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by zyngaro 4640 days ago
Too bad it is most likely not true! But it's a down right cool PR move
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bkanber 4640 days ago
Why do you say that?
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sergiotapia 4640 days ago
Because it's completely unrealistic that a person who has no programming experience, even worse even no basic HTML experience will have familiarity with a Gemfile, how to hide access keys from a repository, etc.

If you think that that information is something you can understand, internalize and actually make work in less than 5 days you're delusional.

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robmcm 4639 days ago
It doesn't say she understands it, could just be a copy paste from a tutorial right?
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sergiotapia 4639 days ago
I highly doubt that. When I first started programming it took me upwards of a day to have a simple Windows Form that had two textboxes and displayed a Message Box saying "Hello" + textBox1.Text + " and " + textBox2.Text. Even copy and pasting didn't work.
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robmcm 4639 days ago
Perhaps the state of tutorials and online help (stack overflow etc) are much better than in your day. I know they are compared to mine.

Perhaps she coppied the whole project and then just went back through it, changing things and if they didn't work reverted.

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solistice 4640 days ago
where you here when the last post was dropped?
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