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People

How and Where is _why?

August 20, 2009
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Photo courtesy of "ejc".
A Little Bit About _why
If you were to walk up to someone and utter the seemingly meaningless phrase “Chunky bacon!” and get a smile rather than a look a bewilderment, you could probably mark that person down as a Ruby programmer. That strange two-word combination is seared in the minds of [...]

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Silicon Alley Insider on the King of the Apple Geeks

August 10, 2009
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Silicon Alley Insider states the obvious – at least it’s obvious to Macintosh fans: John Gruber is King of the Apple Geeks.
On the off chance that you hadn’t heard of John before, he’s the one-man force behind Daring Fireball, one of the must-read sites for fans, followers – and yes, even evangelists for the [...]

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The Tragedy of the Coffee Shop

August 6, 2009
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This article also appears in Coffee and Code.
Today’s edition of the Wall Street Journal has an article about the Tragedy of the Commons being played out at coffee shops in New York: No More Perks: Coffee Shops Pull the Plug on Laptop Users.
This excerpt captures the general gist of the article:
Amid the economic downturn, there [...]

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FutureRuby Talk: “Fighting the Imperial Californian Ideology”

July 15, 2009

The final speaker at last weekend’s FutureRuby conference was Jesse Hirsh, a Toronto-based internet consultant, researcher and “talking head” on CBC Newsworld and CBC Radio. As stated on the “About” page on his site, “his passion is for educating people on the potential benefits and perils of technology.”

His presentation, Fighting the Imperial Californian Ideology, [...]

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Leah’s Tattoo

January 30, 2009

At CUSEC 2009, some of the attendees attempted to psychoanalyze the speakers out of concern for what seemed to be obsessions. The IRC backchannel during my presentation expressed concern for what they believed to be my fixation on butts, what with mentioning the movie Deliverance and showing the “Bottle Rocket in the Butt” video from [...]

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The Interview Question You Should Always Ask

January 28, 2009

This article was originally posted in Canadian Developer Connection.
From looking at Microsoft’s surveys of Canadian developers and plain old talking to people (something I love to do), it seems that many people who call themselves “developers” wear many hats, one of which is “manager”. If this is the case, I’ll bet that the title of [...]

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