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    1. Jason Mitchell‏ @_jasonmit 20 Dec 2017

      🍿 We're hiring! If building the world's largest studio at @netflix on top of Ember & Rails interests you, send me over a DM 🍿

      13 replies 93 retweets 277 likes
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    2. DHH‏Verified account @dhh 22 Dec 2017
      Replying to @_jasonmit @netflix

      Curious to hear what part of Netflix you guys use Rails for?

      1 reply 2 retweets 75 likes
    3. Lauren Tan  ✨ 😬 ✨‏ @sugarpirate_ 22 Dec 2017
      Replying to @dhh @_jasonmit @netflix

      We use Rails (and Ember) to make the process of creating original series/films 10x more efficient. Thanks for all the work you do on Rails! 🚂

      3 replies 50 retweets 253 likes
      Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 22 Dec 2017
      Replying to @sugarpirate_ @dhh and

      Someone told me recently that they were surprised at how many hiring companies still use Rails. The HN/SV mindset that "Rails is dying" has deeply confused a lot of working devs about what skills are valuable in the job market.

      12:43 PM - 22 Dec 2017
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        2. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 22 Dec 2017
          Replying to @wycats @sugarpirate_ and

          I'm not talking about people who don't *like* rails. I'm talking about people who choose not to learn it out of a conviction that it's a dying technology without otherwise having an opinion.

          5 replies 9 retweets 49 likes
        3. DHH‏Verified account @dhh 22 Dec 2017
          Replying to @wycats @sugarpirate_ and

          To be fair, this is how the hype cycle goes. Look at the number of companies hiring Java developers. We placed a tombstone on that a decade ago :D

          6 replies 4 retweets 128 likes
        4. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 22 Dec 2017
          Replying to @dhh @sugarpirate_ and

          I just feel bad for devs who become enthusiastic about rails once they realize there's work, but otherwise got demoralized by believing the bullshit in the SV environment. But yeah, it's how it goes.

          2 replies 2 retweets 49 likes
        5. DHH‏Verified account @dhh 22 Dec 2017
          Replying to @wycats @sugarpirate_ and

          It's an imminent lesson in the need to be skeptical of all the SV bullshit, not just around technology choices 😂

          1 reply 3 retweets 57 likes
        6. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 22 Dec 2017
          Replying to @dhh @sugarpirate_ and

          Indeed.

          3 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
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        2. Avi Flombaum‏ @aviflombaum 22 Dec 2017
          Replying to @wycats @sugarpirate_ and

          See Why Teach Rubyhttps://medium.com/learn-love-code/why-teach-ruby-bac8416c77ba …

          1 reply 3 retweets 14 likes
        3. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 22 Dec 2017
          Replying to @aviflombaum @sugarpirate_ and

          HN is deeply corrosive to developers trying to gain an understanding of technology in the real world. We kind of need a place for people to chat who are using "uncool" technologies :p

          4 replies 8 retweets 70 likes
        4. Nate Berkopec‏ @nateberkopec 22 Dec 2017
          Replying to @wycats @aviflombaum and

          http://lobste.rs  is better at resisting the hype cycle. it's not perfect, but much much better. a more senior, programming-only audience reading it I think.

          1 reply 1 retweet 16 likes
        5. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 22 Dec 2017
          Replying to @nateberkopec @aviflombaum and

          It also has a surprisingly high % of people cool with stuff I don't want to be seeing on a regular basis. I don't want to debate if they have a "right" to those opinions, but I certainly have the right to not want to see them day in and day out.

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        6.  ❄️ justincampbell  ❄️‏ @justincampbell 23 Dec 2017
          Replying to @wycats @nateberkopec and

          I loved using it for a while, and then stopped not because of bad actors but because of bad actors being upvoted

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        7. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 23 Dec 2017
          Replying to @justincampbell @nateberkopec and

          Right. It's not the bad people, it's the tolerance of them.

          1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
        8. Vishnu Narang‏ @vishnu_narang 23 Dec 2017
          Replying to @wycats @justincampbell and

          This applies to every aspect in the world today... 😅 Also, being a Ruby/Rails Dev and part of a startup using it as the core, I can relate to the "it's dying" crap... It's not!! It's still one of the most Dev friendly platforms... 😊 #Ruby #rubyonrails #Programming #code #dev

          0 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
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        2. Reginald Braithwaite‏ @raganwald 23 Dec 2017
          Replying to @wycats @gilesgoatboy and

          I am not saying that “Rails is dead.” But I would say that job postings and/or jobs total and/or lines of code in production are all trailing indicators of what will be useful to know tomorrow. Paul Graham and Joel Spolsky have made this point about Java and Windows in the past.

          1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
        3. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 23 Dec 2017
          Replying to @raganwald @gilesgoatboy and

          And yet Java is doing fine. And is probably not a terrible thing to learn.

          3 replies 0 retweets 12 likes
        4. Reginald Braithwaite‏ @raganwald 23 Dec 2017
          Replying to @wycats @gilesgoatboy and

          Java is doing fine in all the ways that COBOL was doing fine in 1997. I don’t know anybody who lost their house because they only knew COBOL.

          2 replies 3 retweets 4 likes
        5. DHH‏Verified account @dhh 23 Dec 2017
          Replying to @raganwald @wycats and

          On a long enough timeline we are indeed all dead. COBOL had been around for ~40 yrs by 1997. By that metric, Java should still be doing fine by 2036. Better Q: What do you like working with?

          2 replies 3 retweets 32 likes
        6. DHH‏Verified account @dhh 23 Dec 2017
          Replying to @dhh @raganwald and

          Language commentary has been confused by winner-takes-all network logic, which does not apply. All you need is escape velocity and self-sufficient sustainability. Many langs/envs have acquired both. Pick amongst those and you’ll be fine.

          2 replies 12 retweets 45 likes
        7. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 23 Dec 2017
          Replying to @dhh @raganwald and

          Winner takes all is rarely true even in networked situations. Who's the winner in video? You'd probably say YouTube but Vimeo and Twitch are doing well. Who's the social media winner? Facebook's king but what about Twitter? Winner-take-all is an excuse.

          1 reply 2 retweets 13 likes
        8. Reginald Braithwaite‏ @raganwald 23 Dec 2017
          Replying to @wycats @dhh and

          Winner-take-all is an excuse, and a rich one from anyone using Rails, Ruby, JavaScript, or a dozen other successes that were once deemed “outsiders.” But nevertheless, I empathize with people who seek emotional comfort in going along with the crowd.

          1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
        9. Reginald Braithwaite‏ @raganwald 23 Dec 2017
          Replying to @raganwald @wycats and

          Although many people win’t admit it—even to themselves—“Nobody got fired for buying IBM” usually means, “I don’t want all the people who buy IBM thinking that I’m a maverick.”

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
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