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Monthly Archives: November 2008
sake task for remote git repo init
sake advantages
sake is a tool for system-wide rake tasks. It was created by Chris Wanstrath and is now maintained by postmodern. It provides a handy way to distribute generally-useful rake tasks. The advantage of sake over, say, a script in ~/bin is that 1) you have a predictable interface and 2) its [...]
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Why Do Cells Have DNA?
In order for a system to reproduce itself, it seems necessary for it to hold an encoded form of itself somehow. This idea, and the inevitability of the existence of DNA-like structures within living cells, is well-illustrated using computer code.
Posted in programming, ruby Tagged bach, dna, escher, godel, ruby, self-replicating code, self-replication Leave a comment

fixing do_mysql hanging or install problems on mac os x