hoodwink.d enhanced

Mon Oct 10

The guys complaining that reported 10:1 savings over Java was bullsh*t were right on target: 10:1 is way too low from what we’re seeing.

Rick Bradley, whose 20,853-line Java app became 823 lines in Rails

Witz

An untitled painting by Dan Witz

Dan Witz’s street art


Photorealistic paintings on found canvases. Sad and stunning.
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#dylan

<brucehoult> heh. message on a local developers' mailing list this morning:
<brucehoult> #rubyist.org
<brucehoult> 13:37 <@mikael> speaking of dylan, that is the one programming language harder to google for than "io"
<brucehoult> At least people are noticing we exist, now. :-)
I have tried to be good. Judge me as you will.

Jedediah Purdy, at the age of 8, in a letter to Santa Claus

#rubyist.org

13:37 <@mikael> speaking of dylan, that is the one programming language harder to google for than "io"
The bug is not available with egcs-2.93.×.

tommy

Love letters…require the courage to stake oneself on an expression of hope that may very well come to nothing. They also indicate a perception of importance, a sense that some possibilities, however unlikely, are so important that not acknowledging them would be an act of terrible neglect.

Jedediah Purdy in the preface to For Common Things

#rubyonrails

12:58 AM < court3nay> http://dev.rubyonrails.com/timeline
12:58 AM < court3nay> worship at the altar of patches!
12:58 AM < zem> it's like the train's running and they're frantically building the track ahead of it