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by delano 18y ago
"Beating a dead horse" is an idiom that means a particular request or line of conversation is already foreclosed or otherwise resolved, and any attempt to continue it is futile. Did you read the article? As nonrecursive and rufo point out
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by delano 18y ago
Do you mean to say that you've heard enough discussion about it? There are obviously underlying issues that haven't been resolved yet.
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Fun with Class.new(blog.rubybestpractices.com)
9 points by delano 18y ago|0 comments
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by delano 18y ago
Rudy! It's a development and deployment tool for Amazon Web Services that's configured via a Ruby DSL. It helps organize EC2 infrastructures into environments and roles (plus some other cool stuff). http://github.com/solutious/rudy
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It's an outrake(blog.solutious.com)
3 points by delano 18y ago|0 comments
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by delano 18y ago
I can't speak for all of their data but they quality of their address and geocode data for Canada was not very good (as of 2005). The formatting was fine but it was outdated by as much as a few years.
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by delano 18y ago
One of the most important differences between rich people and non-rich people: Rich people plan for things before they need them, while others are caught treading water when something bad happens. Think about how to apply this to your life
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by delano 18y ago
They add a special message below the fold for people in Europe: "Hello there! It looks like you are visiting from Europe. Did you know that there are more Miro users in Europe than in the United States, but more than 99% of our financial su
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by delano 18y ago
Wow. This is huge. And on a personal note, I'm really happy my company is incorporated in Quebec.
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One Hundred Ronald McDonalds(quietmoment.typepad.com)
1 points by delano 18y ago|0 comments
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Not your grandparents' deployment tool(blog.solutious.com)
5 points by delano 18y ago|0 comments
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by delano 18y ago
Ah, that's another good one. Thanks.
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by delano 18y ago
An astrologer may also tell you the moon is in void of course and to wait until tomorrow to make your release :]
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by delano 18y ago
Dan?
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by delano 18y ago
Hawking was born on what turned out to be an auspicious date: January 8, 1942 -- the 300th anniversary of the death of astronomer and physicist Galileo Galilei. It didn't "turn out" to be an auspicious date. They'd already known the date
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by delano 18y ago
That's a good story. I've been working exclusively on open source software for the past 6 months so it's encouraging to read about positive outcomes.
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by delano 18y ago
This thread is about open source software. My point is that it's easier to differentiate open source software from other open source projects than it is to differentiate a consultancy from other consultancies. The reason is simple: a custom
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by delano 18y ago
That's true. Your point is more clear than mine. What I intended to say is that it's difficult to differentiate one consultancy from another. You have to do that based on clearly proven, previous performance. When you're starting a new comp
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by delano 18y ago
Paying for machines by the hour opens new opportunities (ad-hoc staging environments, for example). We can do things now that we could never do before. You may not be ready to move production to the cloud but there is an opportunity for y
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by delano 18y ago
I can't speak in regards to whether it makes sense to apply to YC, but from a general perspective, a company that produces open sources software is no different than any other business: you need to clearly understand how you will generate a
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by delano 18y ago
Safari has a drop shadow, otherwise it's identical to Firefox.
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by delano 18y ago
The line that I was specifically referring is, Honestly, I'd probably be too afraid to ever install a gem. When you use any packaging system (rubygems, apt-get, cpan), the convenience usually comes at the price of control. In other words,
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by delano 18y ago
It's a Rubygems issue, not Ruby.
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by delano 18y ago
Be a good person.
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by delano 18y ago
There's a link in the TC article with a 20% discount to the full conference pass (€600 instead of €750). It doesn't apply to the single-day passes. But even with the discount, I'm still on the fence. Maybe I might just go for the drinks.
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by delano 18y ago
Amazon has done it more than twice. They do it consistently and across their three core businesses.
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by delano 18y ago
I assume people with analog TVs are exempt.
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by delano 18y ago
This is an interesting post. It reminded me of a post by Jonathan Schwartz from 2005 about how Sun reduced their quality programs to use single questions: http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/defining_quality
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by delano 18y ago
"[3] Learning to hack is a lot cheaper than business school, because you can do it mostly on your own. For the price of a Linux box, a copy of K&R, and a few hours of advice from your neighbor's fifteen year old son, you'll be well on
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by delano 18y ago
Oh yeah, it looks like they mention it on the entry about the movie. I don't see any mention of their full names on any of the game-related pages though.

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