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parnas··on Interview with Rob Rhinehart about Soylent
soy causes man boobs
parnas··on [dead]
Then you missed the bit about how writing to disk automatically disqualifies you from horizontal scalability...
parnas··on OReilly offers 50% discount on ebooks in celebration of 'Day Against DRM'
says more about overproduction of Rails books then it does about lack of Django...
parnas··on Twitter is the new RSS
I'm reading this article on Feedly
parnas··on Stay away from rebase
gosh now I know even less about rebase than I did before, which was nothing...
parnas··on _why's complete printer spool as one book [pdf]
I'm sorry.. I don't understand the fanatical devotion and sacrifice(for example, having a nervous breakdown, or leaving a job for some startup when you've got wife and family because of devotion to the python community) for scripting languages that are all more-or-less the same +- curly braces as ruby/python/perl/php/C whatever. Look for something else to be interested in--OCaml and F#.
parnas··on Why your games are made by childless, 31 year old white men
My sons thank you 31 year old childless white man. I don't believe they will also become 31 year old childless white man because 1, they are asian, and 2, they won't even take the trash out to the can, even if the can was where it was supposed to be...
parnas··on Poll: What is your age?
I voted for several age groups accidentally, just started clicking on those little arrows.
parnas··on We call ourselves innovators, but most of us are really just iterators
what skills? what skills?
parnas··on Django Code of Conduct - feedback wanted
the fallout continues...
parnas··on Standups are Not Poisonous
For my show and tell, sniff sniff, I ...
parnas··on What's Actually Wrong with Yahoo's Purchase of Summly
it's about comfort zones, my 17-yo will take out the trash, but only to the screened in porch, not to the can. He also won't walk around the corner to get the can if it is still in the driveway, he will leave the trash exposed to racoons on the deck near where the can is supposed to be. Comfort zones...
parnas··on Take pride or fuck it
side project. side language... I think mine might be ocaml--can't stop looking at it, though I've tried I know there's no application other than a side project. Something has to have a bit of soul...

look at softpanorama regarding lots of years, it just gets frustrating.

parnas··on Why Ruby?
You're seriously happy with all the ,(function(){}){}); verbiage?
parnas··on Why Ruby?
every time I try to uniquely associate my identity with some technology or programming language, reality pulls the rug out from under me... i give up, perhaps it's time to invent my own in my zero minutes of spare time.
parnas··on Programming is Terrible
weren't we supposed to kick this problem over to enterprise architecture??