(Source: youtube.com)
“Io is worth learning just to see what a clean prototype-based language feels like. It’ll probably improve your understanding of Javascript.”
“One of my favorite examples, and one that I shared in my presentation, is that of clustering. Namely, to perform a clustering, we need to define a function to measure the “pairwise distance” between all pairs of objects. Can you think of a generic way to do so? How about using your favorite Zlib library?”
“Grok how the “class” pattern is just a special case of disciplined prototype re-use. Realize that prototypal inheritance makes a lot of those patterns trivial, and it’s a bit silly to spend so much time on them.”
via @carllerche
“Cucumber is simultaneously the most interesting and most useless thing I’ve seen from the Ruby community in a while. The idea that you can, and should, write tests in plain English is ridiculous at the outset and from there it devolves into a series of perversions simply to express what you’re trying to get done.”
Nick Lowe - “Rome Wasn’t Built In A Day” @ NPR Tiny Desk Concert.
“three.sentenc.es is a personal policy that all email responses regardless of recipient or subject will be three sentences or less. It’s that simple.”
Heathers starring Winona Ryder and Christian Slater. Essential teen movie.
Cloudant: Dynamo and CouchDB Clusters
I can’t wait for the Cloudant software to be open sourced, it is a massive win for CouchDB.
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