Shallow and Pedantic
A person/tech/code blog of a coder/techie/person. Like calculus in a kiddie pool, the author of this blog is known to be quite shallow and pedantic.
Sometimes imperfections in Software drive me nuts. It’s what drove me away from Windows. It’s what keeps me switching back and forth between desktop environments. It’s what has me wasting a lot of time getting the software to do what I want, instead of getting anything done. I even have two particularily good examples.
Firefox and Opera are my two favorite browsers. Opera is actually not as good, in my taste, as Firefox.
Just finished downloading an episode of American Dad off Bittorrent. TV has ancient episodes of Family Guy. Took about an hour though… I tells ya, I’d pay for this kind of service if it were faster… ;)
Myself, I’m a Ruby hacker. I send everyone within earshot to TryRuby, code my sites using Rails, am surprised that I’m using a php-based blog… you get the picture. Ruby is sometimes called the Japanese Python, and comparisons are inevitable. I know very little about Python, but I do know that…
It has a larger community More GUI applications are written in it More bindings are available for it Its interpreter is much faster Not a far inferior language Ruby certainly does have its advantages over it - trivial class expansion, extremely concise syntax, seemingly better-suited for heavy usage of closures, and Matz.
(Hebrew) A bit of excessive geekery
(Hebrew) Comparative Katyusha damage
(Hebrew) Shame on Meretz