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I'm playing with upgrading zenbilling to Ruby 1.9.3, and need to add the magic encoding comment to the source files that need it.

Here's my poor man's way of doing it in the shell:

grep "[ÆØÅæøå]" `grep…

Simon Sinek, the Start with Why guy:

As an adult nobody looks at my skills as survival skills, they look at me and say “what a talent you have.” When we’re young, the things we learn in order to surv…

Dave Winer on our crashing global economic and political system:

Of course they all translate into money, and money has no intrinsic meaning. Ron Paul, if he gets this, only admits to the first layer…

I kept getting my CSS gradients in IE 9 messed up by the Rails 3.1 Asset Pipeline. The symptom was that the colors were off - way off! Like purple instead of white or gray.

It took me several hours to …

I wanted to be able to see error traces in the browser when I'm the one visiting.

Here's my hack, dropped into config/initalizers/

if Rails.env == 'production'
  class ActionDispatch::Request
   def lo…

Louis C.K. in Fast Company:

 The next Steve Jobs will totally be a chick, because girls are No. 2—and No. 2 always wins in America. Apple was a No. 2 company for years, and Apple embodies a lot of wh…

I use the Rails server logs primarily to dig through a user's interaction with the site across requests to track down intricate bugs, like how did the user manage to get the system into this state whi…

Seth Godin:

What we can become the best at is being an idiosyncratic exception to the standard.

I love the mashup between Samsung’s and Apple’s product lines in mobile phones.

Who’s the more conscious of the two?

From Business Insider’s recap of Amazon’s IPO letter back in 1997:

We will continue to make investment decisions in light of long-term market leadership considerations rather than short-term profitab…