Generally true…
James Fallows (November 27, 2007) – “The” way vs “a” way (Japan v China dept):
Japan is all about the way of doing things. Practice, ritual, perfectionism, as much fanatical attention to the process as to the result. China is all about finding a way to do things. Improvisation, little interest in rules, putting up with whatever is necessary to attain the result.
Ray did a writeup on Rails setup on Leopard, pretty messed up how if you have the loaded_plugins gem installed you have to do some symlink surgery on the directories in /opt. oh and I don’t launch memcached on boot myself. Last time tried to upgrade/install to Leopard neither of our laptops worked. I think mine was doing an fsck in the background and I didn’t have the patience to wait. The MacBook had a filesystem error that forced a fresh install. Leopard is messed up.