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by rufugee 16y ago
Um....ok. At my day job pay roughly $150 a year to Canonical for support. I don't really need it, mind you, as most of the time the system operates as expected. However, it was a way to give a little back to a company who has done a lot for
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by rufugee 16y ago
Not true at all. My Lenovo T400S runs Ubuntu Lucid Lynx flawlessly.
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by rufugee 16y ago
What always boggles my mind about about startups like this is the fact that their very existence is dependent on a giant company that could roll over and squash the life out of them. Their first product was a pre-paid Mastercard...which imp
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by rufugee 16y ago
I'm looking to do this currently. Did you use gwtonrails or write your own code to handle the communication between client and server?
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by rufugee 16y ago
Is there any benefit to using ec2 Micro instances over the smaller Rackspace Cloud offerings ( http://www.rackspacecloud.com/cloud_hosting_products/servers... ), unless you need to scale the Amazon way? I'm deciding between both currently t
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by rufugee 16y ago
Wow...it appears Daniel Faraday left the island and took up programming...
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by rufugee 16y ago
Everyone believes that many large companies have dozens or even hundreds of Software Patents that could apply to the various ASF projects, and we mostly exist in a peaceful state. Oracle has certainly changed that perspective. I don't know
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by rufugee 16y ago
Can you explain?
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by rufugee 16y ago
Could someone explain what the heck "One of the big contentious items is the addition in Java 5 of parametric polymorphism as a compile-time trick without also adding VM-level support for reifying per-type specializations as .NET can do." m
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by rufugee 16y ago
You know...after doing both Django and Rails in depth, I really don't agree with this sentiment. Rails brings things to the table that Django doesn't, and Django brings some things to the table that Rails doesn't. Understanding the differen
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by rufugee 16y ago
I tried DDG for awhile, an honestly found the search results to be lacking compared to Google. YMMV.
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by rufugee 16y ago
Can you share the name of the bouncer? Sounds like nice functionality...
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by rufugee 16y ago
I've coded to Soma (mostly the awesome Secret Agent channel: http://somafm.com/play/secretagent ) for years. I'll gladly donate...it's phenomenally good.
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by rufugee 16y ago
Wait a few years...
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by rufugee 16y ago
If, on the other hand, you’re working with a system that allows for a variety of concurrency approaches (the JVM, the CLR, C, C++, GHC, etc.), you have the flexibility to change your concurrency model as your system evolves. I think you h
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by rufugee 16y ago
Wow...this is hard to believe. Numbers like that make me wonder if the cost of going with ruby or python (in reddit's case) or insert-your-slower-dynamic-language-here outweigh the benefits in the long run. How can anyone bootstrap a compan
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by rufugee 16y ago
I suspect this release is in response to some of the uproar ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1545773 , albeit dead) on the Rails list about the lack of a release and general lack of communication between the core team and the community
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by rufugee 16y ago
I have a Dell Streak eval currently. It's an extremely nice and well designed device with a beautiful screen and great battery life. The only knock is that it's running Android 1.6, but that will supposedly be remedied soon. Really, I can
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by rufugee 16y ago
I did some searching awhile ago and couldn't find anything. There used to be PyMag ( http://pythonmagazine.com/ ), but they went on indefinite hiatus in 2009. It's a shame there isn't a magazine devoted to python. As a guy who came to pytho
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by rufugee 16y ago
I only hope this means a Nexus Two is coming soon. Having a completely open Android phone on the market that won't brick when you try to update its OS is important.
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by rufugee 16y ago
Damn it. Just cancelled my order (placed yesterday). Funny thing is I was switching from AT&T to Verizon to get it, so now Verizon has not only lost my $200 but my future monthly fees as well. Now I'm considering the Nexus One, but then
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by rufugee 16y ago
Silly nitpick for you. "its" should be "it's" on your frontpage.
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by rufugee 16y ago
Work: custom-built dual quad core Xeon E5520@2.27GHz, 12 GB RAM, dual 22" dell monitors (Ubuntu Lucid) Home: * custom-built quad core AMD Phenom (Ubuntu Lucid), 8 GB ram, single 22" monitor * Lenovo T400s (Ubuntu Lucid) * Macbook Pro (rarel
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by rufugee 16y ago
No offense, but this is absolutely bad advice to a newbie programmer. First, mongo_mapper is virtually undocumented, whereas ActiveRecord has oodles of documentation and examples. You'll spend a order of magnitude more time trying to learn
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by rufugee 16y ago
I guess the issue is the prevalence with which it occurs in Ruby, as you say. I've been programming professionally for over a decade now, in at least as many languages, and I've only had this problem with ruby. Still, I enjoy ruby very much
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by rufugee 16y ago
As someone who has done 4 years of Rails development and has recently switched to Django for new projects, I can tell you it would be worthwhile to learn both. Ruby and Rails are great most of the time, and the Ruby way of doing things is a
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by rufugee 16y ago
I'm not sure what the problems are, and I agree with others' sentiment that they need to focus on business and advertising. Still, as someone who in the last few years has bought into the Rails explanation of scaling ( sure, ruby is slow, b
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by rufugee 16y ago
Reading python and django docs while considering a possible port of a Rails app to Django.
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by rufugee 16y ago
Anyone care to describe how this can be used to gain root? I'm running Lucid...it'd be interesting to try the hack on myself before updating...
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by rufugee 16y ago
I installed a dual-boot of Vista so I could install Steam and play BioShock. I'd love Steam if it didn't crash every twenty minutes or so. Granted, it could be Vista...I had problems with Call of Duty 4 as well. I really, really wish a ga

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