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reeses or tabasco?

Monday, December 29th, 2008

Everybody’s talking about it. Couple of days in jail, whole town changes, etc.
There are two camps over this currently: the Rails side(”Whoo! Chocolate in my peanut-butter! Less magic and plugins that don’t explode randomly between versions!”), and the Merb side(”DHH is going to defenestrate us all! They won’t taste great! These books from the tech [...]

tl; dr

Sunday, November 23rd, 2008

Echo-chamber-driven Internet Drama on the rise in the Ruby community. Again.
Giles Bowkett:
original, followup, self-flagellation
_why’s sum-up and thoughts.
Zed’s response to _why’s mention.
_why fires back.
Can we skip this and go straight to the Yo Momma Fight? Loser gets Force-chucked into experts-exchange.com!

in honor of comrade petrov

Friday, September 26th, 2008

As Charlie Stross has noted Stanislav Petrov bent the rules and prevented a nuclear exchange at the nadir of the Cold War 25 years ago today. He ended up losing his job and pension over it, and still doesn’t consider himself a hero.
Two years ago, I was eagerly awaiting DEFCON to have fun destroying [...]