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I think the theory is that once you've fully slept off your sleep debt (which I've heard can be up to 40 hours) you are no longer able to sleep much more than your natural sleep requirement, bored or not.

I wonder if it has to be on your lap or some surface that has some give for the accelerometer to properly pick up how hard you tap.

Yeah, but the post is questioning the point of changing every page to an ajax call.

But part of the thrill would be the possibility of the million.

It's not the same, because with someone's password you can completely lock them out of their account instead of just acting as them.

It's nice if you move your laptop around a bunch. You can carry it in open position with one hand without your wrist getting tired.

Same problem here.

Google cache for those unfamiliar with the startup:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?hl=en&q=cac...

It redirects those urls so you can't access them from your computer. It's the simplest way to block a site.

Sure, this example is bad, but can you really not see the value of an abstraction based on the behavior of the kind of block of code that is attached to an if or for statement?

In countries where unlimited data plans are rare, it could save people money on data charges.

Wouldn't that mean the expansion of the universe is being caused by addition of mass? Would we be able to tell if our universe was getting 'heavier'?

Every time I vote up a comment the page reloads and starts at the top.

No, it's just slow motion. To make eternity seem longer.

In the "removing small frustrations" category: getting a second power cord for my laptop. It makes me happy twice a day when I don't have to fish my cord out to bring it to work/home.

Oddly, I actually learned some stuff from reading this, 'cause it made me look up Shenzhen and Jony Ive.

I like that you can just throw the helpers into Sinatra, it looks like a good set.

http://www.padrinorb.com/guides/standalone-usage-in-sinatra#...

Stack Overflow made everyone's profile pics into unicorns. It was the only one that got me today, 'cause I just noticed my own at first.

This was an excellent episode of a great show. Highly recommended listening.

The software apparently lets your computer tell you how much charge the batteries have.

Facebook makes it very easy for everyone. As a developer, there is a place in the Facebook Connect settings to put a url that they will send the user's id to in the event that the user disables their Facebook account but wants to keep their account with your site.

Not to mention the credit card fees, which is what actually funds the miles.

You didn't address the point of the article: Ruby is optimized for the common case. Yes, I too like the idea of how pure Python's approach is, but look at your code; you are mostly writing methods. They should be primitive. Ruby gets a little messy, but it does it for you, so you can write cleaner code.

As for those four types, methods are one of the central pillars of Ruby, they are more than functions and they deserve their own type. Blocks are not a type, that's a common confusion. Lambdas are just what you'd expect, and more powerful than Python lambdas. Procs are there to support block syntax, again for convenience in the common use case, because if you used lambdas for blocks you wouldn't be able to return out of a method while inside a block such as a loop.

Ah phi, the most irrational number.

The trick is to try to recognize the patterns in the errors he is making. It is remarkable how every one of the problems he raises has made a company or organization that solved it very successful.

The article could be replaced by the sentence: "Make sure you know about filters before using haml for content."

Filters aren't a "workaround," they are the part of the language for handling content.

http://haml-lang.com/docs/yardoc/file.HAML_REFERENCE.html#fi...

The readme also says:

You don't have to sudo

It's up to you

The article says not to hash shared secrets, it does not argue against hashing passwords (with salts).

http://umbrellatoday.com/ is similar and you can get text messages in the morning when rain is forcasted.

Wow, I hadn't noticed Menlo, thanks. I've been using Bitstream Vera Sans Mono for a while but I don't like how faint the hyphen is with anti-aliasing when I'm coding in haml – a problem that Menlo fixes.