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by carbon8 17y ago
The soundtrack is on archive.org: http://web.archive.org/web/20071018035725/poignantguide.net/...
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by carbon8 17y ago
This one has commits through Aug 11/12: http://github.com/adamsanderson/potion/tree/master
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by carbon8 17y ago
FWIW, I noticed that all of his sites were down for a period sunday night, too. I figured he was just doing something on the server and everything was back up the next day. I didn't check his github or twitter, though.
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by carbon8 17y ago
Apparently he tweeted this yesterday (quoted from a retweet): "programming is rather thankless. u see your works become replaced by superior ones in a year. unable to run at all in a few more." But _why's contributions are largely irreplace
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by carbon8 17y ago
"Seriously? What kind of technology is behind this thing that a 3am PST HackerNewsing could bring it down?" Django, according to the about page.
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by carbon8 17y ago
Short URLs aren't just about twitter. URL shortening is useful in a variety of situations, and tinyurl was widely used for years before twitter came along.
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by carbon8 17y ago
FWIW, johns wasn't responding to my comment, he was actually responding to a comment at the same level of mine that has now been deleted. The way the nesting dealt with it makes it a little confusing.
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by carbon8 17y ago
As I understand it, trademarks need not be registered: http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/tac/doc/basic/register.htm
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by carbon8 17y ago
Virtual desktops.
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by carbon8 17y ago
Possibly the openmicroblogging protocol behind laconia or pubsubhubbub. Hopefully we can move away from platforms and instead have easy interoperability for a variety of apps.
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by carbon8 17y ago
"This is exactly what is wrong with the Ruby community. Rails has an option called "disable whiny nils"." whiny_nils is an option to provide additional information with an error, not an option to disable errors. It's not remotely relate
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by carbon8 17y ago
This only matters if you need specific features from those libraries in your web app, there is no adequate library in another language and you can't use the python library without strong integration in the app. Ruby's domain is primarily th
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by carbon8 17y ago
"{(x, random.randrange(100)) for x in ["x", "y", "z"]}" FWIW, it's possible to do it as a one liner in Ruby 1.9 without tap: Hash[[:x, :y, :z].map { |l| [l, rand(100)]}] There may be other ways to do it (like inject, as menti
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by carbon8 17y ago
"I would ... say that all these modules are useful for web development." It's very unusual for a web developer to work directly with RubyInline. It's quite a stretch to classify it as a "web development tool" or significantly related to "
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by carbon8 17y ago
Hopefully you recognize that you misrepresented Ruby throughout the post, in some parts quite dramatically and strangely; the "Modules (for Web Apps)" section is a remarkable mess, listing a random handful of libraries, some of which have n
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by carbon8 17y ago
I switch back and forth between TextMate and MacVim. MacVim is slightly, annoyingly slow; TextMate feels more natural (including smooth, fast block editing without modes); TextMate doesn't have split view or buffers. To be honest, I'm not t
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by carbon8 17y ago
Specs don't matter like the used to. 6/7+ years ago an upgrade or a better performing machine was actually a big deal even for regular users. These days it's almost the opposite. Components perform at such a high level that consumers are wi
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by carbon8 17y ago
"Jython's page is also a Wiki." It's not a public wiki, I see no evidence that is runs on a wiki-based CMS, and what would that have to do with anything, anyway? "Horrendous" "Horrendous"? Compared to the Jython wiki ( http://wiki.pytho
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by carbon8 17y ago
No. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_music
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by carbon8 17y ago
The recommended and near-universally used Ruby hash keys are immutable. Symbols are used most frequently, but even if you pass a string as a hash key it gets automatically copied and frozen. freeze is also a method on Object and can be used
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by carbon8 17y ago
"And mutual compatibility" Depends on what you are looking for, of course. One great thing about being single is that you have the opportunity to temporarily wrap your life together with someone who isn't necessarily much like you at all.
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by carbon8 17y ago
"Only those old guys are working with Rails...." And django.
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by carbon8 17y ago
That might be relevant if we weren't talking about modern and very actively developed web frameworks on modern and quickly evolving languages.
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by carbon8 17y ago
Unless something changed, django doesn't even run on psyco cleanly and the combo is unsuitable for production. Unladen swallow also isn't ready for use in production with django and it's unclear when it will be. But performance from these l
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by carbon8 17y ago
In those cases, there was a legitimate public interest in having them leaked and published. Very different.
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by carbon8 17y ago
Obviously not a DVCS user.
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by carbon8 17y ago
delicious, flickr, yahoo finance, plus yahoo answers popping up in search results at least once a day.
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by carbon8 17y ago
Or, perhaps, rather than some grand plan to vilify mongrel in order to pave the way for passenger, people are simply expressing their views and opinions.
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by carbon8 17y ago
See "developer documentation" at http://modrails.com/development.html
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by carbon8 17y ago
appengine is free, and you can get a low end VPS for $6-$20/mo from prgmr, slicehost or linode, and you can use even a low end VPS for multiple low-traffic sites. It does not cost $100/mo for a hobby site.

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