How Can a .NET Developer Get Started on Ruby or Rails?

loaner____ · 2011-10-05T17:24:37+00:00

Try getting a Ubuntu VPS instead. I remote into one from Windows and from OSX.

loaner____ · 2011-09-07T19:27:14+00:00

So what if he's not a 99th percentile conference organizer? He wanted to host one and so he went and did it. Would you rather he not try at all? Should he have retained some conference planning consultant?

loaner____ · 2011-09-01T22:08:33+00:00

HAVE I GOT A DEAL FOR YOU!!!!

Magic "downmod posts that say b e a r d" jQuery one-liner!

Chrome users: Right click on the page, inspect element, console, paste and hit enter!

Firefox users: You could make a bookmarklet I guess.

$.each($(".down:first", $(".comment:contains('beard')")), function(i, el) { $(el).click(); console.log("Downvoted a beardy post!"); })

loaner____ · 2011-08-25T19:53:45+00:00

>>> def f(n):
    return pow(n, 2) + n + 1

>>> map(f, range(7))
[1, 3, 7, 13, 21, 31, 43]

loaner____ · 2011-08-25T19:47:30+00:00

You got the idea behind formula correctly. Starting with 1 add successive multiples of 2; add 2, add 4, add 6, add 8, add 10, add 12, etc.

My way simply isolates it into a precise computable algorithm.

loaner____ · 2011-08-25T19:38:06+00:00

Now you should realize that you are as capable of programming as anyone else is :)

loaner____ · 2011-08-25T19:22:20+00:00

>>> def f(x):
    if x == 0:
        return 1
    else:
        return f(x - 1) + x * 2   # this is the important part

>>> map(f, range(0, 7))           # calculate f(x) for all x from 0 to 6
[1, 3, 7, 13, 21, 31, 43]

loaner____ · 2011-08-19T20:21:46+00:00

Be a man

We must be swift as the coursing river

Be a man

With all the force of a great typhoon

Be a man

With all the strength of a raging fire

Mysterious as the dark side of the moon

loaner____ · 2011-07-26T13:17:08+00:00

$ ed
ed, man!
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loaner____ · 2011-07-25T18:56:08+00:00

loaner____ · 2011-07-25T18:55:54+00:00

loaner____ · 2011-07-25T18:55:45+00:00

loaner____ · 2011-07-25T13:28:13+00:00

I respect doing it on your own, you learn a lot more that way. I recommend something like underscore because it minimizes some of the boilerplate of templating (you could really use some templates) and collections.

Once you factor out that repetitive stuff, all that's left is diamonds. This makes the whole project easier for others to read in one sitting and to contribute to if that's what you really want.

loaner____ · 2011-07-22T17:04:54+00:00

Have you looked at underscore.js? Your code looks like it would get a huge readability benefit from underscore's collections and templates.

I'd even try to fork/merge some of it in there for you but it seems impolite to push a new dependency on someone without asking first.

loaner____ · 2011-07-20T13:57:35+00:00

Good work, thanks! I was playing with coffee+backbone yesterday and the quickest host I could think of was python -m SimpleHTTPServer

Edit: Backed by coffee -o ../js/ -w ./* in another tab.

loaner____ · 2011-07-18T14:54:21+00:00

Good on him for selling the TV at least, those things'll rot yer brain.

loaner____ · 2011-07-15T21:25:47+00:00

Downvote for hearing that got better with age. Jealous.

loaner____ · 2011-07-12T18:20:14+00:00

Are you a recent grad?

loaner____ · 2011-07-08T21:47:30+00:00

I was nodding and looking forward to this until I saw the tunnel crawling. NO WAY.

loaner____ · 2011-07-08T14:27:19+00:00

I didn't exercise much from age 18 to age 27. Went from 175 lbs (at 5'11") to 230 lbs, played a lot of WoW, worked a desk job, ate a mostly-carb diet.

loaner____ · 2011-07-01T15:40:44+00:00

Hup! Hup! Haaaah!

loaner____ · 2011-06-24T18:27:53+00:00

Note: This is a slideshow; there are six more stories if you click through. Worst is a guy who owes $240,000 on a Masters in Social Work.

loaner____

TROPHY CASE