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Re:Programmers Need To Learn Statistics or I Will Kill Them ... by tx on Thursday August 30, 2007 @02:13AM (#48152)
Is this guy hacking device drivers? OpenGl? Maybe he's tweaking the last bit of sweat out of microsoft's C++ compiler? No...he's clearly doing CRUD work

This guy wrote Mongrel, which is a very solid HTTP server - the most common way to deploy Ruby applications these days. Also he was one of the guys on ruby-lang who discovered nasty bugs in Ruby's threading implementation (everybody else just preferred bitching about "unreliable" Ruby threads and memory leaks)

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Re:Programmers Need To Learn Statistics or I Will Kill Them ... by mynameishere on Thursday August 30, 2007 @02:33AM (#48157)
Great. An a-hole with credentials.

Still, he's clearly doing CRUD work in the provided example. It's not my fault that he wasn't on the list, but to show I'm a good sport I added him:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programmers#S

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Re:Programmers Need To Learn Statistics or I Will Kill Them ... by jamesbritt on Friday August 31, 2007 @02:53AM (#48614)
> the most common way to deploy Ruby applications these days

Say what? Are you sure you aren't conflating Ruby with Rails?

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Re:Programmers Need To Learn Statistics or I Will Kill Them ... by tx on Friday August 31, 2007 @02:32PM (#48842)
No I am not. You can use mongrel with any framework you want.
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Re:Programmers Need To Learn Statistics or I Will Kill Them ... by jamesbritt on Monday September 03, 2007 @03:38PM (#49751)
Framework?

Not every Ruby app is a Web app. I've written dozens of Ruby apps, but only some of them run on the Web.

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