Ruby: Singletons, Threads, and Flexibility

http://www.bleonard.com/blog/2013/01/18/singletons/

by bleonard • 14 years ago

58 20 14 years ago

Great post, really interesting read.

(As a side note, you might want to provide syntax highlighting for all the code snippets on that page it makes it so much easier on the eyes).

bleonard4• 14 years ago

Done. Thanks for the tip!

kine• 14 years ago

Great post, Brian!

monochromatic• 14 years ago

Check this out and vote it up on Hacker News if you found this useful.

Ugh.

bleonard4• 14 years ago

I'm new around here. Not acceptable? Seems like something I've seen before.

orangethirty• 14 years ago

It is acceptable. Though the wording could be done differently to avoid comments like the one above.

Instead, include the following:

Discuss on Hacker News.

When we discuss something here, upvoting/downvoting plays an essential part is controlling where the conversation heads. So asking for people to upvote is not as positive as inviting them into the discussion.

By the way, welcome. Good post.

darrhiggs• 14 years ago

It's absolutely fine. As it's the mechanism for attracting a wider audience to something that benefit is being derived from, reminding them to up-vote the article seems mutually beneficial. You are not forcing anyone to do it.

bstar77• 14 years ago

Wow, the comments were incredibly useful as well.

tszming• 14 years ago

Interesting and useful.

(I have seen so many posts discussing programming stuffs here without a single line of code and you are offering real suggestion and giving back to the opensource community, you've done a great job, thanks.)

apoorvparijat• 14 years ago

Interesting read, Brian!

lloeki2• 14 years ago

For some reason the portrait on the left made me extremely uneasy, to the point I removed it from the DOM.

Argorak• 14 years ago

I ended up hovering the pointer over it. In its highlighted state, the sidebar was less irritating.

rschmitty• 14 years ago

Nothing related to the article, but I really dislike all the circle portraits on blogs and services. Really looking forward to this fad passing

bleonard4• 14 years ago

Ha. The Jekyll theme (changeable) or my face (less changeable)?

vidarh• 14 years ago

The "faded out" state actually manages to draw more attention to it, which isn't great when trying to focus on the article.

ericb• 14 years ago

I had the same sensation. I think because it is off to the left, but he is staring to the center it gives the sense he's looking at you.

buddhistpirate• 14 years ago

Very good post. We started using VCR recently in our tests but somehow have avoided this issue. However as we clean up our old tests I'm sure we'll see this; but now I know to avoid it. Great discussion with the VCR dev too.

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