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Re: James Golick has died

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Post by gaustin »

milesf wrote: post #16

I remember interviewing James for a podcast I used to produce. It was hilarious in that many of my friends are strong Christians, and many of James' friends are part of the BDSM community. We could not have been more polar opposites on many aspects of our worldviews, but we both loved the Ruby programming language and surrounding community. Both of us had "fallout" from that interview, me for interviewing a "heathen"…

I met you and James at my first Ruby conference. I didn't ever get to know James well but that was the start of a sea change in my career.

I never heard that interview but I'm smiling imagining the interaction.

Re: James Golick has died

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Post by riffraff »

fubarred wrote: post #26
melling wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The guy lost 100 pounds. That's impressive. http://jamesgolick.com/2012/7/7/how-to-lose-100-pounds.html

It is. Curious: Does anyone have experience with losing a massive % of body mass and quitting smoking? Which is harder?

not sure a massive % but I lost 15 kg out of 94 some years back. Not very hard if you do it the slow way (i.e. in a few months, with a dietician and exercise) but for some people it's a lot harder.

I also quit smoking a year ago after more than a decade. It was definitely harder, but it's not impossible.

Re: James Golick has died

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Post by milesf »

gaustin wrote: post #31
milesf wrote: post #16

I remember interviewing James for a podcast I used to produce. It was hilarious in that many of my friends are strong Christians, and many of James' friends are part of the BDSM community. We could not have been more polar opposites on many aspects of our worldviews, but we both loved the Ruby programming language and surrounding community. Both of us had "fallout" from that interview, me for interviewing a "heathen"…

I met you and James at my first Ruby conference. I didn't ever get to know James well but that was the start of a sea change in my career. I never heard that interview but I'm smiling imagining the interaction.

It was a typical podcast talk between typical Rubyists. There's a copy of it up on archive.org:

https://archive.org/details/Coderpath10-JamesGolick

I think the only people who would really have been offended by it are those who hadn't listen to it :) It's the same sort of banter you hear at clubs, conferences, and other podcasts, except that I'm not very smart and James is (or was... ugh, still having a hard time believing he's gone).

Re: James Golick has died

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Post by Argorak »

milesf wrote: post #34
gaustin wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I met you and James at my first Ruby conference. I didn't ever get to know James well but that was the start of a sea change in my career. I never heard that interview but I'm smiling imagining the interaction.

It was a typical podcast talk between typical Rubyists. There's a copy of it up on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/Coderpath10-JamesGolick I think the only people who would really have been offended by it are those who hadn't listen to it :) It's the same sort of banter you hear at clubs, conferences, and other podcasts, except that I'm not very smart and James is (or was... ugh, still having a hard time bel…

I just listened to it and it is full of good quotes, my favourite: "Discussions without good definitions are doomed to fail." (about the upcoming NoSQL dabate). I feel that's still ringing true in that sector.

Re: James Golick has died

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Post by taurath »

fubarred wrote: post #26
melling wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The guy lost 100 pounds. That's impressive. http://jamesgolick.com/2012/7/7/how-to-lose-100-pounds.html

It is. Curious: Does anyone have experience with losing a massive % of body mass and quitting smoking? Which is harder?

I've lost about 120lb from high school (320->200, I'm 6'4 and 28 now). I also currently smoke. I've quit smoking for about a year and a half, probably 3 of the last 8 years combined have been not smoking. Smoking is harder for me, as it not only requires a pretty vast social adjustment (avoid smokers at first, pass each and every willpower check), and stress brings it out of me like crazy. You need to have something else to replace the quick shots of dopamine you can get any time you want. I am currently working on new habits, and have my diet under control again after gaining some of that weight back. Next is exercise. One thing at a time.

Re: James Golick has died

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Post by simonrand »

rhgraysonii wrote: post #4
YuriNiyazov wrote: post #2

Who was he?

He did a lot of great talks, as well as blog writing. He also was the main developer of resource_controller (a rails library)[0] 0. https://github.com/jamesgolick/resource_controller

Totally unknown fact that resource_controller was initially extracted from a project James was working on with me (he was doing the coding) 7 odd years ago, we never fully discussed it as the project never saw the light of day (it was for a client) but I'm pretty sure the crazy client requirements drove the thinking behind it in some part.. I still have the half finished project somewhere, must dig it out..

Pretty shocked about his death, an inspirational guy.

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