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I remember interviewing James for a podcast I used to produce. It was hilarious in that many of my friends are strong Christians, and many of James' friends are
by milesf 12y ago
I remember interviewing James for a podcast I used to produce. It was hilarious in that many of my friends are strong Christians, and many of James' friends are part of the BDSM community. We could not have been more polar opposites on many aspects of our worldviews, but we both loved the Ruby programming language and surrounding community.
Both of us had "fallout" from that interview, me for interviewing a "heathen" and James for associating with someone so "vanilla". We both laughed, and we both remained friends.
I'm really going to miss James.
- gaustin 12y agoI met you and James at my first Ruby conference. I didn't ever get to know James well but that was the start of a sea change in my career. I never heard that interview but I'm smiling imagining the interaction.
- milesf 12y agoIt was a typical podcast talk between typical Rubyists. There's a copy of it up on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/Coderpath10-JamesGolick https://archive.org/details/Coderpath10-JamesGolick I think the only people who would really have been offended by it are those who hadn't listen to it :) It's the same sort of banter you hear at clubs, conferences, and other podcasts, except that I'm not very smart and James is (or was... ugh, still having a hard time believing he's gone).
- Argorak 12y agoI just listened to it and it is full of good quotes, my favourite: "Discussions without good definitions are doomed to fail." (about the upcoming NoSQL dabate). I feel that's still ringing true in that sector.