Peter Williams

Why is `Rational(3,1).integer?` false in ruby?

“There are more people under “correctional supervision” in America than were in the Gulag Archipelago under Stalin” t.co/IEfDE411

Morality is about make the world a better place, not religion. t.co/mWVyobr2

Recently Mike Amundsen posted a list of the tools he uses for developing cloud applications. He also asked for others to provide their lists. So here goes: Emacs The one true development environment that all others aspire to be like when they grow up. Mike has been using Cloud9 and really seems to like it. [...]

… thinking long-term is a high status thing to do because smart people are better at it. Thus, being a long-term thinker signals that you are smart. However, as we might expect with status competitions this is overdone. – Karl Smith

When we started developing CloudSwing we decided to develop CloudSwing as if quality actually matters. By quality i don’t just mean that the code functions as designed. High quality products also meet the needs of the business and customers. In the past there has been a sense of disconnection between the business, QA and development [...]

CloudSwing If the idea of deploying your applications on commercially supported open source stacks with built in application monitoring and cost management sounds appealing you should check it out. I learned an immense amount, even though i have been using cloud computing for years. The view from inside is a bit different than it is [...]

“libraries … are guaranteed not to change during runtime” = a language i *don’t* need to learn – t.co/FAjiIcFq

That first cup of good coffee after not having any for a week is sooo good.

The “Edit with Emacs” chrome extension rocks. t.co/qGiyJv5