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Yes n’ how many roads must a man walk down…

Yes n’ how many roads must a man walk down…

A shaft in the middle of the floor of an automobile would be inconvenient for passengers and would be awkward for carrying luggage.

Solid Advice

acehotel:

From Lucien, 6, in the mezzanine drawers at Ace Hotel Portland.

XML is like violence - if it doesn’t solve your problems, you are not using enough of it. http://nokogiri.org/
The elongated residential belt Le Lignon, Vernier. (image by Port(u*o)s)

The elongated residential belt Le Lignon, Vernier. (image by Port(u*o)s)

Exercising the file system

$ time ruby -e ' '

real    0m0.151s
user    0m0.124s
sys 0m0.024s

$ echo $RUBYOPT
rubygems

$ export RUBYOPT=
$ time ruby -e ' '

real    0m0.004s
user    0m0.002s
sys 0m0.002s

(This is a different machine than my last post…)

Making it worse

$ time ruby test.rb 

real    0m0.875s
user    0m0.677s
sys 0m0.196s

What is it doing before it is doing something?

$ time perl -e ' '

real    0m0.004s 
user    0m0.001s
sys 0m0.002s

$ time ruby -e ' '

real    0m0.151s
user    0m0.124s
sys 0m0.025s

$ time echo '' | python

real    0m0.017s
user    0m0.009s
sys 0m0.008s

Dank Google haben wir Terroristen jetzt eine einfachere Arbeitsvorbereitung.

Dank Google haben wir Terroristen jetzt eine einfachere Arbeitsvorbereitung.

“Space,” it says, “is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly hugely mindbogglingly big it is. I mean you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist, but that’s just peanuts to space, LISTEN!”