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Ruby on Rails Tutorial, second edition (updated for Rails 3.2)(news.railstutorial.org)
111 points by mhartl 15y ago|18 comments
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by mhartl 15y ago
Sigh. Someday, people will realize that GDP is a crappy measure for... anything.
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by mhartl 15y ago
Your response is a non sequitur . You stated There's no mention of what the filename was. Neither the basename, nor the extension. My comment merely quoted a 37signals employee giving the filename, both basename and extension. You can be
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by mhartl 15y ago
While it's tempting to treat "resourcefulness" as a trait intrinsic to founders, in my experience it can be a sharp function of the founder/startup fit. When I did YC, I didn't feel resourceful at all, but that's because I was working on th
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by mhartl 15y ago
They clarified this in a comment to the original post ( http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3076-i-heard-you-like-numbers... ): Razvan Tirboaca 12 Jan 12 And a Basecamp user uploaded the 100,000,000th file (It was a pictur
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by mhartl 15y ago
This is a neat workaround, but you can just hit "escape" on any page to do the same thing.
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by mhartl 15y ago
I think the resume is terrible, but even worse is the idea that you need a resume to get a job. If you need a resume to get a job, you're probably doing it wrong. You might need one to appease some paper-shuffler in HR, but for skilled pr
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by mhartl 15y ago
Though not quite a crime drama, something like this has already happened. A woman trying to get a kidney transplant was informed that two of her sons couldn't be hers. Complications ensued. http://www.katewerk.com/chimera.html
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by mhartl 15y ago
WHY CAN'T PEOPLE KEEP THEIR GYM PROMISES? FOR THE SAME REASON CONGRESS CAN'T PASS DEFICIT REDUCTION. Congress doesn't have the proper incentives to reduce the deficit. People do have good incentives to go to the gym. (Coincidentally, I ju
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by mhartl 15y ago
I'm impressed (though not particularly surprised) at how well the Viaweb home page has aged. It's a good example of an observation from pg's "Taste for Makers" ( http://www.paulgraham.com/taste.html ): Good design is timeless. Indeed. We
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by mhartl 15y ago
This might be true of an equal partner, but bringing someone on board with, say, a 20% stake is easier if you're further along.
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by mhartl 15y ago
One possible reason for this change is that Justin.tv has long used Twisted ( http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ ) for their network engine, and Twisted is written in Python. I'm not sure if they're still using Twisted, but if they are there mi
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by mhartl 15y ago
She's a newlywed. It will get updated in time.
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by mhartl 15y ago
I know a girl who changed her name when she got married and whose ID still has her maiden name. She buys her plane tickets under her married name, and carries her marriage license with her when she flies in case the TSA asks about the discr
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by mhartl 15y ago
Although it's easy to become accustomed to it, it's pretty obvious the child care world has some serious issues in diversity. By this I mean that it has some notable differences in proportions of people compared to the general population. O
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by mhartl 15y ago
This "nap wheel" is useful for finding the right time to nap: http://www.saramednick.com/htmls/book/napwheel.htm
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by mhartl 15y ago
It's worth noting that this isn't a standalone article; it's lesson 55 in "Learn C the Hard Way". In other words, this isn't meant to be a thorough critique. It's just one lesson of many.
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by mhartl 15y ago
The solution to all such problems is as obvious as it is unlikely to happen. It's not "women get six years' vacation if they want it". It's not "at-will employment". It's complete freedom of contract in the context of secure, effective,
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by mhartl 15y ago
Indeed. We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. —Niels Bohr Sometimes the same goes for startups.
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by mhartl 15y ago
This looks awesome, but I'm surprised it's in NYC. What advantages (if any) does that have over SF/SV?
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by mhartl 15y ago
All rights have to be paid for by other people—if you believe that the notion of "right" is well-posed, that is—which I don't.
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by mhartl 15y ago
That's probably by design; it helps keep old conversations from going on forever.
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by mhartl 15y ago
I agree. Alas, my poor primate brain is often not so easily assuaged. But your attitude of viewing downvotes as an opportunity is very much in line with Stoic philosophy—an attitude, I think, worth cultivating.
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by mhartl 15y ago
2. Participate! I often participate, but when I don't it's usually for a simple reason: downvotes sting. This is so important that I would add it as a corollary to "9. Be nice": 9a. Use downvotes sparingly. I and my poor
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by mhartl 15y ago
Aaron's post on The Mindbody Prescription covered some of these issues. http://aaroniba.net/articles/tmp/how-i-cured-my-rsi-pain.htm... I'm a skeptic myself, trained as a scientist with degrees in physics from Harvard and Caltech. The t
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by mhartl 15y ago
I have a couple of contrary suggestions with respect to health. 1. Don't follow the conventional wisdom on RSI I struggled with RSI for years, and did all the usual things (warmups, exercises, braces, a Kinesis with modified key la
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by mhartl 15y ago
This post is really just a teaser for possibly interesting posts to come. In that vein... Dear everyone who has a blog: make sure there's an easy-to-find link to your RSS feed. (There's one here in the comments, which proves my point.)
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by mhartl 15y ago
I almost flagged this, too, but the article kind of describes a hack. I agree that it's marginal, though, and I could go either way on this one.
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by mhartl 15y ago
The military analogy is broken. The hack isn't to use the superiority of "light infantry" over "heavy infantry", etc. The reason the protestors can "take a park" even when the police oppose them is because they operate in a political system
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by mhartl 15y ago
Do they all come in at once, or one at a time? The former seems a lot harder to coordinate.

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