Robi's Ringolog - Latest Comments

Re: Robi's Ringolog - Post #66

Robert Thurnher — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:42:50 -0000

True. :)

Re: Robi's Ringolog - Post #66

oberhamsi — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 06:29:48 -0000

Kernighan elaborates why 'clever' is stupid :)

Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. --Brian Kernighan

Re: Robi's Ringolog - Post #57

Robert Thurnher — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 15:49:24 -0000

Yep. :)

Also the following one by Jamie is kinda interesting:
"I'm still bummed that I failed to talk you in to making #!/usr/bin/javascript work back then, because I think that we were still in the window where we had a shot at smothering Perl in the crib..."
;)

Re: Robi's Ringolog - Post #57

oberhamsi — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 14:11:23 -0000

lots of comments from brendan below it :) fun read.

"(I'm like a Yankees fan on Red Sox turf, but whatever.)"

Re: Robi's Ringolog - Post #49

hannesw — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 08:03:05 -0000

impressive presentation!

Re: Robi's Ringolog

Robert Thurnher — Mon, 10 May 2010 18:33:11 -0000

Full ACK.

Additionally, one can/should learn from the mistakes made regarding overly arrogant behaviour towards "all things enterprise & co." there, IMHO.

Re: Ringolog

Robert Thurnher — Mon, 10 May 2010 18:28:39 -0000

Thanks!

Re: Robi's Ringolog

Martin Schuerrer — Mon, 10 May 2010 06:01:54 -0000

A summary of the talk is here: http://news.ycombinator.com...

My take on it is that dynamic languages force you to adhere even more to best practices like TDD, keeping technical debt low if you want your project to suceed.

Re: Ringolog

earl — Sun, 09 May 2010 19:27:08 -0000

shiny!