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computing

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Better Line Numbering in emacs

Earlier this year while pairing with Julio Maia, an unashamed vim user, I noticed that the line numbers didn’t count from the top of the file in his editor. Instead,...

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Patterns for Bundler and rvm

A couple of long standing problems in the world of Ruby have been dealing with all the gems that are so easy to toss into your project and the differences...

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Why WikiLeaks Matters

Much, but refreshingly not all, of the arguments about WikiLeaks have focussed on whether or not WikiLeaks was right to leak those diplomatic cables. Do governments have the right to...

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Toys, Tools & Petrie Dishes

In my opinion there are three kinds of programming language. Toys: Languages that were designed by one person to scratch an itch or serve particular purpose, no more. Ruby was...

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Links in Tweets

There is currently some discussion about the dangers of URL shorteners. Joshua Schachter points out that shortened URLs damage the web - the ‘hypertext as engine of application state’ part...

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