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I know that web.py was around years before Sinatra. But URL routing in Bottle is more similar to Sinatra than it is to the URL dispatching via a tuple at the top of a file. Even so…

Seems to me to be another micro web framework influenced heavily by Sinatra.

You wrote: "But folks like Greenwald need a nemesis, so any point to beat on Wired.com for reporting the story will work." Greenwald doesn't need to go far to find a "nemesis" in t…

It absolutely was not "a bunch of chatter about his depression". It was much more. As small sample from the excellent piece by Glen Greenwald at Salon (1): MANNING: uhm, trying to …

I prefer Learning Python by Mark Lutz. I've read a ton of programming books, and I can't recall one the didn't recommend typing the exercises by hand, reading the code carefully li…

While definitely not small, the stairway book, "Programming in Scala" by Odersky, mentioned in the article, is an excellent tutorial style book. The second edition was just release…

I guess he felt that others besides the troll were having a laugh at his expense, (i.e., the HN Tips guys comments, other penis-oriented repos connected to employees of aforementio…

> Supporting only github means I can't use it. Unfortunate, because their stuff looks cool. I'm sure if you really wanted to use Pagoda, you could use the http://hg-git.github.com/…

He is obviously not particularly thrilled with getting divorced and having to move from a city that he is fond of, to a smaller, less interesting location, so I think we can cut hi…

I had a feeling it was some inside joke. Not sure about expressions like these. If you're not familiar with the reference, it just looks like incorrect grammar or a typo. I do like…

I've used your rails3_devise_wizard to get-up-and-running on a recent project, and to experiment with difference stacks and it is really useful. Projects like yours and http://rail…

> I'd be surprised if anyone that has built a few significant rails applications with devise would continue to use it. Unless you're going to have the most vanilla session/user/aut…

I guess since google.com/ig stores a cookies on my browser, all of them actually, I couldn't get the normal google search page, even with logging out. Thanks for the private mode t…

I use igoogle start page, and I can't see any animation, just a static Martha Graham Google Logo. Does anyone have a the correct google URL in the States? I've seen the video of it…

Just what we need: Google involved in more aspects of our lives. No thank you. Nothing against Google per se, but letting any huge corporate conglomerate control the majority of yo…

> oh boy. that's actually the mode that keep novices clueless about what's going on with the settings. Of course. Criticizing it for not having Program mode stuck me as similar to …

> Genuinely curious: how did he improve the world? At least I heard more news about his Swedish affair than about anything significant disclosed by wikileaks (nicknames of the poli…

Really? Even one from 2009 is pretty impressive. http://9elements.com/io/projects/html5/canvas/

I not sure why the developer labels it "Chrome only". I use Webkit Nightly (Safari) as my main browser, and it's slightly annoying when developers don't seem to realize that Safari…

For one camera I got: "fail The 'NIKON CORPORATION NIKON D200' does not write serial information in the exif. See the supported cameras page for a list of models that do." For my o…

> So far, as far as I know they haven't executed anyone in this country for speaking out again tyranny. I'm sure you know that Julian Assange is facing possible extradition to the …

Last year we read about the Administrations proposed legislation that would require software companies to build "backdoors" into their online communication systems [1], but as Assa…

I am primarily a Textmate user as I do a lot of Ruby, Rails, and web work, but a while back when I started learning Lisp I felt compelled to use Emacs. I was some of the most fun I…

> Filtering the cables to reflect what one group deems "incriminating" would be just another form of propaganda, something Wikileaks does not wish to engage in. Exactly. And it is …

For now, but hopefully they don't circumvent the need for such procedures as this, and the growing talk of requests by the Administration for developers to add "back-doors" into al…