amikazmi

vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

Super cool!

One thing that looks a bit off is that part of the physics engine runs in reverse -

When a piece touch the high part of a pile, the sand is going UP from the bottom of the valley to the top, instead of from the top DOWN to the bottom

When the process finishes the end result is the same, it's just a bit strange :)

Example in https://youtu.be/Hp4nV4EjLgM?t=133

amikazmi

vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

When you write 500 simultaneous users, do you mean: 1. 500 users making multiple calls across our servers at the same time? 2. 500 users on a single call?

amikazmi

vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

I read it as "they didn't continue long enough to get to the benefits, as we did", i.e, they already reached the diamonds.

amikazmi

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

1. If you dob't have tests covering code, sure type checks are better than nothing. but if you do, why do you also need type checks?

2. If the tests must be updated whenever the underlying implementation changes it might be testing too much- it's better to test behaviour, not implementation.

amikazmi

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

Forgot to mention that the youtube video I saw was in english..

the "What Game UX Can Teach Designers about Product Design" article is pretty great too! thank you for sharing!

amikazmi

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

Someone posted a youtube talk about Game Design that's applicable to general product design...

I remember it was really good, but couldn't find it anymore

amikazmi

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

RubyMine (IntelliJ Idea for Ruby)

amikazmi

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

For some reason I couldn't remember how to say Postgres and used "Pos-gststs-something" a few times, so I kept it afterwords :)

amikazmi

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

Using for paying bills, easier that way.

amikazmi

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

The whole point of node.js/meteor is that you can share the code between client/server, so you dont have to duplicate anything, and have the access to the "real" model.

amikazmi

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

If they use different IPs, and normal user request speed, the only way to differentiate is by irregular user usage patterns (too many pages for a session, going bfs instead of dfs etc)

But if they don't hit your server heavily, why do you care?

amikazmi

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

This is my pet project for lateral thinking riddles lovers-

You couldn't solve this kind of riddles on the net because you need to ask someone yes/no questions to figure out the story :(

So I built this site to have fun, and play with angular.js / real-time (faye)

amikazmi

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

You can pass the initial data as a json object directly with the server response.

I'm using Rails, and https://github.com/gazay/gon gem does it for you nicely.

amikazmi

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

I think you can hate a language.. you can hate it because you hate yourself, for the things the language make you do.

Coming from a Java background, I used to bang my head on the desk everything I had to write a boilerplate code for anonymous functions/classes.. luckily, there was Intellij IDE to ease the pain.

amikazmi

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

I understand you.. this Ruby code is unclear.

There is a lot of bad code out there, but you shouldn't judge Ruby by a random code snippet- Ruby is just the tool, and the developer is responsible to write clean code.

I don't know what the code is trying to do with all the nested mapping.. it seems like the first 2 lines break encapsulation of the Repo model, trying to gather all the commits. This is unrelated to Ruby, it's a "bad" OO design (might be wrong, I didn't read the rest of the code)

So lets ignore that, and just rewrite from line 3 and below:

    def fresh_commits(repo, n = 10)
      commits = repo.heads.map do |h|
        repo.commits(h.name, n).map { |c| Commit.new(c, h) }
      end

      commits.flatten.uniq_by(&:id).sort_by(&:committed_date).first(n)
    end

Do you agree that the last line is clean & readable, even if you don't know "exactly" what "&:function_name" does?

amikazmi

vor 14 Jahrendiscuss

I was under the impressions that it cost 50$ to submit a project (the site fee), in addition to the payment for the developer.

amikazmi

vor 14 Jahrendiscuss

Does it mean that until these changes are done, you wont declare RethinkDB to be production ready? (you mentioned at 2.0)

Can you guys add a "rough roadmap overview" page to the docs, so we could have a general idea what is the status?

I like the way the RubyMine does it:

http://confluence.jetbrains.net/display/RUBYDEV/Development+...

amikazmi

vor 14 Jahrendiscuss

I can value the skills of another developer. I can't value "well-connected" or "marketing/sales skills"

So if a developer comes to me with an idea, I can evaluate the partnership better- it is less risky then to go with a partner with complementary skills (not saying it's better to do it, it's just easier to figure out what you are getting into)

amikazmi

vor 14 Jahrendiscuss

What is the state of Rethink db? Is it fit for production use?

In the website it stated as 1.3.2 (which imply production ready) but I think I saw some comments a month ago from you that it's not fit for production use yet.

What about secondary indexes?

Are the machines in the screencast are very weak? a simple query (get 2 rows of the dota table) running ~100ms is really slow- is it because you're using the web interface?

RethinkDB seems cool and I really want to try it in my next pet project :)

amikazmi

vor 14 Jahrendiscuss

What do you mean by "twice as much experience"? Does it makes you twice as productive? or just twice as much "time"?

If you are more productive, you can try to get more- but take into consideration:

1. You should have hard evidences that you are more productive- developers tend to think that they are better/have more experience then others at their level.

2. You should know your market value outside of the company and act according to that, not just your co-workers salary.

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