Kurt Schrader

Jan
31st

Thu

Perhaps I’m being too harsh, but when you blast the world for years
with manifestos about how inadequate all programming languages are
besides Lisp, and yet how Lisp isn’t even really suitable yet, but
wait —- you’re going to save the day, everybody just hold your
breath until your shiny new version comes and solves all the world’s
programming problems… when you do that, then you deliver this, you
deserve whatever abuse anybody wants to send your way.

— Jeff Bone

Jan
25th

Fri

http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/10919

Jan
18th

Fri

In most people’s vocabularies, design means veneer. It’s interior decorating. It’s the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.

— Steve Jobs

Dec
17th

Mon

One of the greatest messages ever. This is what came up when I tried to quit Word.

I wonder what happens if I click “cancel”?

Dec
7th

Fri

For the first 10 years of kernel maintenance, we literally used tarballs and patches, which is a much superior source control management system than CVS is

— Linus Torvalds