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by jegea 1mo ago
Free bonus: These areas are generally quite high over sea level (like ~1000m or so) and have very low light contamination, so the night sky is great. So, if you wait 3-4 hours after the eclipse, you'll be able to enjoy a great moonless
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by jegea 1mo ago
A little too late to travel from Barcelona, but anywhere in the province of Teruel or the east part of Guadalajara is inside totality area, will have great weather, clear skies and is endemically underpopulated, so, even with eclipse-chaser
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by jegea 4y ago
Should I have all the money in the world I would most likely spend a good part of the year in Ibiza. I've been to a lot of places in the Mediterranean (and other shores) and Ibiza is one of the most beautiful places in terms of nature,
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by jegea 4y ago
Did he not? After suffering through the Hobbit movies, I would completely disagree. Adding salt to the injury, these movies destroyed the story in the book that Tolkien apparently wrote specially for his children. Talk about taking care of
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by jegea 5y ago
Indeed! That's one of the things I like to review in those "Who's hiring" posts. That's why I'm happy to continue being a Ruby developer!
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by jegea 5y ago
The Ruby dev market in Europe is hotter than ever. Of course, that's in relative terms. It's nowhere near the size of the Java, JS or even Python market size, but demand is strongest than ever and salaries show that, too
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by jegea 5y ago
It's clear that legacy has a pretty strong influence, here, with Wordpress and other standard tools inflating PHP's numbers and Shopify doing the same for Ruby. But, I'm pretty sure there's plenty of new projects being s
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by jegea 5y ago
In my case, I was referring to developer productivity. In my experience, this is, by far, the most important limiting factor in any software project
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by jegea 5y ago
I think this shows how much HN is a bubble in itself. Most discussions here happen around new/exciting/cool/weird technology. And don't get me wrong, I love those discussions! That's why I come here! But reality out
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by jegea 5y ago
Ruby, the language, is almost as flexible and dynamic as Smalltalk. It's just that it didn't come with an integrated graphical environment like Smalltalk. For a glimpse of "what is possible", take a look at TkInspect (1)
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by jegea 6y ago
Sadly true, indeed. It's a shame we're losing so much useful functionality there. Security is a worthy goal but getting rid of useful features just because Google wants to handhold Android users so much seems to me like throwing o
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by jegea 6y ago
I own the 3GB Manjaro edition of the PinePhone (same hardware as this one, AFAIK) and, while in theory you can do everything that you describe with it, it is hardly something you could use as your only smartphone for the day. (I still love
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by jegea 6y ago
Personal experience: Around 2005 I was looking for a platform for a new web app, after some years out of development but having worked extensively with NeXTstep and EOF in the 90s. After watching DHH's video and reading the Rails book,
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by jegea 6y ago
In my experience (I'm 51 myself), the older the guy, the most likely he's aware he doesn't know everything
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by jegea 11y ago
Of course, there's plenty of people in their 40s experiencing the struggles you describe. But, as a matter of fact, I've met as many of them in the 20s and 30s range with the same problems (maybe not so tired, but troubled and ego
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by jegea 11y ago
Most of the commenters focus on a stronger financial position and/or industry knowledge as reasons to be a successful entrepreneur beyond the barrier of 40s. But the man himself provides reasons which I find much more profound (and tha