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I wrote one years ago, but I suspect the schema has drifted quite far out of sync: https://github.com/robmiller/ruby-wpdb

Rory Stewart, the speaker here, is a slightly unconventional politician, having in 2002 walked across Afghanistan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rory_Stewart

Vim ships with a command called `view` that will start it in read-only mode, and makes it very much a viewer — not just an editor.

…and Ruby has the PTY module which includes an `expect` method, which is in the same ballpark:

http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.2.0/libdoc/pty/rdoc/PTY.html

mailto: is the same principle and has been around since the 90s.

If you don't want to appear rich or a good robbery target, why buy a Ferrari in the first place? Plenty of other rich people somehow manage to get by without such extravagant displays of wealth.

I'm using MailMate[1], which is a brilliant client developed by the Danish coder Benny Kjaer Nielsen. It has too many neat features to name, but the one I absolutely couldn't live without is the ability to write emails in Markdown.

[1]: http://freron.com/

It's at such a fragile point, though. Monetising a previously entirely free service is risky at any time, but there's lots more risk than usual here (fickleness of audience, existence of competitors, fundamental simplicity of offering).

We've seen plenty of startups fail at this point before; is there anything to suggest Snapchat will beat the odds?

Isn't the problem that, while the house may cost $30,000, the land on which it would have to reside will inevitably cost far more than that?

Did pg really invent backend web development?

Mean, surely?

Ruby is gradually adding the ability to monkey patch without polluting the global scope via Refinements:

http://timelessrepo.com/refinements-in-ruby

You don't need to take the brain-space — use a password manager like 1Password or LastPass, plus a YubiKey for two-factor auth, and you can use unique passwords everywhere.

Such as doctors who are further on in their careers — it's actually rather a nice system, where those who have been lucky enough to be successful can help out those who need it, and all benefit.

Personal, with Hyperoptic. It's £60/month, but that includes a phone service.

Youth Defence are, in case anyone doesn't know and given that the defacement is now gone, a fairly unpleasant, far-right, anti-abortion group in Ireland:

http://www.conorfarrell.com/wordpress/social-issues/the-prob... http://www.politicalworld.org/showthread.php?14529-Youth-Def...