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The "Agile Web Development with Rails, Third Edition" is in beta right now, it covers Rails 2.0.

Obie's book, "The Rails Away" also covers Rails 2.0.

Akita on Rails gives a good overview of Rails 2, and 2.1. He gives a very good overview of whats new and whats changed between versions.

Hope this helps. There is also a good documentation project going on, but I can't seem to find the link.

Hope this helps.
If your whole foods has a bulk section its rather economical to shop there for that.

But on the topic of cheap/good for you eats: Can't go wrong with burritos made with beans,corn and rice.
Everyone's got different standards for healthy, and cheap. Mine probably aren't great, but I think it's a good starter position for going down this road. Especially if you're not really a cook.

Here's mine: hit the grocery store and pick up some freezer ziplock bags and some family-size packs of meat (whatever's on sale). Individually bag and freeze them. With some veggies and sauce (A1 goes well with a lot), you've got some good options.

Also, pasta. Mix in some chicken.
Perhaps the idea could be adapted, though. How about throwing in a motion detector so that we only draw our human watchers' attention to the motion of things which look like human-sized objects?

You'd need, of course, to throw in some kind of key system (RFID?) so that it's turned off whenever the rightful owners are at home, and throw in some kind of penalty (after several warnings ) to make sure people didn't leave their house guests sitting around setting off false alarms, but some form of this could make a very cost-effective alternative to more elaborate security camera systems.

I'd pay twenty bucks a month for the peace of mind of knowing that nobody is breaking into my house, and that it isn't on fire.
All you need are a few "all purpose" ingredients

1. boneless, skinless chicken breast

2. mixed frozen veggies

3. rice or bread (rice keeps a lot longer...)

4. Misc seasonings (salt, pepper, chili powder, teriyaki sauce, soy sauce, etc)

You can buy these things in bulk and they will last forever. Combine to make whatever dish you like. One of my favorites when I was working out a lot:

1. Season chicken breast teriyaki sauce

2. Wash rice and put in rice cooker

3. Steam veggies along with the rice

4. Cook chicken on foreman grill

5. Pull out veggies, season with salt and pepper

6. You're done!

You could do a stir fry dish just as easily.
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Sure, it may eventually. If they need to buy them to do whatever it is they want to do & I sell because I want the money. But at the moment this is just a way of cashing in public sentiment towards climate change: at a bad rate.
The world needs both creators and analysts. Both kinds of people suffer from a problem of limited perspective: The analyst spends so much time above the problem that she may miss the aspects that are only visible from the inside... but the creator is stuck inside and doesn't really have the chance to look at her creation dispassionately from a distance.

Also, there's no guarantee that the designer of a thing has any understanding of it at all. That's pretty much the essence of the theory of evolution. I wouldn't argue that the design of social networks is a totally mindless process of variation followed by selection, but it certainly does involve a lot of trial and error. I'm not sure that the designers of, say, Craigslist have much better understanding of why it works than anyone else does. They just happen to have made some initial choices that worked, and when they made changes they used feedback to guide them toward what their users liked. That's a rational process, but it doesn't necessarily reflect understanding.
Eggs.

Used as a replacement for meats in most dishes. Ideal cooking temperature is 145 F.

Warning: Be wary of dirty looking eggs; cook throughly; each egg contains around 75% Daily Value of cholesterol, so you may want to remove yellows post boiling or pre-scrambling.

Adding PG's comment: Beans and rice can get boring, but do serve well as a backup when nothing else is working.
And some vegetables too. Frozen or from a can is dead easy.
About half the time I wish I could outsource my job to someone on Craig's list for $15/hr so that I could spend more time cooking.
Whoa! I'm eating that now...that kind of freaks me out.

Throw some salsa in the beans and eat it over brown rice. Healthy and tasty.
I disagree... if this was around when our startup was in operation, it would have saved us $XX,XXX a month in infrastructure fees and we might still be around.
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This is a notable exception:

"Detailed revenue breakdown of a gadget blog ($61k in dec 2007)"
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=216960
You know personally I'm sick and well beyond tired of these types of blogs that talk about valuations and marketing and ads with Facebook as if everyday users actually care. I can only count one circumstance where Facebook actually gave back after a brief little program with Microsoft, but other than that if Facebook is bringing in millions and millions of dollars with ad revenue,

don't tell me about it unless they plan on sharing it with their users. Metcalfe's Law has never meant more than it does to me than when I read blogs like this.
It sometimes pains me when people don't understand your humor. I laughed.
I'd like to see this updated for R6RS. There are several deficiencies of Scheme (like a module system) addressed in the new standard.
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Wait until you get to the point where you want it healthy, cheap, and made for the super lazy. It gets even harder. Pans, ingredients, seasonings NNOOOoooo. If it's more complicated than PB&J I just can't bring myself to make it.

This leads to lots of frozen steam-able veggies, fruit whenever we get around to going to the store, lots of yogurt, bagged salad... but also a ton of noodles.
Or take some black beans, jack cheese, a tortilla and some salsa and make a quesadilla.

To the OP: I find making pizza is really cheap and versatile (i.e., it can take you awhile to get sick of it). Most supermarkets sell premade dough for $1 or so. Then just get some sauce and cheese and any other toppings you might like (I love making a pizza with butternut squash, garlic, shallots, scallions, olive oil, mozarella, salt and pepper -- no red sauce).

The whole thing is done in a half hour and for half the price -- or less -- of a take out pizza.

Salads are good to... veggies get a little pricier, especially out of season... but a hearty salad with nuts and cheese is great for you and not _that_ expensive.

Same with soups, which can made pretty easily and cheaply with pretty much anything you have lying around. :)
"... So can you advise healthy meals that are still within the 2-guy-in-a-garage budget? ..."

You supply the ingredients, OpenSourceFoods for recipes (with pictures) ~ http://www.opensourcefood.com
I found the tutorial to be lacking - some things taken too much time, but some like fancy unions not enough.
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Why at a bad rate?

Companies are compelled to do this in Australia (amongst others) due to our Kyoto targets, etc.
Water is way easier. Could turn water into a working market in 6 months, given the political support. Water is something that is much easier to control. In fact, it's already controlled. All you need to do is limit supply (via mostly government "owned" resources) to whatever you deem to be a reasonable level, & charge for consumption. The smaller players (people with dams on their land) will follow.

You could even have the government manipulate prices by literally 'flooding' the market when necessary.
PG forgot to mention that at least 900 of these variations involve sour cream and salsa :)
This gets posted here every few weeks...
Take some premade pizza dough, put some ricotta cheese on it for the base - saute some baby spinach (10oz or so) and artichoke hearts (1 can will do) throw it on the pizza. Cook a single chicken breast in a skillet, dice it up, throw it on the pizza - sprinkle with feta cheese, add some crushed red pepper - throw it under the broiler until the feta is soft.

Enjoy.
I love seared tuna. It's pretty easy to make, but it's definitely not cheap.
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Fantastic!!!

I agree man, I enjoy cooking but it takes soo much time. So, for people still working a day-job, contracting your cooking is a great time saver. Fortunately, my gf is my life manager in the evening and takes care of me. :)
Not Startup News, but a very nice thread which I enjoyed reading.
In Silicon Valley, here's my shopping experience:

12oz yellowfin tuna fillet

Whole Foods: $14

Safeway: $9

Lucky's: $8

Costco: $6

12oz is good for 2-3 servings. Plus the $3 for a bundle of asparagus or $2 for a bag of broccoli. I've gotten the meal down to $5 per plate, which is what I usually shoot for in terms of cooking. For me, I think this is a good trade off between tasty, healthy, fast, and cheap.
After a summer of YC, I can say that rice and beans, while amazing, get boring after exactly three months.
fruit - nature's fast food

as a bonus, the waste is bio-degradable
It sounds like he values variety and healthfulness in his food.
Yeah, the big difference is that she doesn't make anything. All of those other people write software. Ms. Boyd produces treatises on social networks.

I'm not saying that she doesn't have value, but calling her a "key hire" at Microsoft is a pretty big stretch. "PR coup" is a lot closer to the truth....
Hm, you're right -- by 'ending' I was thinking of the climax. I really like how the book turned out.
Precisely. There are plenty of private buyers for those papers at 0.08-0.10 on the dollar but the banks are no budging since doing so will render them insolvent.

So Paulson will use the taxpayers' money to buy the papers at above market price, ensuring survivability of the banks, while the taxpayers hold the risk of further depreciation of the papers.
Thats what I used to think, but similar product brands it is generally not very different. For fresh, healthy food, there is no comparison.
I've been a fan of Tim Ferriss's 3-minute breakfast since he posted it awhile back: http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2008/02/28/beating-the-...
Ninja out.
"... And some vegetables too. Frozen or from a can is dead easy ..."

Good point. You can get probably 1/2 your dietary fibre with a cup of green frozen peas, heated & mushed ~ http://www.opensourcefood.com/people/bootload/recipes/mushy-...
You can say that again. A few banks have carbon credit trading arms doing hundred of millions of revenue doing similar stuff (Replacing non-ecological friendly pots in Africa with greener pots)
Not startup news, but definitely hacker news. See the jargon files for more of the same kind of hackers at play.
Regarding false matches, we could say "we think this has already been posted here. Do you think so too? If so, do you really want to post it again?"
You can listen to them on the page by clicking the play arrow in the embedded widget. Rubyology's also on Odeo, though, which gives you a few more options. Go to an episode page there (like http://odeo.com/episodes/23382315-Rubyology-71-Avi-Bryant) and click on the Download tab under the player to grab the file itself.
Why at a bad rate?

I feel like I am saving X watt hours & the purchaser does too. So they (the company) are trading in 2X watt hours "emotional credits" (the utility of this market) for 1x watt hour savings.

Of course, that's an exaggeration. I lost my drive & ability to save those emissions by replacing my bulbs, but it's not 100% certain that I would have done so anyway.

Companies are compelled to do this in Australia (amongst others) due to our Kyoto targets, etc.

Are they? I don't think they are directly. The Government is probably subsidising this & other efforts but there is no compulsion to purchase carbon credits. They Get bought by bus companies, airlines, etc. They are basically also riding on public sentiment.
I thought the points made by the author are valid. The reason why Adwords work so well is because the ads match our intention at exactly the right time.

If I'm planning a trip to Barcelona next week, a Barcelona hotel ad would appeal to me now but not last month. Timing matters.

Just because Facebook knows a lot about me does not mean their ads appeal to me. If I like Japanese food, do I need to be bombarded by Japanese food ads every day?

Google's ads, on the other hand, will only show the Japanese food ads, when I am explicitly looking for Japanese food.
Matched my Macbook screen size to a CD by holding a real CD up to the screen. Every other picture is now way off; for instance, credit cards are 1/3 too small, but an Xbox controller is too big to get my hand around.
Buy whole meat instead of individual cuts. Honestly, it takes maybe 45 seconds to cut up a whole chicken. Use the breast meat for dishes with tasty sauces and cook the thighs, legs, and wings whole. Keep all of the bones and giblets to make stock. Boil the stock down A LOT. It takes a while, but you honestly don't have to do anything while it's reducing. Take the stock and pour it into ice cube trays and place the tray in the freezer. Any time you want to make a dish and give your sauce an extra heartyness, just throw an ice cube of stock in there.

Great easy sauces include:

-Chicken stock, soy sauce, and a little cornstarch

-Heated oil mixed with minced scallions, ginger and a little salt

-Chicken stock, pan drippings, savory and a little flour for thickening.

If you want to get more sauce ideas, I highly recommend the cookbook "Sauces." Filled with tons of awesome sauces and a great basis for learning about sauce making to create your own!

Cheap cooking and healthy cooking go hand-in-hand if you know what to do!
I agree. I don't understand why these shrill anti-Wikipedia links keep ending up on HN.
Someone's beat you to it: http://visualrecipes.com/51/aerogrow-aerogarden-review-read-...

It doesn't control atmosphere, but it doesn't need to.
I keep track of my excersize performance - amount of work, heart rate and ambient temperature. I have certainly noticed positive correlation - for every centrigate of room temperature drop I perform about 1% more work (keeping the heart rate the same in all cases).

But this. Wow. 1000 push ups at 65 years old? Truly dramatic. I should buy one.
"The Rails Way" or "The Rails Away"??? I think it should be "The Rails Way". Anyway, you can try to build up your Ruby skills first before starting on Rails.
People who are involved in a business tend to be interested in making money. Facebook is spending a lot of money to please its users, and it wants to make some back. This is logical.

Other people want to make money and it helps them to read stories of other successes and failures. Some of those people read Hacker News.

I skip a lot of stories on HN. Try not to get too caught up in it. It's not worth your time.
Yeah. Isn't it all about getting to express your ideas without censorship? What happened to freedom of expression.

My favorite moment with blogging in 3 years' writing was when my first entry made its way up Reddit and Hacker News, and people started TALKING about it. I like the feeling of people choosing to read my stuff. Not because I'm making MONEY from it, but because... it just feels nice. Nice in a youthful, innocent, look-at-me-I'm-blogging way. And that's the best kind of nice.
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"...the fuzzy feeling that even thought they are emitting carbon, it is being offset."

You shouldn't get a warm fuzzy feeling. You're not reducing the total amount of CO2, you're just changing the allocation. However, both parties should feel good about the transaction because each party is economically better off than they were beforehand.
to be fair once you break the 100 barrier you can pretty much go forever. pushups aren't that hard because you're only pushing about 2/3rds of your body weight.

lots of pullups however IS impressive.
I wonder if this is a case of over-engineering a solution. Does it have that much more of a positive effect compared to a lower tech solution (e.g., bag of ice). The machine costs $2500 retail.
"Makes you wonder if there are carbon credits in other areas."

Sulfur Dioxide and catch shares for fisherman.
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+1 for freshness

'real' food has 'bio-sensor' ... you can tell just by looking, that a fruit/veggie is bad

it's much harder to 'sense' that in processed food

i find that fruit/veg is harder to fool with, maybe having to do with its low price (not much incentive to cheat)

in my country we got rotten meats cleaned with formaldehyde and then soaked in fresh blood to be sold along with fresh meats ... such thing is unheard of in veg/fruit (groceries can wax to prevent, but once fruit/veg is rotten, it's hard to 'rejuvinate')

being vegetarian leads to simpler life, no worries about mad cow, avian flu, etc
Really? First basketball, now a thread about eating, that's where I find you?
It's a webpage that's supposed to evoke feelings of 'what is this', draw attention, and also to provide a slight grin feeling -- for ninja appreciators.
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Or hands in cold water. It's surely not as good, but if the effect is so dramatic, it would still have a noticeable impact. Easy to test.
Seasoning is like makeup for food

This one line could be sold for a few dollars.
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It might be different where you shop, but I generally found bagged and pre-made salads to be expensive and bland, and not last long. Salad is among the easier foods to make.

I have to agree with you on yogurt and frozen veggies.
I think Google's been very successful with their approach, so much so people suggest its some kind of optimum. You've already got a fairly good idea of what you want when you're at the point of typing some keywords, and at that point its hard to beat Google, but there is a whole stage before that point where you don't have a keyword for what you want.
CD was about right, but 360 controller was off by > 2x. "Image" bug, or site bug?
CHEAP TRICK: Buy staple foods that'll keep. Pasta, canned tuna, canned veggies, tomatoes, beans and rice rarely go bad. For good cheap protein, try preparing eggs (not only scrambled or hard-boiled, but use them in egg salads, green salads or in pasta recipes.) Also, check out: http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2007/07/30/16-ways-to-eat-....

CHEAP DINNER: Because I have no patience and often forget to eat, I've figured out a cheap, filling lasagna-type

1) Prepare favorite pasta (penne works well)
2)Heat some marinara sauce, can or jar is fine.
3)Once the sauce starts to boil, reduce heat and add 1/2 C to 3/4 C cottage cheese to sauce (works like ricotta).
4)If you prefer, spoon cottage cheese over hot pasta and cover with heated marinara, then microwave or bake briefly to warm cheese. This adds a nice layer of melty cheese.

(Cover plate of pasta, cheese and marinara with shredded mozzarella and bake at 425 for 9-12 min. if you want to be fancy and cheap.)
Surely you're not serious.
Sigh....

I submitted the links because there had been a discussion about how many politics and economics articles there were on the front page. So, I noodled around and found some articles on language features that might stimulate an interesting discussion here on HN.

And, even though I'm a python programmer, there were one or two elements on the list that made me want to go read up on them in the documentation.

I originally found the articles on javascript.reddit, not on stack overflow. It's not an attempt to boost stack overflow at all. These are the first few posts from stack overflow that I've actually read.

If people would like to see different kinds of articles, or more interesting articles, I'd be thrilled if others would take the time to find them and submit them: http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=BrandonM
Cry me a river. C'mon, suck it up. That's what we do. We make it despite the odds. Quit sniveling and get back to work.
I'm a big fan of the Seth Godin breakfast: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2006/09/compromise_h...
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You could always try to find interesting content and post it: http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=kylec
The audio is AWEFUL and LOUD. Thanks for making me crap my pants.
With LED bulbs making steady gains, CFLs also definitely have a limited life. Maybe these guys will be back in a few years picking up your CFLs.
Hire someone - I have a lady come in and make a weeks worth (7 meals for 2 children + 2 adults) of great tasting, healthy Indian vegetarian meals (4 dishes) for $40. The cost of the food is ~$20 if you shop smart, meaning avoiding grocery stores and getting your veggies from an Indian grocery store (India Cash and Carry in Sunnyvale is great).

Instead of making rotis (which mess up the kitchen and take a while to make, and really only taste good fresh), we just get low carb whole wheat tortillas.
For me screen size worked fine. This would be a lot slower than the current functionality, right?

Maybe have such a system as a back up, for fine tuning. Credit card would work for me, I always have some odd card in my wallet with me.
Corn beef hash.
As opposed to the sophisticated self-proclaimed programmers who give PHP the reputation of being such an elegant tool.

Really remarkable programmers usually don't start out as sissies - they use, understand and improve upon the tools other remarkable programmers gave them. Or invent completely new ones.

And that is one reason why not to use Windows - it really won't help that goal. The whole environment is not conductive to this king of tool refinement.
Pretty awesome. I thought it was especially cool how you took the time to diligently record your schedule for a month so you could figure out which tasks took the most time yet gave you no enjoyment. After that, it seemed like a no-brainer to outsource cooking, but without the data, it would have been hard to reach that conclusion.
What I like about what he's doing is that he's able to get good, healthy food for relatively quite cheap- it's a great way to save time and still live well.
"The author compares using a language and web framework he knows to one he does not know and never tried."

What doesn't he know? He's written at least one website in Lisp using SBCL+Hunchentoot.
A large part of proper diet is eating a wide variety of stuff, so mix it up. Most of the stuff that is good for you is cheap anyway. Salads, fruits, vegetables, etc.

Resist the temptation to subsist on potatoes, pasta, and some of the other cheap, often high carb, low nutrition stuff.
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> True enough, Chrome's source code contains a link to uninformed.org's description of the DEP control on XP SP2 where the undocumented function is described.

But don't let that stop you from including DEP in your thesis. That would ruin the flow.
Trial and error involve a heavy amount of analysis. And as far as I know this is what happens in successful startups.

So, I can't see how any creator doesn't have the analytic-side in him/her.
It was user submitted, so neither :)