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binarysoul

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    Comment #11161444

    I think it is good in scenarios where the problems are sufficiently difficult.

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    Comment #10677386

    This is simply a skill worth learning if you are not good at it already

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    Comment #9552300

    Why should I use lotus over Sinatra, Padrino, Grape, Rails, etc?

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    Comment #9528254

    Thanks for the tip. I didn't know about that utility

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    Comment #8079657

    maybe smex? http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Smex

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    Comment #7422279

    What does hexagonal mean?

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    Comment #5646382

    In many cases it is as easy as relying on a gem instead of doing it yourself. Where the gem contains a c extension. Say resizing images with chunkypng vs mini_magick

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    Comment #5644528

    It seems to me that being "way faster than rsync" is not worth $49. Also there is no comparison / explanation on the site of how it is faster than rsync.

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    Comment #5614418

    the problem is also dependencies specified as: gem 'activesupport', '>= 2.3.5' # too loosely

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    Comment #5561221

    my experience is that the person on the phone usually doesn't care if you have all the relevant info

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    Comment #5520742

    cool thanks

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    Comment #5519558

    I don't see how this could be used for collaborative code editing. Is there an example of this?

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    Comment #5381459

    some bite sized emacs tips http://rawsyntax.com/blog/categories/learn-emacs/ and a great introduction to setting up emacs http://batsov.com/articles/2012/10/14/emacs-on-osx/ posts …

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    Comment #5000026

    can you give an example of how this is really a problem? I have an iPad that can display PDFs. When I scan documents PDFs get created.

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    Comment #4200726

    its not difficult to maintain. Emacs in particular has M-x align-regexp = (which does the alignment for you)

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    Comment #4190939

    when you migrate, you may want to setup jekyll to handle your redirects (from your old site's url structure) I wrote about a jekyll plugin that allows just that (used it when I mig…

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    Comment #3898860

    it degrades to select / option boxes. The demo page sucks, but I have used this and it works fine without javascript.

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    Comment #3634744

    yes this is exactly right, its POST for compatibility reasons, rails puts a special parameter in the form submit to map to PUT (for resourceful routes)