garysweaver

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by garysweaver 13y ago
Ruby and Scala are for two different kinds of environments. One is an environment where having less code to maintain (that can also be highly legible) matters and where you have a lot of options. The other is an environment where an edge in
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by garysweaver 13y ago
Even the misspelling? :)
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by garysweaver 13y ago
Linus's reasons for using a Macbook: http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/19/an-interview-with-millenium...
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by garysweaver 13y ago
"...frequently pushes back when requests are overly broad or contain spelling mistakes" "We include this information in our anual Christmas card whenever possible." Was that meant to be ironic?
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by garysweaver 13y ago
The best part to me was that it was actually a pretty good music video, and the interactivity adds to it.
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by garysweaver 13y ago
Only if the game cartridge was in a game console and you were playing it.
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by garysweaver 13y ago
neat. is this a bug? server.newuser line[1]: expected string in New User; got EOF
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by garysweaver 13y ago
In the late 1990s, I remember people there being recruitment efforts to find people with very little coding experience, teach them COBOL, and have them search for and fix Y2K bugs in COBOL code. I actually thought about doing that at the ti
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by garysweaver 13y ago
Neat! Note that using Ruby's profiler is a heck of a lot easier. For example, here's how you can profile a call to a model method in Rails: http://stufftohelpyouout.blogspot.com/2013/05/profiling-in-r... rails c 2>&1 | tee p
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by garysweaver 13y ago
They are just being polite, waiting for the Java developers to finish trying get Eclipse or IDea to autocomplete their new annotations.
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by garysweaver 13y ago
Recurring pricing is more acceptable when: * Larger amounts can be made monthly instead of annual with similarly short contract length. E.g. $39.95/mo not only seems less than $479.40/yr, but if they are unsure about dropping $479.40 on an
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by garysweaver 13y ago
Yes, was writing that in a hurry. :)
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by garysweaver 13y ago
> Improve your code by making it do less not more. Exactly. The problem is that code can tend to be either crap (spaghetti) or too much code (too many methods and layers of extraction). So, I'd go one step further: code should do less,
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by garysweaver 13y ago
http://www.overclock.net/t/1254683/why-raid-is-not-a-backup-...
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by garysweaver 13y ago
I wouldn't go so far as to say the Economist rarely knows what it is talking about. I'm a subscriber, and I thought I don't support all of its views, I think it is still a very intelligent and thoughtful publication. If you're not a subscri
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by garysweaver 13y ago
Great to have stuff like this! If Dean is reading, one suggestion might be to add the version(s) of AngularJS it is describing at the top rather than just the last modified date at the bottom of the doc.
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by garysweaver 13y ago
I'm not sure why I was surprised at how much it goes down after 40, but it makes me a little sad inside. BTW- You can remove one of the under 10 and one of the over 90 points. Was having too much fun with it.
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by garysweaver 14y ago
One of the best I've heard was Dave Thomas's talk on the Ruby Object Model at Scotland on Rails 2009: http://stufftohelpyouout.blogspot.com/2009/07/great-talk-on-...
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by garysweaver 14y ago
A few other helpful tools are: require 'tracer'; Tracer.on That works a lot, but in some cases it can get caught in a loop where it doesn't print the trace. When that happens, or if I want to just see method calls, etc. I'll use a to