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Comment on How Steve Jobs Got Me to Buy an Android by Colleague Anthony

Colleague Anthony — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 13:33:13 +0000

I liked this article. It was a little inspiring in the “go into the wild” sort of way, but for programmers.

Comment on Erlang: Your New Favorite Scripting Language? by Wayne Vovil

Wayne Vovil — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 05:04:14 +0000

Just discovered Erlang and am really excited by it. I have been a programmer since 12 April 1969 and still at it. Your article is excellent. I was also thinking along the lines of “I want to try Erlang for simple scripting such as parsing logs for errors and warnings, I wonder if anyone has some thoughts on it?”. Ang Googled this article. Excellent, “please sir, can I have some more”!!!

Comment on Crafty Erlang by Bill Barnhill

Bill Barnhill — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:05:00 +0000

Colin, this was a great talk. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Everyone else, if you get a chance to go to one of Colin’s talks I highly recommend it. ErlangDC was also an awesome 1-day conference in general.

Comment on Business Software by Chris S

Chris S — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:48:36 +0000

I really liked your explanation here — this would make a great talk. Something to be said for taking suck out of the world.

Comment on Foreign Language Lessons by Bill Birch

Bill Birch — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 07:36:28 +0000

Hi,

You might like ‘Genyris’ https://code.google.com/p/genyris/ Like Lisp without parentheses, but with classes, like Ruby.

Cheers
Bill

Comment on Code & People by Lara

Lara — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 11:56:39 +0000

This post sums up perfectly the major pain point between non-dev and dev, and I think your attitude about it is incredible. I think too often each side forgets that the communication shouldn’t be painful/frustrating – that especially devs (myself included) should take a step back and remember that we just don’t think in the same ways. I think we all should approach each relationship with the same idea that you have in your next-to-last paragraph: that we look at the world in a very different way, and it’s an opportunity to learn a lot about how to solve problems.

Comment on Under the Hood by [Si]dragon

[Si]dragon — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 17:15:56 +0000

Very nice way to explain How Stuff Works. Usually when someone asks me this question, I begin by drawing a graph… Oops. On a tangent, it is interesting that some bits of this (comment about only concerning yourself with the outermost envelope) might perfectly explain how Tor works.