deadbadger

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by deadbadger 14y ago
Hi - thanks for responding. My deploy's gone through now, but I'm curious how I ended up contacting a mirror - I was running the default bundler capistrano task, so (approx): $ cd <deploy-path> && bundle install --gemfil
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by deadbadger 14y ago
For the time being I've rolled back the gem changes and applied the suggested hotfix (removing XML from the default params parsers). I've been trying for a solid hour to get a deploy out with the updated rails version, and it's just not hav
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by deadbadger 14y ago
Getting continuous errors on deploy during the bundle stage like so: /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/remote_fetcher.rb:215:in `fetch_http': bad response Not Found 404 (http://bb-m.rubygems.org/quick/Marshal.4.8/activesupport-3.2.11.gemspec
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by deadbadger 15y ago
Registration is not a necessary condition for enforcement of trademark rights (although it obviously helps). In some jurisdictions, of which the USA is one, an established history of use can be sufficient to establish rights to a given mark
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by deadbadger 15y ago
The government pays the train companies to run a transport service; departure times are an essential part of that, in a way that crisps quite plainly (or quite saltedly, ha ha ha* ) are not. I agree that large-scale API provision is added v
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by deadbadger 15y ago
Maximise the value for whom? The data is being monopolistically exploited by a private entity, for private profit. Where is the value for the taxpayer there? I think most people would agree that taxpayer value for public expenditure should
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by deadbadger 15y ago
But then don't you have to make your choice about whether no-value is an error when you return the value, rather than when you make the call? With #try et al it's made obvious at the point the message is sent whether it'll be swallowed by n
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by deadbadger 15y ago
On the subject of try() chaining, there's always Ick, which implements (among other things) a kind of Maybe monad for Ruby. This acts as a self-propagating nil guard, so you're able to write things like: maybe(Person.find("geoff")) { |p
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by deadbadger 15y ago
Well, possibly - but the point is that while ubiquitous safe seats are obviously detrimental, so is their elimination at all costs. The problem with safe seats isn't that popular politicians are consistently elected; it's that minority voic
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by deadbadger 15y ago
A related effect, of course, is that it becomes practically impossible for politicians to plan for any sort of career, or parties to make personnel plans with more than a single-parliament horizon. Even a candidate with a hefty 60% support
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by deadbadger 15y ago
I see from your profile you're based in Canada - here in the UK, I've found it's the regional redirects that are breaking things (because the regional sites aren't on the new setup yet). Assuming the same thing is affecting Canadian users,
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by deadbadger 15y ago
I only wish I could up-vote this more. See also this earlier Language Log essay ( http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003366.h... ), in which Pullum points out that passives occur in "Politics and the English Language" at a
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by deadbadger 15y ago
Certainly not when you're trying to judge energy payback horizons for a device incorporating silicon, nickel and cobalt, all of which come with significant costs of production. What if the degradation isn't linear, as seems very likely? Obv
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by deadbadger 16y ago
It is indeed. Now if only Google Accounts would integrate with Google Accounts, everything would be spiffing. </cheapshot>
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by deadbadger 16y ago
If you check out the relevant paragraph of the Directive itself (quoted below) you'll see that's just the BBC's rather odd interpretation. The Directive doesn't mention shopping cart cookies at all, but rather carves out an area of potentia
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by deadbadger 16y ago
From para 66 of the Directive ( http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2... ): "Exceptions to the obligation to provide information and offer the right to refuse should be limited to those situations where the technica