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Hi HN,

Someone has offered to purchase a magazine subscription for me as a Christmas gift, and I would like to use this gift to subscribe to something that will help me along my beginning/intermediate level web development career path. I'm a regular HN reader particularly interested in Ruby/Rails and related technologies. The one caveat: it must be a print magazine that comes in the mail. In other words, when this person comes over to my house, I will leave this magazine out on the coffee table so that they can see that I have received it.

I look forward to your suggestions. (Please don't say Wired.)

I just finished reading the article entitled "The Big Score" in the issue of Wired that turned up in my mail box today. (I'd link to it but I don't think it's available online yet.) This was the first forum I thought of for discussion. I'm a big sports fan so this was a fascinating article. If you haven't read it it's about a sports book that calculates and allows odds on all kinds of in-game scenarios during sporting events.

I have a lot of questions but my first is: How long until someone writes a program that can game their program?