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Friday, December 10, 2010

My Christmas wishlist - redcar and desktop Linux

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Who would have thought my blog would be so high on OSX vs Linux . Well, this subject never gets old, so here's another instalment. Fo...
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Blogging about Robin Hanson is not about blogging about Robin Hanson

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This post is a semi-confession, and the difference between "I find X" statements and "X" statements is significant. W...
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Saturday, September 25, 2010

Neolithic Counter-Revolution in Diet

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All people have silly things to feel proud of, like their country or their soccer team - one unusual thing I feel very proud of myself is ...
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Tuesday, July 20, 2010

We need syntax for talking about Ruby types

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All this is about discussing types in blog posts, documentation etc. None of that goes anywhere near actual code (except possibly in commen...
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Sunday, July 18, 2010

If only Ruby had macros

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Blogger will most likely totally destroy code formatting again, sorry about that. Ruby annoys me a lot - the code gets so close to bein...
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Saturday, July 17, 2010

Ruby is now more popular than C++

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There are many ways to measure popularity, and I'll take one proposed by creator of C++ Bjarne Stroustrup. According to him there are ...
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Another example of Ruby being awesome - %W

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And there I was thinking I knew everything about Ruby, at least as far as its syntax goes... As you might have figured out from my previo...
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Friday, July 16, 2010

Arrays are not integer-indexed Hashes

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We use a separate Array type even though Ruby Hash es can be indexed by integers perfectly well (unlike Perl hashes which implicitly conve...
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