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It's definitely as probable that it was an attempt to impress as it was futile :) And yes, I know I'm hellbanned, but hellbanning is fucking stupid so it's hardly more stupid to ke…

It's a problem of personal organisation. If you have an urgent problem, then by all mean interrupt someone for it. If not, schedule a time. This works whether they're local or remo…

2006 is 7 seven years ago. 7 is 5 + 2 ;P More seriously, I'd contend that 7 years is still far too long ago for research like this considering the tech we have available now.

Exactly. I imagine the conversation to go something like… them: "but my friend says can do it in 3 days" me: "Then why are you speaking to me about it?"

I think Queen, cream and journey all also have prior uses that outdo the use by the bands ;)

I agree wholeheartedly. As an example, many languages are Turing complete and yet we still keep creating new languages when just one (theoretically) would do. It's because syntax i…

My takeaway: "Most people are arseholes. Twitter makes it so much harder to hide."

I second this. One option would be to write the requirements, and then if you don't want to pay someone, open source them. If they seem like a good idea and are well written requir…

Nice idea, I have a friend who was lamenting their perceived inability to remember the small happy moments, I will be forwarding this on in the hope it removes some of that lament …

What has using ActiveRecord got to do with whether Sinatra scales? You could've used it from the start. Strange argument to make about any framework.

One big reason for this is the different start up times between versions of Ruby, especially JRuby vs anything else. It can impact your development time quite a lot. If you know th…

Firstly, 2 wrongs do not make a right (your first logically fallacy is a tu-quoque) Second, you used ad hominem directly (implying they're living in a fantasy world) and an appeal …

What would a persistent connection do for me if I'm offline? (honest question)

May I enquire, have you used one? Your comments, and those within the article, suggest that you haven't and the writer of the article hasn't. I run the Sass binary, it watches my f…

Have a look at 'easy git' http://people.gnome.org/~newren/eg/ . I use it side by side with git, and whenever I need to look at a help command or something beyond the usual add/comm…

Actually, like most words, there is more than one meaning. From the OSX dictionary, after the first listed meaning: > difficult to understand : some of the lyrics are a bit obtuse.…

Firstly, you don't know what my view is, I haven't given it. Secondly, I haven't exerted the beliefs I do have on anyone (ironically though, you are, but there you go). Lastly (no,…

Neither, I asked a question which you didn't answer and instead decided to respond with ad hominem. Ad hominem is the sign of a lost argument, so either answer the question or rema…

> Wanting to protect your children does not excuse censorship. If we're not using principles to protect people, what are they for?

Since we're talking about Wikipedia, let me direct you to an article that may be helpful: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_solution_fallacy ;-)

Just a reminder of duck typing: Haskell style => function applied to parameter, e.g f(x) Ruby duck type style => parameter applies function to itself e.g x.f() An example: module D…