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Always interesting to see if someone can write a great linear algebra book. I like Axler's "Linear Algebra Done Right" [1] because he puts off the determinant until it's clear why …

This is now in the Ruby 1.9 core: http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-1.9/classes/Object.html#M000309

Sellers can't leave anything but positive feedback these days. I imagine the next step is for the system to add those "fast payment good ebayer AA+++" lines to your profile wheneve…

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Of course, one of the common knocks on Ruby is that naively referring to a function executes it, and to pass functions around avoiding list.map { |i| process i } one must write lis…

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Not sure why they didn't link the article instead: http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2008/07/slammed-cons...

This has been a tough adjustment for those of us who need the entire wait in line to decide on a drink.