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5–7 minutesThe Rise of Wasteful Resources
Read essay →: The Rise of Wasteful ResourcesWe used to be proud of making things small. Now the default is to throw more tokens, more context and more compute at every problem. Why AI waste became normal, what it really costs, and how to get the craft…
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Be A Leader Not A Follower
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How to Sell to Anyone
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Install Compass in an existing Rails application with Semantic Blueprint using Sass
compass init rails –using blueprint/semantic –syntax sass
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Capistrano + RVM = Problem with deployment?
Most of the time when I had issues with deploying on rvm environment it helps you to do the following. Create a file in $home folder touch .rvmrc And paste following code:…
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Working OAuth2 with Foursquare on Sinatra
require ‘rubygems’ require ‘sinatra’ require ‘oauth2’ require ‘json’ require ‘net/https’ require ‘foursquare2’ set :port, 80 CLIENT_ID = ‘****************************************************’ CLIENT_SECRET = ‘****************************************************’ CALLBACK_PATH = ‘/callbacks/foursquare’ def client OAuth2::Client.new(CLIENT_ID, CLIENT_SECRET, {:site => ‘https://foursquare.com/’, :token_url…
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Latest eclipse app on Mac OS Lion preference pane
When upgrading to a new eclipse app and selecting existing workspace it makes preference pane unavailable. So to be able to access settings you have to either create a new workspace and…
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Mac OS Lion and installing ruby 1.9.2
I am always having trouble with installing fresh rvm instance, so here are all steps needed in fresh rvm to install new ruby 1.9.2 export ARCHFLAGS=”-arch x86_64″ export CC=gcc-4.2 rvm pkg install…
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Kindle still rules the ebook world
First time when i saw kindle being presented I was thrilled, because i read a lot of books. I saw a future in electronic books. That was 2 years ago and I…
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