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  1. Re:And Yet... on GitHub Adds Support For Diffing 3D Files · · Score: 4, Informative

    You certainly can!

    Visit your repo page +"/compare" to setup the revisions you want to diff.
    Or just construct the url:

    https://github.com/gunn/ember.js/compare/emberjs:8446b121d8c635ebf...ember-libraries.diff

  2. Re:And Linux does too on Antitrust Case Over, Microsoft Ties IE 10 To Win 8 · · Score: 2

    rm -rf /Applications/Safari.app
    done.

  3. Re:too bad on ISP's War On BitTorrent Hits World of Warcraft · · Score: 2

    You do know your audience.

  4. Re:Well, duh. on Kilogram Gets Controversial; Why Not Split the Difference? · · Score: 5, Informative

    I think that would be a kibigram.

  5. Re:Can they switch us over to metric, please? on US Revamps NIST's Standard-Setting Efforts · · Score: 2
  6. Re:sharks with lasers on How Can I Make Testing Software More Stimulating? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Or another way to make it more fun - Godlike!

    http://github.com/gunn/godlike

    Plays a sound when you acheive 100% test passing rate. The default sound is the Unreal Tournament voice: GODLIKE, but you have as other sound options: headshot, killingspree, perfect, supreme_victory, ultrakill, flag_capture, and frag.

  7. Re:Apple and Rails on Restructured Ruby on Rails 3.0 Hits Beta · · Score: 1

    Hello.

    Seeing as rails was not released publicly till July 2004 this is does not surprise me.

    Seriously though, 5 years is a very long time for an open source project which has grown to have over a thousand people contribute code to it.

    Perhaps with the release of rails 3, with its particular emphasis on modularity and configurability, it would be a good time to re-evaluate?

    Also, I read you post and found no know-it-all reference.

  8. Re:The documentation for Ruby on Rails is horrible on Restructured Ruby on Rails 3.0 Hits Beta · · Score: 1

    Excellent documentation, good official tutorials:

    http://guides.rubyonrails.org/

    One of the goals of rails 3 is indeed a solid public api.
    In fact because of rails' goal to be more modular / customisable the public api is going to constitute the only communication between rails' components.

  9. Re:Apple and Rails on Restructured Ruby on Rails 3.0 Hits Beta · · Score: 3, Informative

    ActiveRecord::Base.pluralize_table_names = false

    simple.

  10. Re:I think everyone would agree here... on Restructured Ruby on Rails 3.0 Hits Beta · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Not true.

    Model.find_by_sql sqlstring

    or even more primitively:
    ActiveRecord::Base.connection.execute( sqlstring )

    Easy. Although you really shouldn't have to use it if you understand relations properly.

    Also note that rails 3 is going to have Arel, an Object-Oriented interpretation of the Relational Algebra. It is a mathematical model for representing “queries” on data. It understanding relations this fundamentally means it can optimise easily.

    Have a look at:
    http://magicscalingsprinkles.wordpress.com/2010/01/28/why-i-wrote-arel/

  11. Re:why? on Chinese Pirates Launch Ubuntu That Looks Like XP · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well the command line would be one good way.
    If you want a GUI gnome-schedule looks good too.

  12. Re:Interesting, yet exaggerated... on Dumbing Down Programming? · · Score: 1

    Looking at the PHP example here, I'm sure they'd be able to contrive such an example:
            PHP vs. revTalk

    Just for interest though, here's a ruby version:
            Ruby

    10 lines - 42% less code. And we could get that down to 6 if we were pushing it.