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  1. "Tapestry is all about managing state; Clojure is about avoiding state (wherever possible), embracing functions and functional programming"12:56 PM Jul 10th from Adium
  2. RT @stuarthalloway I sense a disturbance in the force: http://wiki.github.com/hlsh...12:55 PM Jul 10th from Adium in reply to stuarthalloway
  3. @mfeathers Got to love any language that has gerunds...9:52 AM Jul 10th from Adium in reply to mfeathers
  4. @ckeithray You can with ours9:53 AM Jul 9th from Adium in reply to ckeithray
  5. @erebor FWIW, I think that short-termism and greedy are both symptoms of what ails us...7:25 AM Jul 9th from Adium in reply to erebor
  6. @erebor Greedy here has overtones of self-defeating. It seems like a short-term play7:12 AM Jul 9th from Adium in reply to erebor
  7. @_abk Sure, you can buy many/most phones with or without a lockin to the carrier. In this case, there's a lock in.7:07 AM Jul 9th from Adium in reply to _abk
  8. @_abk No. Think cell phones. If they're open you pay more. If they're closed, the ongoing revenue subsidizes the initial loss on hardware6:46 AM Jul 9th from Adium in reply to _abk
  9. @erebor That's not a parallel case. It more like we sold you ebooks and you also had to buy our reader to make use of them.6:29 AM Jul 9th from Adium in reply to erebor
  10. AT $299, the Kindle2 is still $200 too expensive. It's greedy to make money on both the razor _and_ the blades.5:50 AM Jul 9th from Adium
  11. Oh dear. IBM & Scott Ambler back to embrace & suffocate tactics: http://bit.ly/p57qB8:50 AM Jul 8th from Adium
  12. Prawn is about 3-4 times faster than PDF::Writer for our receipt generation. The API is well thought out, too.2:34 PM Jul 7th from Adium
  13. From @gnupate: double dipping an interview with a couple of your authors: http://bit.ly/keep-job12:09 PM Jul 7th from Adium
  14. @AndyArmstrong obviously not. The objection was in the context of Ruby, though. Can't remember why9:44 AM Jul 7th from Adium in reply to AndyArmstrong
  15. A while back someone decried the Ruby !! idiom. I just had to use it: @two_up = !!two_up (I need the instance variable to be true or false)9:11 AM Jul 7th from Adium
  16. @JEG2 I'm talking at LSRC, so that sounds like a sure thing.12:14 PM Jul 6th from Adium in reply to JEG2
  17. @JEG2 I'm not going until September, unfortunately, otherwise I would, I loved RubyKaigi12:06 PM Jul 6th from Adium in reply to JEG2
  18. Working on getting a Chinese visa. It's been a while since I needed a visa to travel.10:32 AM Jul 6th from Adium
  19. @danielssonn At the risk of some shameless self-promotion. you might also enjoy the screencasts: http://bit.ly/5aQ6o9:51 AM Jul 6th from Adium in reply to danielssonn
  20. @tundal45 Fixed. Thanks for the report8:03 AM Jul 6th from Adium in reply to tundal45