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San Jose police test head-mounted cameras for officers(mercurynews.com)
9 points by ruby_roo 17y ago|8 comments
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by ruby_roo 17y ago
Would be awesome to hear from a Rails developer how Cake compares to what we have in Ruby land. I still have to build and maintain the odd PHP app now and again. Is cake worth my while to learn? Or would I be better off with something like
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by ruby_roo 17y ago
You know, this whole episode could turn out to be a positive thing if he keeps pointing toward the Patriot Act as the real culprit. Which it is.
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by ruby_roo 17y ago
Better than email on a mobile device?
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by ruby_roo 17y ago
The Shangri-La diet is the lifehack of the century (not a diet in the traditional sense): http://www.sethroberts.net/ Seriously. You simply won't want to eat, and if you think you want to eat, you'll be surprised at how untasty that del
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by ruby_roo 17y ago
Alternatively, get your hands on a free IRC client and hang around #ruby and #rubyonrails on irc.freenode.net. Hit or miss, at times, but being able to chat live with real Ruby and Rails programmers is pretty helpful.
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by ruby_roo 17y ago
These are terribly unstable on OS X... and I don't know why.
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by ruby_roo 17y ago
For Apple users, how does this compare to MobileMe/iDisk (Apple provides a free iDisk app for iPhone)?
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by ruby_roo 17y ago
I'd like to second this. Obsessive self-analysis can be a real problem. Over the years, I've learned to take myself less seriously, and my life has definitely improved because of that. People are still tedious, but my tolerance has improved
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by ruby_roo 17y ago
Is your personality type 'INTP', perchance? INTPs have these constant internal battles. We're good at concentrating and love working in the realm of ideas. However, we're often an impractical lot and procrastination is pretty rampant among
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by ruby_roo 17y ago
Anti-aging/life-extension stuff is all very interesting, but I fail to see how such technology would ever become accessible to the public at large. For that to happen, I'd think that there would have to be a significant economic benefit. As
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by ruby_roo 17y ago
I just want to live long enough to live forever: http://www.fantastic-voyage.net/
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by ruby_roo 17y ago
Wouldn't it be nice not to have robots replace us, but instead make us better at what we do?
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by ruby_roo 17y ago
When will PostgreSQL hit the tipping point? Sucker has been ripe for the pickin' for years.
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by ruby_roo 17y ago
If Leo pressed on, wouldn't that have been a case of feeding the troll? Arrington even eggs him on with "Whatcha gonna do about it?" What a prick.
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by ruby_roo 17y ago
It's funny. As a Rubyist, I still recommend Python for getting started in programming. The docs are better, the code is probably easier to read for someone new to programming (there isn't a requirement to understand OOP to be productive), t
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by ruby_roo 17y ago
Heisenberg's Uncertaintly principle incentivizes zero transparency when studying human behavior, does it not? That is rather frightening.
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by ruby_roo 17y ago
Good for Aaron! I don't understand the more critical comments here. He's obviously doing what he feels he needs to do to stay sane. Why so many judgmental statements? I think some of this may come from folks feeling a little guilty about
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by ruby_roo 17y ago
I use mibbit all the time when I'm behind a firewall that blocks IRC traffic. I don't consider myself an idiot. It's probably also a great option for thin clients. I do use Colloquy or irssi when at home, though.
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by ruby_roo 17y ago
It was weird for me at first, but I find it comfortable now. The eyes don't have to move as much while scanning code; small thing, I guess. Of course, if I didn't have a proper text editor that took care of the tab stops for me, it'd probab
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by ruby_roo 17y ago
Phuckin' sweet. I love these guys!
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by ruby_roo 17y ago
Can someone tell me if this is a good idea? You put this fast-booting live distro on a thumbdrive or disc, and it boots straight into a kiosk mode where you have just a full-screen browser that is restricted to your web-based sales portal.
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by ruby_roo 18y ago
I would pay dollars for something that could hide my OS X menu bar in the same way that I can hide the dock. An added benefit would be to hide all my desktop icons (which I right-align) until I move my mouse to the edge of the screen. Havin
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by ruby_roo 18y ago
Not bad, but I think it would be more useful if I could submit an image and have the engine give me all the facts it could dig up about it, based on its context in other pages, geo tags and camera type (if available), etc. I think we're goi
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by ruby_roo 18y ago
I personally feel that it is better to err on the side of caution in regards to global warming. I say "feel" because I'm just not smart enough to navigate fact from fiction on this issue anymore. There's going to be extremes on both sides
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by ruby_roo 18y ago
I think most tech nerds can understand and appreciate the place this person is in. I know I do. If you're an INTP, I can almost guarantee that you have this problem. Although I haven't conquered my own demons here, life becomes much easier
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by ruby_roo 18y ago
If only I had the discipline to keep myself going to the gym. I am always glad that I did, but with that in mind, I don't know why I can't seem to keep it consistent. What is it that fuels fitness freaks? And where can I get some? Not talki
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by ruby_roo 18y ago
Just try it. At least once. Don't like the smoke? Have a cookie. Within 15-20 minutes, you'll be wondering why you can't get marijuana from a liquor store, taxed and regulated in a similar manner to the rest of the products they sell there
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by ruby_roo 18y ago
Is it possible to create pretty graphs with gnuplot?
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by ruby_roo 18y ago
Us Rubyists are used to using curl for testing our REST apps. What additional help/insight can netcat provide when building REST apps? Or Rails apps in general? Is there any?

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