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The best part of it is that it is generally non-violent. The last real fight I had was the month before I started wrestling. Every other "fight" after that consisted of them throwing a punch and then me getting them into a headlock until they cooled off and backed down. No bloody noses.

I'd consider it perfect for anyone seeking real, effective methods of self defense- especially in school, where even if you fight back and end up breaking a nose you can be punished.

> Acronym: this is a word, like radar or NATO, not a set of initials, like the BBC or the IMF.

Wikipedia:

> In 1943, Bell Laboratories coined the term acronym as the name for a word (such as SONAR) created from the first letters of each word in a series of words (such as SOund Navigation And Ranging). The terms initialism and alphabetism are neither widely used nor widely known. The term acronym is widely used to describe any abbreviation formed from initial letters.

First off, the word was created by a corporation; secondly, the term is widely used and understood to apply to words like "BBC" ("Three Letter Acronym"); thirdly, the "correct" alternative is not widely used or understood. So if you use the correct terms your communication would actually be less clear, which is, as I understand, the point of studying grammar/linguistics in the first place.

For more on this exciting subject, see David Foster Wallace's excellent "Democracy, English, and the Wars over Usage":

http://instruct.westvalley.edu/lafave/DFW_present_tense.html

> they're obviously keeping track of the keys internally in an array to support the ordered hashes.

Which means that they can return them in an O(1) operation, but they choose not to for some reason.

Edit: I'm wrong- I just remembered why they can't return them, and it is because they're not storing the keys in an array. D'oh. They're using a doubly-linked list. So to return a list of keys you'd need to walk the linked list- an O(n) operation.

See: http://www.igvita.com/2009/02/04/ruby-19-internals-ordered-h... for more info.

  myhash[myhash.keys.rand]

I'm still not sure why getting a random key is particularly useful, but the real problem is that getting the keys of a hash should be an O(1) operation, instead of an O(n) one.

"...automated test suite saved the client 117 days of manual effort per testing cycle."

Sure, it takes more time to construct any given feature with unit tests versus a completely untested solution. However, any time you need to change the code, add a feature, or change something it interacts with, you are saving an incredible amount of time both in testing and the prevention of bugs discovered in production.

I really don't understand how, in the long run, automated testing can't save you time. If you don't think so, you obviously haven't maintained any software.

The asinine thing about this is that unit testing saves a massive amount of time in the long run. In the short run, even, it saves time.

You're really shooting yourself in the foot.

After you get used to it, you can do it by yourself, but starting out I find it better to do it along with a recording. I have rhapsody, so I use the tracks on this album. Both of them are good, but I think the progressive one is better.

http://www.rhapsody.com/phd-edward-a-charlesworth/relaxation...

If you don't have rhapsody, you can listen to them with the trial, or maybe try to get them from iTunes or Amazon or something.

You say that like it's a bad thing.

I have no idea whether they're good or not, but they're profitable and he's a nice guy. Worth a try!

I can't think of any tools, short of some kind of WYSIWYG tool, which I don't think they have the resources to create.

They already tried consulting, using their product with all of their clients. That has failed.

I think they're banking on support, but haven't all successful support-backed open source companies started out as projects first, and THEN were turned into companies? Is it feasible to put the cart before the horse when trying to make money from an open source framework? (Adobe, Microsoft, et al can do this because they have massive amounts of money- far more than 4.1M)

I'm not trying to bash them or be antagonistic- I honestly want to know how something like this can make money.

Adobe has more resources and a significant head start. My money is on AIR.

(Full disclosure: I'm biased- Appcelerator recently laid off 3 of my good friends)

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/Caching/...

Removing them with a cron task is usually the worst way to solve this problem. Using the expire_page method is the correct solution when the updates are being done as a result of a user's action (updating/deleting/creating a record). The problem here was that they weren't being done by a user, but automatically by the system.

Other than that, if you hire an experienced PR person and booking agent, it is pretty much the same as a record label.

The good part about it is that each member gets an equity stake, and people who are not performers, but also help out the band (guy at merch table, managers, website guy, recording engineer, etc) can get equity stakes as well. That way, everyone is invested in making the best product possible, and sees a tangible return when things start selling.

The bad part was that it was hard to explain retained capital to a drummer. As soon as the band started to turn a profit, people wanted their money out of it. It was impossible to convince them that the money would be better spent marketing the band so that they could sell even more albums/t-shirts.

I wonder if this is something specific to Zoho, or if they're taking an anticompetitive stance in general.

..with bright yellow recesses and red knobs all over the place.

The Thinkpad looks like a sexy lady in a black dress, but one who took meth for 10 years and is now sickly and diseased.

Although I doubt the Cappucino version was written with line count in mind.

When you do pushups (if you do them right), you exercise your triceps, shoulders, biceps, back muscles, and your pectorals all in one go.

Calisthenics are amazing and completely underutilized in today's gym-heavy environment. Did you notice that the military doesn't use gym equipment at all? Ever wonder why?

There's kind of a sweet spot in there- less than $35 an hour, you know they're amateur and you feel like you're getting substandard service. Much more than $100 an hour and you know you're getting fleeced.

No painter would give an estimate for painting a house, sight unseen, with only vague descriptors. But yet that's exactly what fixed-bid contracting is for software development.

I'm fairly confident that it did. Once you've really learned it, Ruby creates paths in your brain that you will try to follow forever, even if you're not coding in Ruby anymore.

If it didn't, then you never gave Ruby a real chance.

Even if you spend a month learning Ruby and never use it again, it will still irrevocably change the way you approach writing code.

It is about how the language makes you feel. If you're going to be spending >5 hours a day writing in some language, it is of great importance how that language makes you feel when you write it. Simply said, writing Ruby makes me happier than I've ever been while writing code.

Python is to German as Ruby is to French. You can get roughly the same message across equally well in both languages, but French just sounds so much better.