Did You Know?
Normally this would be a linkroll post. (Are you reading the linkroll? Megan is!) In this case, however, I’m going to make an exception.
Did you know that the United States requires 2 billion dollars a day in foreign investment to continue its current rate of capital consumption. And that, for some reason, it’s creditors are willing to put up with a relatively low interest rate and devaluation of the dollar on top?
I don’t read all the economics blogs, but I can tell you, not even they know what this means.
What I will say is that if you are typically inspired by the behavior of the US, go get that stove on credit!
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Jim Van Fleet on What's Now In Rails: Information for the Beginner on Nov 17, 2008 at 03:57 PM
suprails was something that I tried to remember the name of, but couldn’t at posting time.
Jeremy on What's Now In Rails: Information for the Beginner on Nov 09, 2008 at 09:01 PM
That’s actually a really good point, but the signal-to-noise ratio is just too high for me personally. They should be tweeting with ”#rails” so all that info can be processed.
Jim Van Fleet on What's Now In Rails: Information for the Beginner on Nov 09, 2008 at 12:51 PM
Jeremy is right about not using Twitter for in-depth analysis. But it is excellent for finding out when new things are released (not all of us empty our feedreaders, JW!) as well as impressions of use. Many people do not feel comfortable “attacking” a library formally in a comment thread, but will indicate that they had a slow or difficult time using some library. That is useful information, if you are willing to wait through the noise.
That said, just today at lunch, I was wondering if I should be either using it a lot less or go on a massive unfollow-spree.
Peter Braswell on What's Now In Rails: Information for the Beginner on Nov 08, 2008 at 08:28 AM
Jim, I really appreciate you pulling this together. It’s nice to have aggregated information from an informed expert as opposed to running down blind alleys from Google searches. THANKS!
Jeremy on What's Now In Rails: Information for the Beginner on Nov 07, 2008 at 05:27 PM
I find monitoring del.icio.us for the ruby and rails tags to be most helpful (in addition to reading Cooper’s and Daigle’s blogs). To me, following people on twitter for their technical knowledge is a complete waste of time (you can’t expect insight from microblogging), but different strokes I suppose.
Enjoy Rubyconf!