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A self-winding watch needs to be worn for hours each day to not run out of power. A manual-wind watch will be a better choice for a night-only mechanical watch.

The 90S5 is basically the very popular 9015 but with a big hole in it. :)

The Miyota 90S5 would work, it is cheap and “open heart”.

RMS?

That used to be the case, but a lot has happened in the last few years. Most of the time you'll be able to move a large Rails application to JRuby without any changes at all, excep…

Python's Pickle lib had something similar to safe_load(), that they removed because it gave a false sense of security.

I found the browser a lot better/faster on my 3GS after the update, probably due to Javascript speed improvements, so it's very far from "unusable".

I haven't heard of anyone's Air screen breaking, they can't be that fragile. (But I have heard of several people destroying them with coffee or beer).

I wonder how these 1980's results relate to object oriented code and other things that have happened since then. Even 25 LOC would be a huge method in Smalltalk-style OO for exampl…

A few of my old colleagues bought the code from our bankrupt employer and made a second attempt at creating a business with it. They did better than the original owners, but not mu…

I had a lot of trouble with the network-of-brokers feature in ActiveMQ a few years ago, which in the end forced us to switch to another solution. In a later, simpler, project I had…