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by jraines 19y ago
This is from the essays section of his site. Here's a fun tidbit from his essay on Rails (undated but obviously from right when Rails came out): "I'd also like to mention that the #rubyonrails IRC channel on irc.freenode.net is really good
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Zed Shaw - The Dark Side of the Semantic Web(zedshaw.com)
2 points by jraines 19y ago|4 comments
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by jraines 19y ago
OK - I just clicked through to the article and if Cool Kids means "high-profile bloggers" then no, I'm not. Other than that - I wish people would post disagreements rather than downmodding. That ought to be reserved for really dumb comment
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by jraines 19y ago
I agree! I actually stayed up all night the other night doing that. I registered www.jeremyraines.com and it just uses ruby's xml and rss parsing libraries to scrape certain pictures from my flickr account, certain kinds of posts from my tu
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by jraines 19y ago
Methodology: Typed the following terms into Google . . . I smell a grant!
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by jraines 19y ago
I bet everyone who upmodded this has a facebook account. I'm a cool kid, dammit, and I have a facebook account - because it gives me the broadest channel for passive information sharing. As soon as all my friends are Cool Kids and join Fri
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by jraines 19y ago
I think there's enough of a need for 'just the forecast' to build this app. Feature creep is exactly why weather.com sucks (well, that and ads). That being said -- a replacement feature that's more in line with simplicity and 'just the data
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by jraines 19y ago
This just in: global warming debated.
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by jraines 19y ago
Pretty much all of the submissions from this site are linkbait attached to fluff.
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by jraines 19y ago
Here's a chance to share the best corporate euphemism I've ever heard: Explosions = "unscheduled releases of energy"
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by jraines 19y ago
I'd have to say I'm heavily Con in this debate (siding with Smarter), but I certainly appreciate the point that the Pro side is making. Led me to an interesting hypothetical: if you had to give up either all access to books or efficient in
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Does Google Make You Smarter or Dumber?(businessweek.com)
1 points by jraines 19y ago|2 comments
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Ask YC: When is a relational DB the wrong tool?
2 points by jraines 19y ago|4 comments
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by jraines 19y ago
Looks pretty cool. I'd remove the political advocacy link at the bottom though.
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by jraines 19y ago
You are correct about this. Without getting into probabilities of the different outcomes resulting from action or non-action on climate change, I'd recommend the video someone posted lower down in this thread. The weight given to an outcom
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by jraines 19y ago
alternate title: How Super-Precise Atomic Clocks Will Change the World in 3.1536 x 10^8 Seconds
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by jraines 19y ago
It is a helpful question when thinking about what action to take. It's basic game theory, and it's why nobody ever launched a nuclear first strike during the Cold War. Why is this being modded down? If you don't consider the worst case sce
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by jraines 19y ago
This was already on the top of the front page for like two days.
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by jraines 19y ago
All the interesting questions left are epistemological ones about language games, so literary works are a sort of test data. And, yes, there are lot of hacks writing badly about these questions, but in what fields are there not a preponde
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by jraines 19y ago
One new thing is the ActiveREST module, which provides a lot of neat support for creating RESTful services. Between this and Ruby 1.9 there's some fun new stuff for RoR folks to play with.
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by jraines 19y ago
I like the idea of a digest. I was recently thinking about how smartly edited digests might be increasingly important. On the landing page -- "focussed" should be "focused".
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by jraines 19y ago
1984 The Silmarillion The Hero With A Thousand Faces Dune Walden (about half the chapters anyway)
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by jraines 19y ago
Most people don't go through this mental process. Brand awareness happens beneath the level of cognition anyway. You can show people unfamiliar brands repetitively in an unobtrusive context and then when you put them all together and deli
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by jraines 19y ago
Very insightful. This post and this article(1) by Clay Shirky should be required reading for anyone building socially-oriented software. 1) http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html Old news to some I guess - but I just found it v
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by jraines 19y ago
"There is also no telling how much processing power and/or memory would be required to destroy a universe." With my quad-core all I could manage was a thunderstorm in Denmark.
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by jraines 19y ago
I want one.
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by jraines 19y ago
Best billionaire name ever.
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by jraines 19y ago
Thanks for this. I am always wondering how far away I am from being a "real" Rails developer -- programming is a longtime hobby for me, and I love Rails and maybe would like to one day build stuff in it for a living. Number 6 on the list i
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by jraines 19y ago
Not necessarily true. I used to date a girl who was dumb as a brick . . . but could beat the shit out of minesweeper. Incidentally, years later I had a roommate who tied the Intermediate minesweeper world record at 10 seconds and could bea
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by jraines 19y ago
I lol'd at the poll options, esp. "Take them back to Dallas!"

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