I stare at the bottom of my drained coffee cup – the stray grounds settle on the bottom in a final stand against the tyranny of filtration. The quiet of the morning is leaving me – the minivans, SUVs, hybrid/crossover/family cars are pulling up in front of our house: it’s Go Time. I’m Mr. Trash today – and the children in my daughters’ class are about to get thrown away with me…
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Sublime Text: The text editor you’ll fall in love with
The title of this post is the tagline from the Sublime Text 2 website. A tad lofty, and altogether very accurate.
Rails Has Turned Me Into a Cannibalizing Idiot
Some interesting posts flying around about how ActiveRecord is rotting people’s brains and how Rails is “pants on head retarded”. I figured I might as well respond.
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Dear HBO
I’d gladly pay you upwards of $19.99 a month for direct access to HBO Go without a cable subscription. Netflix charges $7.99 a month for their streaming service right now, but thanks to your original programming, you’re worth a lot more. Count me in. via parislemon • Dear HBO.
A Bad Presentation Can Hurt More Than Help
I was reading HackerNews today and saw a really neat service: StackRocket.com. They allow you to create and share a development VM really easily. Unfortunately their introductory screencast is very poorly done, and left me more confused than interested. So I decided to be constructive – here’s my redo.
Sleeping Under Your Desk Doesn’t Make You A Success
If you’re running a startup there’s some kind of cliche that you need to be up all hours of the night and working on weekends. While it’s true that this can happen, it shouldn’t. That’s how you lose.
Yes, The Forest Is Full of Trees
Sitting here during the Fall Holidays in the US and I read a nice post from my friend Phil. I have more respect for that man than many of my other idols – and as usual his simple post made me reflect a bit.
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Parenting is outside the scope of ruby source code
Parenting is outside the scope of ruby source code. Offensive words are contextual, and only a parent can teach their child what these words mean and whether or not it is OK to use them and in what context to use or not use them. More over they change with time (e.g. “wtf”), country (compare [...]
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Fucking Your Way Out
I’m not opposed to swearing in presentations, or anywhere for that matter. Swearing says more about your abilities as a speaker then it does your content… that’s the problem.
How’s About We Walk Down There and F**ck Em All
The startup world has an exaggerated sense of competition – almost as if each “player” is a puppy struggling for access to the funding teet. This serves the VC puppet masters just fine, but can ultimately destroy the very business you’re trying to start.
