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by xionon 12y ago
I think the point is that there are multiple sites like eHow, and searching each of them individually and then deciding which results were the best is sub-optimal. Plus, it prevents the serendipitous discovery of new sites like eHow. If onl
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by xionon 12y ago
Gasoline is not actually explosive - the fumes are flammable, but not the liquid itself. Hydrogen is much more flammable, and will ignite from a much smaller spark than gasoline will. Cars catch fire in accidents all the time, it's not
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by xionon 12y ago
"Uncle Bob" goes by Uncle Bob. It's a nickname. He likes it. He's also pretty well respected in the software development world. Kent Beck invented TDD, I think he's pretty qualified. DHH is the one who started the r
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by xionon 13y ago
Disclaimer, I've not used A/Bingo, so there might be a caveat I'm missing. But: It sounds like you're talking about prepend_view_path, which doesn't require monkey patching. class ApplicationController < Acti
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by xionon 13y ago
What are these buildings? Are they discount grocers, with cheap but OK food, or are they gas stations, with lunchables and frozen pizzas? It's hard to tell from a screenshot of a map. I'm not denying that the term "food deser
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by xionon 13y ago
Ah! Yeah, my bad. My Midwest assumptions are showing through. I'll try to be more aware.
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by xionon 13y ago
That's a good point that I hadn't considered, thanks for the POV-check.
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by xionon 13y ago
I think articles like this help to "normalize" programming as a career for people that aren't nerdy white dudes. The hypothesis goes, a lot of [women,minorities] don't go into [programming,finance,etc] because they don&#
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by xionon 13y ago
While I agree that this isn't the "general population," it seems to me that this is an incredibly important demographic to Google.
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by xionon 13y ago
Fat has more calories per pound than lean protein, that's all. In this context, "fewer calories per ounce = healthier."
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by xionon 13y ago
It takes maybe a day working with your Capistrano script to implement zero downtime deploys in Rails if you're running Unicorn, Puma, or Passenger Enterprise...
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by xionon 13y ago
How is this "equivalent?" The Xeon E5 in the Pro is faster and costs at least $100 more. I'm not sure how these motherboards compare in quality. The ECC memory memory in the Pro is faster and more reliable. This also doesn&#x
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by xionon 13y ago
Ruby is what's known as an interpreted programming language. It was invented in Japan by a guy nicknamed Matz. You write code, save it to a file, and then a separate program "interprets" this file into code that the computer
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by xionon 13y ago
I can imagine lots of reasons to use my partner's phone. "Your dad sent a text, want me to read it to you while you're washing dishes? I know your mom's in the hospital." "Mind if I use your phone to call our f
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by xionon 13y ago
It's a joke, it just pipes everything to /dev/null
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by xionon 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gut_flora Bacteria that aid in weight control don't just "eat your food," they actually help your body break down food correctly. That's why you take a pro-biotic after
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by xionon 13y ago
It's not similar at all. Your body already has several pounds worth of bacteria in it. Hopefully, your body has zero tapeworms. This is talking about bacteria already in a healthy person's body.
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by xionon 13y ago
I've never found this argument convincing. I've always thought that the following seems like a likely expansion to your thought experiment: You live in a city that enforces gun control, and you know that the nearest convenience st
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by xionon 13y ago
It seems like you're calling this out as if it's a negative. MS Access is perfect for a situation like that - available, disposable, and easy for semi-technical people to use. When the community talks about "everyone learning
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by xionon 13y ago
The Democrats used to be pretty racist; before the American civil war, they supported slavery, and afterwards supported segregation, while the Republicans generally opposed slavery (Lincoln was a Republican, for example). As a result, the U
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by xionon 13y ago
GitHub's employees are massively distributed. A video + sound stream might not be as interesting as you think.
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by xionon 13y ago
nginx is a good tool, and you should probably twiddle with it sometime so you know what it's about. As far as I know, nginx can do anything Apache can do. nginx is generally faster than Apache. Apache can include modules without a reco
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by xionon 13y ago
From their website: "But G-WAN was written to have an application server, so it also supports 7 of the most popular scripted languages: Java, C#, C/C++, D and Objective-C/C++." As far as I can tell, G-WAN does not suppor
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by xionon 13y ago
A disc-free iOS game costs $0.99 to, usually at most, $19.99. A disc-free xbox game costs $59.99 for as long as possible; MS doesn't discount prices on digital games very frequently. The "gamer demographic" was upset because
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by xionon 13y ago
Canada is not a third world country...
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by xionon 14y ago
The only difference I see is: * method and name column swapped * green/yellow status icons added (probably 200/304?) * dark color scheme vs light color scheme Is there something I'm missing? Because it sure doesn't seem like the
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by xionon 14y ago
In my experience, debugger tools built into the browser run much faster and with much lower overhead than Firebug.
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by xionon 14y ago
A minimal install is going to require you to install dozens of related packages just to accomplish simple tasks. It's basically a blank slate, with nothing you might want aside from the OS and terminal. It's a great starting place if you kn
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by xionon 14y ago
I have a degree from a state college and do quite well for myself. I don't work at Google or Yahoo, but since I graduated in 2006 I've never been without a well paying job, or offers for one. If you're studying computer science or a related
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by xionon 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_PC_video_g... 1 million is very good, but not record-breaking. 1 million is very, very good if you consider SimCity and city-building games somewhat niche compared to games like Battlefiel

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