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by carbon8 17y ago
The direct translation of that HTML to Haml is %button#Save.positive(name='Save' type='submit' tabindex='10') %img(src='/graphics/icons/save.png') Save Changes That button in your example, of course, has a lot of attrib
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by carbon8 17y ago
linode, slicehost, rackspace cloud
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by carbon8 17y ago
Not so much anymore. Google Apps and/or Open Office are more than sufficient for most small businesses. 10 years ago Windows and Office didn't have any viable competition. Times have changed.
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by carbon8 17y ago
"AAPL hit the jackpot with iPhone, post iPhone Apple has been a second coming of Apple" And before the iPhone, AAPL hit the jackpot with the iPod, post iPod Apple has been a second coming of Apple. And before the iPod, AAPL hit the jackpo
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"you need a commercial SDK for which you pay $99" The SDK is free.
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by carbon8 17y ago
"It will be interesting to see how dramatically they change OSX now that they have found something that sells." You don't have to wait; they've already done it with the iPhone/iPad OS. Apple is clearly still willing to make hard and drama
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by carbon8 17y ago
A lot of different stuff, but the things I depend on the most for actual work and direct OSS offshoots: Snow Leopard, Ubuntu server & VMs, XP VM (using VirtualBox) Ruby, Haskell, Python, Javascript TextMate, vim git, gitx, git gui, vcpr
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by carbon8 17y ago
Guides: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/ http://asciicasts.com/ (text versions of the railscasts mentioned below) Screencasts: http://rubyonrails.org/screencasts http://railscasts.com/ Books: http://www.pragprog.com/titles/rails3/agi
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by carbon8 17y ago
Corporate social responsibility ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_social_responsibility ) is an increasingly popular concept in management and the benefits to a company can be as abstract as enhancing market position or PR. It makes
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by carbon8 17y ago
However, that's not a universal approach to socialization. For example, I don't view my online socializing as a direct extension of my offline socializing. They have different roles. I don't need to follow my sister on facebook, I just meet
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# config/initializers/disable_mass_assignment.rb ActiveRecord::Base.send(:attr_accessible, nil) # app/models/some_model.rb class SomeModel < ActiveRecord::Base attr_accessible :whitelisted, :attributes end
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by carbon8 17y ago
If any site could claim credit for making the broader notion of crowd funding mainstream it's kiva. There are now a whole range of sites, including many niche sites, that are variations on the same theme. Claiming ownership of the idea of c
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by carbon8 17y ago
Probably regular domestic cat. They can and do breed.
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by carbon8 17y ago
I think so. I've been using it in a fluid app for a long time now. http://railsapi.com/ is good for Ruby, too, especially since it's customizable.
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by carbon8 17y ago
I recently moved some servers over to this for encrypted daily s3 backups: http://github.com/astrails/safe Dead simple to specify what to backup, drop the config in /etc/safe and add a cron job.
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by carbon8 17y ago
The top tabs do indeed make a lot more sense in a number of key aspects. But it's important to remember that the entire concept of tabs in OS X windows has long been criticized by a contingent of hardcore apple fans who argue it breaks from
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by carbon8 17y ago
I think it's a mistake to believe that this has a big impact on new users or which implementations any of us support in our code. Plus, it's important to note that the current draft spec actually supposedly covers the existing 1.9 implement
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by carbon8 17y ago
And as it says in the draft spec, the reason they are using 1.8.7 is basically because it's a dead end version of Ruby and, therefore, isn't changing.
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by carbon8 17y ago
That's actually hosted by cryptome: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptome
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by carbon8 17y ago
2.3. The public API supposedly won't change much. There are a lot of internal changes that will make a lot of new things possible on the public side, but they have said they plan to support the existing Rails 2.3 public API in Rails 3.
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by carbon8 17y ago
I'm pretty sure it's the same on debian.
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by carbon8 17y ago
That's not the cause. I'm in Chicago right now. Street view navigation is smooth, quick and with a blur effect, while bing navigation is chunky, slow and has heavy shearing. Are you on windows? I'm not. It could be heavily optimized for win
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by carbon8 17y ago
"I'm not finding it significantly slower here" I'm on a relatively late model macbook pro using safari with a fresh silverlight install and it's dramatically slower than street view, enough that it's difficult to navigate around. "the Bi
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by carbon8 17y ago
For those who aren't interested in installing silverlight, it's just a street view clone, but much slower, with a fraction of the coverage, more obvious shearing when you move around and a blue circle with a person icon instead of a simple
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by carbon8 17y ago
You can also use this as String#slice, which is a little clearer: "foo@example.com".slice(/@(.*)/, 1)
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by carbon8 17y ago
"say that string objects take regular expressions as possible slice indices." I think it would be more accurate to say that Ruby's String#[] aka String#slice method accepts arguments other than just indices (including regular expressions
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The only thing this is analogous to is the mispronunciation of a single syllable english word by a chinese author who doesn't speak english quoting a chinese language passage from another author while discussing their work. And it wouldn't
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"It's like saying that Star Track is one of your favorite shows" No, it's not. It's like someone who doesn't know english mispronouncing a single syllable english word while reading an excerpt of a non-english book written by someone else
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by carbon8 17y ago
"quoting others' arguments as a journalist would." He writes "as a journalist would" because he is a journalist. I'm not sure why anyone would read his writing as much of anything else, nor why writing as a journalist is a bad thing.
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by carbon8 17y ago
Here's the section in question: http://www.gladwell.com/outliers/outliers_excerpt3.html Personally, I find it incredibly strange for someone to criticize an author for mispronouncing a single syllable word from a language he presumably do

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