Transmission losses mean that even with wheeling, the power from my neck of the woods never reaches the East Coast. You can look on my local utility's distribution page and see where the power goes (much to north california and seattle)
You have the right idea about RoR (speaking as someone who excitedly spent/wasted/ a month learning into it). RoR has some hot ideas but it tries to be too smart and locked down for its own good.
The beauty of Ruby is, even if you don't like it the way they do it, you can always monkey patch it. Open up the object and override the method(s) you don't like.
Try doing that to the PHP core libs. Better know C, and love it a lot.
All I can say is, you haven't worked in it enough then. Solve some substantial problems 'the ruby way' and then solve the same thing in PHP. Or try translating a site from one the other... and for extra credit, back again.
I've worked in all three, repeatedly, and there's really no contest. Rails is so much easier to get concepts out, and has so many fewer bugs (in my experience), that it's silly to use PHP at this point, unless you have overriding reasons for choosing it aside from inherent qualities.
I write my own (shitty) articles, with words I done made up myself, about (reasonably) original topics. Therefore I occupy a higher continuum than those who provide no original content.
Note that, unless you're copying these comments from somewhere, you, too, occupy a higher continuum than Messr. Piquepaille. Linkjackers are slightly above spammers and trolls, in my pantheon.
Well, this is a community site, where I can spout off my opinions. So, yes, but with the addition of trolls, and editors, and other people and viewpoints.
Nice astroturf. He distills a half-page article into a half page blog post. Inaccurately.
Placing a film of silicon nanoparticles onto a silicon solar cell can boost power, reduce heat and prolong the cell's life, researchers now report. "Integrating a high-quality film of silicon nanoparticles 1 nanometer in size directly onto silicon solar cells improves power performance by 60 percent in the ultraviolet range of the spectrum,"
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Physicists from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) say they have improved the performance of solar cells by 60 percent. And they obtained this spectacular result by using a very simple trick. They've coated the solar cells with a film of 1-nanometer thick silicon fluorescing nanoparticles.
That's a whole 12 characters shorter, and leaves out the important words 'in the ultraviolet spectrum', which changes the meaning completely. Also, those emitted words are 27 characters long, so if they were properly included, his summary is actually more wordy than the original source.
Also, he doesn't post the whole story (60% improvement in the UV spectrum) but rather the more sensational version (60% improvement!). That's pretty dishonest.
It only bothers me because he linkjacks it with his blog.
If he was just posting an article, with a link to the EurekAlert post, it'd be all good. Instead, he has to post about his spammy blog, as well as his (paid?) blog on ZDnet.
The ratio of decent links to spam is 1:2 in this article.
Asynchronous wireless nets run at the slowest node's bandwidth divided by the number of nodes, or something ludicrously slow like that.
I remember a friend discussing how he was working with a sensor company that was struggling to maintain 200 bytes per second over a large mesh (20 nodes),
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Transmission losses mean that even with wheeling, the power from my neck of the woods never reaches the East Coast. You can look on my local utility's distribution page and see where the power goes (much to north california and seattle)
We're also running on hydroelectric power, at least, those of us up here in the Pacific Northwest.
So, no, it doesn't really affect global warming. Now, all those people on the east coast and socal, with their coal-fired plants, they really do.
I have faith in my coworkers, as well.
I'd rather have it fixable, because I have near-infinite faith in my ability to fix broken things.
Now, if you don't feel that way, then sure, you'd want it all closed up.
Me, I've run into way more problems that were unfixable due to closed source and closed objects than I have from Ruby's metaprogramming.
They do a lot of back and forth while in the flash game. Their chats are all hitting rails, as are the high score submissions. Just FYI.
Well, then, use Ruby with mod_ruby and see how that goes. At that point, it's apples to apples, and Ruby still wins.
The beauty of Ruby is, even if you don't like it the way they do it, you can always monkey patch it. Open up the object and override the method(s) you don't like.
Try doing that to the PHP core libs. Better know C, and love it a lot.
All I can say is, you haven't worked in it enough then. Solve some substantial problems 'the ruby way' and then solve the same thing in PHP. Or try translating a site from one the other... and for extra credit, back again.
Amen. Postgres's row-level locking and schema transactions alone make it far superior, I think.
Kongregate? That one wins it for me.
JSP and ASP are terrible compared to rails. You really ought to pick up Agile Web Development with Ruby On Rails and go through the sample project at least.
It'll change the way you think about development for the web.
Or, if you're really set on Java, try Rails for Java Developers and you'll see how much more concise the exact same code is in Rails.
I've worked in all three, repeatedly, and there's really no contest. Rails is so much easier to get concepts out, and has so many fewer bugs (in my experience), that it's silly to use PHP at this point, unless you have overriding reasons for choosing it aside from inherent qualities.
DMCA Safe Harbor provisions label ISPs as common carriers for the purpose of that law, given they comply with takedown notices.
I do use these things, but as someone who'd like to someday make money off of writing things, linkjackers really bother me a lot.
I've already found one of my articles linkjacked, actually, just ripped off. It's not a happy feeling.
I write my own (shitty) articles, with words I done made up myself, about (reasonably) original topics. Therefore I occupy a higher continuum than those who provide no original content.
Note that, unless you're copying these comments from somewhere, you, too, occupy a higher continuum than Messr. Piquepaille. Linkjackers are slightly above spammers and trolls, in my pantheon.
Sorry about that, I switched to dvorak and have been mixing O, E, and A up. It was strictly a typo.
Well, this is a community site, where I can spout off my opinions. So, yes, but with the addition of trolls, and editors, and other people and viewpoints.
That's a whole 12 characters shorter, and leaves out the important words 'in the ultraviolet spectrum', which changes the meaning completely. Also, those emitted words are 27 characters long, so if they were properly included, his summary is actually more wordy than the original source.
It's almost word for word. And it's wrong.
His name link to primidi (his blog), plus his link to ZDnet (also his blog) in the article body, VS one link to the article in question.
Big difference between posting something original on a blog with ads, and paraphrasing an article on your own ad-filled blog solely for the revenue.
If I went around ripping off the AP, I'd get a nastygram from their lawyers. Why do we tolerate it more when it's a creepy-looking Frenchman?
Also, he doesn't post the whole story (60% improvement in the UV spectrum) but rather the more sensational version (60% improvement!). That's pretty dishonest.
It only bothers me because he linkjacks it with his blog.
If he was just posting an article, with a link to the EurekAlert post, it'd be all good. Instead, he has to post about his spammy blog, as well as his (paid?) blog on ZDnet.
The ratio of decent links to spam is 1:2 in this article.
I wish I had access to the slashdot front page for my articles.
Asynchronous wireless nets run at the slowest node's bandwidth divided by the number of nodes, or something ludicrously slow like that.
I remember a friend discussing how he was working with a sensor company that was struggling to maintain 200 bytes per second over a large mesh (20 nodes),
Swarmcast? OpenCola was one of the first to implement peer-to-peer chunked downloads. Wonder if they still hold the name?