Wouldn't it be something if the title of this article was: Nigeria suffers national power outage as gov't refuses to negotiate with labor unions on minimum wage

Nice catch. I'll need to do some reading to figure out the best way to actually handle the string safely.

In this small example we lost a lot of the safety, but for a larger library I'm hoping you could still keep most of the safety of Rust and just expose a smaller subsection of "unsafe" code.

This is incredibly exciting. Way to go Rust team!

> In the early part of the Industrial Revolution the rewards of increasing productivity went disproportionately to capital; later on, labour reaped most of the benefits.

This whole article is BS. At what point in history has labour reaped most of the benefits of any industry?

Haven't RTFA yet, but it may be a poor attempt to reference the time-frame in which, as labor movements (unions) spread and the foremen on the line elevated themselves to higher positions, that there was a small disruption in the otherwise overreaching power of capital.

Ruby was a little-known project before Rails came along. Without Rails, we wouldn't be having this discussion at all.

Thank you for being the first comment (I've seen) that actually looks at some amount of data. It's hard to read "most Rails people are moving on", "Rails and Ruby don't find the new web model" and "node.js is replacing Ruby" over and over without anyone saying how they're coming to their conclusions.

My thoughts are the same as yours... Ruby and/or Rails aren't going anywhere anytime soon. Just think, Rails powers the site that stores most startups code. It may not be as shiny and new as it was, but there's still a lot of usage.

I made a RubyGem for implementing this with Rails not too long ago: https://github.com/jaredonline/google-authenticator

Correct, it's only proposed.

It looks like this is a private version of Path, and if that's the case, this may be just what I'm looking for! I'd love to ditch "social networks" and have my own way to store my moments and memories in the cloud on a timeline. I just don't want the rest of the world to see.

This is the exact reason why I built this app.

It's completely private and it will stay that way. I really want us to be completely honest with ourselves when it comes to writing an entry. Because you are your only audience, I hope this will encourage us to just pour our hearts into it without the fear of others reading it.

How serious are you about keeping it private when it's on your servers? Do you have encryption at rest?

Very serious.

I don't want to give too much information away but there will be encryption at flight and at rest.

Yay! Now I'm just patiently awaiting my invite [-;

Homebrew, rbenv, rvm, to name a few. Never understood it either. If you could get ahold of a domain write a malicious script at /some-script.sh, you could do a lot of damage.

I agree that it feels insecure, but is there really a difference between this and downloading and running files from a .tar.gz or installing a .deb for example?

Yes.

apt-get:

  $ ls -l /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/

Source Installation:

  $ wget http://nmap.org/dist/sigs/nmap-6.01.tgz.asc
  $ wget http://nmap.org/dist/nmap-6.01.tgz
  $ gpg nmap-6.01.tgz.asc

This is an important part of why Debian and its derivatives are superior to OS X for web development. If you like Mac hardware like I do, at least run a Linux distro as a virtual machine and save yourself the trouble of Homebrew or its contemporaries.

The point is that most people don't do this.

Its built into apt. Unless you are suggesting that most people do:

  # apt-get --allow-unauthenticated ...

debs are authenticated.

With a .tar.gz you can verify a checksum.