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For the people who've ended up on the delta/Prime stack it's because they've already done the 37Signals stack, found where it works and where it doesn't, learnt their lessons and found something that works better for them. The problem is when they espouse it as the One True Rails Stack it muddies the waters for newbies, and people who've been building quite happily with the defaults and just need some more information.

Your choice of stack is great, and it's great you're passionate about it but if you start acting like a giant dick about it you're actually dissuading people from getting more involved, and that's not a good thing.
Thanks! Good layout and color scheme. I would suggest your code highlighter has a touch of stronger colors for strings and divs.
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Making the guide responsive is an absolute must, and something I am looking to do right away. For now I just wanted to get it out there and start collecting feedback.

Thank you for the kind words!
So its the prosecutors job to decide what evidence is "questionable"? Words fail me. It is the job of the jury to test the evidence. The prosecutor puts forward his/her case with the laws which were broken and evidence that they think might prove they were.

In the UK we have Drunk Driving and Drug Driving as separate offences, so what happens when I crash my car and test positive for weed and booze (we have chemical tests for both - unlike America's strange obsession with an officers judgement), they both carry the same sentence, does the prosecutor just throw out one of them at random as they are similar but overlap?

"But psychologically, if the jury see that a person has been charged" that is a whole different discussion on the suitability of jury as a method of trial, for a case to get in front of a jury it must have some merits which can't be ignored. Also as a sidenote, you don't think people would form an opinion if they had already seen some guy "walk free" from an earlier trial, then ended up sitting on the jury for a similar but not trial, the jury would have their first case facts from the media which is even worse idea.
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You're correct, thanks for the answer here.

Feedback has been hot and cool on them, still trying to decide if they are worth it or not.
Always in these debates where 3 people decide what others should do.
It is fascinating.
Don't you hate when you enjoy something and someone else comes up and puts you down because of it?
Especially if one loves skinning people >:)

I dunno, I would never want to be person to draw a line.
I think line drawing is the one that must be outlawed.
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>> That hasn't been necessary for years.

>Sorry gstreamer stuff via ubuntu-restricted-extras. It's the same turd rolled in different coloured glitter.

The important difference is that Ubuntu will offer to install that for you when you try to play something it doesn't have codecs for. I was trying to play a DVD on Windows 8 last week and it took me forever to figure out that the problem was that Microsoft was no longer shipping the decryption key for CSS by default anymore.
Good call, thanks for the feedback!
The main thing being discussed on the page is optimisation of compression (http://learn.shayhowe.com/advanced-html-css/performance-orga...). They mention gzip, and yes it's not going to gain you much (and can lose) for small files or particularly gifs (that already use similar compression AFAIR).

Optimised compression is re-compression of the images, e.g. applications like pngcrush or optipng take a brute force approach and try several different compressions of PNG (all lossless) and give you the best one. Same approach can be taken for JPEG, see eg smush.it, re-compressions here as I understand it provide the same final image data and so this approach differs (and is complementary) with using a Save-for-Web tool in your graphics program.

Best thing IMO is to try something like Google's Pagespeed / Yslow / showslow / webpagespeed / gtmetrix / ... and see if it will give a worthwhile gain on paper - then test with some actual web clients.

I'd say mobile-first is going to be more focussed on bytes than those sites targeting primarily desktop users. I've never seen any metrics on rendering speed of different compression regimes though - small files that are doubly compressed seem like they might take longer decompressing than any saving you'd make in downloading.
> I don't think it is realistic to see Microsoft Windows as something that you have never used.

I decided to give Windows 8 a try, but had not used Windows prior to that since Windows 2000 was new and shiny. For someone born in, say, 1995, who is now entering college, it doesn't seem completely inconceivable for them to have never used Windows. Windows had far less dominance during that time compared to when I was a youth.
Yep, because if someone claims something might be bad for them, we should restrict access for everyone! By the way, hacker news makes me slack off at work, so I'm looking forward to the law that forces ISPs to block it by default.
There's one area you can still perform full attacks on, without worrying about getting in trouble for attacking networks: cracking software.

It's not entirely the same skillset, but there's still a rush from disassembling and figuring out exactly how to patch it (and with style), or reverse the key validation function to write a keygen. But at least it's still "wild" as in they are real systems generated by others, not an "organized activity".
The same thing must have happened to me. I was just coming here to see if anyone commented on the count decreasing.
13px is too small for body text, but at least the page zooms okay.
I don't consider myself a windows hater per se, but his 'parody' really rings true to my experience, though the absolute limit for me was having to install a special piece of software so that I could scroll the areas underneath the mouse without clicking into them.
As a Windows to Linux convert for the past 5 years I actually enjoyed this parody due to some of the points he brought up that make me facepalm every time I use Windows. I don't know how many times I've cursed Microsoft over not recognising alternative file systems, then to realise I can't even get straight back into Linux because my boot loaders been replaced!
This is quite a nice mathematical trick, but nothing more. It may allow children to be able to perform large multiplication at a young age, but it is also setting them up to be confused later on by providing them with a method which abstracts from the actual arithmetic. What on earth is going to happen when they run into algebraic multiplication? I think it is much more useful to teach them to split up the parts of the numbers and multiply those, if they are too difficult to be multiplied mentally. For example instead of 11x22 do 10x22 + 20 + 2.
Significant demand in a large cap stock mostly comes from large institutional investors. Large institutional investors are finite, and those investors must limit how much any stock represents in their portfolio. Regardless of what your textbooks say, it is true situation.
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"Inspired by Steve Jobs biography" - Feh - good thing they didn't read Mein Kampf.
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You're right, I see it now, it represents 400 + 20*10 + 25 which is indeed 625. They just avoided those cases in the article and only showed those where the number of crossing neatly formed the digits.
I actually feel the opposite: HN is one rare forum, giving space to lots of side-projects and experiments, the overall motto being "stop talking and build it". Of course YC people get more space (hey, it's not a newspaper), but that's hardly "fawning over celebrities", or at least nothing compared to what you'll see on most other sites.
Just as compelling as the rest of paleo: not at all. It ranges from logical fallacies at best, to outright deliberate lies at worst.
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'Large Company' is quite relative. I have just left a job at what I consider a large company, with just under 300k employees. There it was a well known step in your career to build your network, over several years. Unfortunately it's hard to duplicate these steps in a really large company, since they have policies around social media, wikis, etc.
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There's compressed and there's compressed. Two PNG-8 images may be perceptually identical (or at least close enough that youd need to overlay and switch between them to see the differences) but one has a 16-color palette and occupies less than 1K (and may be neatly tucked into a stylesheet as a data URI, saving a request) while the other is over 20K. Some JPEGs can barely take 4:1 compression, while others can stand 20:1 without artifacting. It depends on the amount of detail and local contrast. (Oh, and killing any extraneous EXIF data can save huge amounts of space without affecting compression.)

Is this really needed for mobile first design? I'd be inclined to say that it's more important for mobile-first since data transfer tends to be slower and more expensive. Remember data caps, whether hard or soft, and overage fees. Every byte you can save is worthwhile to a mobile user. Think of them as the modern equivalent to a dial-up user whose host connection is a long-distance number.
Half the article is about Windows installation problems. Thing is, though, most Windows users don't install Windows - it's already there on the computer they bought.
Surely you could get them to execute something via an e.g. .deb package? Or is there security in-built somehow?

What if there is a security bug that permits escalation? Windows defaults to limited permissions now also BTW.
Good point. I guess HubSpot is large compared to startups. But some basic strategies like referrals can still apply to any size of the company.
> Surprisingly short on facts

That is justifiably part of the parody.
Well yeah, I disagree. I suspect most people would (even if only at the 'one and only target in your life' part).

Sorry, but I'm at a complete loss as to how that follows on from my post.
Nice break down of what you did, I have a couple of similar stories of launching something (after fully building it) and then getting very low traffic but a fairly high conversion rate(as in, user arrives, uses the site to do thing I designed it for and maybe comes back in the future). I seem to struggle with growing traffic though.

I have heard StumbleUpon is great for traffic, especially paid discovery, but each time I apply to paid discovery they turn me down on a "Lack of content" issue so I guess they safeguard what they present on Paid Discovery.

I have found, for other projects that I no longer run, that "offline" buzz works well - so press releases getting picked up in local media and that kind of thing works well, you just need to know which reported to sweet talk I guess.

My current side projects are http://oneqstn.com, http://efficientthings.com
It's down for me, I think this is a cached copy:

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Excellent presentation, but leaves me with two questions.

1. Why the iPhone-only connector?

2. My stepfather, back in ye olden days, tried to create a similar product (albeit, this was before ubiquitous mobile computing devices) and ran into all sorts of regulatory FDA issues because they classified it as a medical device, and required the construction of a hoop factory before you were allowed to even start jumping through them.
Hey Tim, I'm one of the devs at testcloud, if you'd like to hang out, talk code, see our start up just chat, just drop me an email: john.faucett@testcloud.de. Unfortunately, I got meetings after 4:30pm, otherwise, anytime works :)
Proprietary ports suck. This could be the most awesome device in the world but being strictly limited to iOS devices means i will never buy one.

That and i hate having to plug things in to sync, wireless sync is the future imo. With BT4.0 there is no reason not to.
"intimacy - a close, familiar, and usually affectionate or loving personal relationship with another person or group." Therefore, you can't experience intimacy by yourself. It requires at least another person.
Seriously the old iPhone connector?

http://www.zensorium.com/assets/gallery/2/7.jpg

This was a really bad business decision.
You can install Android on an x86 desktop now and even run binary ARM Android apps on it.

http://android-x86.sceners.org/en/?p=580
In recent versions of Windows you are right about the exec perm and run as admin prompt existing.

"The downside is the user is prompted in a manner that allows them to override this."

Exactly right. Since both of those prompts are "click OK to continue" types it makes the barrier they present is much lower than Linux where you have to change a file permission, then type your password again (and probably from a terminal to use sudo). I would say the barrier is so low they seldom work from what I have seen.

My family members who run Linux don't even know how to use sudo... they just use the Ubuntu software center/synaptic.

"in fact we've seen some for the bsd based OSX last year"
I have not used OSX in 4 years so I can't comment meaningfully on this. My gut tells me Apple probably takes a lower barrier approach like MS, but I don't know.
Well. Although I don't live in the area. Are there any physical boards. Perhaps at airports or sight seeing spots you can post paper based flyers too? Also offer for a small fee. Some kind of instructions for you to teach people basics of photography and or using this particular camera. Because although not a photographer myself. I'd imagine the nicer cameras being a bit harder to use properly and that would scare me away from renting it.
I think that it is important to note that without good instruction no method is "good". It is really really important for anybody learning anything to understand fundamentally what is going on. This is the problem with most people that have math phobia's (I don't believe there are people that are not good at math). They are taught to memorize their times tables with only a fleeting mention that this really a summation. On this weak foundation people add more concepts, and BOOM they are math phobic. The thing I do like about the "line method" is it is a very visual way to show children what is going on. The chunks, if you will, are literally the place of the digit.
"What is being parodied - the experience of Windows users encountering the peculiarities of Linux - is not particularly interesting, nor is it particularly worthy of ridicule. Such stories tend to be about people giving Linux a legitimate chance and running up against technical unfamiliarity."

Yeah, that was what bothered me about the post. The piece that it links to, the example of what is being parodied, is some guy giving Linux a shot because he's tired of Windows breaking all the time. Responding with an attack on Windows seems like missing the point pretty badly. Windows not being very good was like the premise to begin with.

Also note that lots of the stuff in the "State of Linux" piece is about stuff that is clearly wrong/buggy. It is a little funny when Branko goes "people come from Windows to Linux expecting it to behave the way they are used to, and that was the main point." Cause then the whole thing comes off kind of like it's one guy complaining about segfaults and disappearing GUI-elements, and another responding with "you're just expecting them to behave differently because you come from Windows."
I would say that ignoring implementation dogma and going for the best solution to a problem definitely falls under advanced development. It's certainly not something you see coming from developers with a few flavor of the month tutorials and maybe a site build or two under their belt.
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It only takes a few hedge funds and a couple of Goldman Sachs to balance out any of those effects. I'm sorry, but you clearly have no idea what you are talking about.
If each charge is considered a different crime then double jeopardy wouldn't apply. Also, in the US at least, the justice system isn't about getting to the truth. It's about assigning blame for an act that is considered against the law. If you are charged with a crime then the prosecutor will prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law and do their best to win by getting a conviction. The prosecutor will not necessarily go out of their way to prove your innocence by attempting to get to the truth. Both sides present their case and the jury, or maybe the judge, make a decision based on what they've been presented, regardless of what the truth might be.
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Using Steve's definitions from the article, the tutorial I usually point people to is Michael Hartl's Rails Tutorial http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ which uses the "Prime" stack. I believe I read somewhere that Michael was going to come out with a "37 signals" stack version as well.

One message I'd like people to understand when they're starting out with Rails is that it really is confusing, and that being confused and maybe even feeling stupid is normal! I remember hearing people talk about how easy developing Rails applications was back in 2006, but what I didn't know was it was easy relative to other web frameworks at the time. It's still hard.

By analogy, if you're an intermediate skiier and you visit a well-groomed mountain with great, powdery snow you could say "this mountain is easy to ski on". But if you're just learning to ski, and you follow everyone else up the lift to the top of a blue run, it's a terrifying experience trying to get down the slope without breaking your neck. To add insult to injury, it's discouraging to see everyone else gliding down the slope while you're shimmying down on your butt because when you try to stand you lose control, go way too fast, then crash. New skiiers need bunny hills, then green runs, then blue runs.

I still don't think there's an established "bunny hill" and "green run" track for learning Rails. Sure would like to help someone create one.
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Exactly my thoughts, HubSpot is just over 300 people. That's tiny.

I think these recommendations are too vague for truly large organizations like Google, Cisco, MSFT etc...
The article mentions that similar fossilized diatoms are found in terrestrial rock dating back to the time of the dinosaur's extinction (believed to be from a large impact). Is it possible that these meteorites are ejecta from that impact, or even an earlier one?
> Sure would like to help someone create one.

Something like this would be very appropriate for a Rails Guide. We already have an introductory one, an 'intermediate' and 'advanced' one would be helpful.
From my own experience, I have to disagree: orgasms with porn as a driving force really are stronger/better than those from masturbation alone or sex.
Isn't that the same as seven times seven equals forty-nine? In portuguese, sete vezes sete igual a quarenta e nove. Japanese doesn't look especially lengthy.
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This is a working mirror with images:

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May be a bit slow, but it's complete and functional.
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The Journal of Cosmology has rather a bad reputation. The fact that the meteorite only landed on earth three weeks before publication doesn't suggest that much review has gone on either.

Don't get me wrong: I'd love for this to be actual, irrefutable evidence of extraterrestrial life and panspermia. It could even be that, but it's published in a crank paper unfortunately.
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Someone told me earlier today that 'Starting Rails today is like starting to watch a soap opera in the 7th season.' Like most witty statements, there’s both truth and falsehood here. But, as a newcomer, how do you pick between the 37signals Stack and the Prime Stack?

How many parts of Rails can you swap out before it stops being Rails?

Maybe the simplest solution here would be to call the Prime Stack something different. Even "Rails Prime" would work. Just some nomenclature that says to people "hey, just so you know, what I'm going to talk about here is different than what 37signals is talking about."
I read a little through your comment history and it's good to see some fellow psychonauts/drug geeks in here.

I can't edit my post above and have a slight correction -

> Cocaine is not usually a synthesised drug - it's a plant extract.

There are ways to synthesise it but they are expensive compared to an extraction, which is relatively simple and only requires common materials.
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TSF (Triangle Startup Factory) is an accelerator located in Durham, NC (part of the research triangle area). They invest up to 200k in each of the startups (a mix of equity and convertible note). There is a Call in Session tomorrow for more information (http://trianglestartupfactory.com/event/call-in-session/) and you can apply here (http://trianglestartupfactory.com/start-the-application/)