I saw this article on formatting ruby code for blogs. Nice article, but the code is Linux/KDE-specific. Also, OS X threw an error about the order of the require statements. Being that I use OS X (and so should you) I needed to make a couple of changes to the code that [...]
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Here’s a fun article on the Ruby Forum where someone provided a simple benchmarking utility. Several posters (including me) have run this to see how well Ruby runs on their system relative to other posters.
n = 1_000_000
start_time = Time.now
for i in 1..n
t = (1..10).inject {|x, y| x + y }
end
finish_time = [...]
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So here’s the latest conversation coming from a restaurant in Cupertino – take it for what it’s worth. With the release of Leopard, Apple is going to change the iMac to include a second drive bay. If you purchase Apple Procare with your iMac, you can also purchase a second drive and Vista and Apple will [...]
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So I was looking for a native-OS X BitTorrent client when I came across XTorrent. I hadn’t heard of it, but I decided to check it out. After registering it I found a message about this on a webboard I use. Apparently I wasted my money – please don’t do to same.
To [...]
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Airline sacrifices goats to appease sky god
KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Officials at Nepal’s state-run airline have sacrificed two goats to appease Akash Bhairab, the Hindu sky god, following technical problems with one of its Boeing 757 aircraft, the carrier said Tuesday.
Link to article here.
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Chris Pirillo’s website has a great breakdown of Leopard vs Vista where he shows overall why Leopard is a better OS than vista.
Mac OS X Leopard vs Microsoft Windows Vista
While the article IS interesting what really caught me off guard was this comment from one of his readers:
Don Mitchell – September 1, 2007 @ 11:01 [...]
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