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   by jarin 15y ago

   This is what Sinatra is for. Everything has its place.
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   by jarin 15y ago

   Haha, I don't know why, but I laughed when I got to the 3rd formula. It was like the punchline to a joke.
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   by jarin 15y ago

   What's the difference between this and just storing a long session ID in cookies?
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   by jarin 15y ago

   I just put together a directory of these $5 specials: http://www.comedyspecials.org If people think it's a good idea I'll add a bunch of other fancy stuff :)
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   by jarin 15y ago

   This kind of sums up the point of contention. Rails, by default, does things like escaping input and output strings, CSRF protection, masking password fields in the logs, etc. So why doesn't it do the same with attribute assignment?
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   by jarin 15y ago

   I feel like I just leveled up in programming several times by completing level 3 :)
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   by jarin 15y ago

   I think it is more of a public service announcement, because it is a very popular site and yes, a lot of people on HN probably use it.
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   by jarin 15y ago

   What they really should do instead is either use the Open Graph tags or some other kind of meta tags (if absolutely necessary) to ensure proper attribution. Then, they could take it a step further and use perceptual hashing to compare image
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   by jarin 15y ago

   I'm doing something similar with Dirty Hot Productions (one of my clients). We use MySQL on a separate CMS Rails app to store everything, and all of the websites communicate with the CMS via an API. We use Redis to cache all of the API resp
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    by jarin 15y ago

    The replays are also absolutely brilliant.
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    by jarin 15y ago

    That's kind of surprising to me, patient confidentiality doesn't apply for psychiatrists?
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    by jarin 15y ago

    There are people on Reddit trying to make the case that (based on a study from the University of Hawaii), access to child porn (or, more reasonably, artificial child porn like lolicon) can significantly reduce the rates of child sexual abus
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    by jarin 15y ago

    I agree that Founders at Work is a far superior book as far as useful, actionable information goes. However, I probably would never have read Founders at Work if I hadn't been inspired to get into entrepreneurship by Rich Dad, Poor Dad.
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    by jarin 15y ago

    RockPaperShotgun story that led to Notch saying this: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/02/07/double-fine-schaf... Followup: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/02/07/notch-says-to-sch...
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    Notch offers to fund Psychonauts 2(twitter.com)

    1 points by jarin 15y ago|1 comments
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    by jarin 15y ago

    Generally when determining obscenity the determining factor of the Miller Test is the community standards. When I worked at a porn company, I remember hearing about a case where the defense proved community standards by getting statistics a
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    by jarin 15y ago

    Sure, except anything that passes the Miller Test is, by definition, not obscene.
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    by jarin 15y ago

    This situation was most encountered by Rails developers trying to access the ID of an ActiveRecord object. Since they changed the method to object_id in Ruby 1.9, calling id on a nil object should just give a NoMethodError instead of that s
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    by jarin 15y ago

    Good old "Dickbar" Costolo
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    by jarin 15y ago

    I still use Heroku for a few low-traffic sites where I'm not doing anything fancy (like my personal website), but once I got into managing servers with Puppet it was VPS all the way. If you're using Rails, check out Moonshine (a great Rails
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    by jarin 15y ago

    You'd think there'd be some "study" involved when authoring the bill, except I have my doubts that he wrote even a single line of it.
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    by jarin 15y ago

    As a frequent Wikipedia reader, I support the minimum blackout period necessary to generate mainstream media coverage and no more.
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    by jarin 15y ago

    What will happen if these sites are taken down permanently and someone needs to look up the type of snake?
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    by jarin 15y ago

    It looks like I managed to follow several huge celebrities back when they auto-followed you back :)
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    by jarin 15y ago

    I agree that it would be "preaching to the choir" and with the name thing, but blacking out HN for a day might also convince HN readers to finally get around to writing their Congresspeople like they've been meaning to (but just haven't got
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    by jarin 15y ago

    Intuit's Quickbase is a perfect example of this: http://quickbase.intuit.com/ I was unfortunate enough to inherit a project management system running on Quickbase, and in the end it was faster for me to re-implement it in Rails than make
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    by jarin 15y ago

    A little more expensive, but I made mine by taking an L-shaped IKEA Galant desk with extension and putting cinder blocks underneath the A-style legs. Felt pads are important to keep it from sliding off the blocks, but works great and gives
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    by jarin 15y ago

    I think it's pretty likely that people will say that very complete, high-level AI (if it is ever invented) would have a right to life. Actually, there's a fantastic exploration of this from an AI's point of view in Life Artificial by David
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    by jarin 15y ago

    He's a 19 year old college student with good design skills. I wouldn't call that a deal-breaker by any means.
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    by jarin 15y ago

    The more people who can code, the more demand there will be for advanced training from experienced coders. The hackers of today will be the teachers of tomorrow :)