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Gems

Bundler - Bundler maintains a consistent environment for ruby applications. It tracks an application's code and the rubygems it needs to run, so that an application will always have the exact gems (and versions) that it needs to run.
rabl - General ruby templating with json, bson, xml, plist and msgpack support
Thin - Very fast and lightweight Ruby web server
Unicorn - Unicorn is an HTTP server for Rack applications designed to only serve fast clients on low-latency, high-bandwidth connections and take advantage of features in Unix/Unix-like kernels.
SimpleCov - SimpleCov is a code coverage analysis tool for Ruby 1.9.
Zeus - Zeus preloads your Rails app so that your normal development tasks such as console, server, generate, and specs/tests take less than one second.
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Political Economy #Refining Classic Liberalism: J.S. Mill and Managing Inequality

current events in Ukraine
no reading for Tuesday
plan for today
- appearance of double-sided capitalism (+productivity, -inequality)
- regular, fairly cyclical crises causing concern

##Mill

writes about contexts outside of Political Economy too

3/4/14 #Texts & Ideas: Political Economy Midterm 1

##Part I: The Civic and Christian Tradition of Political Economy ###Assumptions of Liberalism

humans are rational
individual is unit of analysis
individuals should have freedom to make own decision
commerce seen in positive light
the state is separate and distinct from the Market

Bob Gardner

Back in Fall 2013, I read The Cathedral & The Bazaar. "The Hacker Attitude" is quoted directly from the Appendix, but I paraphrased "Do you want to become a hacker." I changed (2) to say "Linux" instead of "an open source distribution of Unix" and (3) to say "Internet" instead of "World Wide Web." I don't think (3) needs a clarification, but (2) does. Linux has become very popular among students and researchers. While I have used Solaris at NYU (another Unix variant), Linux has become the standard among many of my peers.

The goal of the following paragraphs is to excite people with esr's words as much as they excited me the first time I read them. People generalize the first three attitudes of a hacker to be "programmers are lazy," but I prefer the

SO: How to get the git commit count?

Update: If all you need is a commit count, and you're running a newer version of git, you can use the following command:

git rev-list HEAD --count

Thanks ctrueden for pointing this out.

Original answer:

The following description is from Bruce Tate's excellent: Seven Languages in Seven Weeks by Bruce A. Tate in his chapter on Scala (p123). The coercion property of strongly typed languages confused me when I first learned about these language designs in my Introduction to Computer Science course. Hope this passage helps someone else too.

My Inner Battle with Static Typing

Strong vs. Weak

Strong Typing

The lanugage detects when two types are compatible, throwing an error or coercing the types if they are not. Examples: Java and Ruby

Weak Typing

the compiler doesn't necessarily care whether the data in a memory location is an integer, a string, or just data.

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	Books to assist you in preparing for your interview:

	"The Algorithm Design Manual"
	Author: Steven S. Skiena

	"Introduction to Algorithms"
	Authors: Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest & Stein
	[Also known as the “CLR” textbook]

	“Programming Interviews Exposed: Secrets to Landing Your Next Job"

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