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If you're designing a language and are stricken by the beauty/utility of "(function(){})()", please stop designing a language.
Advice to aspiring Rubyists: Learn Enumerable well. Few things are as embarrassing as hearing you've just "cleverly" reimplemented inject.
Stop using comments to remind you what tag you're closing. If you used anything other than a <div> for everything, maybe you'd already know.
When Cucumber's outputting:
..F..U---------..F..U--
...try not to take it personally.
I'd be cool with the anti-Science crowd if they just gave up everything Science has given them. It's a fair deal. Computers, pacemakers...
If you can't easily reset your development db, you're doing something wrong; it should be disposable/reloadable on a whim.
No matter how much you love Haskell, it doesn't love you back. It's basically the feline of programming languages.
New favorite thing: Watching people "prove" the Mayan apocalypse ridiculousness "wrong" by quoting scripture, without a hint of irony.
Functional languages would be a lot more popular if they didn't have mathematicians write their marketing copy.
Our book, "The Rails View," is now available from Pragmatic Bookshelf: http://t.co/LqbuBc0G (Many thanks to my co-author, @boboroshi!)
We're looking to hire some talented JavaScript developers for the @livingsocial #pdx team! DM, reply, or RT to pass it along. Thanks!
Today's happy thought: When you can have a rough work day and still be wearing your pajamas, it's probably not all that rough.
My #devnation talk on #riak is up at http://bit.ly/9wfP0t -- [prettier] PDF with presenter notes at http://bit.ly/bHSPkW
With a few exceptions (e.g., `puts`, in DSLs), consistently using parentheses is a good idea. Don't confuse "optional" with "bad." #ruby
Today my 6-yr old son asked me to teach him how to "make stuff on the computer." Achievement ^@%$&#ing Unlocked!
Appending the name of the pattern you're using to a class name is just plain lazy. It makes things and is lonely, I get it; tell me more.
Stunning infographic that compares amount of spending on health care with life expectancy: http://bit.ly/6hVlS9 (via @bopuc & @plasticbaguk)
Palin says that "soon [they'll] all be dancing." I guess that means they're finally lifting the ban. Good job, Kevin Bacon.
Developer, Designer, Writer, Humanist. Technical Director at @LivingSocial.
