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Cringley doesn't seem to have much of a track record with these predictions of his

This guy is a tool - yes, let's all live our lives in the most bland utilitarian manner. Friends are just an investment, so if your current ones enjoy drinking at all, just get rid of them and invest in new ones

I also enjoyed his 'art of talking to strangers', which was solely about picking up chicks

My mental image of him is something like: http://blogs.pitch.com/plog/ellis.jpg

I thought it was pretty impressive that a flight simulator in 1966 was accurate enough to replicate a real-world engineering failure in extreme conditions. What language/systems were being used back then?

No that's completely wrong. ActiveRecord will initialize getter/setter methods for all fields in your db table, and when you use those methods ruby knows they aren't local variables. So all three of the code snippets will produce the same output (although they're not equivalent)

OK, now put your classes in a namespace

I'm not sure what this guy is talking about, and I don't think he is either

nginx also deserves credit, it's an amazing little webserver