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He has virtually no association with Dr Dre.

Kanye West makes no claims about being a gangster. In fact, when his music first became popular, it ushered in an era of non-gangster "backpack" rap, at a time when "I've been shot 6 times" 50 Cent was on top of the charts.

That's not going to save you from failing to capture key records, or capturing them incorrectly.

You do have a point about manual testing being just as effective as automated testing, just a lot more time consuming.

No, this is not the expectation at all. Software developers should be paid for their work, but (sorry Hacker News) of all the popular funding models "VC-funded free service"(1) is the most hostile towards its users.

1 http://dominictarr.com/post/71958587606/some-thoughts-on-the...

Switch from schema.rb to structure.sql by setting config.active_record.schema_format = :sql in your application config if you want to do anything remotely interesting with your schema.

There is no career path for anyone who only does one thing.

Coffeescript: I'd rather be writing Ruby

DHH, the author of this post and Rails itself, is and has been actively campaigning against client-side applications, as they clearly undermine his server-side ecosystem.

Not to be pedantic, but the Cluster API uses forked workers, so it's technically a multi-process model, each process with its own single thread.

AFAIK there is no threading support in node.js. Not today and not ever (?).

It seems like such a massive optimization over the driver-and-gas-truck-around-town solution, that when I think more long-term, it just feels inevitable that this technology will be everywhere, even though I had the same reaction as you. "Terrifying".

GitHub is still on Rails 2.3 and has not upgraded partially due to performance concerns*

*From an episode of Ruby Rogues with Zach Holman

Reflection is also very slow in C#

Why?

I'd say Walmart needs a high-load solution, as does paypal and LinkedIn who are both using node. Static vs dynamic languages both have merits and are almost completely subjective, but I'd say it comes down to team quality. Don't use the sharp tools if you have undiciplined or inexperienced devs who will fail to design correctly and write tests. Walmart has Eran Hammer, so I don't think they need to worry about that.

It really doesn't matter if the author / artist intended it or not, if people together find a deeper meaning and talk about it, that's perfectly valid.

I don't think you understand how that metaphor works... are you trying to say that every problem is the same and developers choose wildly different tools for the job?

I guess I am being vague, because my argument distills down to simple optimism vs. pessimism. I can't argue what is not known. We don't know what tomorrow's energy sources will look like. We don't know how to sustain two, five or ten times the population, let alone the exponential growth we've witnessed. Of course something has to give, and it will. Fossil fuels are unique, sure. And of course they are limited.

But imagine how limited people felt in the 1700s when their entire energy and food supply was simply the sun and arable land. I bet that felt rather absolute to them too. I mean, it's the sun. It's pretty fundamental and unchanging. What else could there be? Surely we can do the math on how much farmland there is to work and calculate possible yields and determine the maximum number of humans the planet can sustain. And what should be done with that number?

Yet centuries later we have shattered those limitations many times over, doubling and doubling and doubling the population again.

I don't mean to belabour the point, maybe we will transcend our current limitations (I think we will), or maybe we won't. But even if we don't, let resource scarcity cull and control population instead of policy.

> Is it amoral?

Yes for two reasons. A) You're telling other people what they can do with their own bodies, and that is fundamentally wrong (see the ridiculous abortion debate in the USA). B) It's impossible to apply the rules evenly and fairly, creating (at best) destructive social imbalance and (at worst) an opportunity for slippery-slope eugenics.

I hate to come off as anti-intellectual, but science is bound by the burden of proof and has no capacity to account for human ingenuity or dramatically different models of consumption, production and growth. Yet history shows we can expect precisely these kinds of changes, every time.

There is lots of writing and historical context for how Malthus and his theories influenced the day of the potato famine, google around for it and draw your own conclusions.

Thanks! My comment is basically a tl;dr of a book I read called "The Coming Population Crash and Our Planet's Surprising Future" (http://www.amazon.com/The-Coming-Population-Crash-Surprising...).

Terrible title for a great book that isn't nearly as alarmist as it sounds. If anything it covers how we're not breeding to replacement numbers and are facing labour shortages as our current population ages in the developed world.

I never said Malthusian theories were _the reason_, only that they contributed significantly. I'm not a PHD in this or anything, your google search result is as good as mine.

Scientists centuries ago could not imagine our modern world, with people living vertically in the sky, in dense urban metropolises, eating frozen food, enjoying vaccines and generally having an awesome quality of life. Just as we cannot imagine advancements that have not yet come, and are led to believe we are doomed to starvation by our current mental constraints. Acting politically on this belief is incredibly dangerous and has contributed to many human atrocities over the years, including the Jewish holocaust, English subjugation and starvation of Irish potato farmers, China's misguided one child policy, and many more.

Be careful of this mental trap. If you'd like to see fewer babies, educate women and give them equality in the workplace and in political power.

Technology moves forward quickly. You might see these languages and frameworks as basically all the same from one perspective, but really there are fundamental differences in the way you shape your application in different ecosystems like Go or nodejs or Python or Java, and that ultimately influences the products you build and the direction the industry goes in.

It's important.

Have it on my desk Monday morning.

Instagram is an example of "mobile first" in the sense of the article. It's a thing.

So, use triple-equals when you don't want type coercion?

> I think that's true, and true in just about every language/environment

Agreed, although it seems as if nodejs may have solved most of the hard problems in this area by way of their unique require() module loader and the design of npm. After learning it, I wish every package manager worked that way.

Yes.

People's relationship with music is an odd one - what you listen to you is meant to say something about who you are. You can't listen to classical because then you're an elitist snob. You can't like Justin Bieber because then you're a teenage girl. You can't like Kanye West because then you're an egomaniacal asshole. You can't like rap music in general because then you condone drugs, sex, objectification of women, electronic music and (gasp!) street slang. It's such a weird phenomenon, and it doesn't happen nearly to the same degree in other mediums. I can watch a horror movie without people thinking I'm a serial killer. I can watch a comedy without worrying that people will think I'm an idiot. I can read basically any novel on any subject without changing people's opinion of me, beyond "oh, he reads". But music is different. When I was in high school you could clearly identify social groups by what music they listened to, which also matched their fashion, and I think the majority of people don't move beyond that headspace ever.

That's all just myth-building, and he's done a brilliant job of it. Take this very message thread for instance, on a technology forum thread about Lou Reed of all things, the conversation is dominated by Kanye West.

There are two meanings of "producer" at play here: a) he who cuts a beat, b) he who produces an album. Kanye was limited yet very successful at A, and he may be the best in his field at B.

Kanye may not be the world's best rapper, but he is no slouch, and to be producing (both meanings) in the capacity he does at the same time is staggering. I like to tell people it's as if Martin Scorsese played the lead role in all of his own movies.

From everything I've read, Rick Rubin arrived late to the project and edited a mountain of work down into a short album.