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Hard Drive Hygene: Downloads Zero

I recently blew my computer away and re-built everything from scratch. IA lot of cruft had built up, and instead of trying to scour my computer, I just punted and started all over. One of the things I’ve done is adopted a kind of “Downloads Zero” approach (akin to “Inbox Zero“): I had built up [...]

Also posted in New Frontiers | 9 Comments

My question on Go

Algol-2009 aka Google Go causes Brian thoughts on systems programming languages and how to apply optimizations.

Also posted in Programming Language Punditry | 18 Comments

Consumer-Developers and Contributor-Developers

An analysis of two very different conceptions of how open source works, and what happens when someone from one camp encounters someone from the other.

Also posted in Open Source, Software Business | 18 Comments

Ruby Can’t Be Parsed?

Wherein Robert fumbles around to understand why parsing perl is equivalent to solving the halting problem, but that’s not true for Ruby.

Also posted in Ruby/JRuby | 14 Comments

“What is a BarCamp?”, Featuring BarCampRDU 2009

After a BarCamp really hate hearing, “I would have made a pitch, but I wasn’t sure how to.” So I created this podcast, which goes through BarCampRDU’s pitch process and then runs through the pitches that were made at BarCampRDU 2009. It features Matt Frye and Tanner Lovelace as unwitting co-hosts, and background music from Durham’s own Permanent4.

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