dboyd

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by dboyd 17y ago
Yehuda didn't simply say that Sinatra failed. What he said was that Sinatra (and other similar projects) failed to achieve a critical mass of support. The reason for this failure was because these projects were trying to do fundamentally
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by dboyd 17y ago
Except that adding lean body mass increases your Basal Metabolic Rate, which increases the amount of calories you burn when you are not exercising. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabolic_rate
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by dboyd 17y ago
He uses the guilt of owning a gym membership to make himself more disciplined. I think if he did better on being disciplined and super-disciplined, the gym membership wouldn't be necessary.
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by dboyd 17y ago
I'm not sure I can add much to the argument of meal frequency. A lot of the information I rely on has come from the body building community, since that is where I get a lot of my information (although, I'm not a body builder). I accept th
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by dboyd 17y ago
The empirical data that I've read and used was to... - count calories, and ensure that I maintain a calorie deficit (which is the only way to burn body fat). - eat frequently, to reduce hunger and maintain an optimum metabolic rate. - brief
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by dboyd 17y ago
Rails migration syntax is intended to be database neutral. That is one of the main reasons to use it. The migration functionality also generates a database neutral 'schema.rb' file, which is intended to be the canonical representation of
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by dboyd 17y ago
I just tested it with views, functions and a foreign key. None of those things ended up in schema.rb.
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by dboyd 17y ago
Just to add a couple facts to the context of IMDb being older than the browser... According to http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/history/fbrowser.html the first web browser prototype was developed in late 1990/early 1991. Mosaic was released
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by dboyd 17y ago
We use Redmine as well. It's fairly easy to install and run (especially if you are familiar with ruby/rails). The source control integration is great (putting 'closes #123' in a commit message will change the state of the actual issue). W
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by dboyd 17y ago
The find 'bar' does change the behavior. I've learned to keep it closed when not using it (hitting cmd-f then esc has become a habit).
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by dboyd 17y ago
Don't they? When I type this message (on mac firefox), ctrl-a/e takes me to the beginning and end of the line, which is what I expect. Also, ctrl-w, deletes a word backward, ctrl-k kills to the end of the line. Most of these seem to work
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by dboyd 17y ago
"Spending on medical care provides a reasonably good measure of input, but, unfortunately, there is no remotely satisfactory objective measure of output." Seriously? An economist, of all people, is trying to convince me that we can't estim
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by dboyd 17y ago
I found that simply removing 'reddit.com' from 'my reddits' made my front page considerably more valuable. I do read the comments, as they are generally entertaining. If HN is a student lounge outside the computer lab, Reddit is the local
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by dboyd 18y ago
"The true quality of a community is ... how easily it can adapt to change." Very true. "The fact that the plan for 'moving forward' [is] to pull in another framework wholesale, does not bode well for the Rails community." Very untrue. In f
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by dboyd 18y ago
At 39 I work in a startup. I would say that mid-thirties is probably the ideal age to get involved with a startup. Both the founders for which I work are also 'mid thirties'. At that age you probably have enough experience to be at a gre
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by dboyd 19y ago
Interesting. I got my 'CS' degree from a college that correctly called it "Computational Science" ... not "Computer Science." I guess it isn't that much of a stretch for me to think of learning CS without a computer.
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by dboyd 19y ago
I thought Campfire was written by 37Signals, not the rails core team.