Domon

I'm planning on either writing this up in detail or maybe doing a screencast about screencasting, but I'll give a short version here.

On sound quality:

This matters a lot. In decreasing order of importance:

1. Remove echo. You have to hear this to understand. Set up a mic in front of your mouth and record a sentence. Then, put a thick comforter over you and the mic and say it again at the same distance. Listen to

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# gem install benchmark-ips

require "benchmark/ips"

path = "path/to/a_big_file"

Benchmark.ips do |x|
  x.report("read + each_line") { File.read(path).each_line.count }
  x.report("open + each_line") { File.open(path, "r").each_line.count }
  x.report("open + readlines") { File.open(path, "r").readlines.length }

Domon

Linux carglecloud0 2.6.32-21-server #32-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 16 09:17:34 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS

Welcome to the Ubuntu Server!
 * Documentation:  http://www.ubuntu.com/server/doc

  System information as of Sun Apr  3 15:39:25 CST 2011

  System load:  0.0                Swap usage:  0%     Users logged in: 0
  Usage of /:   0.3% of 905.57GB   Temperature: 30 C

Domon

Linux carglecloud0 2.6.32-21-server #32-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 16 09:17:34 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS

Welcome to the Ubuntu Server!
 * Documentation:  http://www.ubuntu.com/server/doc

  System information as of Sun Apr  3 15:39:25 CST 2011

  System load:  0.0                Swap usage:  0%     Users logged in: 0
  Usage of /:   0.3% of 905.57GB   Temperature: 30 C

Domon

ruby-1.9.2-p0 adella:benchmarks$ ruby -v
ruby 1.9.2p0 (2010-08-18 revision 29036) [x86_64-darwin10.5.0]

ruby-1.9.2-p0 adella:benchmarks$ php -v
PHP 5.3.3 (cli) (built: Aug 22 2010 19:41:55) 
Copyright (c) 1997-2010 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2010 Zend Technologies

ruby-1.9.2-p0 adella:benchmarks$ cat foo.rb
msg = "Hello world"

Domon

heffalump:~ james$ ruby -v
ruby 1.9.2p180 (2011-02-18 revision 30909) [x86_64-darwin10.7.1]

heffalump:~ james$ php -v
PHP 5.3.4 (cli) (built: Jan 17 2011 21:54:20) 
Copyright (c) 1997-2010 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2010 Zend Technologies

heffalump:~ james$ cat foo.rb
msg = "Hello world"

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google.pacman ||
function () {
	var a = true,
	e = false,
	g = {},
	i = [1, 4, 2, 8],
	l = {
		0 : {
			axis: 0,
			increment: 0

Domon

#Newbie programmer
def factorial(x):
    if x == 0:
        return 1
    else:
        return x * factorial(x - 1)
print factorial(6)


#First year programmer, studied Pascal