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by delano 17y ago
The bourginon sounds delicious but I assume you mean 100 degrees F?
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by delano 17y ago
Absolutely!
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by delano 17y ago
Hey sorry for the late reply. The built-in hash method returns Integer values which can change between versions of Ruby (1.8, 1.9, JRuby, etc...). I needed a hash value that was consistent between all of them for the same object and which a
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by delano 17y ago
This is great! If it were possible to play against people I didn't know I would use it all the time. I've annoyed friends for years trying to get them to play. I like toggable settings by the way.
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Gibbler: Git-like hashes for Ruby objects(code.google.com)
2 points by delano 17y ago|2 comments
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by delano 17y ago
Oh, I was referring to the "Trending Topics" and search box on Twitter itself. They were removed and I suspect that would reduce overall Twitter activity (b/c it's more difficult for people to see what other people are saying).
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by delano 17y ago
Twitter has now disabled search altogether which is the first time I recall that happening. I'm sure that's one of the reasons for the decline in the graph.
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Tryouts: A high-level testing library (DSL) for your Ruby codes. (code.google.com)
2 points by delano 17y ago|0 comments
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by delano 17y ago
Seriously? You've put Michael Jackson in the same category as the Jonas Brothers.
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by delano 17y ago
It's like a FUBU for books.
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by delano 17y ago
What is the purpose of that image of the United Airlines jet? It's an interesting post but I couldn't get past being distracted and concerned about that impossible angle.
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by delano 17y ago
"Due to the large amount of public interest, the German board of education appointed a commission to investigate von Osten's scientific claims. ... This commission consisted of a veterinarian, a circus manager, a Cavalry officer, a number o
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The Clever Hans Effect(en.wikipedia.org)
34 points by delano 17y ago|3 comments
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by delano 17y ago
The Google logo on the results page is part of a larger image. They use background-position to offset the part that you actually see. http://www.google.ca/images/nav_logo4.png For example, the value for the next arrow at the bottom of the
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by delano 17y ago
This too shall pass.
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by delano 17y ago
Did you see the end of the video? The multiplug is pretty rad.
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by delano 17y ago
"Over-the-counter (OTC) trading is to trade financial instruments such as stocks, bonds, commodities or derivatives directly between two parties." -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over-the-counter_(finance) I had to look it up so I noted i
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A new repository for Ruby's Net::SSH(solutious.com)
7 points by delano 17y ago|0 comments
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by delano 17y ago
Windows Vista and Winamp 3.0 come to mind. There's a big difference between these two examples. Vista was still developed by Microsoft but Winamp 3.0 was started after Nullsoft was acquired by AOL.
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by delano 17y ago
You may want to consider supporting .gems files for specifying additional gem dependencies since that's what Heroku uses. Their customers would potentially be interested in your product also and I couldn't imagine they'd want to maintain tw
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by delano 17y ago
Technical wizardry may be boring to you but a lot of people really enjoy it. I agree that instrumental competence does not mean good song writing but the high of music is where those two skills intersect. There is nothing boring about a Bud
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by delano 17y ago
I think it's the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain. I'm forever going to imagine you riding on an old bus, looking out an open window.
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by delano 17y ago
That thread appears to be related to Debian (Lenny) and XFS only. Were you using XFS or ext3?
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by delano 17y ago
That's a good idea. I could keep the Bonnie results in a git repo and create a new branch for each version of the test configuration. EDIT: Okay, I got a repo going with updated config and a report from a sample run. I'm running some more s
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by delano 17y ago
Here's an active link: http://gist.github.com/123400
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Ask HN: I'm working on some tests for Amazon EBS volumes. What do you think?
11 points by delano 17y ago|13 comments
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by delano 17y ago
DVCSes have the critically important property that there is no longer any inherent technical center of development but that the social center of development is retained (usually). This is a really good point. It allows the social structur
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by delano 17y ago
The full data that the article refers to is here: http://www.milkeninstitute.org/nahightech/nahightech.taf
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by delano 17y ago
Just think about who you're building the product for and how you can help them.
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by delano 17y ago
I can't find any references that support this. Is it a joke?

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