Looking for a donor RoR app
Hi, folks. I’m in the market for a hand-me-down app. Specifically: Open-source or public domain Smallish, but real. Not just a “hello world” app. Does something that most people would…
Half-off Exceptional Ruby, Confident Ruby, & more
UPDATE: This sale, along with my birthday, is now over. Thanks to everyone who made my birthday even sweeter by buying books! Hey there! This is just a quick note…
Hacker terminology: “Golden”
When I was starting out as a young programmer, I worked on (among other things) an air-traffic control system. A full set of hardware for the system—including multiple rack cabinets…
The real 10x developer
Ask me for a 10x developer, and I’ll show you a hacker who can take a list of 10 tickets, and reject 9 of them because they don’t appreciably advance the project…
Pay no attention to the Dijkstra behind the green curtain
…And so, as we can see, with sufficiently powerful type constraints, the implementation practically writes itself! Neat! I know, right?? …although didn’t you just write the whole function inside the type…
Troll hunting for fun and profit
Winning against these trolls has become a national pastime for us. Newegg vs. Patent Trolls: When We Win, You Win – Unscrambled
Haskell at Facebook
We recently completed a two-year redesign of Sigma, one of our spam-fighting systems. Check out how we integrated Haskell with our existing C++ code and the improvements we made to…
Where do ideas come from?
Someone wrote in asking: you always have ideas… How do you generate ideas to build something? Which is a great opportunity to pontificate. (I swear, I did not make this…