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"Next was comparing Merb against other ruby options. Returning directly from the Merb router kills everything, but there aren’t many scenarios you could use that. Sinatra is just slightly faster than returning from the Merb controller, which both outperform Rails by a 3-4x. Rails itself still kills CakePHP."
The headline is a quotation from Yehuda Katz's MerbCamp closing keynote. See the summary of the keynote here at the bottom of this link:
To be fair, Crossfit's a lot more than "strength training."
Lifting is very useful because it actually increases your basal metabolism for many, many hours after your workout (as opposed to most aerobic exercises, whose metabolism boosting effects peter out in about an hour). In the long term, that benefit only compounds due to the increased muscle mass you gain.
If keeping your body in an enhanced calorie burning state even while you're sedentary isn't an exercise hack, I don't know what is. ;)
The actual quotation is "The hard part is to figure out the fewest possible features that could possibly accomplish your company's goals."
I don't know what you're talking about. Could you provide a link to the thread?
You're right, I wish I could correct the headline.
hehe, good question :P
there isn't one.
That's about as true for mashups as it is for the semantic web; in both cases, there is not an "official" trust model used across the web, though it's obviously possible for semantic web providers to do what every other API provider does and simply use their reputation. For example, what makes you trust the data you get from any API at all, if not for the provider's reputation? I do agree that there should be a more uniform approach in order to get wide usage of the technology beyond the enterprise, academia, and medicine.
This apparent lack of an official trust model won't be the case for long with POWDER [1] on the horizon. POWDER is on its way to becoming a ratified W3C standard and it makes steps to address the idea of a "web of trust." Who knows what kind of traction this will get in the near term, but I think it's a step in the right direction.
no mechanism that allows or even requires content authors to create their own metadata will ever take off.
That's (mostly) true if there's no trust model. Once you insert some sort of trust or authorization model, this problem gets mitigated pretty quickly. The most obvious counterexample to your point is the rich ecosystem of API-based mashups. Mashups exist as integration points for multiple content sources where content authors provide their own metadata.
While there's a lot of talk these days about the idea of "semantic search engines," most practical uses of the semantic web are actually just souped up mashups -- solutions to integration problems combined with some lightweight AI.
haha.
You know, I didn't appreciate the magnitude of what they did until trying out your suggestion. I didn't realize that they'd literally gone back to the old search index . . . I thought it was just a superficial change.
Impressive . . . they decided to forgo search driven ad revenue for the day.
Stallman is to Open Source what Ralph Nader is to Liberals
What Ralph Nader is to "Liberals" is a pariah at this point.
Excellent article.
The title's not deceptive ... it's the title of the page.
Either way, the answer to questions of the form "Can #{framework.name} scale?" is pretty much always yes. That's kind of the point of this page and all others like it.
Impressive rebuttal. There's been too much meta-commenting going on lately.
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It's not my job to decide which of the different views on a topic I cover is "correct" or "right."
Right, but it's also not your job to draw false dichotomies and go out of your way to imply moral equivalence just so you can slather a patina of "fairness" over your work.
Even the best (especially the best?) journalists have to editorialize, whether they come to grips with that fact or not. The alternative would be to present an infinity of viewpoints on every topic one covers in any piece one writes. At some point one has to exercise discretion on what gets included and what doesn't, on what gets covered in detail and what doesn't. I don't think it's right or realistic to try to abdicate that part of one's journalistic responsibility.
It sounds good in principle but in practice I think it'd add a lot of noise to threads.
I was inspired by this:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=316820
Plus, I think it's a cool, old idea that could inspire some new business ideas. Obviously some people found it interesting . . . they upmodded it.
I share the opinion that a lot of things that should be automated are not. For instance - fast food. If fast food places are going to exist, I do not think that they should be part of what some people have to do to keep a roof over their (and their kids) heads, and food in their stomachs. They are repetitive, soul-sucking jobs that don't require a human.
For an old school baby step towards this idea, see this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=317028 where people are wondering why the hell I thought to submit the article. :)
Sorry, but I find it hard to believe that 93% of Americans even know what a "Social Media" site is.
Nevermind:
for the time being Slinkset is offering its hosting service free of charge, with plans to introduce a fixed fee in the future.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/14/y-combinators-slinkset-...
This is my first time actually checking out Slinkset . . . pretty cool app. Do they have any paid features yet? What's their business model?
How apropos.
You guys are doing an outstanding job -- kudos on the steady stream of solid commits.
On a related note, I've actually documented a few of the steps I took in order to deploy . . . I'll send over a pull request for my README.
I found this comment particularly interesting from the Reddit thread:
I think it's interesting that I see a lot of people saying that computer programmers don't need degrees, but I rarely see anyone saying the same thing about physicists, biologists, mathematicians, or zoologists. I wonder why that is.
Maybe there really are people decrying degrees in those other fields and I just don't hear about it because I'm a computer programmer. But I suspect that degrees are actually required and respected in those fields. What is it about Computer Science that makes people think you can read a few books on your own and you are qualified? What is it about the other fields in math, science, and engineering that make that not the case?
Haha, I found that part of the job posting to be a joke for multiple reasons.
For example, given that their enumeration of the top CS schools doesn't include the best computer science program in the world, I wouldn't worry too much about being in the "etc." :P
* http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/grad/eng/c...
* http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/college/spec-d...
Everyone my age either has three kids or goes to OSU. OSU kids only go to OSU venues and bars.
While I don't know Columbus, I do know its type. My suggestion for you is to move to a more cosmopolitan city where you'll find plenty of single, interesting professionals and artistic types. In my opinion, it's worth the increased cost of living.
If you aren't willing to do that, your next best option if you're college age is to take a class or join a group at OSU.
Haven't used okcupid much for dating, but plentyoffish.com is pretty solid in my experience . . . lots of Ohio people on too.
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