December 2011
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Beginning Rails
Well, I have finally completed the Ruby on Rails Tutorial: Learn Rails by Example by Michael Hartl. It was pretty tough for me, and even now I think I only get about 70% of the content. There is no way I am ready to write my own Rails app. But I am no programmer. I know HTML and CSS quite well, have a bit of knowledge about databases and can hack together a JavaScript by leaning heavily on Google....
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Smartphone penetration in Japan: Some numbers
New Straits Times quotes MMRI:
Japan’s smart phone sales — 23.3 million this year — account for 56 per cent of the total mobile phone sales of the year
Yet, TomiAhonen Consulting, based on Ipsos data, ranks Japan’s smartphone penetration at just 14% per capita, tied 33rd with Brazil and Romania in a ranking of 42 countries. They follow that number with a caveat:
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A new study finds that atheists are among... →
Possibly a bit of a sensationalist headline, but there is a key take-away in the final graf about battling anti-atheism:
“If you manage to offer credible counteroffers of these stereotypes, this can do a lot to undermine people’s existing prejudice,” he said. “If you realize there are all these atheists you’ve been interacting with all your life and they haven’t raped your children that is...
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