timinman

If I'm not mistaken, this is a very thin veneer of science applied to a thick spread of dogma.

1. Test shows that smart subject is smart (capacity to learn, etc).

2. Subject of the test says meditation makes you happy.

3. The author then tries to make science say meditation makes you happy: 'It is not difficult to see why scientists declared Matthieu Ricard the happiest man they had ever tested.'

It's good to remind us to think about the person behind the product.

I have to admit I was hoping the title was a literal description of the article, because that would be a really interesting read.

This was brought on by an unforeseen natural evolution of antivirus software.

1. The software becomes sentient, learns to define, recognize and delete viruses on it's own.

2. The software realizes that by every definition it is itself a virus and must delete itself. :)

My favorite recent ruby drama was rails including Coffeescript by default: https://github.com/rails/rails/compare/9333ca7...23aa7da (You have to scroll down for the images)

This is a stab in the dark, but I’m wondering if you picked ‘off the top of your head’? If so, the odds go way up as subconsciously reading the number may have put it in mind. (If that is the case, the phone hacked you!)

Ha ha! 'More of a reward than a punishment.

Both. I was able to complete the Codecademy Python exercises in a matter of hours, it's just getting your feet wet. LPtHW is more like work, but it will burn it into your brain. Also, start your own project immediately - even if it's just a simple command line program, it will make learning more fun.

Matz, the creator of Ruby talks about why languages matter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ix2DeCzuckc

The basic idea is that the structure of the language determines how you think about the problem and influences what you create.

'Looks nice. I bet it's expensive. If price were a feature, they would have mentioned it.

OK here it is: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimponosx/

Unless I'm missing something, the latest download available on that site is 2.6. I realize it's free software, so it probably is a little cheeky to complain, but it can't be a photoshop alternative if it's not available on OSX. From what I understand, the new GTK broke tablet compatibility for OSX. If anyone knows enough about those issues and the underlying languages and libraries behind GIMP, consider this an invitation to get involved: http://www.gimp.org/develop/

I'm excited about the unified interface and the new transform tool, so here's hoping it is just a couple more days.

The latest release of Gimp (2.8) doesn't even run on OSX. I'd love to use it, but I can't.

It's not loading for me at the moment.

Yes, back up for me now, too. You might want to advise users to change the default password and login, since it's publicly viewable on github.

http://natewienert.com resolves fine, but the link you provided reports: "We're sorry, but something went wrong." :)

This is a fantastic discussion about what God might want (or not want). I am a person of faith, I'm impressed by the respectful tone of many commenters even thought they are obviously from very different backgrounds (rare in online discussions). I think God likes that, too.

If it is Google, why doesn't it look like Google? Why is it 'wesolveforx', and not solveforx.google.com. Why PHP? Why do Whois records say the site belongs to:

Registrant: TBA Global, LLC 535 N. Brand Blvd suite 800 Glendale, CA 91203 US

   Domain Name: THINKBELIEVEACT.COM

Thanks for that. I mistakenly thought it only supported the two listed in the presentation.

Once before starting a biggish app I sat down and wrote my own generators to create controllers with crud actions and views for them.

I definitely love Sinatra, and I'm impressed by the admin interface, but it looks like there's no support for DataMapper as an ORM.

I also wonder if this is just turning Sinatra into Rails. I think for the now I prefer to just build a Sinatra app and add gems and plugins as I need them.

I love the auto-completion.

So great! And then you plussed it with an Easter Egg (418)!

mirror?

I did worry that people might feel I was trying to get free tech support. It's not really a problem I need to fix - I bought another adapter. I posted because though the behaviour seemed illogical to me I figured that there were people who could make sense of it.

Don't forget, there's Hackety Hack http://hackety-hack.com/ and Scratch http://scratch.mit.edu/, two great tools for new programmers to get their feet wet and make something fun in the process!

I loved Hypercard and BASIC too, but this post strikes me as being a little affected by nostalgia.

With Hypercard you could make something for someone who 1) has an Apple, 2) Has Hypercard installed, and 3) Has the right version of Hypercard installed.

With HTML/CSS/Javascript you can make something to run almost anywhere. It's not 'easy' but it is useful.

You did a great job of breaking down the technical complexity, Patrick. You are a good teacher.

"So why did this never show up in development and why did it show up only sporadically in production?" -- I've also run into production bugs that don't manifest in development; your post inspires me to keep as many details as possible in common for the two environments.

... and one ring to RULE THEM ALL!!!!

Hey great job! (And just in time for whyday) Intermediate coders might also want to try this similar site I recently found: http://nathansjslessons.appspot.com/

Seawolf!