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http://engineering.appfolio.com/appfolio-engineering/2015/11...
> At RubyConf 2015 in San Antonio, Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto announced Ruby 3x3. The goal of Ruby 3x3 is to make Ruby 3 be 3 times faster than Ruby 2.
http://support.bitly.com/knowledgebase/articles/136551-can-i...
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/05/brazilian-judge-b...
Just my two cents: I think that the interface and features are excellent and a joy to use, but performance was a show-stopper that forced me to quit using the Beta for Rails-application development:
- a simple request that took ~1/3 of a second using VirtualBox and Docker Machine took six seconds on Docker for Mac - a more complex request went from one second to twelve seconds
I didn't have a chance to dig into it, but I would guess that it has something to do w/ osxfs and the many files that Rails loads, as it reminded me of the difference between using sharing files via VirtualBox's own file sharing vs. NFS, the latter being a significant improvement.
And yet planes fly through clouds and rain at several hundred mph without issue, though the same wouldn't be said about flying through concrete...
The issue here is relative hardness. Bone is relatively soft to titanium turbine blades, whereas screws and titanium turbine blades are in the same ballpark of hardness, so are catastrophic when they meet when spinning @ several thousand rpm...
> [1] “New” meaning redesigned, I expect Apple to continue selling the MacBook Air and wouldn’t bet against a CPU upgrades.
- Empty New Tab Page, https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/empty-new-tab-page...
- Google Art Project, https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-art-project...
Correction: not CEO, "Founder, CTO and Chief Product Officer"
However, the MiG-25 was an interceptor, primarily of the SR-71, so it didn't have the maneuverability of a fighter, but could approach the speed and service ceiling of an SR-71. The West didn't realize this until Victor Belenko defected w/ a MiG-25 in 1976, well after the F-15 had been designed. Belenko's biography is a good insight into the MiG-25 and Soviet life, or @ least that's my recollection from reading it as a teenager.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-25
http://www.amazon.com/Mig-Pilot-Final-Escape-Belenko/dp/0380...
> The FBI has agreed to help prosecutors gain access to an iPhone 6 and an iPod that might hold evidence in an Arkansas murder trial, just days after the agency managed to hack an iPhone linked to the San Bernardino terror attacks, a local prosecutor said Wednesday.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-arkansas-fbi-pho...
Isn't that 5S or later? Touch ID and Secure Enclave were introduced w/ the 5S model.
Wouldn't that be perjury?
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2778264-Apple-Status...
> President Ronald Reagan watched the film several days before its screening, on November 5, 1983. He wrote in his diary that the film was "very effective and left me greatly depressed," and that it changed his mind on the prevailing policy on a "nuclear war". The film was also screened for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. A government advisor who attended the screening, a friend of Meyer's, told him "If you wanted to draw blood, you did it. Those guys sat there like they were turned to stone." Four years later, the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty was signed and in Reagan's memoirs he drew a direct line from the film to the signing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After#Effects_on_polic...