have 0 web presence. The next available realtime telemetry systems cost > $30k, and ours is $600.
We have some big plans for the future, if you're interested in racing check us out!
https://github.com/autosportlabs - Code
http://www.autosportlabs.net - Wiki
https://www.autosportlabs.com - Store
http://www.autosportlabs.org - Forums
I have a lot of legacy YUI code in a Rails app (using Rails' asset pipeline) that I want to rewrite. Anyone have resources on how to get setup and refactor in pieces?
1) Lack of design abilities 2) Lack of understanding of how 'average' users use computers 3) Using the system model and architecture to drive the UI model. 4) Engineers have decades of experience debugging and learning all sorts of complicated software products and languages. They are experts in figuring out how complex systems with no documentation or learnability work. Average users just want to get work done and have no ability to diagnose and debug.
I really hope this works, lots of JS libraries expect things like viewport and window size information, I wonder how Google is achieving that.
To sell 50k units or more you will need a few people to handle your store, marketing and support. Also will you continue to sell the same model for years or develop new versions? Lots of other costs to keep a business running should be included in your business financials.
A 3x multiplier is slightly low for CPGs, I'd go with 4-5x depending on the product and market to give yourself some breathing room. Things like sales, resellers and coupons all eat into profit.
The mother and child were only about 10 feet from me and even I didn't recognize it, and I was a lifeguard 15 years ago! That experience frightened me more than most because it showed me how bad I and others are at recognizing drowning.
Glad that this exists so more people understand what drowning really looks like.
Landing on a dry surface means they can eventually reuse rockets soon after landing (a few days I believe).
http://www.autosportlabs.net/RaceCapture_App_User%27s_Guide
And our app is open source! https://github.com/autosportlabs/RaceCapture_App
Upgrading hardware in EC2 is as simple as changing a launch configuration and updating an auto-scaling group. Maybe an hour of my time to update configs, verify and deploy. Updating something like a database or caching servers is more work for sure, but with 0 time needed to get to the DC, unpack, rack and configure servers you do save time with 'the cloud'.
I get that you do pay more for EC2 instances, especially if you keep hardware for 4 years. But AWS prices drop every year or two along with (generally) faster versions of software so your overall costs do drop.
How many ops employees would you need for a fleet of 500 servers in a datacenter? We managed it all with 4 people with AWS.
It's hard to quantify, but I have used CakePHP, Yii, Rails (0.9 through 4), Django and plenty of home-grown 'frameworks'. From all those the most cohesive and understandable to me was Rails followed by Yii (surprisingly).
Maybe it's the docs or structure, but Rails and Yii have a strong opinion and it seems their developers have both CS smarts and industry experience, which shows in the structure and code.
I'm sure in time Laravel will mature and improve. Currently it just feels like there's a lot more hype than it merits.
I got an offer but turned them down because their recruiter was so crazy aggressive it made me feel that Netflix would be a very unhappy place to work.
From what I've heard from ex-employees (one a recruiter) the hiring/salary/firing process there is not well organized. People often make more than managers or more senior employees and large layoffs every year for the 'bottom 10%' make for some weird social dynamics.
As much as I respect and admire their technical processes there I'm not convinced it's really a good place to work.
It's hard to describe why, I think mostly because it feels like it was built and designed by one person who had a lot of experience with other frameworks and knew PHP inside and out.