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By: Favorite Programming Quotes 2009 « Jasper Blog

Favorite Programming Quotes 2009 « Jasper Blog — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:01:53 +0000

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Favorite Programming Quotes 2009 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:10:38 +0000

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By: Ruby, Rails, Web2.0 » Blog Archive » “I guess Ruby is over: it Was Fun While it Lasted.”

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:39:59 +0000

[...] This is the original part of the rant, from the time when more “ruby/rails sucks” articles popped up in a quick succession, followed by a grandiose trollfest on various social sites, and eventually meta-ranting (my personal favorite). [...]

By: mark

mark — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:36:21 +0000

One problem is that there are some people who like to rant and start rants. I saw this from a python guy. He didnt even have a comment field.

I hate stark rants without a comment field to reflect upon. Really makes me angry - if someone just rants, but is too afraid to have a comment field, what is the point of the rant? He doesnt want to listen to the opinion of others anyway, so why should we listen to his rants?

By: RYErnest

RYErnest — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:29:04 +0000

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By: planetmcd

planetmcd — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 05:23:47 +0000

Fun Post. Thanks.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 13:28:08 +0000

Rant less and program more. It’s hard work, but it’ll pay more in the end.

By: Winter

Winter — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:25:04 +0000

‘But what I am so annoyed with are the reformed evangelicals that are all of a sudden declaring that “this shit ain’t cool no more” and expect everyone to throw up their hands and say “Oh wow great leader, you’re right. Let’s just go learn [Scala, Erlang, Clojure, Whatever].”’

This bit right here, especially.

I’m one of the early adopters and, well, while i appreciate the possibility that i could make a living off Ruby i’d rather not see it crushed by the people making it popular. The ones saying “we all need to move to Scala now!” probably picked up Ruby last month or two and will pick up a new language in another month or two–not that there’s necessarily something wrong with that, as learning new languages is good for you. But it is wrong to learn them only because of trends.

Anyway, the “Next Big Language” (NBL) isn’t Scala or Erlang or any of those, anyway. It’s Javascript. But i kind of don’t want it to be Javascript, even though i kind of like Javascript, because Ruby is better as far as i can tell. Sure, Javascript is nice in that it’s everywhere thanks to it being the browser language… but…

By: Grant

Grant — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:18:22 +0000

Great perspective and great post. As someone who quite happy quietly working away in Rails, getting things done and staying out of the politics I never fully understand why people feel the need to rant so much about ruby/rails. But I appreciate their passion and you don’t usually see passion where something significant isn’t happening.

By: Sho

Sho — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:08:54 +0000

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I propose an immediate worldwide ban on all chicken tragically deficient in this miraculous boob-giving hormone forthwith.