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Absolutely. At Other Machine Co., (https://othermachine.co/) our volumes just aren't big enough to go to Shenzhen yet. Not to mention the fact that the upfront costs require significant upfront capital investments. That's why we make a product that lets companies (including our own) prototype PCBs and other parts themselves.

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Not evil, as far as I know. They have some great single origins, but I'm less excited about their blends.

Now I know I'm not the only Ruby developer in the coffee industry!

I buy a lot of tickets on United's website (formerly Continental's), and it isn't a great experience – but the idea that this list is the flight's passenger manifest just doesn't make sense to me.

The screenshot shows the point in the ticketing workflow where you give the name (and basic TSA-required details) of the passenger purchasing the ticket. If you're logged in to the website, you can add as many passengers as you want to your account, which might be handy if you purchase tickets for your family or for coworkers. My guess would be that somehow the session got into an incorrect state and is showing the passengers from one or more other accounts.

Also, the form is the same whether you're booking a one-way flight with one manifest, or a roundtrip with many connections where each flight has a unique manifest. I don't understand how the system would be able to deal with these diverse sets of data.

USAA's iPhone check deposit works great. It take about two minutes total to take the photos and submit a check – and have the balance available in my account. The one time I mistyped a number took a 10-minute call to resolve. USAA's website and app could use some UI improvements, but the functionality is there.

You do have to have some sort of military connection to become a member of USAA. Link: https://www.usaa.com/inet/pages/pub_eligibility_task_entry

Grape (https://github.com/intridea/grape) is another great option for building APIs in Ruby.

The title here is misleading. According to the graphic, Bill and Melinda Gates' net worth, $59 billion, is $2 billion more than the US budget for foreign aid. They have given away $28 billion, 48% of their net worth.

I'm just as interested in knowing what happened after the upgrade. How's performance on 2.3 vs. 3.0? Are there plans to upgrade to 3.1 anytime soon? Has using 3.0 increased developer or ops productivity in any measurable way?

My servers (on Engine Yard) were down for a few minutes but appear to be back up again.

Even though Japanese is traditionally written vertically, right to left, modern Japanese is just as valid written horizontally, top down. Latin characters are never written vertically – so code wouldn't be either.

Bundler allows you to do the same thing from a bundled environment with:

bundle open <gem>