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by wycats 16y ago
Except that there was already a perfectly good name for that: RPC. REST was defined in contrast to RPC, so calling an API that involves "POST to this URL with the method as a parameter" REST is really unnecessarily confusing.
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by wycats 16y ago
I didn't realize that Java now comes with MySQL and a Redis server bundled.
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by wycats 16y ago
A few points: a) The ruby standard library is written in Ruby and is actually surprisingly well-behaved from a threading perspective. The code is not super-pretty, but it uses appropriate locking strategies and has been well-tested in threa
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Turn on HTML5 (youtube.com/html5) then click "Save As" on a YouTube video(youtube.com)
5 points by wycats 16y ago|2 comments
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by wycats 16y ago
I am not aware of a significant number of Ruby developers who jump back to Perl instead of writing Ruby libraries. I'm not sure where you got that impression from.
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by wycats 16y ago
Actually, that's what they did. See above for the vitriolic reaction.
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Investigation into alleged TSA thefts at JFK Airport(abclocal.go.com)
1 points by wycats 16y ago|0 comments
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by wycats 16y ago
To be fair, I was the one complaining about it, not him. That said, I don't think it's fair to compare his research, rigorous report of that research, and various academic lectures to be the equivalent of what the snake-oil-salesmen do. He
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by wycats 16y ago
Compliance problems in studies may be relevant to our individual choice of diet, since they are likely to predict our own personal compliance. In general (as Taubes points out), most people can lose significant weight by reducing their dail
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by wycats 16y ago
It's certainly true that dietary studies suffer from problems of underreporting. So it is possible that the the results of most recent studies (summarized well in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_research_related_to_low... ) all suffer
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by wycats 16y ago
I've read both Good Calories, Bad Calories and Why We Get Fat. There is significant overlap, and it is most notable in the less technical areas, where he lays out the arguments against the conventional wisdom. That said (and I say this as a
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by wycats 16y ago
Most people find it very hard to cut significant amounts of calories and keep the number of calories lower over as long as 13 months. Can you share what kinds of foods you cut out that were part of your aggressive calorie-cutting program?
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by wycats 16y ago
What I find most frustrating about online comments on Taubes work is the amount of people who assume that this is just another crank peddling nonsense. Instead, Taubes has spent the better part of a decade reviewing the state of research an
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by wycats 16y ago
Taubes actually addresses this point very carefully in both Good Calories, Bad Calories and Why We Get Fat. He cites quite a few cases of communities with high rates of obesity, and varying rates of nourishment and sedentary behavior. One v
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by wycats 16y ago
Actually, they're absolutely not taking the position that it's all or nothing: "That doesn’t mean we’ll never publish them, but before taking an irrevocable action that could harm an individual’s privacy, we have to weigh that person’s priv
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by wycats 16y ago
As someone with journalism training, I find this argument compelling. If it was a case-study in a classroom setting, the answers would be difficult and the subject of much debate. Choosing to "redact" private parts of a document without oth
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by wycats 16y ago
What part of what Wired is doing seems amateurish? I thought this response was thoughtful, well reasoned, and professional.
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Ruby 2.0 Refinements in Practice(yehudakatz.com)
82 points by wycats 16y ago|29 comments
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Ask HN: What was the post about thinking you're a failure?
1 points by wycats 16y ago|1 comments
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by wycats 16y ago
From here on out, every point release will come with an RC. Not doing that for 3.0.2 was a mistake that we won't repeat.
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by wycats 16y ago
You should be worried about what features have enough browser adoption in your target market to enable their use, not whether the W3C has marked a large group of loosely related technologies "done".
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by wycats 16y ago
The HTML5 that we talk about on Hacker News can be found at http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/ . The HTML5 that the tech press talks about (I provided two of a large number of examples) is something entirely different: it r
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by wycats 16y ago
Those lines actually come directly from Zuckerberg's original blog. The voiceover as he works is exactly the text he wrote as he originally worked on hacking into the various houses' facebooks.
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Ruby's Bundler: As Simple as What You Did Before(yehudakatz.com)
24 points by wycats 16y ago|13 comments
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by wycats 16y ago
iframe would be the lowest-level of integration. A better solution would allowing a SC app to take over a specific element on the page, and we're definitely looking at that solution. Another perfectly worthy solution might be to theme the S
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by wycats 16y ago
What kind of use are you thinking about using SproutCore for?
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by wycats 16y ago
I just want to say that I'm psyched to be a new member of the SproutCore community. It's a lot stronger than it looked from the outside, and two of the most exciting features in the 1.4 announcement (GreenHouse and SCXIB) are community proj
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Here's to the Next 3 Years (Yehuda Katz Moves On)(yehudakatz.com)
143 points by wycats 16y ago|22 comments
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by wycats 16y ago
That'd be great. Can you email me? (wycats@gmail.com)
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by wycats 16y ago
One of my guiding principles with Handlebars was explicitly to avoid adding any new features in the template itself that were not ways to reference a part of the JS. Normal Mustache gives you one simple way to reference a key in the current

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