jrsims

6 ms·

1.
by jrsims 18y ago
Curious. What's your opinion of Perl?
2.
by jrsims 18y ago
We bash Ruby because we love it so.
3.
by jrsims 18y ago
All of the above = a huge bag of hurt that presents some damn near insurmountable problems (leadership, on its own, is a huge issue). To be honest, I don't know how one would get past those things without first deciding, with a clear consci
4.
by jrsims 18y ago
cough Parrot! cough But seriously, anyone know if Parrot is a realistic vehicle for this? It's just puzzling to me that with all the demand for a better interpreter, there really aren't any available options that are going to satisfy th
5.
by jrsims 18y ago
cough FreeBSD! cough
6.
by jrsims 18y ago
So, like, a free market of free markets?
7.
by jrsims 18y ago
What comes after fascism?
8.
by jrsims 18y ago
Well done! Thank you!
9.
by jrsims 18y ago
I have to second the headphones idea. And if you don't think you like techno or trance music, you might change your mind after you code while listening to it (which is about the only time I listen to it). Stuff with a white-noisy background
10.
by jrsims 18y ago
Also, you have transparency in what you are running, which is important from a rights perspective.
11.
by jrsims 18y ago
Ok, awesome. And that's the same story as RubyGems. I've noticed that Python peeps are pretty big on "show me the code" anyway, but I think a lot of untapped potential is lost by not having a dead-simple distribution mechanism, as good as P
12.
by jrsims 18y ago
I really like Python, but it doesn't have an equivalent to CPAN or RubyGems. I'm actually quite puzzled by this.
13.
by jrsims 18y ago
I don't think Blue Ocean strategy is foremost about convincing people that only you have the right solution, but rather that you are an 'alternative' solution. You might not be the "best" solution for everyone, but you can certainly focus o
14.
by jrsims 18y ago
BTW, 'cheat' is pretty sweet. Console hackers should try it. http://cheat.errtheblog.com/
15.
by jrsims 18y ago
A good point. But, Forbes never should have published this article anytime after 1999. The idea of "Four Tens" and "Power Shifts" (as they call it in business-speak) is not a new idea, and really only works for certain types of people in ce
16.
by jrsims 18y ago
This article starts off assuming that a four-day workweek entails cramming the usual 40 hour workweek into 4 days instead of 5. I stopped reading right there, because the idea of "Four Tens" or "Power Shifts" aren't new ideas and really onl
17.
by jrsims 18y ago
Agreed. Plus, I've found the crescent wrench and bicycle maintenance manual to be a bit superfluous for my needs.
18.
by jrsims 18y ago
Links?
19.
by jrsims 18y ago
Unix pipes, cron, ssh, VNC and IRC. Oh, and CPAN. A Slashdotter once posted an insightful comment about cron being the 'height of computing': http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=323287&cid=209... Easy to take cron for granted th
20.
by jrsims 18y ago
I dropped out of the JC I was attending and just started finding better ways of doing things (read: "developed technical solutions") at each company I worked for, regardless of what the position was. Although I would like to make more money
21.
by jrsims 18y ago
Boom! That's a great site. Thanks for sharing.
22.
by jrsims 18y ago
...What if there was a wiki that people could use to participate in the documentation, and then that documentation would become the man page with the next release? Everyone wins? I like and use both man pages and wikis, but I'm not sure how
23.
by jrsims 18y ago
It's a great app and I use it primarily to access IRC networks outside the corporate firewall. Trying to remember where I first heard of it and I believe it was Hacker News (recommended in a comment). To be honest, though, I would probably
24.
by jrsims 18y ago
Surely they know this. They must . There are a few other reasons why a government might implement pointless security exercises like these, however. A wiser head than mine once said that in order to understand a seemingly "pointless" bit of
25.
by jrsims 18y ago
Just curious - why beanstalk and not github?
26.
by jrsims 18y ago
Right, that's what I meant, 'adding checksums to the process'.
27.
by jrsims 18y ago
GitHub is not only a stellar product, it is also changing the world. SourceForge, RubyForge, and others should take note. This is a great model of how social code should be done.
28.
by jrsims 18y ago
But they're adding checksums right? Anyone see any holes in that?
29.
by jrsims 18y ago
You most certainly did not miss out.
30.
by jrsims 18y ago
Teach a man to fish...

More ›