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“It really seemed like Rails just put everything together, so I thought well let’s give this thing a try, and I liked it.” Continue reading…

“The best computer science is the kind where the theory is inspired by some practical problem, you develop a better theoretical understanding of what you want to do, and that feeds

“The main motivation for me was to gain more perspective on the world and my place in it.” Michael Rosenthal is a traveling programmer who gave up school and full-time job

“When I was a graduate student, I was sitting in the office of my advisor in electrical engineering and he said, ‘Look out that window – you see a Volkswagon, I see a realization

“It was claimed that these [object-oriented] languages were better for modularity – and I don’t believe so.” Caml is a functional programming language that is a dialect of the