Mon Oct 10
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“ 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
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“ BY DOWNLOADING AND USING SYBASE SOFTWARE, YOU CONFIRM THAT YOU ARE NOT LOCATED IN ANY COUNTRY UNDER U.S. ECONOMIC EMBARGO (AFGHANISTAN (TALIBAN-CONTROLLED AREAS), CUBA, IRAN, IRAQ, LIBYA, NORTH KOREA, SUDAN AND SYRIA)…AND NOT DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY INVOLVED IN THE DEVELOPMENT OR PRODUCTION OF NUCLEAR, CHEMICAL, OR BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS OR MISSILE TECHNOLOGY PROGRAMS. ”
Sybase License Agreement
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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. :-)
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“ I have tried to be good. Judge me as you will. ”
Jedediah Purdy, at the age of 8, in a letter to Santa Claus
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#rubyist.org
13:37 <@mikael> speaking of dylan, that is the one programming language harder to google for than "io"
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“ 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
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#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