kaiwren

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by kaiwren 7mo ago
Yes, and that's a service. There is no product.
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After AI, there is no product(sidu.in)
17 points by kaiwren 7mo ago|7 comments
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by kaiwren 7mo ago
We’re all focused on the symptom. Software valuations are falling, and the discourse is about why software valuations are falling. The deeper thing is this: the traditional economics of software - the idea that building software creates an
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by kaiwren 2y ago
awesome!
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by kaiwren 6y ago
I think you are right, and that makes me sad.
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Programmer’s discipline(medium.com)
1 points by kaiwren 8y ago|0 comments
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My GO-JEK Story: 900X in 18 months(blog.gojekengineering.com)
11 points by kaiwren 10y ago|1 comments
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Boosting Opal's Performance with Inline JavaScript – C42 Engineering Blog(blog.c42.in)
1 points by kaiwren 12y ago|0 comments
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by kaiwren 13y ago
We already support teaching most of these - if you know anyone that would like to create courseware around any of these topics please let us know. Our courseware marketplace is still in a private alpha, but we are actively soliciting awesom
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by kaiwren 13y ago
We're building our way up to this. For now, we are focussing on helping more people teach how to think in a particular language. We'll get to the rest fairly quickly, though that would likely be in the form of screencasts. PS: I'm on the
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by kaiwren 14y ago
It is. It's what Matz tweeted after we launched RubyMonk at RubyConf in New Orleans last year. Here's the original tweet he made: https://twitter.com/yukihiro_matz/status/126447696478347265
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by kaiwren 14y ago
Wow. Thank you! That's quite a complement, and I'm grateful. I should point out that much of what I say - or write about - are from conversations with my colleagues. I just happen to be the most vocal among us :)
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by kaiwren 14y ago
It'll be a while yet, but there's a reason we've bought that domain :)
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by kaiwren 14y ago
No worries, jfaucett. As a bootstrapped startup with no investors and no connections, we need all the PR we can get :) So thank you for posting this!
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by kaiwren 14y ago
It's a known issue with the js code editor we're using and is something that we need to fix. Thanks for the heads up!
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by kaiwren 14y ago
I'm not sure (and I'm not complaining about the publicity :)) - but this is the third time we've made it to HN. Yes, RubyMonk was launched in August 2011, so we've been around for over a year.
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by kaiwren 14y ago
Noted. Makes sense, and thanks for the feedback.
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by kaiwren 14y ago
Thanks for the feedback (I work at C42 Engineering, the programmers collective behind RubyMonk). I'd never heard of Perl Monks before you mentioned it - it's something we'll keep in mind. I'm not sure how it will influence us, but it's good
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by kaiwren 14y ago
Try http://RubyMonk.com and let us know what you think. In it's current setup, the content is not intended for non-programmers, but we'd love the feedback.
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by kaiwren 14y ago
I didn't realise HN expires links, allowing them to be reposted after enough time has passed (we'd posted RubyMonk to HN several months ago). Any idea what that time-period is?
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New to Ruby? Tips for the new Rubyist.(jasimabasheer.com)
155 points by kaiwren 14y ago|64 comments
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by kaiwren 14y ago
I'm not sure coconuts actually age. Do they?
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by kaiwren 14y ago
The problem is that the underlying message implies that the Mayor of NYC can be gainfully employed as a programmer after a year of solving code snippets. Which is BS and very misleading. More at http://blog.sidu.in/2012/05/everyone-should-
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by kaiwren 14y ago
A fundamental grouse I have with the "Learn programming" meme is that it encourages the myth that you can be gainfully employed as a programmer after solving code snippets for a year. I've written this out in greater detail at http://blog.
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by kaiwren 14y ago
Also, http://rubymonk.com (disclaimer: by my firm). Currently has free courses with new, paid content coming shortly. $5 per month, all you can eat for access to the paid courses (free courses remain free). Course creators get royalties (
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by kaiwren 15y ago
Thanks for the feedback - I've opened a ticket and we should have this sorted shortly.
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by kaiwren 15y ago
Sorry - I guess we were all asleep (passed out?) when this happened. I'm glad it's working, but I'll log a ticket anyway. Also, thanks for the feedback. Let us know if there's anything else we should be fixing/changing - you can reach us at
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by kaiwren 15y ago
Thank you vaidy, we wouldn't be here if it wasn't for the support of folks like yourself, and the awesome Ruby community in general.
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by kaiwren 15y ago
Noted, and thank you for the feedback. Please do let us know if there's any other feedback you have - you can email us at rubymonk@c42.in. We'll be working on smoothing out the cross references to exercises, so problems will tell you exactl
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by kaiwren 15y ago
Sure - the front end is basically a Rails based custom CMS that allows us to write content in 'RubyMonk flavoured' HAML. This is backed by servers that are running a bunch of eval loops using the Secure gem. See https://github.com/c42/secu

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