Vitaly

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by Vitaly 17y ago
The whole point is that temperature of the medium is unrelated to the temperature of the food. A raw steak is a steak that reaches UPTO temerature X (about 55C I think) during the cookieng. So you can put it into a low temp cooking device f
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by Vitaly 17y ago
because some people like to point and click. I don't think command line utility would be very fun to use. you would have to open the files in a text editor, at which stage you might as well cut it by hand :). I know both TextMate and vim ca
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by Vitaly 17y ago
its not JUST html fragments. it actually gives you the real syntax to use in Rails ERB/HAML, including support for variables. i.e. if you select some word and assign name '= @user[name]' to the fragment, it will actually use proper ERB or H
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by Vitaly 17y ago
other formats support is planned. we just launched with the minimum that we ourselves needed. Rails HAML templates :) Thought for your case we don't only need to add another format (more or less easy) but also support for re-uploading new d
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by Vitaly 17y ago
well, the best thing might be to just combine all the project listings you can pull from all the sites together. for what it worth you can try to only pull recent projects, or projects passing some minimal threshold of 'usage' like download
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by Vitaly 17y ago
not sure if freshmeat and google code are the all that 'authorative' about the opensource projects using languages. for one most Ruby projects are hosted on github.
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by Vitaly 17y ago
I'v been using Nimbu for some time but it was constantly crashing and I had to reset db several times so eventually I gave up and switched. how is it nowadays?
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by Vitaly 17y ago
Shadow puppet http://github.com/railsmachine/shadow_puppet is a Ruby DLS for Puppet. it allows you to have the best of both worlds. you still 'declare' your resources but you can imperatively build those declarations.
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by Vitaly 17y ago
nosql databases do not free you from having to design your schema! they do free you from having to run migrations, but those are trivial while you are small, migrations are only a problem when you have huge tables. With nosql dbs you can sk
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by Vitaly 17y ago
I'm surprised no one mentioned Lyx yet ( http://www.lyx.org/ ) This is a WYSIWYM processor (What You See Is What You Mean) :) It lets you write text and formulas in a close to wisiwig thing but its all latex inside.
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by Vitaly 17y ago
I'm trying to use as much OpenID as I can. But I don't have to trust my openid provider (myopenid) to stay forever. I have my own domain, and I have amazon S3 account. so I just cnamed id.mydomain.com to S3 and uploaded a simple OpenID dele
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by Vitaly 17y ago
indeed astrails safe ( http://astrails.com/astrails-safe ) is missing :) and it is the most popular on ruby-toolbox: http://ruby-toolbox.com/categories/backups.html it can dump: * mysql * postgres * filesystem * subversion storage: * loca
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by Vitaly 17y ago
an advice to the next person that wants to stop blogging. just stop. really. don't blog about you wanting to stop. thanks.
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by Vitaly 17y ago
Well, Command-Shift-F fullscreen mode in mvim (Mac's vim gui, i'm not sure if it is also supported in gvim variants on X11) gives you the same if used with an appropriate colorscheme (I use vividchalk)
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by Vitaly 17y ago
I've just finished the introduction part and there is one thing he got wrong. the changesets vs revisions thing. Changesets and revisions are completely equivalent as far as merging is concerned (and almost anything else) because one is tri
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by Vitaly 17y ago
almost exactly the opposite. its much easier to just get all my data related to some 'entity' in some place then to have to gather it over a half a dozen columns with a weird syntax (I know SQL very well, I just hate it with a passion :)
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by Vitaly 17y ago
the idea is that instead of documenting your project list to be at /projects/ and individual projects to be at /projects/PROJECT_ID you should have a SINGLE entry point into your API which should have LINKS to your various services. so you
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by Vitaly 17y ago
by this logic outlawing condoms will be even better :) the idea is not to make more people to productive age, but to increase the span of this productive age. and decrease/prevent the suffering at the end.
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by Vitaly 17y ago
This is ridiculous. The waiter pretended not to know English just because a tourist said 'hello' instead of 'Bonjour'? WTF? An example of a waiter being an ass. And I think a very good example continuing the theme of the original post. I se
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by Vitaly 17y ago
ruby block syntax is clean, elegant and nest-able which allows creating good looking DSLs. foo do bar do .. end baz 123 end now try to do the same with some other language which supports something-kind
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by Vitaly 17y ago
As the Android's apps market clearly shows open not necessarily means better, it might just mean messier :) Yes, open is more 'powerful' and yes, it allows 'more things' to be done, and yes it doesn't piss developers off, but for an average
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by Vitaly 17y ago
we were working with hg for a long time and had a very elaborate workflow with queues. When we finally switched to git we missed our patch queues a lot. fast forward today, I don't even remember exactly why did we need them as much :). Toda
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by Vitaly 17y ago
for a TextMate like scheme try vividchalk
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by Vitaly 17y ago
In general as a consultant you can assert certain rights for yourself. don't be afraid to request changes to the contract. Also as a contractor you are VERY different from an employee and the resulting IP rights are quite different. While A
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by Vitaly 17y ago
He is adding methods to a class once it already have some instances and those instances get the new functionality. That's 'monkeypatching', which IS a form of metaprogramming.
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by Vitaly 17y ago
you can just run md5 alone and pass the "qwerty http://www.facebook.com<Enter><Ctrl-D> at its stdin. And its less to type too (Thats Ctrl-D at the end is to signal end of stream)
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by Vitaly 17y ago
no it doesn't. the page does NOT have the encoding tag. so this is a matter of different defaults. safari, ff, and chrome have utf8 as the default. I guess IE has Western or smth
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by Vitaly 17y ago
the problem with your argument is the hidden assumption that writing tests wastes time, when in practice it usually saves it. Long term benefit of tests is rarely denied, but as many of the TDD people can tell it usually saves time even in
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by Vitaly 17y ago
I cringe every time I hear something like this called a "deployment". This is a lazy hack, not a deployment. You can't deploy with ftp/rsync/put_your_own_tool_here sync. Well, you can, kind of, but you better not. A "proper" deployment must
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by Vitaly 17y ago
hey, guys, chill out. He's not saying that you shouldn't do anything you don't want the public to know or anything like that. Google is actually protecting your privacy from the public. Your search history is not available to anyone except

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