I have now hit my first "wow" moment with Rails, where I actually understood why it has the following it does. It has raised some questions for me about the pedagogy of Rails, but that is not the language's fault; it is a question for the community. Rails is fast . Mind-blowingly fast...
This is a review of "Quantitative Analysis of the Full Bitcoin Transaction Graph" by Dorit Ron and Adi Shamir. There are some incorrect details and analyses that warrant attention. tl;dr (the short version) The Ron/Shamir paper contains provably-false key assumptions. Further, their d...
AbtainLabs is a US based software development company specializing in web-based systems and web applications. We are looking for several programmers on contract to add to our existing Bulgarian team. Description: - Participation in the development and maintenance of long and short-ter...
method is called, those variables are instantiated and your new page is then rendered. All those variables will be present only in your new scope. When you submit the page/form on that page with some action, your create is called. create will only receive the parameters (params) passe...
Patched ruby 1.9.3-p194 for 30% faster rails boot What is? This script installs a patched version of ruby 1.9.3-p194 with patches for boot-time performance improvements (#66 and #68), and runtime performance improvements (#83 and #84). It also includes the new backported GC from ruby-...
