It's solid on the Chrome stable and beta channels, but possibly not on Canary. I'd hope they'll wait until sass 3.3 is released before removing the debug-info support from more stable channels.
Do you have the 'sass-rails' gem in your Gemfile? It's possible to have the asset pipeline work with just the 'sass' gem, but to get the full debug-info that Chrome requires you need to be using 'sass-rails' and specify the config options mentioned in the post.
Watching Triumph of the Nerds with my Dad in the mid-ninties is one of my fondest memories, and played no small part inspiring me to study computer science and subsequently get involved with starting companies.
Accidental Empires (the book), remains full of detailed insights into the emergence of Silicon Valley and startup culture. The fact the show was set in the mid ninties may make it seem a tad dated by today's standard, but it was fascinating to watch Cringely talk with Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, John Sculley, folks from IBM, Xerox, and more.
As a 15 year old watching on a sofa from 6,000 miles away, I was incredibly inspired by the tales of dedication to product creation and hyper growth. It's a part of what inspired me to move to the Bay Area years later.
I look forward to re-reading the annotated version of Accidental Empires and hope Bob continues to write (and interview!) for many years to come.
This may sound pendatic, but Accidental Empires is a must read, even after all these years. Particularly if you did not live through the initial rise of the personal computing industry or were too young for it to have any conscious impact on you.
I take it as a humbling record of just how grueling this industry is. But also just how much it spins on happenstance, timing and of course interpersonal politics.
If any lessons come out of that book, it may still be true that putting your effort being creating (or undermining) a standard is one of the core engines of this space.
It depends on how you integrate bootstrap: there's a SCSS conversion of Bootstrap that avoids the dependency on therubyracer, (it just requires sass):
https://github.com/anjlab/bootstrap-rails
From the article it sounds like Facebook made a huge investment in people to build the bespoke (software) infrastructure that they needed. eg. A bespoke in-memory database, their "own storage system called Haystack that's completely built on top of commodity hardware", etc.
Facebook have an order of magnitude more employees than Twitter which probably makes those kind of bespoke uber-scaling advancements feasible.
(Caused some friction when they forked an old version, added new code which was then suddenly unleashed on the community without warning. Each new feature then had to be manually added to the current version)
All the lessons sound great, but in lieu of advertising or conferences, how do you make the first 10 sales? The first 100?
Surely it's not sufficient to simply "build it and they will [magically] come" unless your product is incredibly niche and solving a very painful demand.
Is the author a superb personal marketer, or did he literally sell 2 copies of his software to friends and then everything snowballed from there?
The sales graph suggests there's something else going on, and I really want to know what it is!
