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  1. Re:Clarify on Canada's CD Tax Out of Hand? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Society as a whole is benefited from the availability of free public schools. I'm surprised that you don't want to give money to the teachers that teach our youth.

    What would you prefer, everyone paying $10k per year per kid for their education? Sorta puts poor people in a bind and their kids would likely get screwed.

  2. Re:Brighter in the morning? on Why Don't You Sleep On It? · · Score: 1

    RTFA. It has nothing to do with sleep.

  3. Re:Bloomberg thus joins the ranks on Fired for Solitare At Work · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Your just a looser who is jelous of someone that worked thier way to the top Jesus Christ. Grammatical and spelling standards sure have gone down around here. You forgot the fucking period, idiot.

  4. Re:Author: cheerleader for Ruby but has good point on Beyond Java · · Score: 1

    Just a quick comment, Ruby does have regular expressions built into the language.

  5. Re:(ot-ish) Perl is not too loose and messy on Beyond Java · · Score: 1

    Or the Ruby equivalent:
    files.each { |file| puts File.read(file) if File.exist?(file) }

  6. Re:A little less MM MMORPG? on Next World Of Warcraft Raid Dungeon · · Score: 1

    You can easily get to level 60 without doing any raids or playing with others.

  7. invite? on Google Re-Opens Analytics Service as Invite-Only · · Score: 0

    Can someone please send me an invite at joevandyk at gmail.com?

  8. Learning more math on Mathematics Skills More in Demand Than Ever · · Score: 1

    My highest level of math was Calculus 3. But, when I was in school, I'd learn just enough to do well on the tests. I never really "understood" the math at a deep level. So now, when I'm doing stuff that would actually use it, I feel disadvantaged. Hell, I've forgotten what sine and cosine mean completely.

    What's a good way for people like me to go back and relearn math to really understand it?

  9. Re:Ancient Greek Technology Costs Jobs. on Mathematics Skills More in Demand Than Ever · · Score: 1

    I think a few studies have shown that people's "happiness levels" (however they measure it) are generally fixed. Happy people tend to be happy no matter what happens in their life, and unhappy people tend to be unhappy (even if good stuff happens to them all the time). You can probably change happiness levels temporarily (through drugs, money, girls, etc), but it's unlikely to stay at the elevated level in the long run.

  10. Re:Why this is important on Scientists Figure Out How Bees Fly · · Score: 1

    And that has what to do with a science discussion?

  11. Re:Turing test answers that one on "St Lawrence of Google" · · Score: 1

    I have no idea what your point is, sorry.

    Side note: computers have been used for face recognition purposes for the past couple years.

  12. Re:Why this is important on Scientists Figure Out How Bees Fly · · Score: 1
  13. Re:Turing test answers that one on "St Lawrence of Google" · · Score: 1

    You could make the argument that the human brain is nothing but a very complex calculator.

  14. Re:Why this is important on Scientists Figure Out How Bees Fly · · Score: 1

    You don't believe in macroevolution? Here's 29+ cases for it. http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/comdesc/

  15. Re:Please, for the love of GOD..... on Tapestry Making Web Development a Breeze? · · Score: 1

    You can't scale on with a LAMP-like stack? omg, someone tell livejournal!

  16. Re:Rapid web development getting out of hand? on Tapestry Making Web Development a Breeze? · · Score: 1

    If you need the ability to persist data to Text files instead of SQL without changing a single line of code, and you don't want to contribute patches to the Rails project or create your own wrapper, then yeah, AR probably isn't what you want.

    Most people don't need that capability though.

  17. Powered by Ruby on Rails? on BBC Presents An Open News Archive · · Score: 1
  18. Re:How Ruby fits in for my work. on Ruby Off the Rails · · Score: 1

    Hm, a lot of other people (including me) don't seem to have that problem. Wonder why you do.

  19. Re:How Ruby fits in for my work. on Ruby Off the Rails · · Score: 1

    What makes Ruby 'still a scripting language"?

  20. Re:Dynamic Typing on Guido Goes Google · · Score: 1

    You unit test (and functional test) everything heavily. That is all.

  21. Re:Automatic Code Generators on Is Ruby on Rails Maintainable? · · Score: 1
    In case you're not aware, there's multiple levels of 'code generation' in RoR.

    In the first case, which is awesome, there's script/generate model Account. That will automatically create

    • app/models/account.rb that contains a nothing about a class called Account that derives from ActiveRecord::Base
    • test/fixtures/accounts.yml - a file that contains test fixtures that you can use for unit tests. It contains two stubs of data.
    • test/unit/account.rb - a file that unit tests the Account class. All it tests is if it can sucessfully instantiate an Account objecet.

    And similar stuff exists for creating Controllers, Migrations, etc.

    There's another type of 'code generation' that generates functions for you at runtime. If you put into your Account model has_many :users, that will insert a couple methods into your Account class *at runtime*.

    Then, there's scaffolding, which, if you want, will create a CRUD controller and views that operate on some object. You can either have the methods created at runtime by putting scaffold :account into your Accounts controller, or have Rails insert all the CRUD functionality directly into the controller and views by doing script/generate scaffold Accounts.

  22. Re:Iraqi Voters on Bill Gates, Time Magazine "Person of the Year" · · Score: 1

    The editors of Time don't decide who's their person of the year. An outside panel does.

  23. Re:Nielsen? Bah. on Ajax Sucks Most of the Time · · Score: 1

    Dude. Nielsen did not write the article. The article was a spoof on an article he did in 1997 on HTML frames.

  24. Re:ID on Earliest Bird Had Feet Like Dinosaur · · Score: 1

    I'd rate this troll 3 out of 10 points. Not believable enough, sorry.

  25. Re:Out of Focus on Laptop Makers Skeptical of $100 Laptop Schedule · · Score: 1

    what the hell. This isn't for low-income families in the U.S. Read the damned article.