southpolesteve

Madison, Wisconsin

If hosting on heroku, you can use a buildpack which will do all the compiling server side

Complete BS. Of course it is! Here was my response the last time someone posted an article like this:

http://southpolesteve.com/rails-is-for-beginners

Inspiration is what drives us to learn more on our own and get through the tough parts. This is what Rails does so well. Look at the way someone's eyes light up after running rails g scaffold for the first time and playing in their very own web app.

I worked on an antarctic research project for several years, including one trip to the south pole. Our specific project used Red Hat Linux with a number of open source libraries for communicating with hardware. Interfaces were programmed in Python.

Make sure to check out "South" which is Shackelton's own telling of the journey.

I don't see any compelling reason to use this over boostrap or foundation

Maybe I am missing something, but why would I want to use this? I develop in Rails, where Devise is extremely simple to implement.

Do other frameworks lack a good auth plugin?

My response: http://www.southpolesteve.com/rails-is-for-beginners/

Average net worth of US Senator: $13,400,000

Average net worth of US representative: $4,900,000

Before looking at this chart, I had a vague notion that senators and representatives are better off than the average american. Turns out they are WAY better off.

Really no .live()? That would be a deal breaker for most of my projects

This is why, as developers, we need to remember the end user and optimize for their experience. I have often found a good exercise is dedicating time to deleting code. I am always surprised on how much this process ends up improving my overall UX.

Good luck with that. AdWords is notorious for being difficult in this regard.

https without www is a pain on heroku. I would redirect everything to www. If it makes you feel any better, this doesn't work: https://amazon.com

Check out www.murfie.com

They do downloads and offer ALAC and FLAC

I watched this over the weekend. A great overview of cryptography.

This seems like a horrible way to do things. I really don't want to throw a ton of loop logic (data-foreach?) and other data attributes in my HTML.

I think all of the JS MVC frameworks will be short lived. Someone (hopefully) will develop with a real soup to nuts solution that will make writing a front end heavy app simple. In Rails, I can see it being as easy as "act_as_front_end" somewhere, and the app automatically serves up your JSON to a generated frontend that mirrors your Rails app. I know that would be a hard thing to make, but this is where things should converge.

How much did you pay for the domain?

Would love this if it used SASS

yes times 1000

Yes. This and using Gaurd for a number of other things.

For my rails work flow, I don't really see the need for this product.

I'm going to start a store that sells only stolen goods at ridiculously low prices. Rather than judge it right away, please wait and see how the public reacts. Let them decide. Then we will know if it is wrong.

This line of thinking makes no sense.

Many CFD and FEA techniques use formulas that exclude the first and/or last element. When compounded with the 0/1 issue of the original post, it explains why my CFD class was such a living hell. Off by one and two errors all over the place.

Mobile gas stations have had a touch and go payment system for a while called Speedpass. It is very slick and I use it all the time. I even go out of my way to visit Mobile gas stations to use it. I can't wait till this is everywhere

I disagree. P/E is just one way of valuing a company.

Regardless of their current valuation, my personal opinion is that Groupon faces serious issues regarding the long term sustainability of their business model. They have dominated an ecosystem that will eventually balance itself. I am skeptical that they can maintain their current valuation through that process.

I have heard awesome things about this event. Wish I could make it out to SF in time...

That's pretty interesting. Similar to www.parallelkingdom.com ?

I don't think its snarky to ask a business how they plan to generate revenue.

He is the primary author of Coffeescript: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script

I am not sure, but I believe he also has authored or contributed to the others.

This is so completely awesome. Just yesterday I was looking for something similar. I will start using this immediately.

Just completed all my brackets in record time. Awesome!