another_ali's comments

On: Why I Like Google's Reorg and Why It's Only a Star...

[another_ali]

I think google is heading the way of SUN, they now make many nice products that add no obvious revenue streams!

What google really needs is to make products that make money and the re-organization need to be based around that, employee compensations and incentive should be based around how much money they make for google.

for example, unless its clear how much money the go lang will save for google, they should kill the project and just use C++ or Haskell or whatever!

On: What is the future of Qt?

[another_ali]

The way I read it is, they will maintain Qt to maintain the past ... but not to build their future

which I think is bad for anyone who wanted to invest in Qt, we all want to develop for platform of the future not the past

On: Is learning to program inherently hard?

[another_ali]

  learning to program is deceptively hard.

  First you think it hard, 
  then you think its not, 
  then you think its hard, 
  then you think its not,
   ...

On: Poll: Ask HN: Would you Pay for a Chrome extension...

[another_ali]

You are probably asking the wrong crowd ...

I tend to believe that most people who are coders, developer and into FOSS, tend to buy very little software and only pay for the absolute necessary

This is not a bad thing, software is our thing, so we just won't pay for anything

But I've seen people pay for less trivial stuff, like items on a facebook game.

So probably we won't, but that never will mean, that millions of web browsers won't! I can almost bet that if you sell an extension that claims to make chrome more secure, enough people will buy it to make you happy!

On: Giving up on Ruby packaging

[another_ali]

maybe Ruby should get something like perlbrew http://search.cpan.org/~gugod/App-perlbrew-0.15/lib/App/perl...

this is good magic

[telemachos → another_ali]

Um, you're joking, right? Perlbrew itself is fine (I use and like it - I actually wrote a small Bash completion script for it[2]), but it implements only a fraction of the functionality of rvm[1]. (Rvm also precedes Perlbrew by some time, I think).

[1] http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/

[2] https://github.com/telemachus/perlbrew-bash-completion

[another_ali → telemachos]

ahhh, i didnt know about rvm ... just use and recommend rvm then!

[steveklabnik → another_ali]

That's what Rubyists do.

See the rest of the thread for the ... complaints that are raised.

On: Apply for a Google Cr-48

[another_ali]

"So if you live in the United States" ... yet the address country box had Egypt.

désolé

On: If programming languages were religions

[another_ali]

in that case I must learn me some C++

On: Modern Perl, the book, is Available.

[another_ali]

One question, I noticed that the pdf from from the onyxneon site is 185 pages long, when a previous draft which i downloaded from chromatic's site was 273 pages long.

Where did all those pages go?

[chromatic → another_ali]

The draft and printed book have 6" x 9" pages, while the free PDFs have letter and A4 pages.

[steveklabnik → another_ali]

Probably lost in revision... The 37signals guys said that Rework was twice as long in the last draft before the final draft.

On: A new way to think about programs

[another_ali]

"Going from Javascript to Coffeescript today feels a lot like going from Java to Ruby felt to me in early 2003."

One should really wonder, why did he skip on Python, Perl and Ruby for all those years? Knowing that RoR appeared in 2004, and thinking that Coffeescript seems closer to Python

On: HN-Books

[another_ali]

hi nice site, please consider having a table view that have the following columns: Book Title, Author, Publication Date (make the table sortable by any row)

And if I click the table row, it can expand to the long descriptions and cover shot you added to each book. What first at attracts me to a book is the title, author and how recent it is!