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The only problem with that comparison is the first six example results have nothing to do with "Ruby on Rails".

This graph is biased by the fact that you're searching 3 words versus one. I personally qualify searches with "rails" throughout the day, but hardly ever actually search "ruby on r…

As someone who is 6'8", 310lbs and spent 12 hours flying last week, I would have to strongly disagree. Until airlines provide a means of adjusting available room to compensate for …

Try: http://beta.manning.com/ Lists all of your ebooks with quick download links and last updated times for meap books. Been using it for a while now with no issues.

Sounds more appealing than "Windows for Submarines" - http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htiw/articles/20081225.aspx

Alternatively, take advantage of your commute. I switched from driving to public transit and I've found the time can be incredibly productive, as its in between work time and at ho…

The issue with that is the ability to disable secure boot is not included in the spec, and therefore is not required by any of the OEMs to include. Edit: reply to comments on spec …

Hrmm... sat here thinking about the question, then thought 'a weather API would be nice, let me see if anyone else already answered that'.. ctrl-f weather.. oh great, the one guy w…

For those looking for more information, check out the specification page which has a nice introduction and more in depth documentation: http://www.lambdassociates.org/specification…

I agree that the value add isn't significantly high for small cluster type of situations, and I would much rather just have a caching API available that charges on usage and allows…

Nice trick using a proxied netcat command to forward ssh connections through a server. Was not aware of that, and I spend a lot of time running through a front ssh server, thanks!

For those of you just getting into this book, there is also a great course with video lectures up on MIT's OCW site: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...…

Focused on javascript, but this is a great introduction to closures: http://jibbering.com/faq/notes/closures/

A great way to dive into functional programming is to read the book that this topic discusses.

To clarify for the downvoters, I'm talking about this in the context of CouchDB, which I believe was a fair assumption to make seeing as Damien Katz is one of the principle people …

The data is not necessarily unstructured, it just doesn't have a strictly inforced schema. So I'm very intrigued by this if they're adding it as a layer on top of CouchDB views. If…

It can be a tricky problem because you have a 1 to 1 correspondence of hacker news posts to web pages, so you can't combine articles from multiple sources into a single discussion.…

I keep seeing these (admittedly cool) redis based job queues popping up for different languages, such as resque, pyres, now kue, etc, however I'm disappointed to not see any standa…

Ahhhh that would be why, I didn't notice the 'future' billing change that is supposed to happen tomorrow. I'll edit my original post to clarify. On a more serious note, thanks for …

Following the steps in that gist, I have a heroku clojure app up that just created an invoice line item for 1 worker. It was only for a few minutes, but I definitely just got charg…

This does actually work, however be warned this will incur costs on your heroku account. EDIT: False alarm, Heroku billing has changed so the application did not fall into my free …

I'm sad to hear his attitude towards android, I've been anxiously waiting for an android version of the app, and have been holding off on becoming a subscriber until he moved in th…

Silence is great, but sometimes silence can be, well, too silent. I bounce back and forth between coffee shops and my home office, because sometimes I want to sit at home in silenc…

Yes, I just got home from a code for america datacamp hackathon at socrata in seattle, was a lot of fun and quite productive.