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The Ruby Way review on Slashdot

Tim Hunter

11/8/2006 10:50:00 PM

Whoo-hoo! My review of Hal Fulton's _The_Ruby_Way,_Second_Edition_ is on
Slashdot! Nice respite after a loooong day at work fixing bugs in C
programs...

http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/...
12 Answers

Hal E. Fulton

11/9/2006 12:18:00 AM

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Timothy Hunter wrote:
> Whoo-hoo! My review of Hal Fulton's _The_Ruby_Way,_Second_Edition_ is on
> Slashdot! Nice respite after a loooong day at work fixing bugs in C
> programs...
>
> http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/...

Thanks much for writing this, Tim...
you're very kind.


Hal

Hal E. Fulton

11/9/2006 1:25:00 AM

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Daniel N wrote:
> Hal,
>
> Is there plans to release this as a pdf? I'd really like to get my
> (virtual) hands on a pdf of this.

Through Safari, I think.


Hal

Mike Stok

11/9/2006 1:41:00 AM

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On 8-Nov-06, at 8:30 PM, Daniel N wrote:

> On 11/9/06, Hal Fulton <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> wrote:
>>
>> Daniel N wrote:
>> > Hal,
>> >
>> > Is there plans to release this as a pdf? I'd really like to get my
>> > (virtual) hands on a pdf of this.
>>
>> Through Safari, I think.
>>
>>
>> Hal
>
>
> Sorri I'm not sure what you mean by safari. Do you have a link..
>
> Cheers

http://safari.o...

--

Mike Stok <mike@stok.ca>
http://www.stok...

The "`Stok' disclaimers" apply.

Hal E. Fulton

11/9/2006 1:43:00 AM

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Daniel N wrote:
> On 11/9/06, Hal Fulton <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Through Safari, I think.
>>
>> Hal
>
> Sorri I'm not sure what you mean by safari. Do you have a link..
>

http://safari.or... I believe...


Hal

David Vallner

11/9/2006 12:18:00 PM

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Timothy Hunter wrote:
> Whoo-hoo! My review of Hal Fulton's _The_Ruby_Way,_Second_Edition_ is on
> Slashdot! Nice respite after a loooong day at work fixing bugs in C
> programs...
>
> http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/...
>

Wow, precisely ZERO posts before the comments degenerated into unrelated
twaddle, flaming $LANGUAGE, making random utterly uninformed statements
about Ruby's maturity, and more blatant flamebaiting and trollbaiting.

Slashdot never ceases to amaze me...

(Even though it's hardly as bad as the claim that DRM reduces sound
quality because of quantum.)

David Vallner

Louis J Scoras

11/9/2006 1:26:00 PM

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On 11/9/06, David Vallner <david@vallner.net> wrote:
>
> Wow, precisely ZERO posts before the comments degenerated into unrelated
> twaddle, flaming $LANGUAGE, making random utterly uninformed statements
> about Ruby's maturity, and more blatant flamebaiting and trollbaiting.
>
> Slashdot never ceases to amaze me...
>

I Soviet Russia, slashdot trolls YOU!!


--
Lou.

Leslie Viljoen

11/9/2006 1:49:00 PM

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On 11/9/06, Daniel N <has.sox@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hal,
>
> Is there plans to release this as a pdf? I'd really like to get my
> (virtual) hands on a pdf of this.

I got it on PDF but with much DRM.
I'm sorry to say that is has been an endless pain for me, many support
emails, much re-authorising, and repeated accusations from the Reader
about me having moved the file to another device. Still today, I can't
read the book I paid for.
So try to get a version without DRM.

Les

Luke Graham

11/9/2006 1:49:00 PM

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On 11/9/06, Louis J Scoras <louis.j.scoras@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/9/06, David Vallner <david@vallner.net> wrote:
> >
> > Wow, precisely ZERO posts before the comments degenerated into unrelated
> > twaddle, flaming $LANGUAGE, making random utterly uninformed statements
> > about Ruby's maturity, and more blatant flamebaiting and trollbaiting.
> >
> > Slashdot never ceases to amaze me...
> >
>
> I Soviet Russia, slashdot trolls YOU!!
>
>
> --
> Lou.
>
>

slashdot is a meta-troll. It's obvious when you think about it.

EB

11/9/2006 2:10:00 PM

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Timothy Hunter wrote:
> Whoo-hoo! My review of Hal Fulton's _The_Ruby_Way,_Second_Edition_ is on
> Slashdot! Nice respite after a loooong day at work fixing bugs in C
> programs...
>
> http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/...

My favorite quote (so far, I'm not very far into it) from the book:


Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add,
but when there is nothing left to take away.

-- Antoine de St. Exupery

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reminds me very much of Einstein's:

Make everything as simple as possible,
but not simpler.

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and:

Have nothing in your houses that is not useful
or you do not believe to be beautiful.

-- William Morris
------------------------------------------------------

I guess I like the minimalist approach :-)

eb

Andrew Hunt

11/9/2006 2:42:00 PM

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On Nov 9, 2006, at 9:10 AM, EB wrote:

> Timothy Hunter wrote:
>> Whoo-hoo! My review of Hal Fulton's _The_Ruby_Way,_Second_Edition_
>> is on Slashdot! Nice respite after a loooong day at work fixing
>> bugs in C programs...
>> http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/...
>
> My favorite quote (so far, I'm not very far into it) from the book:
>
>
> Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add,
> but when there is nothing left to take away.
>
> -- Antoine de St. Exupery


My long-time favorite as well; that's why Dave and I put in "The
Pragmatic Programmer" on page 188 :-)

Now if we can just get more people to actually *do* that...

/\ndy