...check out John Keegan's Face of Battle. It covers the battle of Agincourt and several other major battles - Waterloo and the Somme. This book really gives you a feel for the human element in these battles.
Hm, kind of like GitHub in that regard, then. The nice thing about just picking one source code mgmt system is that you can write a good UI specifically for it. Of course, the cost is that folks have to move over from Subversion or whatever.
> if you're approached about investing in this project > you might want to keep your wallet in your pocket.
Unless your name is Uncle Sam, in which case you raise taxes (or print money, which is the same thing) and hey presto, up go the turbines. For more I refer you to Chris Horner's excellent work Red Hot Lies.
> Also oil costs dont factor into the > cost of physically refueling the ship.
Well said. That includes the time it takes to complete the evolution. Especially underway it's a major pain; running those hoses over and keeping station is no joke. If you could cut the number of UNREPs in half you'd be saving resources all over.
> But the only way how you can remain a creative person > is by doing it for yourself in the first place.
Right on. I think Jamis Buck did a good thing along those same lines when he announced that he was burned out on Capistrano and would stop maintaining it. There's no reason why he should feel obligated to run himself into the ground sorting out Git-on-Windows bugs; just letting go was the right thing to do.
That's one of the nice things about GitHub - a project owner can just stop working on something and if it's useful, someone else will fork it and pick it up. It's a new dynamic around forking projects, and it seems to work.
...been impressive when compared to Flash? Really? Then why did mlb.com switch from Silverlight to Flash? I remember when they did this - I had unsubscribed because the Silverlight player was such a mess, and I went back and signed up for the rest of the season.
When I was working on my JavaCC book I bought Jukka Korpela's Unicode Explained and it was *extremely* helpful. After reading it I actually felt comfortable using various tools to convert from one encoding to another, discussing multibyte character sets, and so forth. It helped me write the Unicode chapter in my book with some confidence. It was the first time I had used vi to enter Unicode characters... fun times.
That said, it sounds like "CJKV Information Processing" covers some of the same ground. Has anyone read both?
...the book Beautiful Code which was a collection of essays about, well, beautiful code. The chapter "Another Level of Indirection" by Diomidis Spinellis was one of my favorites. There were some misses in there, but overall definitely worth a look.
Another thing - all the author royalties for Beautiful Code were donated to Amnesty International. Not sure if Beautiful Security is the same way, but, neat idea.
...have used it on several projects and always gotten good results. Setting it up is easy and the Ruby API is solid, although I needed a tiny bit of additional code for special character escaping. Highly recommended!
...is that it's not progressive. So Joe Sixpack bears a much higher load in proportion to, say, Al Gore. An article by Robert Zubrin pegs this cost as $1800 for a family of four. This on top of a 9.x% unemployment rate. Huh.
Outstanding. That was kind of painful when I upgraded RubyForge to PostgreSQL 8.3; looking forward to a much smaller downtime window for the upgrade to 8.4.
Too bad replication didn't make it in there... maybe in 8.5.
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Here. I think that's why I like twitter. A big company like Rackspace can use it to keep in touch with customers, and the discussion continues through thick and thin. So Rackspace suffers a rare outage, tweets about it, and people have some idea of what's going on... or at least we know they're working on it.
Plus twitter's search functionality works well. 5 minutes into the outage you could seach for "rackspace" and see a bunch of folks confirming that it was down for them too.
> This regulation would hurt the small sustainable ranchers who are > teetering on the edge of being able to compete, while benefiting > the large-scale industry that you abhor.
I sympathize with the author on the decision on what to include in the book... no doubt he cut a fair number of things but still ended up with a prodigious book. Reminds me of the "Java in a Nutshell" books - the last one I bought was almost square.
These days I'm finding more value in books like Rich Bowen's The Definitive Guide to Apache mod_rewrite. These smaller more focused books go digging deep into parts of various utilities that don't Google answers as easily. I can find 100 tutorials on installing Apache, but not so many on using RewriteMap. And they seem to have a longer shelf life; that mod_rewrite book is a couple years old but still very relevant and useful.
> The more I learn about the subject, the more convinced I am that > the ancients were not the unsophisticated primitives that > we often imagine them to be.
It may be that in certain savage tribes the chief is called the Old Man and nobody is allowed to touch his spear or sit on his seat. It may be that in those cases he is surrounded with superstitious and traditional terrors; and it may be that in those cases, for all I know, he is despotic and tyrannical. But there is not a grain of evidence that primitive government was despotic and tyrannical.
I came north on 360 (Hull Street Road) all the way downtown; I was going to the home school convention. The next day I came up 360 but then took 288 South around to 95 N and got off on exit 47, so I dodged most of Hull St Rd.
Most of the boarded up areas were on Hull St Rd on the south side of the bridge.
> The article mentions Baltimore, which makes sense. If you've ever > visited some of the, shall we say, less popular portions of that city, > you'll find block after block of boarded-up rowhouses.
I was just down in Richmond VA this past weekend and saw some of the same - albeit on a smaller scale. Really weird to see what should be primo storefronts boarded up. It'd be especially hard to restart those depressed areas given the current commercial real estate problems.
Really? My original post was about a popular podcast that compares the three rich internet application dev tools mentioned in the article summary. Seemed relevant to me... weird.
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...check out John Keegan's Face of Battle. It covers the battle of Agincourt and several other major battles - Waterloo and the Somme. This book really gives you a feel for the human element in these battles.
As an additional stamp of approval, it's also on both the Army and USMC reading lists.
It's PostgreSQL... but I sympathize with the mixed case confusion and refer you to this Postgres vs PostgreSQL permathread.
Hm, kind of like GitHub in that regard, then. The nice thing about just picking one source code mgmt system is that you can write a good UI specifically for it. Of course, the cost is that folks have to move over from Subversion or whatever.
> if you're approached about investing in this project
> you might want to keep your wallet in your pocket.
Unless your name is Uncle Sam, in which case you raise taxes (or print money, which is the same thing) and hey presto, up go the turbines. For more I refer you to Chris Horner's excellent work Red Hot Lies.
...at least, in that Matz releases a new version at Christmas each year. For example, here's his Christmas post from Dec 2004 for Ruby 1.8.2. Way back when!
> Also oil costs dont factor into the
> cost of physically refueling the ship.
Well said. That includes the time it takes to complete the evolution. Especially underway it's a major pain; running those hoses over and keeping station is no joke. If you could cut the number of UNREPs in half you'd be saving resources all over.
> But the only way how you can remain a creative person
> is by doing it for yourself in the first place.
Right on. I think Jamis Buck did a good thing along those same lines when he announced that he was burned out on Capistrano and would stop maintaining it. There's no reason why he should feel obligated to run himself into the ground sorting out Git-on-Windows bugs; just letting go was the right thing to do.
That's one of the nice things about GitHub - a project owner can just stop working on something and if it's useful, someone else will fork it and pick it up. It's a new dynamic around forking projects, and it seems to work.
...been impressive when compared to Flash? Really? Then why did mlb.com switch from Silverlight to Flash? I remember when they did this - I had unsubscribed because the Silverlight player was such a mess, and I went back and signed up for the rest of the season.
That said, the ability to write Silverlight apps in Ruby is interesting.
> Gee, my methods were different than most: I married a Ukrainian woman.
Hehe, yeah, actually, my wife is Romanian, so all my JavaCC Unicode examples involve s-with-cedilla and stuff like that :-) Buna zuia!
When I was working on my JavaCC book I bought Jukka Korpela's Unicode Explained and it was *extremely* helpful. After reading it I actually felt comfortable using various tools to convert from one encoding to another, discussing multibyte character sets, and so forth. It helped me write the Unicode chapter in my book with some confidence. It was the first time I had used vi to enter Unicode characters... fun times.
That said, it sounds like "CJKV Information Processing" covers some of the same ground. Has anyone read both?
...the book Beautiful Code which was a collection of essays about, well, beautiful code. The chapter "Another Level of Indirection" by Diomidis Spinellis was one of my favorites. There were some misses in there, but overall definitely worth a look.
Another thing - all the author royalties for Beautiful Code were donated to Amnesty International. Not sure if Beautiful Security is the same way, but, neat idea.
...have used it on several projects and always gotten good results. Setting it up is easy and the Ruby API is solid, although I needed a tiny bit of additional code for special character escaping. Highly recommended!
...is that it's not progressive. So Joe Sixpack bears a much higher load in proportion to, say, Al Gore. An article by Robert Zubrin pegs this cost as $1800 for a family of four. This on top of a 9.x% unemployment rate. Huh.
> Upgrade in place is done via pg_migrator
Outstanding. That was kind of painful when I upgraded RubyForge to PostgreSQL 8.3; looking forward to a much smaller downtime window for the upgrade to 8.4.
Too bad replication didn't make it in there... maybe in 8.5.
Here. I think that's why I like twitter. A big company like Rackspace can use it to keep in touch with customers, and the discussion continues through thick and thin. So Rackspace suffers a rare outage, tweets about it, and people have some idea of what's going on... or at least we know they're working on it.
Plus twitter's search functionality works well. 5 minutes into the outage you could seach for "rackspace" and see a bunch of folks confirming that it was down for them too.
> removing the need for foreign oil
Yeah! No more foreign oil, take that, Canada!
> This regulation would hurt the small sustainable ranchers who are
> teetering on the edge of being able to compete, while benefiting
> the large-scale industry that you abhor.
So true! There's an unholy alliance between big business and big government; there's a list of examples in Timothy Carney's latest column. For more of the same, he's also the author of The Big Ripoff: How Big Business and Big Government Steal Your Money.
I sympathize with the author on the decision on what to include in the book... no doubt he cut a fair number of things but still ended up with a prodigious book. Reminds me of the "Java in a Nutshell" books - the last one I bought was almost square.
These days I'm finding more value in books like Rich Bowen's The Definitive Guide to Apache mod_rewrite. These smaller more focused books go digging deep into parts of various utilities that don't Google answers as easily. I can find 100 tutorials on installing Apache, but not so many on using RewriteMap. And they seem to have a longer shelf life; that mod_rewrite book is a couple years old but still very relevant and useful.
> The more I learn about the subject, the more convinced I am that
> the ancients were not the unsophisticated primitives that
> we often imagine them to be.
G. K. Chesterton's The Everlasting Man has some thoughts along the same lines. From this page:
There was an interesting article on Planet Gore discussing the replacement of chlorofluorocarbons with hydrofluorocarbons and the unintended consequences thereof. Basically the HFCs have less effect on the ozone but are a more potent greenhouse gas. Never a dull moment!
Planet Gore has a lot of good stuff about various green quandries, including a fair number of posts by Chris Horner (author of Red Hot Lies).
> Too bad you didn't get a chance to see the beautiful areas north of the river. The next time you're here, give me a shout
Cool, thanks! I grew up down in the sticks (Keysville, VA) so when I was growing up Richmond was The Big City :-)
> What part of the city were you in?
I came north on 360 (Hull Street Road) all the way downtown; I was going to the home school convention. The next day I came up 360 but then took 288 South around to 95 N and got off on exit 47, so I dodged most of Hull St Rd.
Most of the boarded up areas were on Hull St Rd on the south side of the bridge.
> The article mentions Baltimore, which makes sense. If you've ever
> visited some of the, shall we say, less popular portions of that city,
> you'll find block after block of boarded-up rowhouses.
I was just down in Richmond VA this past weekend and saw some of the same - albeit on a smaller scale. Really weird to see what should be primo storefronts boarded up. It'd be especially hard to restart those depressed areas given the current commercial real estate problems.
And miss out on the Brazilian ice wine?
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Really? My original post was about a popular podcast that compares the three rich internet application dev tools mentioned in the article summary. Seemed relevant to me... weird.