Monthly Archives: June 2007

A Highlight from the Ruby.MN Mailing List

We got an e-mail about how unfair we were: see, we kicked out a recruiter from “Synergy Information Services, Inc” who posted a Java job description with lots of buzzwordy goodness. His indignant e-mail included the following snippet: In spite of my apology to Mr.Looney for the alleged violation of some unpublished code of conduct, [...]

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ARGH!

So, I noodled around with the permalink structure, and I discovered that it broke…and not just kinda. It broke hard. Since I don’t want to lose our top 1 spot for “Ocaml Lazy” on Google or screw up our neighbors, I’ve switched it back to the old version. But if you see a problem with [...]

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Somebody’s Going to Hell

(If you don’t get the joke, check out this.)

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Functional Language Adoption

This is the continuation of a conversation started at Brian’s post on approaches to parallelism infrastructure, and continued at Thinking Parallel. Although their blog post certainly right in that functional languages are a entirely different paradigm and approach to development, and therefore there is a high barrier to their entry, I’m with Brian’s post here [...]

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Just Hanging Out

I’m at Acadia Cafe, the kind of raw-brick-and-maroon-walled coffee shop that makes you realize why Starbucks sucks so much. If you haven’t seen it, you should check it out next time you’re near Minneapolis. Theoretically, I’m supposed to be working on stuff for A Place (the coworking site I’m starting in Saint Paul), or on [...]

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