I am still having a hard time with it. However, you might try the "Lite" version: https://duckduckgo.com/lite/

Also, the teletype version: https://duckduckgo.com/tty/

It'd be hard to provide any data to the NSA based on DuckDuckGo's privacy policy: http://donttrack.us/

(Unless, of course, you think they're blatantly lying about what they do and do not track, in which case I'm wasting my energy.)

Or, perhaps he simply finds it amusing to post his ever-odd thoughts and watch the reaction. Does that have to be cocky?

Or, perhaps I give him a pass for whatever he does, because I enjoy his personality. In any case, it doesn't seem to me that such vitriol is necessary toward another human being, and fellow hacker. If you find him so annoying, why are you paying so much attention?

I use both. If I need a full diff, fugitive is great. Sometimes I just want to scan to see what lines I changed in a a file. In other words, it is impractical to use this plugin to find out what _files_ you've changed. It is great for finding out what lines in whatever file you've opened have changed.

fugitive split diff shows you what lines you've changed. stop using both.

No. You you do your thing. I'll do this. I don't want to have to run another command to see what lines have changed in my file. I want small, non-intrusive icons in the gutter without doing a damned thing.

It's actually a lot easier, unless you have next-to-zero traffic, to ask _them_ to take an action that puts the info in your inbox, rather than dig in logs, which could have that specific user's information buried amongst hundreds of other entries. It's a time-saver.

What if you have insufficient logging (Heroku sans a decent logging plugin, for instance)? What if you built the thing, but it's hosted by a third-party that limits log access? What if you want some non-technical or not-that-technical person to handle the issue?

As hackers, we tend toward "do-it-yourself", but there are a lot of cases where that isn't practical or economical.

If you can't quickly identify your client in your logs you will have bigger problems.

Sure, but the usual support rep has no log access. But using a good knowledge base, he can answer things like "Flash 9 doesn't work" without tech assistance.

Why doesn't the tech support rep have access to the information he needs? The data is in the organisation.

Because he might not be qualified to read it and providing an aggregation of said data in a consumable form is too much implementation work?

In some organizations, he is not even allowed to read operational data without pre-screening.

I think, essentially, he is saying that you end up spending time maintaining your template, losing much of the benefit of the template, depending on how often you start new apps. I have found this to be true at a certain threshold of complication in the app template. However, if you are indeed starting a brand new Rails app every month, as you said, you likely don't have the same cost, as maintenance to the app template happens on a more regular basis. Even as a consultant, I don't start new Rails apps that often, and side projects tend to involve experimentation outside of what I might consider my "stable" stack.

> you end up spending time maintaining your template, losing much of the benefit of the template

It really depends on whether or not you start a lot of new projects. If you're a Rails dev shop that does a wide variety of apps on a regular basis, then the N=1 cost of maintaining the template is well worth the per-project getting-started cost.

If he is near Indianapolis, it could help to get involved in the local hacker scene. We have a pretty decent number of meetings and the like he could attend. See the calendar at http://indyhackers.org.

I like to think we're pretty merit-based here, but it is a largely conservative state (though this city can be pretty "blue" compared to its surroundings), so I could be wrong. Knowing people is a significant portion of the battle, and just showing up to events can go a long way.

Unfortunately, he will be starting out in Michigan City at a halfway house. But maybe Indianapolis is someplace he can transfer to? Are there any other hacker hubs in Indiana? West Lafayette? Valparaiso?

What I took away from this, which, reading the other comments, is not at all what everyone got out of it, is that a bunch of graphs can be a great, but a system that automatically makes recommendations based on those graphs (taking some of the decision-making out of the equation) is closer to ideal.

I might be projecting, though. I talk regularly with the people behind Pirate Metrics (http://piratemetrics), which does that sort of thing. (Records, displays, but makes suggestions as well.) S, that sort of idea has been on my mind.

I don't see it as a "huge Ruby bug". Could you elaborate, please?

I would understand "huge Ruby on Rails bug", though, by convention, it is still a fairly unlikely case.

Edit: I think your edit answers my "Could you elaborate" question somewhat, as you relate a Python library issue to this issue.

They're both good. My open source repos are on Github. My private (thus client-related) repos are on BitBucket. I've been pretty happy with this configuration.

Perhaps it helps that I know a few other companies and developers locally using BitBucket for private repos.

Incidentally, reliability and price are both valid reasons to "use an also-ran copycat", in my personal opinion, if that also-ran copycat is pretty damn good.