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by mhartl 15y ago
The Tau Manifesto author here. Don't yell it too loudly, but I strongly agree: e is by far the most important of these numbers. But e is the natural choice, so I don't have any bone to pick with it. (Bob Palais made an analogy in "Pi
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by mhartl 15y ago
The revision of The Tau Manifesto that launched today includes a wealth of new material, including a rebuttal of the "Pi Manifesto" ( http://tauday.com/tau-manifesto#sec:the_pi_manifesto_a_rebut... ) and a new section on the volume of a h
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by mhartl 15y ago
This video is from a talk I gave on Tau Day last year. I released it today in honor of Half Tau Day. The Tau Manifesto has also been considerably revised. See especially the updated Section 4 ( http://tauday.com/tau-manifesto#sec:conflict
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The Tau Manifesto video(youtu.be)
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pg also ends a lot of sentences with "right?" I used to have the same affectation, and have worked hard to eliminate it. The main one that remains in my own speech is saying "so" (as a transition) a bit too much. I have the video to prove i
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by mhartl 15y ago
I'm surprised by the lack of spaces in, say, .error{ color:red; } I much prefer .error { color: red; } or .error { color: red; } (The latter is particularly nice because it implicitly acknowledges the likelihood t
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by mhartl 15y ago
Nope, the logic is just the same. So many people requested Bootstrap that I determined the market demand warranted the extra effort. But given your situation and goals, it sounds like there's no need for you to re-do the tutorial.
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The full "rewrite" took less than two weeks, and much of that was redoing screenshots and mockups (easy, dull work). The motivation for the change was to please readers. Happy readers make for a happy author. Among other things, happy reade
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by mhartl 15y ago
This was beautiful, Paul. And you're right, it is definitely related to startups. Thanks for writing it.
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The print edition is typically available 4-6 months after the final files are submitted to the publisher. Yes, that seems like a long time to me, too.
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The Bootstrap material starts in Chapter 5 ( http://ruby.railstutorial.org/chapters/filling-in-the-layout... ).
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There were several reasons for choosing bootstrap-sass. For one, lots of readers recommended it. Moreover, in an introductory tutorial, I wanted to stay as close to the default asset pipeline as possible, which meant erring on the side of S
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by mhartl 15y ago
I've added a link to the relevant HN discussion. Also, lots of people on Twitter asked for a Bootstrap version.
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The book uses the excellent bootstrap-sass gem. I have personal assurances from the gem's author (tmcdonald) that he will keep it up-to-date with the latest changes in Bootstrap.
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The Ruby on Rails Tutorial, now with Twitter's Bootstrap(news.railstutorial.org)
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Dude, hornbaker, you're a mensch. I love it when people do stuff like this.
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MIT admissions available on Pi Day at Tau Time(mitadmissions.org)
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I'm surprised spez has time for this. Isn't he busy with Hipmunk?
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by mhartl 15y ago
I had the same thought reading the article. There are risks either way; bureaucratic deliberation has costs as well as benefits. In this case, the relevant experts, in balancing those costs against the benefits, would definitely not have
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by mhartl 15y ago
Dear downvoter: this was a simple, helpful comment about the formatting supported by this site, and it didn't deserve your ire. Please go visit a site other than Hacker News. You are not welcome here.
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by mhartl 15y ago
I see what you did here. :-) P.S. I'm the official "please spell 37signals right" Nazi here at HN. Keep fighting the good fight.
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by mhartl 15y ago
You can put in a couple of spaces before each line to make the diff look even better: - its not so simple to choose + it's not so simple to choose
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by mhartl 15y ago
Score another win for the thought police.
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Heed the flip side. Imagine in your mind some special interest groups. Powerful special interest groups. The most powerful special interest groups. Are you imagining, e.g., the permanent civil service, academics, scientists, Medicare an
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by mhartl 15y ago
Sublime Text is very similar to TextMate, supporting many of the same keybindings, snippets, and themes. (I've even set up my system to use Ryan Bates's Railscast theme to keep things looking familiar.) Unlike TextMate, Sublime Text support
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by mhartl 15y ago
I've just upvoted the downvoted entries to try to counteract this. The downvotes were not deserved in my view. Nevertheless, as I noted in a commend a couple of months ago, they still sting: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3422539
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by mhartl 15y ago
There's a Zen saying relevant to the article (and to much of the discussion here). Rather than wringing your hands over "optimal sleep", I suggest trying it out. If your schedule allows, it can work wonders: When hungry, eat. When tired, s
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by mhartl 15y ago
Once they've run this for a while, I'd love to see a post and screencast on some of the techniques needed to solve it. I don't know much about this subject, and I'd enjoy having a chance to learn in a setting unlikely to get me arrested.
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You've got the wrong metric. The reason some men have lots of sexual partners is because many men want lots of sexual partners, and some have the ability to do so. On the other hand, most women of even mediocre attractiveness can have l
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by mhartl 15y ago
Am I missing anything? You're missing at least two things. Assuming (as is reasonable) that you're principally aiming at the heterosexual market, you face these issues: 1. Men and women are different. How do you address gender imbalances?

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