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i'm a daft ruby/rails/js/unix/c++ hacker/developer from the late 90s underground, enjoys being toffee-nosed and obsessing over electronic music. i also made the change from a common thief to up close and personal with robin leach.

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We love all of you here at MentalMissing World HQ… we’ve just been super busy as of late with our careers and all. So, until we have the time to make proper updates to this blog for all you scene girls enjoy BREAKCORE!!!!!!!!!

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BSON - MongoDB - 10gen Confluence BSON is the data storage format for “objects” or “documents” in Mongo. BSON is a binary-encoded serialization of JSON-like documents. BSON stands for “Binary JSON”, but BSON contains extensions that…

sparsehash - Ruby bindings for Google Sparse Hash. Ruby bindings for Google Sparse Hash.

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Shopify was launched exactly 3 years ago. I started hacking on it more than 5 years ago, originally just for myself so that I could sell snowboards online, free from the tyranny of horrible online store software such as Yahoo Stores, but it quickly grew into something much larger. Now we are a profitable multi-million dollar company with one of the best teams in the industry. It’s been an amazing ride, at times a bumpy road but never less than exhilarating.

— profitable rails FTW

node.js Purely event-based I/O for V8 javascript

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Sweetie | Cute and clear icons Cute and clear icons to use in your nifty web application. They are licenced under a Creative Commons licence, so commercial use is fine. Also feel free to make derivatives with the included…

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Good things come to he who waits When the merger of Merb and Rails was announced a few months ago, I don’t think anyone really expected the goal of having Rails 3 released at RailsConf to be met. Alas, it was not. But David…

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Pathname of the Righteous Lately, I’ve noticed a lot of scripts taking advantage of File, Dir, FileUtils and even FileTest. Nothing odd, and these are fully warranted for most. They get the job done just fine, end of story.

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Diplodocs - Find your user manual, user guide, instruction manual or owner manual instantly ! Shared manuals for all kinds of old hardware and such…

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A Lightweight SQL Database for Cloud and Web in Launchpad