You Used Ruby to Write WHAT?!
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Re: You Used Ruby to Write WHAT?!
#2If you'd included the author's name in the title, this story would be #1. ;)
Re: You Used Ruby to Write WHAT?!
#3If you'd included the author's name in the title, this story would be #1. ;)
I almost didn't read this because of the domain it's on, but your comment convinced me to. Thank you. :)
Re: You Used Ruby to Write WHAT?!
#4Zed is a good writer.
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#5I'm absolutely dumbfounded that this is written by Zed Shaw. There wasn't a single expletive in the entire article!
The last I read from Zed, he was railing against the powers that be in the Rails community. And the impression that I got was that he was rather under-employed and broke. Turns out, Zed's doing rather well for himself working as a VP at an investment bank and writing for CIO.com. Wow.
Anyway, nice write up of the strengths and limitations of Ruby the language, the MRI and JRuby.
Re: You Used Ruby to Write WHAT?!
#6I'm absolutely dumbfounded that this is written by Zed Shaw. There wasn't a single expletive in the entire article! The last I read from Zed, he was railing against the powers that be in the Rails community. And the impression that I got was that he was rather under-employed and broke. Turns out, Zed's doing rather well for himself working as a VP at an investment bank and writing for CIO.com. Wow. Anyway, nice write…
Many commenters on N.YC were saying that those Zed's posts were 'career suicides' and I guess they were wrong. He did pretty well by spewing hate, I must admit.
Biggest irony is that he's using Rails on his new project even though he said he didn't want anything to do with RoR and 'left' it for Factor.
Re: You Used Ruby to Write WHAT?!
#7I'm absolutely dumbfounded that this is written by Zed Shaw. There wasn't a single expletive in the entire article! The last I read from Zed, he was railing against the powers that be in the Rails community. And the impression that I got was that he was rather under-employed and broke. Turns out, Zed's doing rather well for himself working as a VP at an investment bank and writing for CIO.com. Wow. Anyway, nice write…
Many commenters on N.YC were saying that those Zed's posts were 'career suicides' and I guess they were wrong. He did pretty well by spewing hate, I must admit. Biggest irony is that he's using Rails on his new project even though he said he didn't want anything to do with RoR and 'left' it for Factor.
A month ago Obie good-naturedly called Zed out for this here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=98361
To be fair, Zed also said in subsequent interviews that he'd still use Ruby to make money, but he wouldn't use for hobby coding or new, envelope pushing projects.
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#8Nice article, but by his standards it was somewhat boring :-)
Re: You Used Ruby to Write WHAT?!
#9Zed is a good writer.
Couldn't agree more.
Zed hits the nail on the head when he highlights the passion for Ruby among new programmers. I just started working with Rails, and everyone I've been learning from is infatuated with Ruby (and Rails, to some extent).
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#10Zed is a good writer.
Agreed, not only is he a good writer, his article hits the nail on the head for the areas where ruby has an advantage. He manages to nail down a diverse list of areas.
On a different note, I suspect he might be bipolar.
http://www.helpguide.org/mental/bipolar_disorder_symptoms_tr...