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by mrduncan 17y ago
I can't recommend RVM highly enough. Not only will it let you easily switch between MRI (the standard ruby interpreter) versions. It'll also let you switch just as easily between other interpreters such as JRuby, Rubinius, Ruby Enterprise
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by mrduncan 17y ago
Soon (hopefully that was vague enough). According to DHH - "Rails 3 beta is almost ready for public testing. We're just hammering out the last bugs in Bundler. Stay tuned." [1]. As far as I can tell from watching commits/tweets/etc, the fi
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by mrduncan 17y ago
More specifically, the release notes were compiled by Mikel Lindsaar (and props to Engine Yard who paid him to do it) [1]. 1. http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core/browse_threa...
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Homebrew: OS X’s Missing Package Manager(engineyard.com)
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I completely agree with you, but in the interest of lively discussion I'll play devils advocate for a second here and point out Gordon [1] which is an open-source flash implementation written in Javascript and Gnash which is an open-source
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by mrduncan 17y ago
I'm sure I've said it before, but if you're interested in running I really recommend checking out the book. http://www.amazon.com/Born-Run-Hidden-Superathletes-Greatest...
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I'd really like to hear joshu's ( http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=joshu ) take on this.
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I thought there were some really interesting tidbits in there and I enjoyed reading about the office environment. About the information that they're hiring - has there ever been a time when Google wasn't hiring? (I mean that seriously, no
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by mrduncan 17y ago
I'd recommend starting with the PCI DSS. That standard is required by pretty much all card companies, and compliance is enforced by a self-assessment checklist and/or security assessor. If you plan on storing card information, you must be
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by mrduncan 17y ago
I really recommend that you check out the book Born to Run [1] which examines barefoot running and how we've evolved. It's been a while since I read it, but I believe it even includes a chapter about persistence hunting [2]. 1. http://w
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It doesn't look like it's actually available yet. The developer page ( http://developer.apple.com/iphone/ ) where the "Get Started" link takes you is still showing everything for the 3.1 SDK.
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That reminds me of Biz and Ev of Twitter talking at Startup School about when they were first playing around with it (I wish I could remember how it was described). In essence, Biz said that it was neat but not very useful to which Ev repl
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by mrduncan 17y ago
Interesting that McGraw-Hill isn't listed as one of their book partners. Were they dropped after their CEO opened his mouth yesterday I wonder? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1079109
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by mrduncan 17y ago
It'd be a great opportunity for anyone doing video. I think the real reason that they don't stream live is that the video quality usually isn't that great. By releasing the videos later they can provide higher quality and give it a more p
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by mrduncan 17y ago
Not quite what you were looking for, but there is an amazing amount of info on Wikipedia. List of colors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Crayola_crayon_colors Crayola timeline: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Crayola
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I'm not sure if you're trying to bash Microsoft here or not, but I'm going to assume you were genuinely curious. The reason that most people are following him (anecdotally anyway) is that he's a well known (the most well known?) and success
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by mrduncan 17y ago
Link: http://twitter.com/billgates I assume (based on his first few tweets) that he'll be using it to promote his foundation primarily. I selfishly wish that he would use it less for self promotion and more for just odd ideas/thoughts, I
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by mrduncan 17y ago
CrunchBase has (what seems to be) a pretty complete list: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/aol
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by mrduncan 17y ago
Fair enough, I should have first stated that I've never tried DVORAK (so take my advice with a block of salt). What about giving it a week then? I suppose my point was that you won't know how hard it is until you give it a shot for a littl
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by mrduncan 17y ago
Not to be snarky but I'm curious what you're doing that you need extremely fast typing for? I rarely find that typing is my bottleneck, it's usually my brain. That said, why not give it a shot for a day or two? At worst, you'll realize it i
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Render Options in Rails 3(engineyard.com)
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One of my favorites as well. What really fascinates me about it is it's length, it can't be more than a couple of pages printed yet it introduces a very powerful concept.
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by mrduncan 17y ago
I'm not sure if it's your site or not but auto-play music is one way to ensure that I close the tab immediately and never return.
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I have to wonder if there have been some recent changes which are causing all kinds of issues. Just a few days ago, Ryan Tomayko twittered about it completely ignoring Github's robots.txt - http://twitter.com/rtomayko/statuses/7685967826
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by mrduncan 17y ago
It's unfortunate that he had to use such a link-bait headline on an otherwise very insightful essay. A more accurate title would have been "Don't give money to only Haiti".
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How To Innovate Right Now(scottberkun.com)
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Fair enough, thanks for the explanation.
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I hate to say this, but how is this hacker news? A (good) tutorial, sure; but I fail to see why this is getting upvoted. What is the rationale for the upvotes?
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In 2003, hiker Aron Ralston amputated his own arm with a pocket knife after a boulder fell and pinned him down. http://hike.mountainzone.com/2003/news/html/030502_amputate-...
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by mrduncan 17y ago
Corporate America needs a centralized version control system. Subversion still offers this: Subversion centralizes the repository and simply checks out a working copy (versus Git, which gives you a complete repository). Corporate America s

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