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A shaft in the middle of the floor of an automobile would be inconvenient for passengers and would be awkward for carrying luggage.
(from Dark Roasted Blend image by Brad Beaman)
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)
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…)
$ 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.
“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!”

