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by carbon8 17y ago
There's also the huge mistake of assuming that people and organizations always make well-considered and rational decisions. This is particularly true with strategic decisions made by large organizations.
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by carbon8 18y ago
Compass deserves a mention, despite it being a Sass-based meta-framework rather than a straight CSS framework.
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by carbon8 18y ago
"First, vocal and influential Ruby developers talk about this" They sure do: http://twitter.com/d2h/status/1631034662 http://twitter.com/d2h/status/1631100714 http://twitter.com/_why/status/1631313721 http://twitter.com/d2h/status/
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by carbon8 18y ago
"Thats all, folks" Except that's not all. Ruby and Rails now have a bad reputation, and this bad reputation has an adverse effect on people and companies adopting and continuing with the language and frameworks. It is extremely unfortuna
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by carbon8 18y ago
"Race" is basically an archaic, outdated and inaccurate cultural construct and taxonomic concept. It resulted from perceived differences due to biological traits, cultural differences and self-identification. For a long time there were atte
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by carbon8 18y ago
This rubyonrails.org situation itself might actually provide a counter-point to Europe/US registrar comparison. It appears (indicated by whois + DHH comments) that the domain is probably registered through a reseller in denmark and the rese
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by carbon8 18y ago
The exact same thing happened last year.
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by carbon8 18y ago
His explanation for breaking/ignoring conventions: http://www.reddit.com/r/ruby/comments/8diqr/book_of_ruby_com...
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by carbon8 18y ago
"is the market for MBA students really that bad?" It's not the best job market, but I don't think that person is necessarily an indicator of what's being faced by recent or upcoming MBA grads. Among the big benefits of going to a top-tier
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by carbon8 18y ago
"Except then I'm spending 14 hours on a train" HIGH. SPEED. RAIL. TGV does that distance in 2 hours.
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by carbon8 18y ago
"take less time to arrive at their destination." Paris to Marseille by road: at least 7 hours Paris to Marseille by TGV: about 3 hours, can arrive in center of city Paris to Marseille by plane: 1:15 to 1:30 hours + 1 to 2 hours spent at a
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by carbon8 18y ago
No.
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by carbon8 18y ago
If you had to spend a sizable chunk of your money supporting your parents or paying for a sibling's college education or [fill in the blanks], I wonder how welcoming you would be of a 40% tax rate when making $75 an hour. Why would it fee
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by carbon8 18y ago
Have you ever met anyone that has a firearm or firearm-related hobby? I'm guessing that you haven't. This is a really, really, really bad assumption. I don't know about ankhmoop, but I own guns and have throughout my life. Most of my fami
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by carbon8 18y ago
flair259 only has 3 submissions, no comments, 2 of the submissions point to the same site and both domains are owned by the same person in Kazakhstan.
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by carbon8 18y ago
Rails, via ActiveSupport, adds a lot of extensions to core Ruby. I kind of wish it didn't. Apparently modular ActiveSupport is in the works: http://github.com/wycats/rails/commit/21c17e893fd8f5f7dc41df...
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by carbon8 18y ago
"Think of what happens when you put a new food into your mouth. You don’t have to decide if it’s disgusting. You just know. You don’t have to decide if a landscape is beautiful. You just know." Speak for yourself, Brooks. Apparently he wa
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by carbon8 18y ago
Are these that unusual? It seems like I hear about cops finding these relatively frequently in the local news wherever I am. I haven't used an ATM in years without checking it out first and covering my hand so a camera can't get the PIN.
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by carbon8 18y ago
I am ... confused ... by what the newspaper industry wants us to do with their content. They are, too. No one seems to have a good idea about how to deal with the transition. Especially with the NY Times, you can't really blame them. They
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by carbon8 18y ago
When I used a Mac a few years ago, none of the ports systems all had the latest versions of packages I needed, so I had more than one installed. This was a fucking nightmare to maintain. macports is pretty much dead simple to deal with. A
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by carbon8 18y ago
until it is fully and widely understood. Cognitive dissonance By accusing people of "cognitive dissonance" and apparently believing that's the primary issue here, you are contributing to the drama. See the comments on the original: http:
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by carbon8 18y ago
Ruby is a particularly strong magnet for this kind of controversy. As he notes, many of its strengths are not easily quantifiable, while its weaknesses are. Add in stereotyping, tribe mentality and cynicism and it creates drama.
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by carbon8 18y ago
Redmine, Basecamp, Google Docs, IM, Email, Skype.
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by carbon8 18y ago
So you'd rather see someone get fired, because they don't have the cash for some repairs to the car? Sure the price of the loan may be high, but in general these are risky loans and can be used when a person is in a tight spot. That's not
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by carbon8 18y ago
Sure these loans are pretty bad, but if you need cash at a moments notice and have no other options it can be better than not having it People who use these services frequently get dependent on them, and not out of necessity. That's a big
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by carbon8 18y ago
A situation like the OP's would run in an infinite loop even in Scala. There's no compile-time error in Scala when you have a method call itself, which is what the OP is describing, and his variable also wasn't named the same as the method:
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by carbon8 18y ago
"If I mean method call, it is very unlikely that I would forget the parens in a language that always has parens for method calls." If I mean instance variable, it is very unlikely that I would forget the @ in a language that always has an
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by carbon8 18y ago
I forgot the "@" in front of a variable that had the same name as the action - so Ruby interpreted it as a method call, not a variable reference. It sounds like ruby did exactly what it should have done. There was a typo and you ended up
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by carbon8 18y ago
I'm arguing that the application of logic to arguments and ideas that was part of philosophy has greater impact on high level application design and architecture than math. Taking a real world concept, need or set of actions and translating
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by carbon8 18y ago
This was not the case at all where I did my undergrad, judging by the OpenCourseWare it doesn't appear to be the case at MIT and I would assume this is the same at any of the other major universities. Arguments were consistently and constan

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