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by sabat 16y ago
This could almost be done (on Linux at least) with a copy of rsync, git (for the revision control) and a shell script. Er, well, yeah, but you'd be polling almost constantly if you're trying to emulate what Dropbox does. I don't know exac
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by sabat 16y ago
How would you like 2G for free? Because that's actually the deal with Dropbox. No charge unless you want >2G.
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by sabat 16y ago
Indeed. The SCO lawsuits were brought over (wholly invented) claims that Linux contained copyrighted code "stolen" from source code that SCO claimed to own. No genuine incidents of "stolen" code were ever discovered as far as I am aware, an
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by sabat 16y ago
Regardless of the dictionary definition, in practice, skeptics immediately disbelieve and then claim they're willing to believe if shown exhaustive proof. Pro Skeptic Michael Shermer, for example, strongly doubted global warming for years,
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by sabat 16y ago
That they wanted to benchmark their own stuff rather than Rails is blatantly obvious. I'm not so sure of that considering your original comment. That's why I explained it to so plainly. The rest is unimportant detail.
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by sabat 16y ago
Maybe, but they're often wildly overstated. There are many more exceptions and variations than those who would generalize will admit. This is anecdotal, but I'm an example of what I'm talking about: higher verbal scores than math, as right-
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by sabat 16y ago
this improvement really isn't going to buy me much I think what they were saying is that they wanted to benchtest raw Passenger performance instead of Rails performance. Your Rails app will almost certainly see some benefit from Passenger
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Rails Performance Needs an Overhaul(igvita.com)
2 points by sabat 16y ago|0 comments
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Ruby Enterprise Edition 1.8.7-2010.02 released(blog.phusion.nl)
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by sabat 16y ago
No idea why your previous post was killed, but the moderators do seem to be kill-happy today.
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by sabat 16y ago
No.
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by sabat 16y ago
Sorry, but I have to be skeptical about any show that declares itself skeptical. Skepticism isn't good science or good logic; it's just reverse religion. True science does not immediately believe or disbelieve. It investigates dispassiona
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by sabat 16y ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnRPZOUVhJ4
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by sabat 16y ago
I'm in operations and I'm a programmer.
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by sabat 16y ago
The fact is, people -- real people -- are beginning to tire. Maybe. But that doesn't automatically mean that everyone is going to give up on all social sites, or that people will stop going to Digg just because it wants your actions. It m
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by sabat 16y ago
The market is subject to manipulation, and the problem often doesn't go away purely because of market forces. Any system can be gamed. The patent system is an example.
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by sabat 16y ago
Something more active-voice like GoingGoogle would work better. But they should consider losing the "going/gone" thing altogether and pick another word. UpgradeToGoogle or something.
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by sabat 16y ago
Perl's been on an upward trajectory for years now I have significant doubts about that (I speak as someone who did perl programming for years). the best Perl hackers don't seem to have gone anywhere Depends on who you consider to be the
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by sabat 16y ago
5.0.375.55 beta on the mac here, and it worked.
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by sabat 16y ago
The use of FSJ's name in the title was just for convenience, I think. Many here would know who FSJ is, but many fewer would have heard of Daniel Lyons.
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by sabat 16y ago
Sure, and Adele Goldberg (Smalltalk) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adele_Goldberg_%28computer_scie... helped OOP really evolve. Women have had serious influence on computer science since the very beginning.
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by sabat 16y ago
I should have noticed your post before I asked the exact same question. Arguably, the first computer programmer in the world was a woman -- in fact, probably the inventor of computer programming.
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by sabat 16y ago
"... Unlike men, women pay attention to detail and tend to get the job done ..." 1) Highly generalized statement. 2) Demonstrably untrue -- computer science requires attention to detail, and save for Lady Lovelace, the biggest contributor
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by sabat 16y ago
Ada Lovelace?
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by sabat 16y ago
I hate most banks. I put up with my current one. I don't know -- this is an area that could stand some innovation. Whether the old guard will stand for it: that's another question.
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by sabat 16y ago
Apple is a cult. You either buy into the whole philosophy, or you go elsewhere. Steve has every right to run his company that way -- whether that makes him a dick or not.
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by sabat 16y ago
Please don't Godwin a thread right off the bat. Hee hee. If you traffic in stolen physical objects, I want the police to investigate thoroughly. You're probably right, but the objection I agree with is the priority that Jobs/Apple got
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by sabat 16y ago
It's a slippery slope, isn't it? Freedom from thought? Orwell was so prescient with 1984 that sometimes it's spooky.
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by sabat 16y ago
I wish I could vote up your post twice.
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by sabat 16y ago
It probably is becoming a witch-hunt, but it's a fire that FB started itself. It collected millions of users, then decided to betray their trust, repeatedly.

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