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Profiling Ruby On Rails: A Crash Course In Rails Bottleneck Analysis(linuxcapacityplanning.com)
2 points by nickb 17y ago|0 comments
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by nickb 17y ago
Grady's a smart guy but UML has been an utter failure. Here's a good summary as to why: http://littletutorials.com/2008/05/15/13-reasons-for-umls-de...
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by nickb 17y ago
or Ruby. Some of the smartest hackers now use Ruby.
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Sun is cooling down and what that means for us(guardian.co.uk)
10 points by nickb 17y ago|5 comments
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Facebook To Let Others Play In Its Stream (techcrunch.com)
9 points by nickb 17y ago|0 comments
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Owen Van Natta’s Infamous Tenure At Project Playlist (techcrunch.com)
1 points by nickb 17y ago|0 comments
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Lost in Space(forteantimes.com)
47 points by nickb 17y ago|5 comments
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Hackers stole data on Pentagon's newest fighter jet (cnn.com)
2 points by nickb 17y ago|0 comments
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by nickb 17y ago
That's because CIA sucks at cryptanalysis. NSA on the other hand...
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Web Fonts - View on the web fonts issue from a font designer(talleming.com)
16 points by nickb 17y ago|11 comments
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Google tips FCC about new YouTube comment filtering system (arstechnica.com)
2 points by nickb 17y ago|0 comments
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Typeface Inspired by Comic Books Has Become a Font of Ill Will(online.wsj.com)
20 points by nickb 17y ago|4 comments
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What's up, bot? Google tries new Captcha method(news.cnet.com)
58 points by nickb 17y ago|33 comments
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Book of Ruby Completed: 425 pages, 300+ Sample Programs, free(sapphiresteel.com)
29 points by nickb 17y ago|9 comments
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by nickb 17y ago
Try these and see what you like. PathFinder - http://cocoatech.com/ ForkLift - http://www.binarynights.com/ MacExplorer - http://www.ragesw.com/products/explorer.html (if you like Windows Explorer)
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by nickb 17y ago
It's cool but I can't think of a case to use it for. What problem does this solve?
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Changes at YouTube - Phasing You out of Youtube (vid)(youtube.com)
5 points by nickb 17y ago|4 comments
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by nickb 17y ago
Good one! What boggles my mind is that they didn't care at all about the user experience when they introduced this monstrosity. Not seeing URLs when browsing Digg completely destroyed my user experience. I'm guessing more and more people wi
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by nickb 17y ago
http://mschannel9.vo.msecnd.net/o9/mix/09/wmv-hq/c17f.wmv
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Wikileaks Posts secret ACTA Documents Revealing Copyright Enforcement Cooperation(michaelgeist.ca)
15 points by nickb 17y ago|0 comments
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by nickb 17y ago
It's very simple: Google update takes away control from users. This is absolutely the wrong way to handle this. Say I'm at a coffee shop with wi-fi or using my notebook through a cellular 3G/EDGE network and this update starts downloadi
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by nickb 17y ago
Omaha checks for updates in the background, when it won't interfere with the user, even if an application isn't running. They do the same thing on a Mac and this is why I've blocked it and removed the daemon. Google's explanation for doin
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by nickb 17y ago
Very cool but the first thought that came to my mind when I saw the video was: 'it's amazing that a bomb squad wasn't called in.' There is hope!
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Does Dark Energy Really Exist?(sciam.com)
1 points by nickb 18y ago|0 comments
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Web use drops 40% as copyright law goes live in Sweden(independent.co.uk)
2 points by nickb 18y ago|0 comments
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Revolution Money Raises $42 Million For Alternative Payment Service Nobody Is Using (techcrunch.com)
2 points by nickb 18y ago|2 comments
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by nickb 18y ago
"which makes it "2.5D"" You wasted all those words to say what I said... it's not 3D. :) PS: I know very well how 3D games work since I co-wrote a commercial 3D engine in 2002-3 and used to teach computer graphics course at a university.
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by nickb 18y ago
People thought you couldn’t do 3D games on the iPhone but here it is running. Who thought that? Todd never looked at Apple's App Store. PS: Wolfenstein 3D doesn't have a real 3D engine anyway.
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Google Is Not in “Late-Stage Talks” to Acquire Twitter(kara.allthingsd.com)
36 points by nickb 18y ago|9 comments
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Asperger Syndrome Tied to Low Cortisol Levels(news.yahoo.com)
13 points by nickb 18y ago|8 comments

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