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by knowtheory 18y ago
Oh! and people are chilling in #gogaruco on freenode. :) Looks like there are gonna be some interesting talks
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by knowtheory 18y ago
Here's the Schedule too: http://gogaruco.com/schedule/
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Golden Gate Ruby Conference Live Stream (starts at 9:30AM PST Friday 17th & Saturday 18th)(pivotallabs.com)
17 points by knowtheory 18y ago|5 comments
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by knowtheory 18y ago
It's also worth noting that at least around christmas of last year, it was brought to light that the Ruby 1.8 package in apt-get on ubuntu is TWICE as slow as building 1.8 from source. make sure you build from source. http://antoniocangian
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by knowtheory 18y ago
Chirrup was designed as a way to mediate your blog comments (or comments anywhere really) through Twitter. Since it does take the discussion to twitter, Angryamoeba's goal was to follow the rest of the conversational thread on twitter, and
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by knowtheory 18y ago
http://chirrup.angryamoeba.co.uk/ Angryamoeba has been doing this for months now :) Although unfortunately this was prior to the OAuth api being released. People are using it though, and an OAuth version is in the works. Of course the ot
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by knowtheory 18y ago
So? Clearly some of their users are.
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Not an April 1 Joke: Wieck Labs creates another Rack-based Ruby Web framework; Wheels(wiecklabs.com)
1 points by knowtheory 18y ago|0 comments
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by knowtheory 18y ago
Ridiculous. As if Fried couldn't have posted the article after an interaction w/ Get Satisfaction. But then it would be a good example of quick customer service, as opposed to a hatchet job.
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by knowtheory 18y ago
Talking with the GetSatisfaction guys on their Ustream: http://getsatisfaction.tv/ The badge has been up for about 2 weeks according to them. It was deployed with their redesigned header 2 weeks ago.
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by knowtheory 18y ago
To be honest, the newspapers of yore are already dead. I do have nostalgia and a sense of wonder for the industry that ran full page broadsheet political cartoons, or Little Nemo in Dreamland, but those orgs are already long gone. What's l
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by knowtheory 18y ago
Orgs like http://www.propublica.org/about/ are funded privately by people or orgs who believe that there is a public interest in maintaining independent journalism. Orgs like http://www.npr.org/about/ are paid for by the public, using a
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by knowtheory 18y ago
Another bullshit argument. Where's your proof? Counter-examples are easy to find (Look at the Whedon family for example), so you better start shifting your explanation. And how the hell has the pendulum swung too far? I'll quote OSX's dic
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by knowtheory 18y ago
And if it happens on television it clearly is indicative of real life? "Friends" also happened on TV, in New York, and i'd say it's got a decidedly different view of the world and relationships (and it was certainly at least as popular as S
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by knowtheory 18y ago
Bullshit. He's painting all the members of a group with the same brush. The fact that this thread is entirely focused on relationships, the "Woman" component to American Woman, is the focal subject, not the American part. Also, given that
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by knowtheory 18y ago
Wow. Misogyny alert on top of inductive reasoning fail. While i, myself, am married to a wonderful Canadian, i know quite a number of wonderful American girls of a wide variety of dispositions, and even geekiness, whose relationships are n
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by knowtheory 18y ago
i.e. if you've got a botnet, you can still syn flood a host, and simply not respond with an ack. In such an event all of the bots on the botnet have valid IPs and are representing themselves correctly, it's just that they're not behaving as
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by knowtheory 18y ago
The way you find server guys to do contract work, is you put up a posting on the ruby and/or rails job boards. That's the way I found the backend/server guy (who is now a good friend of mine) for the company i contract with atm. Also remem
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GOP leadership candidates say they needs more internets in order to win(arstechnica.com)
1 points by knowtheory 18y ago|0 comments
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Zed presents "The ACL is Dead" at CUSEC2008(zedshaw.com)
4 points by knowtheory 18y ago|0 comments
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by knowtheory 18y ago
DHH, the 37signals and the Rails community at large has aspirations of actually being a community. DHH played an active role in developing the community. Once you do that, and engage people in helping with a community project, it's not his
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It's about the ecology, stupid(skein.tumblr.com)
9 points by knowtheory 18y ago|6 comments