Evolving Rails: Retaining Backward Compatibility

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Godwin's law, as explained in The Economist magazine: "A good rule in most discussions is that the first person to call the other a Nazi automatically loses the argument."

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Yehuda makes an excellent case for the syntactic elegance of Ruby with respect to metaprogramming. Many features of Rails take advantage of this to add dynamic behavior to classes. While I'm sure that Rails could be implemented in its entirety in Python, I doubt it could be done with the same level of conciseness.

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Overlooked? The unit of magnetic flux density (tesla) is named after him. He joins the ranks of Faraday, Ohm, Volta, Ampère, Watt, Newton, Joule, Curie, Kelvin, and Coulomb by being one of the very few scientists that have a unit of measure named in their honor.

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Rubens' exposing himself in an XXX theatre hardly qualifies for "sex offender" status.

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Neoprene protection cases are a must. Gelaskins also work without adding the bulk.

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reminds me of Jabba the Hut for some reason...

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Works great on 2nd generation iPhones, but it doesn't work at all on the 1st generation model.

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What about the town of Whistler, where the skiing events will take place?

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"Agreed, but the vast majority of USA voters want it optional and affordable, which of course is impossible."

I don't buy that. The only demographic that seems against the idea of mandatory or universal health care is young healthy people (a key Reddit demographic for sure). A CBS/NYT poll two years ago reported 64% of respondents agreed that the US Government should guarantee health care for all: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/01/opinion/polls/main2528357.shtml

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Health insurance should be mandatory and affordable. There's already precedence for mandatory insurance. Many states require registered autos to be insured. Many mortgage lenders demand homeowners to carry insurance as well (and in some cases, mortgage insurance as well).

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I'm left breathless from the extent the breakup of the AT&T monopoly has been undone. The seven Baby Bells are now merged into three, with AT&T being one of them (recall that the '84 decree severed the parent company from all of the regionals). Long distance as a business has given way to cellular, with AT&T being one of the major players. And regulation has hardly kept up, leaving the Death Star with even more control than it had 25 years ago.

That said, hardware manufacturers should be free to make deals with companies as they wish. If Apple wishes to limit its share of the cell market by locking out other US carriers, so be it.

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At the very least, we need to outlaw the practice of insurance companies denying coverage on the basis of preexisting conditions and chronic illness.

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Yup, in the same manner Apple's iTunes did with the recording companies.

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