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by qaexl 19y ago
I never particularly liked the modern methods of "deconstruction" in the humanities. It gets geeky very fast, yet there's nothing solid underneath. Unlike code, you're only talking about symbols -- whose power lie solely in their ability to
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The change between 1.1 and 1.2 was much more disruptive than the change between 1.2 and 2.0. The biggest changes are in reworking the RESTful controllers and cutting down the cruft. 2.0 is more polished and shinier now. The 2.0 release ma
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Yeah. There was a discussion about it in an earlier thread. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find it anymore. If you look at the code, the session store is stored in plaintext with the hash. Rails rehashes the plaintext in the cookie and che
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On the other hand, on Linux I use a terminal called tilda. The newer window managers have focus stealing prevention. It prevents tilda from stealing the focus like it should. Focus stealing prevention has interrupted me far more often tha
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From the other side of the fence: http://freelanceswitch.com/finding/how-to-get-clients-to-com...
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This is a SciAm article about praising kids for intelligence vs. praising for hard work: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=84655 Net result: kids praised for their intelligence tend to look for things that are easy or to appear smart. C
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This goes hand in hand with this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=78739 (Bipolar Lisp Programmers, or "Brilliant Failures") I found this article two weeks ago: http://nymag.com/news/features/27840/ It references the SciAm article,
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20071125113058548
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I wrote a response: I came in contact with an article summarizing Stephen Key's technique for licensing new inventions: http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2007/11/26/a-beginners-... [Yes, thank you news.YC] Stephen Key is a serial inve
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PJ@Groklaw: "The Classmate looks to me to be just another laptop, only smaller and cheesier looking, with a too small screen (it has a resizing feature, so you can cram a normal amount of a page on it, which I'm guessing people leave on all
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Ideas on Marketing the OLPC(groklaw.net)
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That comparison with the C64 is not adjusted for inflation and changes in consumer purchasing power. Besides, the US dollar is weak and getting weaker. As time goes on, it'll get even more affordable by developing nations. I thought that th
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You know, I was wondering how to apply Paul Graham's essays to non web-related products ...
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Or at the very least citations should include a specific revision. When citing from a journal or a book, you always include the revision image (publisher, edition, year-published). The idea is to allow the reader to check up on your sources
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This is a really good idea. I remember reading about an university professor assigning a paper that had to be published on Wikipedia. I don't think the professor made the students track the changes though.
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Hey, good idea ... I'm going to do that.
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Being used to a life of consumer goods, 'caveat venditor', and hordes of ambulance chasers, maybe each passing generation forgets how to practice 'caveat emptor'. It's probably called 'critical thinking' in the educational circles. A lot of
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That was how I've always seen Ruby and Python. I've tried Python before and didn't like it. It had nothing to do with any technical reasons and was purely aesthetics. The article's main point is that Ruby is supposed to make you feel good.
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To split some technical hairs, According to Peepcode's Rails 2.0 pdf, Rails then uses OpenSSL::HMAC hashing. According to the source code cited by the article, http://dev.rubyonrails.org/browser/trunk/actionpack/lib/acti... it generates a
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I admit. If I ever get a Sony Reader, the first thing I'd do is to hack it so I can access all the text files I already have. I want to be able to read, say, the electronic copies of David Weber's scifi books that I bought, the PDFs from my
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I just found this out five minutes ago -- You can get a plugin called "embedded actions" for Rails (2.0, and probably 1.2.x). The README is here: http://dev.notso.net/svn/rails/plugins/embedded_actions/trun... A snippet from the README: U
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There are other pieces of this puzzle besides before_filter. In Rails, you don't necessarily have to have a monolithic view. On more complex sites, you use fragments, called partials. Sidebars can be easily created by having a "shared" vie
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Looks like they're very well positioned to take advantage of Android.
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I did. Then I moved onto her head. From there, to the picture as a whole. I'm now working on reducing the latency between willing for the shift, and actually having the shift happen.
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I've been working on being able to switch the direction at will.
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I guess that would be ajaxterm + vi for me. Cool. If it is anything like the Slicehost console though, the latency on it drives me nuts.
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Very true. I experienced the same thing when I first practiced. I didn't want to discourage anyone from picking up the practice, though. I wanted to point out it isn't a magic pill with an insta-cure, and it will take some time with daily e
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The strategy I was taught was to be completely relaxed, yet I was not able to do that until as recently as six months ago. This is after four years of training. I've finally figured out how to inflict damage while being relaxed even during
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I've noticed using martial arts as a means to de-stress yourself lowers the quality of your martial arts and rots away your skills.
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To add to this, there's several different kinds of mediation. The one you're looking for helps you relax your body in a way that doesn't fuzz your mind, or burns up your focus. Some of the meditation methods overlap with deep breathing. Yo

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