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by tx 19y ago
So true: Those who tune in to television "news" are subjected to a barrage of opinions from talking heads like CNN's demagogic Lou Dobbs and MSNBC's Chris Matthews and Fox's Bill O'Reilly and his dizzying "No Spin Zone." In today's journal
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by tx 19y ago
I haven't attended school in US and I sincerely want to believe that you are right. Although I can't help but notice that international affairs are never the topic of a conversation among my American friends: they're just not that intereste
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by tx 19y ago
Part of the problem of keeping up with current events is understanding who to believe Come on, he claims that students can't name a single country that borders Israel, don't know which country Kabul is a capital of and their timing for WW
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Scientists are abusing mental performance enhancing drugs.(webmd.com)
20 points by tx 19y ago|57 comments
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by tx 19y ago
The most popular ones make perfect sense, and not just for Ubuntu but for all linuses: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/most_popular_ever/ Power Management, Suspend/Resume, Network management via UI and booting time are all huge issues on all
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by tx 19y ago
How many fake "blogs" will this world be able to absorb? And you're advising him to start another one. Do you remember what the word (and a thing) really means? Lets face it, todays "blogs" are nothing but little PR agencies, and your advic
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by tx 19y ago
He conveniently forgot to mention that most (if not all) "open source companies" do not pay their programmers to write open sourced code. Most of them simply take what's been done by others, repackage and then "sell as a service" essentiall
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by tx 19y ago
Why would we want him to chill out? So we can enjoy yet another pointless fake tech "blog" by yet another always-politically-correct faceless programmer that reads like an extended version of his resume? I think we have enough of Rails "blo
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by tx 19y ago
Zak, you rule! Thank you.
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by tx 19y ago
Man I am so tired of "Sign Up!" buttons... Pass.
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Standard CL Library: where is it?
5 points by tx 19y ago|3 comments
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Make Your Ruby/Rails App Fast: Performance And Memory Profiling(blog.pluron.com)
4 points by tx 19y ago|0 comments
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Guerrilla's Guide to Optimizing Rails Applications(blog.pluron.com)
3 points by tx 19y ago|0 comments
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by tx 19y ago
Before picking Pylons I looked at Cherry.py very closely and I actually liked it the most. The reason why we decided to go with Pylons was that it seemed as Cherry.py is being abandoned by everybody in favor of Paste. But as a lightweight
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This Guy is Very Impressive: 10 min Interview (Ricardo Semler)(youtube.com)
2 points by tx 19y ago|0 comments
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by tx 19y ago
Ruby's syntax is by far more complex than Python's. By "complex" I mean it from a parser's grammar point of view.
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by tx 19y ago
I'm going the opposite direction: after having done two non-trivial RoR apps I have a Pylons project on my hands right now. What can I say? Pylons is a baby Rails and Python is a baby Ruby. Language issues aside, Pylons' architecture seem t
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by tx 19y ago
It's funny how often now people say "write blog" in context of working: "sit, code, write blog, read blogs". I would even say that "twittering" on a regular basis feels almost like a job for many. The word "blog" has completely lost its ori
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by tx 19y ago
He forgot to mention coffee and a computer. FAIL.
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by tx 19y ago
Boring old Dell? :) Please... Ubuntu runs on a best laptop ever made: black matte military brick-rugged ThinkPad T61 with a keyboard that most desktops only dream of, equipped with duplicated mouse buttons up and down and a mouse "pin" in
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by tx 19y ago
Interesting... I haven't tried anything but apt, but everything I've ever need has always been on it, and of a relatively latest version with hot updates. Regarding fonts, it's subjective matter of course, but you can look at my desktop (I
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by tx 19y ago
This is not about technology at all, it's about ways to communicate. As I said, differences are larger than most people realize. Here is another example not related to tech or "old people". A co-worker had a birthday party few weeks ago. Th
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by tx 19y ago
After trying to get Pylons+PythonLDAP work on MacOS X I am slowly giving up on this OS as a platform for development. Yes it can be done and it's not THAT hard, but why? For coders Linux just works - everything takes seconds as opposed to
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by tx 19y ago
I think it has a lot to do with culture. Russians are very much like Chinese in this regard: voice mail has never gained any traction there, and email is considered somewhat 2nd grade. Email is for things that weren't important enough to de
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by tx 19y ago
Desktops and laptops in current form-factors have been around for more than 10 years. Both of them have been gaining speed and features, but the basics haven't changed much: laptops have always had 80% of speed at 120% of the cost. I don't
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by tx 19y ago
I have ThinkPad T61, MBP and a regular Macbook. For programmers Linux running on a ThinkPad is the thing to get. OS X isn't nowhere close to Linux if you're a coder.
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by tx 19y ago
Picasa (desktop version) and vim. Mac OS X "Settings" dialog (among others) with real-time feedback. Nothing on the web comes close to a decent desktop/console speed and usability yet: most of it is slow, laggy and the keyboard is nearly us
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by tx 19y ago
I guarantee you that SAP is guilty as charged, they all are. When I did enterprise software, salespeople kept getting everybody in trouble by selling products that had never existed, in this business such practices are the norm, in fact in
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by tx 19y ago
I am surprised by so many "author is confused" and "author is misinformed" responses. Can't you guys operate on a higher level of abstraction? Aren't we all here dynamic language lovers? Just listen to what he says more closely, because he
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by tx 19y ago
What's the original format of this presentation? Why can't I just save it as a PDF or view as HTML?

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