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Comment Is RoR part of the problem? (Score 1) 95

Ill be honest, I have not been involved with any RoR development in a long time. Im sure both ruby and the rails framework have come a long way since the last I touched it.

The most cost savings and benefit one will see in the cloud is moving to "cloud native" architectures. Lambdas/functions and event streams along with other cloud native features. Ruby is not a first class citizen in many of these, which makes me wonder -- are they just hosting everything in containers and trying to manage it all as a RoR application? If so, yep. That will eat up a lot of money.

Comment Re:Awesome app (Score 2) 30

We are risk taking, freedom loving country. Having someone track your movements no matter how just the cause is against everything we stand for. It will eventually(months or years from now) be abused by someone in power. This is a given. We would simply rather take the risk than give up our freedoms. If people want a safe space with no risk, they can check themselves into a nice institution with padded walls.

-- says America as they share all of their movements with Google, Facebook and Apple.
Programming

The Case For Supporting and Using Mono 570

Posted by timothy from the reason-18-it's-the-kissing-disease dept.
snydeq writes "Fatal Exception's Neil McAllister argues in favor of Mono, asking those among the open source community who have 'variously described Mono as a trap, a kludge, or simply a waste of effort' to look past Miguel de Icaza and Mono's associations with Microsoft and give the open source implementation of .Net a second chance, as he himself has, having predicted Mono's demise at the hands of open source Java in 2006. Far from being just a clone of .Net for Linux, McAllister argues, Mono has been 'expanding its presence into exciting and unexpected new niches.' And for those who argue that 'developing open-source software based on Microsoft technologies is like walking into a lion's den,' McAllister suggests taking a look at the direction Mono is heading. The more Mono evolves, the less likely Microsoft is to use patent claims or some other dirty trick to bring down the platform."

Comment Line Up Interviews Before you Leave (Score 1) 450

by wharfrat (#23616123) Attached to: Moving Between Countries?
Six months ago I moved from the US to Ireland as a programmer. One of the things I was able to do that you wont, was fly over here for four days to do interviews, except an offer, fly back and resign from my current job.

But what you can do is put your resume (just rename your 'CV' to 'resume') and put it up on some Canadian Job sights. As you get closer to the move, try and get some phone interviews lined up so that when you get there you can do the face to face interviews right away.

Oh - and in Canada you cannot call yourself an engineer unless you have an engineering license. I am serious. Call yourself a Network Technician or Network Manager.
The Courts

Judge Deals Blow to RIAA 229

Posted by samzenpus from the glad-that's-all-worked-out dept.
jcgam69 writes "A federal judge in New Mexico has put the brakes on the RIAA's lawsuit train, at least in the US District Court for New Mexico. The case in question is part of the RIAA's campaign against file-sharing on college campuses and names "Does 1-16," who allegedly engaged in copyright infringement using the University of New Mexico's network. In a ruling issued last month but disclosed today by file-sharing attorney Ray Beckerman, Judge Lorenzo F. Garcia denied the RIAA's motion to engage in discovery. This means that the RIAA will not be able to easily get subpoenas to obtain identifying information from the University."

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