What is the difference between Public, Pirate and Ecstatic variables?

• Pirate variables steal their values from other objects, usually while saying, "ARRRR, this value shall join my chest of booty!"
• Pubic variables are those in the middle of the object. 
• When you use a pubic variable frequently and vigorously it becomes ecstatic. 

Can you describe a typical request/response cycle; what heppens when a browser requires a URL?

There is a lot of data in the Sound class' ActionScript documentation about getting sound data. However - while they dive into the "How" they do not cover the "What" very well. What exactly is this sound data? What do these numbers mean? 

As much as I try to be "Bleeding Edge" sometimes I pick up techniques that other people have used often and much earlier. Such is the case with Jenkins, a tool to "Orchestrate" actions in response to events - and I'm sorry if that sounds like "it does things to stuff" but Jenkins' broad applications prevent a more definitive description. 

A conventional file structure has emerged, bolstered by Ruby, Zend and other systems, that I find cumbersome: 

Supbrocess

The most fundamental way to execute BASH from Python is the subprocess module. 

suck_it_world.py

import subprocess

result = subprocess.call(['echo', 'suck it world'])
print result

result

	suck it world 
0

not so bad; but what if we care about the output of a bash command?

Every new language is rough; you always view it through a filter of your past experience and that perspective is fundamentally unfair. My experience with other scripting languages are defined by Node/JavaScript and PHP. Those languages are imperfect in their own right but there are a few things about Ruby that strike me as unfortunate at best.