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Interesting that the dataset only goes from A-Je. I wonder what happened to the rest of the data.

Also, I didn't realize the surname Acevedo was so popular...

Not sure what all the hate is about. He presented some interesting anecdotes about the quirks of software engineering and then tied it all together with some concrete lessons.

Maybe 5K words without any sort of lists or clickbait titles is just too much for the average reader.

You figured it out. People didn't like the article because they're too stupid to read that many words. Or they were confused by the title.

It's not cause the tone is accusatory, or because it rambles, or compares mission critical life-or-death Apollo software with the unimportant web and native applications we write now. Yep, it's cause people are too dumb to look at that many words without a beer commercial dropped in the middle of it.

Saying "people who disagree with my opinions are too stupid to understand the subtlety of the point" is the rhetorical equivalent of denial in the Kubler-Ross sense of the word.

Beyond the grammatical errors, misplaced punctuation and misspellings, and despite the relative novelty of the anecdotes, I thought the writing itself was dull and simplistic. Many paragraphs were just a string of blunt statements without any independent clauses.

According to a copy+paste of the text into http://sarahktyler.com/code/sample.php, the article as a whole reaches Flesch-Kindaid grade level 7.

So, it was written such that a 7th grader could read it. How is that a bad thing?

Edit: I pasted a sample of John D MacDonald in there and it showed a level of 6.61. Poor John, no wonder he was never a success. /S

Your comment isn't really addressing mine from the context in which it was given. My comment was in reply to someone implying criticism of the piece stems from its reading level being above that of a 12 or 13 year old, which isn't the case.

I'm simply proposing that the criticism is founded on actual flaws with the piece, rather than it being too complex to be understood by its detractors.

It was what your comment implied to me - that is some one with a low level of English reading comprehension who needs short simple sentence structure.

Yeah, but setting up a rails or django server/hosting environment for development is a lot more difficult than a comparable php setup; tools like MAMP, XAMP, et al make it fairly trivial to get going quickly.

> pip install django

> django-admin.py startproject myproject

Is that really so hard?

You need pip first, especially if you're on Windows, which I'd imagine is a little more difficult than just installing XAMPP with an .exe.

XAMPP/MAMP and others like it seem like they make life easier until you hit a point where you realize that they are seriously leaky implementations. I wish I had time to write in detail about this (because I also hate when people make claims like this without showing examples); however, I have a feeling that the people that would benefit the most won't care anyway.

Don't these distros still put php.ini in c:\windows?

nope.avi

You need mysql-python, which depends on some header from mysql-client-dev, which requires some compiling or package, then there's PIL, virtualenv, uwsgi and shit.

Oh wait, you don't have pip on most distros by default. You need to apt-get or wget that.

If you follow defaults you'll be using SQLite in Django and won't have any of the MySQL headache.

But you're right about needing PIP.

If you are working on a serious project you are likely to write some db specific code, sqlite3 is only suitable for general ORM-only tasks.

If you're not into pen and paper, there are a bunch of cool sites that let you doodle in the browser. I've been using this one for a few weeks and it's actually pretty cool: http://doodle.ly/

I'd recommend going down the dead tree route, if only to rest your eyes, also it helps walking somewhere else to sketch to get the blood flowing.

I get a blank screen on my blackberry bold 9700 running all the latest updates and with javascript enabled. Sadly, blackberry neglect is common for these "mobile" frameworks.

Deadweight is a very well written Ruby script that performs the same kind of task. Give it a try:

http://rdoc.info/projects/aanand/deadweight