Submission + - Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career (kalzumeus.com) 1
icke writes: Been a few questions around this recently. Some interesting advice.
Comment Please everyone test a restore (Score 1) 499
Pick a random picture or a video and test that you can recover it. You will be amazed how few people do this. I have seen people backing up "pictures" only to find that the photo album software was storing them in c:\Windows\App.... .Regardless of media or service you use, please, please, please test it every once in a while. April fool's day task?
The State of Ruby VMs — Ruby Renaissance 89
igrigorik writes "In the short span of just a couple of years, the Ruby VM space has evolved to more than just a handful of choices: MRI, JRuby, IronRuby, MacRuby, Rubinius, MagLev, REE and BlueRuby. Four of these VMs will hit 1.0 status in the upcoming year and will open up entirely new possibilities for the language — Mac apps via MacRuby, Ruby in the browser via Silverlight, object persistence via Smalltalk VM, and so forth. This article takes a detailed look at the past year, the progress of each project, and where the community is heading. It's an exciting time to be a Rubyist."
Comment Taleb's explanation of the Narrative Fallacy (Score 4, Informative) 361
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassim_Taleb
"Narrative fallacy: creating a story post-hoc so that an event will seem to have an identifiable cause."
