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Money well spent, I'm sure!

I'm pretty sure that's, by definition, untrue. Unless people are never mis-diagnosed with rare conditions, which is patently false.

I'm not active in the field right now, so I can't give specifics (the comment was more borne out of frustration with people putting in so much effort 'reinventing the wheel' in an academic sense).

But if I was you, I'd start with Knuth (he, as another commenter mentioned, covers hashes in great detail), head to the references, and then use Google Scholar to find well-cited recent articles that reference the important papers mentioned there.

Why don't I see any mentions of the latest research? There are people out there that do this for a living people!

Yeah, one day it might be OK, but I think today we need to be a bit careful..

Oh, sure, learning it is pretty trivial if you know CSS. But there are a lot of hidden things, like cutting + pasting snippets of code from the Text Editor to/from the browser/jsfiddle/wherever, providing code samples on Stack Overflow, etc etc etc etc.

I think they made the right call when they went SASS -> SCSS for these kind of reasons. I know that coverting CSS blocks into the equivalent SASS was one of my least favourite things :)

Yeah, I've been told it falls under the standard AppleCare warranty if this happens to anyone. (Likewise with fraying of charger cords).

Personally, I don't see why it's "your fault". I've seen it happen many times, all you need to do is let your computer drain completely and leave it for a few days (not months as some people have stated in this post). Although I'm sure it says something about it in the manual somewhere, it's hardly common knowledge that this is something you need to be careful of.

I guess the thing for me is that my HTML is usually simple enough that there isn't significant time spent writing it.

So I can see there could be productivity gains, but I don't see they would be sufficient to justify the technical debt in introducing a new syntax.

This reminds me of HAML. I've never really seen the benefit of adding a layer that doesn't really add much onto something that is well-known and thus easily maintainable.

Performance benefits seem mostly irrelevant, as pointed out by others.

I've been wondering the same thing about CSS recently. With the advent of SCSS and other CSS preprocessors our CSS files are blowing out of late, and I am starting to worry about parsing time.

Does anyone have any good sources on a) caching of CSS parse trees b) what the latest thinking is on CSS file size, # of selectors, complexity of selectors for page load times.

Thinking of writing something about this myself but I am wondering what's out there.

This doesn't actually mean that the software isn't the major thing that makes apple great though. Just because you find it frustrating doesn't mean the 99% of 'average' users don't find it vastly superior, usually without even realising it.

Nah, that's totally not true. My Italian friend came over for a month or so to visit his girlfriend, was a bit evasive for some reason for some questions, and got some pretty bad treatment.

As someone else noted, it's a technique they use to try and unsettle you. Not that I necessarily agree with it, or like it, but at least there is a reason for it.

Agreed. Although discovery isn't just an issue in the film industry; I think it's going to happen everywhere as small scale producers attain the ability to produce great content/products/whatever and the market becomes more flooded with choices than ever before.

Here's a article that goes into this: http://bindle.me/blog/index.php/170/chances-of-discovery-one...

I always figured why not pay someone else to deal with these problems? Not that I end up paying Heroku very much at our current scale.

Sure there might be an in-between period where we are doing a large amount of traffic on Heroku + paying too much for it, but by then we will be able to afford to hire someone who can set us up properly + at the right price. Either way, I avoid wasting time configuring servers!

Did anyone else thing that the fact that he needed to do

        cache.set_user(user, id=user.id, username=user.username)

twice in his improved solution a bit of a giant red flag?

Hey thanks. I'm glad you like it.

Oh, in his defence, I just added that.

That's fair about Go. The last 3 were a bit random, I was just trying to get a bit more variety in there beyond the more mainstream stuff. I realise that Go isn't really used by anyone, but it has had a bit of airtime simply due to it being a Google tech (not to mention the authors). I guess I mean hottest in the sense of most interesting to people.

Yeah, good point. Personally I use Redis so I am tempted to add it just because I'll have something to say about it. Although my gut tells me that Mongo might be the 'hot' technology---seems to be popping up a lot of late.

Yeah, but someone in the store might be able to outline the pros and cons..

Oh god, don't talk about it.

Hey guys, just made a little Bindle of some of the choices you've made, for those of you who like a more visual perspective: http://bindle.me/bindles/298.

My contribution:

"Devices and Desires" by KJ Parker: An interesting fantasy book that is centered around an engineer---his unique take on complex human situations might appeal to the more analytical amongst us.

Sure; no, I've seen the same kinds of problems.

If you are interested, I posted in the comments to this gist (https://gist.github.com/1184843#gistcomment-65875) some changes that we made to our SASS files to markedly increase the compile time.

For us it went from (depending on the machine) something like 40s down to a <5 seconds which was a massive improvement (CSS development was almost impossible for a while there).

Can you be more specific? Are you talking about rails startup time or SASS compilation? Or something else?

Hey, Tom here, co-founder of Bindle (http://bindle.me)..

I'm based in Melbourne---the other founder is in SF. Happy to catch up whenever/however. tom _at_ percolatestudio.com

Well, exactly.

There are plenty of places in the world that are as corrupt or more corrupt than Mexico which don't have the same levels of violence.

I think you are conflating two things here.

@potatolicious is comparing the experience of a tasty meal to the experience of love/happiness/whatever, and saying that it doesn't matter what the underlying cause of it is, it's the experience that matters. I think it's a reasonable point.

You're saying that the experience could be 'fake' because it's based on a fake stimulus. Just in the same way that a loving experience is could be based on a fake interaction by someone else (say a psychopath).

But from /your/ perspective, is there a difference in the experience between the fake and the real? If the inputs are the same, the experience is the same, whether they are triggered by chemicals or some kind of higher-level mental state that we can't adequately explain via chemistry or biology.

The OP seems to be denigrating the human experience based on the chemical 'fakery'/self-deception involved. But that's a different kind of fake--that's your body 'faking' it. [And I totally disagree with that by the way; I agree completely with @potatolicious].

> Also, we have social welfare, stated sponsored medical attention, and decent education systems in the US. Where did you get the idea we lack these things?

As an Australian who has spent a fair amount of time in the states I would argue with those points. Sure, you have those things, (not sure about 'decent' education system) but they certainly don't function as efficiently as ours do, as far as I can tell..

You don't seriously think the male unconscious mind is that rational do you?

Wow. I use apple wireless keyboard. For a moment there I was really impressed :)