January 2011
4 posts
Cara and I went to Yucatán. Here's Proof
How to fake the 'new' operator in Ruby
My friend Alejandro Crosa recently tweeted his wish that Ruby 1.9 include a ‘new’ operator like in Javascript and many other programming languages:
@nerdyc @ikai I kinda like it too, if 1.9 makes “new Class” work then all my typical javascript errors will disappear
So I decided to show him how to reproduce the new operator using Ruby meta-programming! For non-nerds, or...
Being Wrong and the Art of Writing Software
(via utnereader and poptech):
Kathryn Schulz is an expert on being wrong. The journalist and author of “Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margins of Error,” says we make mistakes all the time. The trouble is that often times being wrong feels like being right. What’s more, we’re usually wrong about what it even means to make mistakes—and how it can lead to better ideas.
This talk is probably...