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Hi - thanks for responding. My deploy's gone through now, but I'm curious how I ended up contacting a mirror - I was running the default bundler capistrano task, so (approx): $ cd …

For the time being I've rolled back the gem changes and applied the suggested hotfix (removing XML from the default params parsers). I've been trying for a solid hour to get a depl…

Getting continuous errors on deploy during the bundle stage like so: /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/remote_fetcher.rb:215:in `fetch_http': bad response Not Found 404 (http://bb-m.rub…

Registration is not a necessary condition for enforcement of trademark rights (although it obviously helps). In some jurisdictions, of which the USA is one, an established history …

The government pays the train companies to run a transport service; departure times are an essential part of that, in a way that crisps quite plainly (or quite saltedly, ha ha ha* …

Maximise the value for whom? The data is being monopolistically exploited by a private entity, for private profit. Where is the value for the taxpayer there? I think most people wo…

But then don't you have to make your choice about whether no-value is an error when you return the value, rather than when you make the call? With #try et al it's made obvious at t…

On the subject of try() chaining, there's always Ick, which implements (among other things) a kind of Maybe monad for Ruby. This acts as a self-propagating nil guard, so you're abl…

Well, possibly - but the point is that while ubiquitous safe seats are obviously detrimental, so is their elimination at all costs. The problem with safe seats isn't that popular p…

A related effect, of course, is that it becomes practically impossible for politicians to plan for any sort of career, or parties to make personnel plans with more than a single-pa…

I see from your profile you're based in Canada - here in the UK, I've found it's the regional redirects that are breaking things (because the regional sites aren't on the new setup…

I only wish I could up-vote this more. See also this earlier Language Log essay ( http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003366.h... ), in which Pullum points out that…

Certainly not when you're trying to judge energy payback horizons for a device incorporating silicon, nickel and cobalt, all of which come with significant costs of production. Wha…

It is indeed. Now if only Google Accounts would integrate with Google Accounts, everything would be spiffing.

If you check out the relevant paragraph of the Directive itself (quoted below) you'll see that's just the BBC's rather odd interpretation. The Directive doesn't mention shopping ca…

From para 66 of the Directive ( http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2... ): "Exceptions to the obligation to provide information and offer the right to refus…