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by compay 17y ago
Thank you, I was looking for a link to that presentation this morning and couldn't remember who had given it.
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by compay 17y ago
As far as I can tell XML config files (at least those intended to be hand-edited) have largely fallen out of favor in non-Java open source projects. I also don't mind the current config file, but I've been using Apache for more than 10 year
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Should Apache replace its current httpd.conf with Lua?(thread.gmane.org)
58 points by compay 17y ago|47 comments
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by compay 17y ago
Don't worry, you're far from alone. I sympathize with their desire to stand out from the other job ads, but this one is just silly. It gives the impression of a place, as Zed Shaw says, that identifies more with Rails than with their busine
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by compay 17y ago
If women simply find CS "undesirable" at a ratio much higher than men it would be interesting to try to find out why. To me there doesn't seem to be anything particularly masculine or feminine about CS.
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by compay 17y ago
So your logic is basically, "I have cancer, but it's ok, lots of other people do too. No need to see the doctor."
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by compay 17y ago
Well, the first sentence of the article starts off with: "Large segments of the U.S. population are not considering careers in IT"
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by compay 17y ago
Sure, society has loads of examples of jobs being divided up along gender lines, and of unfairness against men too. But does that mean we can't even talk about why our profession in particular attracts so few women, while lots of other "k
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by compay 17y ago
A logical justification could be found for any order. It's just arbitrary.
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by compay 17y ago
For now, yeah, because 1.9 is still fairly new and not 100% compatible with older Ruby code. I imagine in a year or so everyone will be on 1.9 and this sort of thing will not be need by most people for a while.
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by compay 17y ago
As far as glacial release cycles are concerned, use Ubuntu, not Debian. Problem solved. And about packages getting rearranged, yeah, I like FreeBSD's ports better too, but you really should be using apt-get only to install rubygems and then
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by compay 17y ago
This looks like a pretty useful project. If you're using a Debian-based Linux distro, you also already have "alternatives," which is a pretty powerful framework for doing almost this exact thing.
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by compay 17y ago
"Ajax on Rails," while focussed on Ajax, has a lot of really good general information on Rails too, and is extremely well written. It's somewhat outdated now (really all Rails books are) but still very much worth reading IMHO.
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by compay 17y ago
People sometimes complain about Lua's tables, which use 1 as their first index when treated like arrays. I suppose it could make some algorithms more complicated but in my day to day programming it's never made any difference to me so far.
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by compay 17y ago
While I'm sure many readers at the NY Times may find the idea of a conservative advocating for same-sex marriage novel, it fits pretty squarely into the libertarian view of freedom. "Conservative" in the USA really doesn't mean what it used
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by compay 17y ago
WAIT just a minute... the dude took down a bunch of domains and accounts TODAY. Isn't this a tad premature for a eulogy ? Maybe we ought to wait until we find out what happened, and what _why intends to do before going into "mourning."
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by compay 17y ago
Yes it does. Actually it's one of the reasons I like the Ruby community.
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by compay 17y ago
Unless you're an entrenched partisan, I think it's still a tad too early to call Obama's economic policies "disastrous" or "calamitous."
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by compay 17y ago
On a flight I once sat next to a Cuban-American man on his way back from a business trip to China. He told me about his company's work over there and how impressed he was with his Chinese counterparts. He had had a great time and looked for
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by compay 17y ago
Well, if they help EY develop products based around Java and JRuby, that opens up a potentially very profitable market for them. So I think they'll have more incentive to keep them on board for a while.
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by compay 17y ago
It might not be safer, perhaps just a better environment. Most of the people I know who work at EY seem to love working there.
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by compay 17y ago
I love Javascript, but I think people who want to develop server-side or desktop apps with it might be better served by Lua. Lua has functions as first-class values like Javascript does, which allows you to approach problems similarly in
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by compay 17y ago
Equine blacksmith. You're basically a cobbler/podiatrist for horses. All the fun of being an equine vet, without having to castrate them or stick your arm up their butts.
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by compay 17y ago
Having no Spanish speaking countries on the map makes that woefully incomplete. There are more native speakers of Spanish on Earth than English. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_... .
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by compay 17y ago
That's likely only a result of your unfamiliarity with Postgres relative to MySQL. Also, installing via apt on any Debian-based Linux is pretty much just as easy with Postgres as it is for MySQL.
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by compay 17y ago
No, I scroll all the way down and don't see anything. Do you need to be logged in? Even if you only have to be logged in without paying, it's still annoying as heck.
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by compay 17y ago
Here in Argentina, if you search in Spanish, todoar.com.ar comes up in the top 10 for almost everything. I'll hand it to the owners, they know how to do SEO. The problem is there's no useful content on any of their ad-ridden pages.
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by compay 17y ago
Missing from the list: Don't play that stupid spymaster game. http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/29/spy-vs-spy-the-spymaste...
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by compay 17y ago
2 generations in my home country... but now I am an immigrant myself.
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by compay 17y ago
I'll go do this right after I get done prematurely optimizing my untested code.

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