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out of curiousity: require 'numbers_and_words' def convert(locale, numbers) I18n.with_locale locale do numbers.map { |i| i.to_words.length } end end def eliminate(locale, numbers =…

i myself heavily favor pg over my also, but just for the record mysql has some kind of support for that, see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/server-sql-mode.html#...

i disagree. first you copy others, discover and then you may alter/fine tune your decision. de facto standards are standards because "we" decide them to be.

i think the article misses the main point. the articles 'bashing' PHP does not say noone ever wrote good code in PHP or ever will. rather that we should change the situation where …

i found the pro git book a very good reading to understand git for the first time http://progit.org/book/

i think you are missing the point: passwords should be hard to guess first and should be easy to remember second. the former is the stronger need. let's say there are 500.000 engli…

i researched a few php frameworks (sy2, zend, cake, li3, kohana, etc.) a little while, and by far i'm most satisfied with lithium (li3, http://lithify.me/ ). depending on 5.3 seems…

this was already submitted & commented: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2620870

maybe i'm missing something here but the biggest issue i see with this is it does not effectively prevent spamming/robots. the libraries which this is based on were not created wit…

I wanted to give this a shot. I first thought making a chrome/safari/etc. extension/plugin/etc. to filter your feed on the github dashboard (it may be a viable option), but i settl…

barnabas:btch pota$ time python btch.py found: 7555794 real 1m18.464s user 1m18.417s sys 0m0.031s (i5 2500k)

I strongly disagree. Learn code if you are interested, but what ill advice is that you have to learn code?! Consider your advice from a designer perspective, should founders/coders…

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i always ,,loved'' the variation that goes like: if 0.99... != 1, then there has to be an x that 0.99.... + x = 1.0 (or to say 1 - 0.99.. > 0 must hold), so you can start to find t…

first of all i don't assume "learning only what i consider to be important" is good, not just because at the age people do not have the ability to tell what is really important (fo…

it is down - http://www.google.com/appsstatus