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Video from Jeff Bezos about Amazon and Zappos(youtube.com)
5 points by delano 17y ago|0 comments
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by delano 17y ago
This post is a couple years old, but it's a great read. I understand a bit more about Ruby every time I read it.
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A Ruby Metaprogramming Introduction [2007](practicalruby.blogspot.com)
1 points by delano 17y ago|1 comments
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by delano 17y ago
But it is important to note the magnitude of difficulty so you can understand where a particular goal fits in among the rest. Getting into Earth's orbit is difficult. I imagine landing on Mars would be something like 3 or 4 orders of magnit
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by delano 17y ago
Women go to the washroom together for the same reason that smokers go outside together. It's an excuse to talk in a smaller, private group.
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by delano 17y ago
Would you prefer that the news be a list of facts? And now no-one at all can go to the moon. If my memory serves me correctly, both India and China have active space programs that are interested in moon exploration.
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by delano 17y ago
1. /usr/local is where you install custom compiled binaries (which answers #4). /usr should contain only standard binaries, libraries, headers, etc... 2. Some people use /usr/local, others use generic home directories (/home/PROJECT), and s
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by delano 17y ago
Is it "should"? I don't like that word. Are there other options?
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by delano 17y ago
You ought to include those in the data set.
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by delano 17y ago
Not if it takes you away from a task that requires your specific attention. Anyway, this kind of delegation doubles as practice for managing larger teams and companies. You need to get used to not doing every little thing.
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by delano 17y ago
"Micro-outsourcing" daily tasks isn't everyone's cup of tea but there are absolutely huge gains to be had if done carefully. Not just for technical and business tasks, but personal ones as well (cleaning, cooking, errands, etc...). I find i
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by delano 17y ago
Thanks for the detailed answer. The reason I ask is b/c there are some non-trivial problems which are similar regardless of the language or implementation. For example, what would the $self->data return value look like for a non-scalar?
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by delano 17y ago
Ah okay. So it's a safe assumption then :]
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Command-line Twitter with Bash(solutious.com)
1 points by delano 17y ago|1 comments
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by delano 17y ago
How do you know?
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by delano 17y ago
The article refers to the Morgan Stanley report, but that report doesn't say anything about anyone feeling unsafe. It says, "Teens don’t use Twitter because no one is reading their tweets", so it's not clear what that claim is based on.
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by delano 17y ago
Interesting! I'm not familiar with KiokuDB or Moose so I hope you don't mind a couple questions: - what is the return value of $self->data in the example you link to? - do you store the digest or calculate it each time? - where can I fi
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by delano 17y ago
I think we mostly agree, we're just looking at the problem from different directions. Of course it does. Can apt launch EC2 instances and execute scripts (that are not part of the package) before and after installation? Can it update secu
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by delano 17y ago
I agree with you. But now I want to launch and release to several EC2 and Rackspace machines, in parallel. apt doesn't help with that. It also doesn't help with releasing to multiple machines simultaneously (including different types). If I
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by delano 17y ago
I've seen several civilian Segways on the streets of Amsterdam in the past few months.
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by delano 17y ago
There are classes of problems that can't be solved at the system level, like deploying to more than one system type or across multiple machines at the same time.
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by delano 17y ago
I'm disappointed Wired removed the second ampersand from the title.
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by delano 17y ago
It'll go both ways.
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by delano 17y ago
Haha, it's true. I do have a serious FH problem. I also needed an obscure but familiar keyword so the method could be included in any object with low risk of collision. There is currently near-zero usage of the keyword "gibbler" in any proj
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by delano 17y ago
Ya, I agree. There's a lot of cool stuff you can do with hashes. I started working on a library for Ruby a couple weeks ago for creating hashes and tracking history of objects. "kimmy".gibbler # => c8027100ecc54945ab1
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by delano 17y ago
That's like the David Cross cameo in Waiting For Guffman, about the area inside a crop-circle always having a 60% chance of precipitation.
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by delano 17y ago
Too bad so few CEOs are good at what they do. In fact, only 1 in 20 are in the top 5% I don't know anything about Stever Robbins. Is this a joke?
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by delano 17y ago
... it only takes a minority to sour the majority. That's a decision you make for yourself, not an absolute truth.
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by delano 17y ago
... a community rife with arrogant children It's difficult to accept your rational argument when you include stuff like this.
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by delano 17y ago
It depends if we're talking about the oven or stove. I assumed this stew is made on the stove and 100C is not low temperature, but perhaps it's made in the oven.

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