I’m a little biased here, being a ruby on rails user, although not professionally anymore. This still makes a great point that most programming purists fail to see.

The point is that the cost per request is plummeting, but the cost of programming is not. Thus, we have to find ways to trade efficiency in the runtime for efficiency in the “thought time” in order to make the development of applications cheaper. I believed we’ve long since entered an age where simplicity of development and maintenance is where the real value lies.
David Heinemeier Hansson
Tuesday, July 12, 2005

I like programming and doing it well, but I really enjoy what it enables us to do. I think it’s just the means to the end, not the end itself.

What Edmunds.com says

A standard Z06 is already a street legal race car. Adding another 100 horsepower seems like overkill.

Isn’t it cool! 

THE YEAR 1906
This will boggle your mind, I know it did mine!

The year is 1906.
One hundred years ago.
What a difference a century makes!

Here are some of the U.S. statistics for the Year 1906:

The average life expectancy in the U.S. was 47 years.

Only 14 percent of the homes in the U.S. had a bathtub.
more…

As heard from the host of a show while driving a shelby cobra w/ a 514…
…if you’re used to driving a BMW M3 or a Subaru STI then you’re probably worried about ripping your pantyhose and this car is not for you.

Marriage is like a coffin and each kid is like a nail…

I am a .NET developer by trade (but use a Mac at home and my Intel boxes run Linux).

In response to the idea that WinFS is going to get it’s indexing power from a custom SQL engine, I have to say that SQL Server on our XP boxes isn’t reliable enough to use an an integral part of the file system. IT JUST IS NOT! Consider how many implementations of home and small business users won’t have the benefit of IT support staff. Sure there are implementations of SQL on XP that are stable and blah blah blah, but we deal with SQL crashing in dev or even production environments regularly. Sometimes it is just restarting SQL that does the trick, sometimes it halts the whole server.

Point is I don’t want something as critical as my OS file system relying on SQL to tell me if my files should be backed up or not…one bad worm and bad news for everyone!

A good friend will bail you out of jail, your best friend will be sitting next to you saying “Dude, that was Awesome!!”

GPL - Free as in mine
BSD/X11/MIT - Free as in not closed yet
CDDL - Free as in slave labor
Apache - Free as in complicated
Microsoft - Free as in stolen

Like every other Lingenfelter product we’ve tested over the years, the $85,781 402 C6 Vette drove very much like its stock counterpart—it was simply a helluva lot faster. So it was like taking a standard Vette and turning it up to eleven.

Mom - “How is everyone’s french toast?”
Stan - “Smelly and Ungrateful, but this American toast is delicious.”