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by carbon8 17y ago
Actually, the libraries in the google books project get digital copies, too. It's also important to remember that university libraries very adamantly do not view themselves as archives at all and are constantly weeding out books that they v
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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
I don't know much about MacRuby, but as I understand it, it should be possible to port it to linux. See "what is it not?" and the second comment here: http://merbist.com/2009/05/27/macruby-changing-the-ruby-ecos...
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by carbon8 17y ago
"I was saying that I couldn't taste the difference and according to the article, many other people can't either." This isn't what the article is talking about. The article is arguing that subjective, linear wine ranking is faulty, that pr
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by carbon8 17y ago
Well, there's a big difference between the issue of wine rating silliness and the wide variety of flavor you'll find in wine. A $10 bottle of gabbiano tastes almost nothing like a $10 bottle of monticello rioja and neither will taste anythi
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by carbon8 17y ago
Getting a vps for $8-$20/mo from linode, slicehost, prgmr, webbynode, rackspace cloud or any other vps provider is so much easier than dealing with a machine at your home.
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by carbon8 17y ago
"knowing that in the near future I'm jumping to an open platform as quickly as possible" Assuming that's even possible or realistic, which it often isn't in markets dominated by a single vendor. Supporting vendor lock-in, particularly as
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by carbon8 17y ago
Why's that?
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by carbon8 17y ago
Yeah, the transition to Grosse Pointe is dramatic. You can see it clearly on gmaps: http://maps.google.com/maps?t=h&q=42.390833,-82.911389&#... As you go down jefferson ave to the northeast it goes from vacant lots to a couple blocks
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by carbon8 17y ago
Ruby has two popular HTML parsers, Nokogiri and Hpricot, both of which are awesome and fast.
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by carbon8 17y ago
Sinatra is widely used and becoming pretty ubiquitous. It's supplanting camping, which was also relatively widely used, but not nearly as much as sinatra. The Merb/Rails merge reveals some reasons why there aren't a lot of widely used Ruby
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by carbon8 17y ago
Yeah, friendly with django users, which is nice if that's all you are. The problem, however, is what he mentions in the post: "I’ve noticed the tone of the arguments in the Django community getting nastier — especially when it comes to Rai
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by carbon8 17y ago
Rails borrows plenty from django and python at large. Merb's slices and Rails' engines were directly inspired by Django's apps. Rails is getting automatic escaping of strings in templates after Django showed it was a better default. Rack wa
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by carbon8 17y ago
Yup. Ian Bicking talked specifically about this at pycon last year.
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by carbon8 17y ago
There's always Sequel Pro (the successor of CocoaMySQL): http://www.sequelpro.com/
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by carbon8 17y ago
Whether it does or not doesn't change the fact that pro-microsoft sites and, apparently, microsoft employees are trying to deflect attention from the sidekick incident by digging up and publicizing an obscure bug in OS X. Crying "b..b..b..b
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by carbon8 17y ago
Hence why this weeks-old news is suddenly being pushed by decidedly pro-microsoft sites like neowin today.
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by carbon8 17y ago
Optical drive and/or subwoofer.
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by carbon8 17y ago
It doesn't sound like the problem is a VPS or specifically a Rails problem. 800ms is a lot, and 300-400ms for a view with fragment caching is a lot. I have a completely unoptimized app in development with 20-item paginated lists of partials
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by carbon8 17y ago
My reaction is also that it's premature, but your comment is simply not true. There are many people arguing that it's deserved, from commentators like Andrew Sullivan to the figures cited in the international reaction pages of both the NYTi
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by carbon8 17y ago
"safest big American city I've been in." As a life-long Chicagoan I still find it incredibly strange that people believe Chicago is safe. It has a very high crime rate, double NYC in every category.
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by carbon8 17y ago
What's your neighborhood? Which other areas are good?
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by carbon8 17y ago
My understanding is that you need to be very careful about saying anything negative at all in a reference since it opens you up to a potential defamation lawsuit, and that it's therefore prudent to either give a positive reference or none a
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by carbon8 17y ago
Upon review it looks like it might only be shifted 1 older or possibly the same, but it's unclear. Russian education apparently starts a year later than in the US and, until the 90s(?), ended/still ends(?) a year earlier and, as you noted,
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by carbon8 17y ago
Not according to this: http://www.emis.de/projects/Ref/doc_ems_pdf/EMS_NATIONAL_PRE... "Traditionally, in grades 7–9 mathematics comprises 2 school subjects, geometry and algebra that are taught in parallel (e.g., 2 hours per week for
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by carbon8 17y ago
"Daily Unique Visitors" is what the graph claims to show.
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by carbon8 17y ago
springsource.org . framework website, not season.
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by carbon8 17y ago
That might be relevant if it actually reflected jobs available, but it doesn't, not even remotely (see my comments here for numbers: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=805931 ) Note also that according to the trends graph, djangoproject's
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by carbon8 17y ago
Spring gaining or Django waning? http://trends.google.com/websites?q=djangoproject.com%2C+spr... Really, HN should be above this inanity.
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by carbon8 17y ago
There are responses from dkubb and wycats, and the conversation shows it's not that simple and that there are other perspectives, as is often the case.

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