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Ruby on Ramen?

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It claims that part of the proceeds from the sale of the noodles will be used to promote and develop the Ruby programming language. Truth or a stunt?

Literally ramen profitable?

No, profitable ramen.

I love the japanese.

It can't be both?

He said 'truth or stunt?' not 'truth xor stunt?'!

I have never actually paid attention to how different logical 'or' and english 'or' is. This strikes me as a trivial example of why legalese is so hard to read.

It's true:

http://www.ruby-assn.org/ja/index.htm

http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&h...

Matsue Ramen is from Matsue city, where Matz lives.

Obligatory link to pg's Ramen Profitable essay:

http://www.paulgraham.com/ramenprofitable.html

Courtesy of Google Translate:

http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&h...

I could see this take off in the startup community, just order a 3-month supply before you start coding. If you do this right & "sell the dream" then it could work for much the same reasons those crappy nutritional supplement products work. I'm not buying though, I'm already fully supplied.

This is, apparently, fresh ramen. It has a 30 day shelf life. 3 month supplies might be a little problematic.

I'd love for this to come out in America. Everywhere I look, all I find is this junk: http://www.maruchan.com/maruchan_ramen.html

Maruchan is better than Top Ramen.

Beats this stuff: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Noodles

I had some really interesting (and expensive) ramen called sapporo ichiban, it was delicious. Then I discovered it had about the caloric content of a big mac, but without any redeeming qualities (a big mac has, for example, actual vitamin content).

an attempt to tap into the ramen-eating startup market?

That's Ruby community love, folks.

I prefer Python.

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