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gerds··on (Python) Generator Tricks For Systems Programmer (pdf)
Is there an equivalent in Ruby?
gerds··on Ask HN: Career change advice, should I learn to code
Learn to code. Even if you're not going to be the tech guy at your startup, you'll understand the tech guy much better, you'll be able to hire tech guys more effectively, etc.

Just do Learn Python The Hard Way or anything like that related to your field (C if you're doing hardware).

gerds··on I was at Occupy Los Angeles all day yesterday and would love to answer questions
How would you describe the fit of the people to the following ideologies: libertarian, anarcho-capitalist, left-anarchist, socialist?
gerds··on Winklevoss Twins Pistachio Ad
Haha, funny :)
gerds··on [dead]
What's silverlight?
gerds··on A Better System of Economics in light of technology
Why would I back my claims up with evidence? Those guys should back their claim up, they're making it! I'm the guy who needs to be convinced here.
gerds··on A Better System of Economics in light of technology
yawn, another central planner who doesn't grasp basic economics and knows what everybody should be doing. saying that "short term thinking invalidates economics" is like saying that "low gravity invalidates physics" and claiming that we need "a new system of physics on the moon".

it's called a variable for a reason.

what annoys me most is that all of his ideas have been suggested and disproven before, but these kind of people never even do basic research on that, they just assume that their ideas are unique snowflakes that nobody else could ever come up with.

gerds··on Xkcd and compound interest
yea, big fail.
gerds··on ~80% of Americans Underestimate The Scientific Consensus of Global Warming
Are you suggesting consensus proves anything?
gerds··on Ruby in any input field. Meet Yoke - (Python, Bash, Perl, PHP supported too).
Oh god, this is such a brilliant idea.
gerds··on VimConf
IntelliSense knows the library, omnicompletion just autocompletes similar words in the current file.
gerds··on Check out the new Startup Genome app
Great! Finally there's method to the madness of startups.
gerds··on Ask HN: What are your thoughts of a Perl-based startup?
- higher productivity - better ecosystem - more talent available - code doesn't make people vomit
gerds··on Ask HN: Django or ROR or CakePHP or else should I choose?
RoR

It's not Rails so much, it's Ruby.

gerds··on Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia is Losing Contributors
Because Wikipedia peaked in 2005.