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I hope you never find yourself in a situation where you need medical care and can't pay for it. Because the rest of us, who are in possession of at least a few scraps of human dece…

I presume this is not strictly a Rails problem. You can check in things that shouldn't be checked in with any language/framework. If you have done this, here's how to fix it: http:…

But when the model is accessed from four different controllers representing different privilege levels (e.g. public profile page, user settings page, internal admin page) and user …

To defend myself here (a day later), I was not assigning the causality in that direction. The "Because I took care of them" clause goes with the "I get to keep them", as in "I made…

My wisdom teeth actually fit in my mouth. Because I took care of them (and the rest of my teeth) as they started growing out, I get to keep them. Dentists far too often recommend e…

The key here is that you aren't sampling the same uniform distribution each time. You shrink the sample space by one each time you remove a card and append it to the end.

It's not a subset of static typing at all. If multimethods were a subset of static typing, then regular methods would be too. Methods are dynamic by definition: the type of the met…

Begin blocks execute during compilation, immediately after they've been parsed. They're compiled themselves, and execute within the Perl interpreter before it finishes compiling th…

There should be more of it.

I remember being shown call/cc briefly in CS 61A at Berkeley and then forgetting about it until recently when I saw an article on it while I was in the middle of writing an event-d…

COME FROM is the reason INTERCAL is among my favorite esoteric programming languages. That and the fact that its name is for "Compiler Language With No Pronounceable Acronym". From…

They weren't originally intended to provide namespacing, as far as I know. They were there to make the compiler's life easier. The reason that an array subscript is "$foo[0]" is be…

Got a source that isn't behind a pay wall?

Awesome. The digital imaging space keeps moving so fast due to the heated competition between Canon and Nikon. I upgraded to a 7D from my old 40D this year and it feels like there …

Oh, awesome. I use the stash constantly and always run into the wall of having to add untracked files before doing it. upgrades

Reminds me of the course I took at Berkeley where the homework was issued as PDF files. Not just any PDF, though; these were designed to be submitted back after you had filled out …

Concur. Walk to work instead of driving if you can, walk somewhere a little farther away for lunch, whatever it takes. Would that more of us spent even a fraction of the time we sp…

I don’t think it’d be fast enough. Even in damn-near-perfect signal conditions I have a RTT over 100 ms when I’m on AT&T 3G. That and how lame would it be if Siri ceased functionin…

I'd love to see this sorted by hue rather than in random order. Who knew IBM and Intel’s blues were that close?

We can only hope. x86 has so much backwards-compatibility baggage at this point — it’s too complex for its own good and all that extra silicon is just a power drain.