virtualeyes

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by virtualeyes 14y ago
I couldn't agree more: as a self-employed software engineer with degrees in literature and psychology, I am living proof that now (not one day, right now) programmers are working for liberal arts "managers" ;-)
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by virtualeyes 14y ago
same deal, started in 2001 on LAMP stack 2 years ago woke up and started exploring, Groovy, Ruby, and then, bing, penny dropped, Scala. New life at 40 ;-) In the end you need passion. I would be shocked if I am not coding full-time at 60, n
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by virtualeyes 14y ago
uhhh, not sure what to say, I'm living in France. In the SW part of the country, the surf region, there are loads of foreigners, many of whom have been here year-round for more than a decade; still, the accent is poor, the phrasing limited,
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by virtualeyes 14y ago
LMAO! Thank you. It's the same for me when I'm in England, the locals just don't understand me. "you know what I mean, right?", I say, and they respond with, "oh, royt, e means royt!" WTF is royt, can't these people articulate themselves pr
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by virtualeyes 14y ago
Well, I'm not saying never leave the bedroom ;-) I'm also talking about living abroad, not hooking up with a foreigner in NYC and she plays teach the American to butcher X language
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by virtualeyes 14y ago
I come to France in the autumn and spring, have been doing so for 5 or 6 years; studied French as a kid, and lived off-and-on in Montreal for about 5 years. I would not consider myself anywhere near fluent; that is, compared to how I am abl
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by virtualeyes 14y ago
absolutely agree, I would LOVE to hear the C1 French speakers demonstrate their savoir faire with la belle langue NOW, with further years of practice post-C1 mastery. I can guarantee that: 1) you will sound nothing like a native speaker 2)
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by virtualeyes 14y ago
5 months without living/breathing the language amongst native speakers, fluency, methinks NOT ;-) I took 8 years of French growing up (10-18) and I understood nothing, literally nothing when I visited Quebec for the first time (that's a jok
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by virtualeyes 14y ago
Yeah, good point, live usb has been a life saver beyond os install and preview. I've intentionally been sitting on the fence for over a year now. Once Fedora 14 goes EOL, going to have to make the move. What I have now is a dream setup (gno
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by virtualeyes 14y ago
I do miss cmd-`, toggle through currently focused app windows from Mac, one of the few features that I did not get in my switch to Fedora 3 years ago. Of course, so much more was gained, the point of no return has long been reached ;-) Now
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by virtualeyes 14y ago
At some point I'm going to have to get off of Gnome 2, not looking forward to it. Gnome 2 + Compiz + Gnome-Do completely and utterly rocks, particularly with a dual monitor setup. KDE was a bit of a mess last I checked. Some people are sayi
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by virtualeyes 15y ago
Wikipedia and CL largely serve static files, so no biggie there what the application server is, front end proxy (httpd, nginx, lighthttpd, etc.) does the heavy lifting. Wordpress is an interesting one, I wonder if they aren't doing some C++
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by virtualeyes 15y ago
Yes, you're correct, it was not an either-or proposition, I'm sorry, they dropped them both. Seriously, I'm curious, what public facing, or any facing, components does Twitter use that is written in Ruby and/or Rails? A Google search for "t
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by virtualeyes 15y ago
oh, Twitter (Scala/Java), American Airlines (Java), Facebook (on HipHop in C++), Stackoverflow (C#), ESPN (Java) I think by big that's a code word for enterprise. The big sites you have worked on are comparatively small if Ruby is backing t
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by virtualeyes 15y ago
Twitter did not think Rails was particularly adequate at serving up anything (for their extreme needs), so they dumped it for the JVM. Charles Nutter is doing genius work with JRuby, btw, that's where Ruby has a future with the enterprise,
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by virtualeyes 15y ago
quite the contrary, pjax reduces bandwidth and, properly implemented, reduces total # of requests (since once html, css, js, images are downloaded, you just hit the server for the content that varies; usually the page's main content area an
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by virtualeyes 15y ago
Yes, agreed, generate static everything on first request; i.e. hit the application server just 1X for live data and generate static file(s) that represent the request on the front end server (httpd, nginx) That leaves authentication and CRU
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by virtualeyes 15y ago
I agree with the OP, pretty spot on, while bootstrap sites look good, they generally all look the same. For CRUD/admin, yes, bootstrap is a definite go; for public front facing, not for my clients. Client identity should be based on a uniqu
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by virtualeyes 15y ago
Same deal, but I left my iMac 2 years ago for a Linux laptop. In the same way that I had that warm glow of the post-Windoze-to-Mac conversion experience 5 years ago, I had the same feeling when I left OSX for Fedora, like coming home again
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by virtualeyes 15y ago
Had an iMac for 2 years, loved it for the first few months, and then, over time I grew less and less enamoured with the OS. 1) Finder just plain sucks 2) Window manager is complete azz I guess I prefer Compiz keystroke-snap-to-grid style wi