stevegoober's comments

On: Chris Seaton on Massively Improving Ruby Performan...

[stevegoober]

> I was actually handed the project idea as an intern task.

"Hey Dave, that intern kid starts today. Shall just I send him to get coffee and donuts?"

"Nah, I was going just to ask him to make Ruby massively faster, something many super-smart people have been trying to do for years with no success."

"Ok, that should keep him out of our way at least."

On: The result would be a catastrophe (1985)

[stevegoober]

> I doubt anyone in the reagan admin could even understand this note

Right... and maybe this is a problem with the authors of the note rather than the recipients? Know how to communicate to your target audience.

[URSpider94 → stevegoober]

That's why he sent it to the VP of Engineering, who I'm sure understood everything in the letter.

[stevegoober → URSpider94]

Ok, I was going based on the information shams93 contributed, which now seems to be incorrect. No need for the brutal down-voting.

[Etheryte → stevegoober]

You could read the actual article before commenting.

On: Expedia developers don't know about RFC

[stevegoober]

HN is not the right medium for this complaint.

[anotheristaken → stevegoober]

I'm not complaining.