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rawburt··on Daniel Ek commits to investing €1B in European ”moonshots”
> Historically, artists never made much money selling music.

Yup, so why start now, right? That would go against tradition.

rawburt··on Important non-programming skills for programmers
Halfmoon look real nice, as does the documentation. Kudos
rawburt··on Gödel, Escher, Bach
Don't be fooled by the concrete either, my friend. The Tao Te Ching is no different, in ways, to the Bible, the Quran, Lord of the Rings, Dune, Cat's Cradle, The Feynman Lectures... It's all what you take from it.
rawburt··on Taming Large Rails Applications with Private ActiveRecord Models
"I don't really understand why this would be an advantage in a large app." They make quite a few points in the article:

> The tangle of dependencies, callbacks, and relationships can grind your entire engineering organization to a halt.

> Why do we want encapsulation? As an organization grows, any public interface will eventually be used.

> So we start to take a defensive approach to modeling, only making public what we are sure that we can support. This makes these models easier to support because they have a smaller surface. They are easier to change internally, too, because there are fewer different uses.

> It has also helped teams collaborate and create contracts for interactions.

"but then you have to slow down and add all those wrappers for active record stuff" you also have to slow down to resolve technical debt and deal with collaboration, among other things. It seems that the approach they describe is giving them a positive opportunity cost. There are always pros and cons.

"And unless I want to restrict stuff I would want the default to be exposed" the article explicitly says they wanted to restrict stuff.

rawburt··on Taming Large Rails Applications with Private ActiveRecord Models
I'm glad they mentioned ROM and Sequel. But of course, pragmatism beats favoritism.
rawburt··on Gödel, Escher, Bach
I think the Tao Te Ching is more clever than Gödel, Escher, Bach. But, GEB is still fun-- I just don't think it completely deserves the "Holy Grail" status it has.
rawburt··on Gödel, Escher, Bach
Yes. It was fun and interesting. I recommend it to anyone interested in logic and metaphysics.
rawburt··on Haskell in Production
This is opinion. Haskellers have opinions too. Whatever you like and whatever gets the job done: bravo
rawburt··on Haskell in Production
Compilers
rawburt··on Haskell in Production
People seem to hate Haskell because it's not [popular-language-that-they-use]. To think that Haskell is used, liked, and works, seems to upset people who don't like, use, or understand Haskell. Or, so it seems.
rawburt··on Australia Just Had a Bad Flu Season. That May Be a Warning for the U.S.
Did any of you get flu shots?
rawburt··on 42 is found to be the sum of three cubes
No, it's the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything.
rawburt··on 42 is found to be the sum of three cubes
It's the answer to the ultimate "question" of life, the universe, and everything. This is an important difference. What's the question?