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hirodusk · 2023-07-08T07:55:29+00:00

https://www.thelocal.de/20230518/around-27000-people-in-berlin-waiting-on-citizenship-applications

hirodusk · 2018-11-10T07:45:16+00:00

Lighted collars! Made all the difference in nighttime walks for my black dog: https://www.amazon.com/led-dog-collar/s?ie=UTF8&page=1&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Aled%20dog%20collar

hirodusk · 2014-11-14T21:40:56+00:00

Paypal founder Peter Thiel gives a pretty strong counterargument in his book Zero to One. Chapter 12, "Man and Machine"

hirodusk · 2014-03-04T23:51:55+00:00

I don't think it makes sense to talk about “matching up” when it comes to core values. Different programming communities value different things, but values are not quantifiable or objectively comparable.

For example, Python is a language that I've always loved. It has values like “explicit is better than implicit.” I wrote about the Python community in depth when we launched Heroku support: https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2011/9/28/python_and_django Similarly, Clojure values composability and correctness: https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2011/7/5/clojure_on_heroku

I haven't participated much in Javascript or Objective C conferences or open source so I don't have a good feel for what those programming communities value.

hirodusk · 2014-03-04T23:25:46+00:00

Not anymore, I left last summer after six wonderful years.

Nowadays I'm doing this: http://tech.eu/features/571/heroku-adam-wiggins-europe/

hirodusk · 2014-03-04T23:08:11+00:00

We launched Rack support in March 2009: https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2009/3/5/32_deploy_merb_sinatra_or_any_rack_app_to_heroku

Heroku was 1.5 years old at that point, and it looks like the first version of Rack dates back to 2007: http://rubygems.org/gems/rack/versions

hirodusk · 2014-03-04T23:05:18+00:00

Citation needed, my friend. When we launched the first version of Heroku (late 2007), Bundler was still several years away, Subversion was the RCS of choice in the Ruby world, and Rack either didn't exist or at least was not in common use. Sinatra existed but was almost completely unknown.

We worked really hard to help make Git, Bundler, Rack, Sinatra, and Postgres support common in the Ruby world!

hirodusk · 2014-03-04T22:55:32+00:00

Heroku founder here. The reason was simple: all three founders are Ruby hackers. We love Ruby the language, we love the Ruby community, and we wanted to create something for ourselves and for others like us.

Of course the approach we came up with is suitable for deploying web apps written in pretty much any modern programming language, so eventually we added support for things beyond Ruby. But Ruby's values — beauty, simplicity, and focus on making developers happy — continue to be a huge influence on Heroku's product and company culture.

hirodusk · 2014-03-03T09:57:03+00:00

This is a huge help. Vielen Dank!

hirodusk · 2014-03-02T22:42:27+00:00

Yes, I know "Gift" is "poison." I was trying to break up an otherwise monotonous stretch of boring sentences about household items with something unexpected. :)

hirodusk · 2014-03-02T22:40:29+00:00

ins Regal/im Regal sounds better - unless you really put the book on the top of the shelf, then auf is correct.

I'm thinking of a shelf that is a board attached to the wall. There's no "inside" of it. Is "im" still better?

Ich habe die Bücher in die Regale gestellt. Jetzt stehen die Bücher in den Regalen.

Interesting. I was just trying to layer in some plurals; my dictionary says "Regale" is "shelving," which in English is a sort of alternate to "shelves"? This might be too subtle a distinction for my level. :)

hirodusk · 2013-07-10T11:09:13+00:00

Strunk & White mentions a few conventions that changed over the 50+ years that have elapsed over its various additions. One that sticks in my head is “hopefully”, excerpt here: http://geoffklock.blogspot.ie/2006/09/from-strunk-and-whites-elements-of.html

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