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I'm putting in my vote for Learn C the hard way. If I need to buy this book to support that, I will.

See, this is where you've blown your cover and have shown yourself as a troll. What you're saying is that hijackers can only be passengers and therefore these security measures are good and getting better. There are so many loopholes as yet unclosed that further molesting passengers, and this now can be qualified as molestation, is a diminishing returns.

Someone else here said and I agree, this is really starting to feel like more overt discouragement from air travel. It's almost as if the TSA has decided that the best way to stop hijacking and bombing of passenger planes is to eliminate passenger planes altogether. I sure as hell will not want to travel to the US by air anymore.

This is one of the sources of the appeal of Balkans for "foreigners" and one of the sources of frustration and despair for the Balkan people themselves.

We never dealt with these issues in any way whatsoever. As is the cultural norm of all of the Balkan people, shit that we don't want to deal with is pushed away, compartmentalized and annotated (for future ammunition against those who have caused the atrocities). This left the entire region susceptible to manipulation by those who wished to tear the region apart. A lot of anger has built up during the 50 years between Jasenovac and the wars of the 90s.

(Full disclosure, I'm a Bosnian Serb, as well)

Well, that's because bank and medical software usually falls under the "enterprise" umbrella. So, while you may be right that a lot of enterprise software is terrible, there are projects in said enterprises that work great and for which people developing them care a lot. You generalized, so he/she struck back with a general statement.

If it's not enforceable, why the hell is it granted? That's total bullshit, seriously.

The most disappointing thing about this post is the fact that we're supposed to be preaching "use the best tool for the job" to the young ones. And here is someone that anyone interested in database technologies has heard about and is regarded as an expert denouncing a whole slew of potential database solutions based on the opinion of one person.

And ACM publishes it!

Hmm, good article, but I think it does more to expose Microsoft's inability or unwillingness to integrate F# into the .Net platform the way C# is.

He had to create a C# web project, as Visual Studio doesn't support that for F#. He had to create a C# LINQ-to-SQL project to generate model classes as there's no support to do so in F#.

This saddens me greatly. Here is a potentially great language in the .Net ecosystem and the support for the most basic of things is missing.

I like it, nice and clean.

I wonder if this is the full transcript. Assange comes off as a real douche here.

Sure, he's concerned about the leak to Newsweek, but he also completely and totally disregards questions and comments from the other Domscheit-Berg.

If this is the real transcript, Wikileaks is done for.

And any grey suit that deals with the web knows about YellowPages.com which is a Rails site, as is newyorkjets.com.

Google is a compelling argument, no doubt, but if the biz dudes are open to switching from a "traditional" language/framework such as Java/J2EE or .Net, there are other "established" players that use Ruby.

Please don't take this as defending Ruby, the best tool for the job should win out. If the team proposing Python is well-versed in Python, that's what they should go with. But saying that Python is a better bet than Ruby, because Google embraces it is a bit of a strawman.

Business continuity applies only if we're talking about Java vs Ruby/Python/etc.

If the choice is between Ruby and Python and Clojure and any of the "esoteric" languages as far as enterprises are concerned, that's a red herring.

That's what I feel. Not only do they have an impossible deadline to hit right now, but the deadline they did hit was probably impossible as well.

They may have spent most of the summer architecting this thing and figuring out things like "seeds". When it came down to putting code on screen, as it were, they had minimal time to do so. All of these security issues feel like the release was rushed and that they might have been better off releasing it silently, without a way to deploy public nodes, and having a blog post explaining the situation.

I'm sorry, but I don't agree. There is no reason why my customers need to know in what language the solution is developed in.

Besides, Ruby powers many highly visible websites and web apps. If I'd be losing a sale because I develop in Ruby and NOT Python, chances are I don't want that sale in the first place.

As I mentioned to you on Twitter, I'd love to see a demonstration of some common sites as they're being read by a screen reader. If you can include examples of good ones AND bad ones, that'd be great.

I think that a lot of web devs will feel much differently about accessibility once they hear the painful experience of a screen reader going through a poorly marked-up site.

He gets downvoted anyway, simply for the backhanded compliment he just served up.

Not necessarily and I think it's one of those phrases open to interpretation.

IMO, second system effect is doing everything you've done bigger and better while fixing the problems in the first system. It wasn't tied to the elegance of the first system design, at least in my mind.

I might be coming off as naive here, but the minute I saw this: "searching for a business model", I got my skepticism on.

Why is this startup searching for a business model? Shouldn't you start with that and build your company around it?

Again, apologies if this is a naive POV.

The thing is that they had a hard upper limit on how many clients connected and they wouldn't allow any more past that limit. That kinda makes it less impressive, IMO.

Cool podcast. I'm liking this trend of publishing content aimed a non-newbie programmers.

This is going into my RSS feeds.

Full disclosure: I love MongoDB and use it in a few projects.

Having said that, I must ask. Do the "unchecked" writes, configurable fsyncs and multi-node writes exist in the currently stable version of MongoDB or are these features still in alpha or beta?

While I do disagree with the article, he clearly pointed at the current version of Mongo.

If it is within the borders, it's just so, not by much. Also, legalities aside, this is unethical business behaviour and I wouldn't want to be associated with it in any shape or form.

But, hey, maybe there's no such thing as bad publicity.

Agreed, but for one thing. He IS NOT an asshole, not in real life. He's actually super-nice. Online he has the asshole persona, but that's it.

Hold up, there is something wrong here. Yes, he did set up the page as "just a fan". However, this page has been in existence for a few years and it's a page that got really popular. So, Facebook only "enforces" their ToS when there's enough popularity there to "monetize". It's bullshit and it needs to be publicized as much as possible.

Fun, especially since Bosnia was in a war not too long ago. Thankfully, all of my family is out of that godforsaken country.

As I've said in another reply, what if you write Ruby and Rails code, yet it's closed source or protected by an NDA? You could be a better programmer than most of the open source guys, yet no one would ever know.

I fully agree with the closed-source part. I've written tons of Ruby and Rails code for a company who is protecting their IP, so there's no way for me to say "Hey, I've written this and you might like it and use it". This, however, seems to be a requirement of the small startups.

It gets really frustrating, because the interview will be so much harder.

Are you kidding? Some corp poisons a whole lot of people, a law firm tries to gag a news organization and thereby rights to free speech and all you can muster is "Meh"?

Come on, now.

I agree. Digg may have started with a small amount of money, but they keep raising VC funds, in the millions, to keep it running.

This is Dvorak at his best, link-baiting, self.

Wouldn't the last pick be a form of type-casting? ;-)

If there was no interest from TechCrunch or other "news" sites about this information, the dude would not have his 15 minutes of fame. Arrington's decision to pass on stolen documents is at best highly unethical and at worst criminal.

It's unfortunate that TechCrunch has been blinded with greed and famewhoring enough to not see this.