Harry Vangberg

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Tue, 14 Jun 2011 21:42:55 +0200

"Io is worth learning just to see what a clean prototype-based language feels like. It’ll..."

Mon, 06 Jun 2011 17:05:27 +0200

“Io is worth learning just to see what a clean prototype-based language feels like. It’ll probably improve your understanding of Javascript.”

- hassy @ Hacker News

"One of my favorite examples, and one that I shared in my presentation, is that of clustering...."

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 01:40:49 +0200

“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?”

- Intuition & Data-Driven Machine Learning - igvita.com

"Grok how the “class” pattern is just a special case of disciplined prototype re-use. Realize that..."

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 14:03:17 +0200

“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.”

- Evolution of a Prototypal Language User

via @carllerche

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 22:06:05 +0100

via @carllerche

"Cucumber is simultaneously the most interesting and most useless thing I’ve seen from the Ruby..."

Fri, 18 Feb 2011 18:56:00 +0100

“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.”

- Reddit thread on Cucumber

Nick Lowe - “Rome Wasn’t Built In A Day” @ NPR...

Sun, 28 Nov 2010 19:15:00 +0100

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..."

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 20:38:44 +0200

“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.”

- Sentenc.es - A Disciplined Way To Deal With Email

Heathers starring Winona Ryder and Christian Slater. Essential...

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 09:34:27 +0200

Heathers starring Winona Ryder and Christian Slater. Essential teen movie.

Cloudant: Dynamo and CouchDB Clusters

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 22:36:45 +0200

Cloudant: Dynamo and CouchDB Clusters:

I can’t wait for the Cloudant software to be open sourced, it is a massive win for CouchDB.

Unlimited Novelty: Multithreaded Rails is generally better than Async Rails, and Rainbows is cooler than Node.

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 21:20:52 +0200

Unlimited Novelty: Multithreaded Rails is generally better than Async Rails, and Rainbows is cooler than Node.:

I have been doing a lot of EventMachine-based coding lately, and I am beginning to question the approach. Ruby is simply a bad fit for the model.

"One thing I really love about this is the guys are constantly shipping incremental improvements...."

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 10:27:00 +0200

“One thing I really love about this is the guys are constantly shipping incremental improvements. There won’t be an evening where they’re forced to work late to ship out their schema changes. You’ll never hear them cursing other developers for introducing changes that mess with their refactoring. Even though they’re focused on a very large refactoring, they’re never a few days off from having something to show. You can watch their progress as the commits flow by. They never entered the mindset that it’s ok to get lost in refactoring wonderland. Solving a problem elegantly doesn’t mean you have to go sit and think up the most beautiful solution ever. Break it down into little pieces and ship ‘em.”

- Corey Donohoe: Constantly Shipping Refactorings

(((wide antenna)))

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:20:59 +0200

(((wide antenna))):

Claus Dahl writes about the startup scene in the Øresund Region.

dwm on Mac OS X

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:58:00 +0100

The one thing I have always been missing on Mac OS X was dwm. Not anymore. Simon Rozet showed the way, and now I am the happiest Mac user in the world. And a productive one, as well. A bunch of small tweaks are needed to get the optimal experience, though, and I have started collecting those in a gist. Please do tell if you have anything to add.

Enjoy: Installing and configuring dwm on Mac OS X.

Rolf Sørensen taking out Tony Rominger in Liège-Bastogne-Liège...

Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:38:54 +0100

Rolf Sørensen taking out Tony Rominger in Liège-Bastogne-Liège 1993.

"Collaboration technology doesn’t need to be re-invented every six years. The stuff we had in..."

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:52:00 +0100

“Collaboration technology doesn’t need to be re-invented every six years. The stuff we had in the eighties works just fine.”

- Break My Concentration and I Break Your Kneecaps - Ted Dziuba

io-fans

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:28:22 +0100

io-fans:

Finding information about the Io language is difficult. It doesn’t have to be that way, though.

"The state of Javascript is such a heartbreaking missed opportunity. If only the authors of it had..."

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 03:54:00 +0100

“The state of Javascript is such a heartbreaking missed opportunity. If only the authors of it had had the courage of their convictions we could have had the next best thing to Self built into almost every browser.”

- keithb on reddit

Typography for Lawyers

Sat, 26 Dec 2009 20:46:22 +0100

Typography for Lawyers:

I almost forgot about this one. It is a great typography primer, even for non-lawyers.

Absinthe fountain. Must have.

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:33:08 +0100

Absinthe fountain. Must have.