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by defroost 15y ago
I know that web.py was around years before Sinatra. But URL routing in Bottle is more similar to Sinatra than it is to the URL dispatching via a tuple at the top of a file. Even so, perhaps Bottle is influenced more by web.py. That doesn't
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by defroost 15y ago
Seems to me to be another micro web framework influenced heavily by Sinatra.
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by defroost 15y ago
You wrote: "But folks like Greenwald need a nemesis, so any point to beat on Wired.com for reporting the story will work." Greenwald doesn't need to go far to find a "nemesis" in this case. And he is not "beating" on Wired for reporting th
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by defroost 15y ago
It absolutely was not "a bunch of chatter about his depression". It was much more. As small sample from the excellent piece by Glen Greenwald at Salon (1): MANNING: uhm, trying to keep a low profile for now though, just a warning LAMO: I
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by defroost 15y ago
I prefer Learning Python by Mark Lutz. I've read a ton of programming books, and I can't recall one the didn't recommend typing the exercises by hand, reading the code carefully line-by-line to understand exactly what is going on. Few qua
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by defroost 15y ago
While definitely not small, the stairway book, "Programming in Scala" by Odersky, mentioned in the article, is an excellent tutorial style book. The second edition was just released in January.
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by defroost 15y ago
I guess he felt that others besides the troll were having a laugh at his expense, (i.e., the HN Tips guys comments, other penis-oriented repos connected to employees of aforementioned companies) and were, if only indirectly, in on the joke.
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by defroost 15y ago
> Supporting only github means I can't use it. Unfortunate, because their stuff looks cool. I'm sure if you really wanted to use Pagoda, you could use the http://hg-git.github.com/ . Or you could just sign up for a free Github account
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by defroost 15y ago
He is obviously not particularly thrilled with getting divorced and having to move from a city that he is fond of, to a smaller, less interesting location, so I think we can cut him some slack. This subject didn't seem to require that he wr
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by defroost 15y ago
I had a feeling it was some inside joke. Not sure about expressions like these. If you're not familiar with the reference, it just looks like incorrect grammar or a typo. I do like the trend of having apps that can launch from the menu ba
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by defroost 15y ago
I've used your rails3_devise_wizard to get-up-and-running on a recent project, and to experiment with difference stacks and it is really useful. Projects like yours and http://railswizard.org are really useful for customizing the default
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by defroost 15y ago
> I'd be surprised if anyone that has built a few significant rails applications with devise would continue to use it. Unless you're going to have the most vanilla session/user/authentication management ever, fighting against devise get
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by defroost 15y ago
I guess since google.com/ig stores a cookies on my browser, all of them actually, I couldn't get the normal google search page, even with logging out. Thanks for the private mode tip.
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by defroost 15y ago
I use igoogle start page, and I can't see any animation, just a static Martha Graham Google Logo. Does anyone have a the correct google URL in the States? I've seen the video of it, but it annoying me that I can't see the actual animation.
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by defroost 15y ago
Just what we need: Google involved in more aspects of our lives. No thank you. Nothing against Google per se, but letting any huge corporate conglomerate control the majority of your data seems foolish. I use OS X as it has the perfect mi
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by defroost 15y ago
> oh boy. that's actually the mode that keep novices clueless about what's going on with the settings. Of course. Criticizing it for not having Program mode stuck me as similar to saying "Nice sportscar, if only it had Automatic transmi
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by defroost 15y ago
> Genuinely curious: how did he improve the world? At least I heard more news about his Swedish affair than about anything significant disclosed by wikileaks (nicknames of the politicians aside). Read the newspaper much? WikiLeaks and
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by defroost 15y ago
Really? Even one from 2009 is pretty impressive. http://9elements.com/io/projects/html5/canvas/
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by defroost 15y ago
I not sure why the developer labels it "Chrome only". I use Webkit Nightly (Safari) as my main browser, and it's slightly annoying when developers don't seem to realize that Safari and Chrome are both Webkit browsers and as such their supp
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by defroost 15y ago
For one camera I got: "fail The 'NIKON CORPORATION NIKON D200' does not write serial information in the exif. See the supported cameras page for a list of models that do." For my other camera, a Pentax K20D which is on the supported list I
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by defroost 15y ago
> So far, as far as I know they haven't executed anyone in this country for speaking out again tyranny. I'm sure you know that Julian Assange is facing possible extradition to the US, and several top official are shamefully talking abou
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by defroost 15y ago
Last year we read about the Administrations proposed legislation that would require software companies to build "backdoors" into their online communication systems [1], but as Assange points out, they may already be in place. [1] http://ww
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by defroost 15y ago
I am primarily a Textmate user as I do a lot of Ruby, Rails, and web work, but a while back when I started learning Lisp I felt compelled to use Emacs. I was some of the most fun I've ever had. And I would contend that extending, customizi
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by defroost 15y ago
> Filtering the cables to reflect what one group deems "incriminating" would be just another form of propaganda, something Wikileaks does not wish to engage in. Exactly. And it is certainly news to me that anyone here on HN is critical
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by defroost 15y ago
For now, but hopefully they don't circumvent the need for such procedures as this, and the growing talk of requests by the Administration for developers to add "back-doors" into all software is really a horrible direction for things to take
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by defroost 15y ago
Why would I use Blueprint, when I could use the excellent 960 ( http://960.gs/ ) by Nathan Smith? To me all of the above choices are good as long as there is a way to use Sass ( http://sass-lang.com/ ) like in Compass ( http://compass
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by defroost 15y ago
> Obama admin did try to push on it for quite a while before apparently concluding they'd dumped enough time and capital into it. I voted for Obama, but sadly on this issue, he has been mostly a disappointment, to put it mildly. The gre
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by defroost 15y ago
I've been using sass and going kind of mixin crazy in my latest project. Once you discover all the various CSS3 generators online, creating good-looking mixins is absolutely trivial and a lot of fun. A couple of comments: 1. Aside from my
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by defroost 15y ago
I'm not a regular Windows user, but it seems like many even more tech savvy users continually fall for this same cycle of BS from MS. The users frustrated with IE 7 were excited about how much better IE 8 would be. It turned out, IE 8 had
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by defroost 15y ago
Deterring future whistleblowers (as mentioned below) is why the Bradley Manning has essentially become a political prisoner who is being held in solitary confinement. It is why, as the article mentions, the DOJ issued a subpoena to Twitter

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