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Re: Comparing Ruby exceptions to additional stat() test
Ethan, Thanks, this is an excellent point. I'd personally like to see a lower level file api that returns error codes, or perhaps one that accepts an error handler as a block. I'd been working on a proof-of-concept of such an api, but it is on the far ...
Re: Comparing Ruby exceptions to additional stat() test
The problem with stat-ing a file before you open it is that there may be nonzero time between the two, in which time the file may have been deleted by somebody else. if you stat a file, another process deletes it, and then you open the file, you'll get an ...

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Animation: A New Computer

A story about a man buying a new computer. Perhaps computers aren't all they're cracked up to be... Stop motion animation with Lego bricks. Released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Winner of the audience choice Best in Show award at the Brickswest 2003 animation competition. Participant in the Streaming Festival in May 2006.

Released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License
Winner of the audience choice Best in Show award at the Brickswest 2003 animation competition
Participant in the Streaming Festival in May 2006
Used by Opera in some examples of the HTML5 video element

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