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Re: on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @09:35AM (#7473193)
Wow how can you not be impressed by an explanation of these hard concepts that includes Zombies & Lady Gaga?
Re:Bob's wife Carla lends a speedy mind on Tuesday April 16, 2013 @09:07AM (#5557795)
I loved this series thanks for writing it.
Re:Hacker Workspaces on Friday June 15, 2012 @03:04PM (#4118091)
I love the way you can drag and drop an image into a protip. Its a really nice user experience and also something I didn't know you could do technically.
Re:Why Bundler 1.1 will be much faster on Monday October 17, 2011 @11:41AM (#3120917)
There's another HN thread that says "Ruby's Marshal library is not quite as blatantly insecure as pickle..." http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=813306.
Re:Why Bundler 1.1 will be much faster on Monday October 17, 2011 @11:05AM (#3120744)
I suspect its a question of server resources. Dependency analysis is bundler's job and its better to let thousands of cpus run the algorithm. This leaves rubygems.org to simply service simple queries quickly without much load even though it means there will be many queries as part of each bundle.