The second edition is even better. It skips many chapters from the first edition that you don't really need and it goes into more detail in other more important ones to what OP is asking.
I'm curious, did Newton name Newton's law himself or did other people do that for him? Did Gantt name his diagrams? Isn't it a bit vain to name a law with your own name?
I've considered this for the summer. I'm still deciding between swimming, climbing or thaiboxing. Do you know any other fun ones that might make you grow muscle?
I came to the same conclusion about a month ago. Some of the examples he listed I solve by tossing a coin and leaving it up to chance. I only do this when I really don't care about the outcome. Before tossing the coin, I make sure of this, if I prefer an outcome, then I don't need to toss. There was a famous quote that more or less said the same thing.
Hello, I also started rails by reading your tutorial. I have a question, this post http://stackoverflow.com/a/5612941 suggests that the way to model a friendship is to duplicate rows in a transaction and it cites a book you wrote.
Is this still the way to go? I like the idea of duplicating rows because it simplifies the associations a lot, but I've been warned against it. Is that the way you would do it?
I know it's probably harmless, but this is one of those things that I rather wait before trying it out. You never know, there could be very small hidden side effects. The brain is so complex and poorly understood that I rather not mess with it in this way.
Examples: maybe this will make you likelier to have a brain seizure when you are just 60 years old, maybe after prolonged use one region of your brain is more active making you behave differently (could be positive or negative), maybe it will make you more susceptible to Parkinson, Alzheimer, etc...
That being said, if everyone was as coward as I am, we would have missed on lots of inventions.
I meant something that would not be detected when compiling to JavaScript from CoffeeScript. Maybe I got it all wrong and CoffeeScript just translates without performing any checks. Also I thought maybe the subset of code you can write with CoffeeScript can't be invalid, if it were wrong it just wouldn't work.
How? I've just started experimenting with web development and I can't figure out how it could possibly cost that much. Maybe there is a whole world I haven't seen yet, but if they had used the latest open source libraries/frameworks that do half the work for you, would it have cost that much?