Exactly, Ruby Isn't An Insurgency

Best. Response. Ever.

I luvs you _why

Off to Dadhouse it is!!!

I don’t understand. Have I gone wrong? Have all of you?

For some reason that makes me think of Ted Stevens’ Series of Tubes remix

“The Internet is not a big truck…”

i’d like to have an employer that would pay me to go to ruby-related events, but somehow that would make it less fun and more like business (which it clearly is, as I get paid to do it)

that said, i like my dad, and he doesn’t have to make pancakes on pancake day for me to be happy. he just has to play catch every once in awhile, and help wash the dog with tomato juice when the dog decides to launch his own insurgency against small woodland creatures.

this is how i feel, and even tim bray can’t change how i feel about my dad. or the dog.

Isn’t Tim Bray the guy who bears primary responsibility for inflicting XML on us?

He seems to have a long-term mission to suck all the life and fun out of programming.

We should listen to what he has to say why, exactly?

“He seems to have a long-term mission to suck all the life and fun out of programming.”

Wow. Do comments come any more ignorant that that?

BTW, how much do you know about Unicode, and who’s been helping improve I18N in Ruby?

Great post, and I love you too, _why (strictly platonic, like a dad even). Ruby doesn’t need an insurgency. It’s just the right thing to do, and yes, it’s time to come out and admit our dad-ness and that some of us do get paid to write Ruby all day.

nat: Thankyou. Enlightening. That really sums things up for me right now. With where I’m at.

lemon: Let’s operate on the assumption that you’re okay, that you’re not in the wrong, you’re even steven with humanity, and that this is merely a fanatical and nearly incoherent blog.

nap: You make a very sore point about dads wanting to play catch. I had completely forgot!

I’m a dad, but I suck at playing catch. What can I do instead?

Your face is I18N! Oh!

Will you father my children

Wow, you’re right! Tim Bray sure is a prick for daring to say that he prefers spending time with his kids to chilling with WACKY NERDS and their KERAZY NON SEQUITURS! LOTS OF EXCLAMATION MARKS!!! “AMUSING”, UNHELPFUL DRAWINGS!!!! CHUNKY BACON RIDING AN EXPLODING BANANA BICYCLE TO THE MOON!!!!!

Sun is the company that pays Tim a big salary at the end of each months. So he writes what they want him to. In this case Sun’s executives are a little bit worried about their strategy.

Remember why Sun marketeers (and Tim) promote Ruby:

1. Ruby on Rails sucks less than the established J2EE web framework (that’s kind of easy) and Sun desperately needs a popular web programming environment.

2. Unlike Python’s (which has had a JVM implementation since 1998), the original Ruby’s VM sucks enough not to compete with Sun’s own Java VM.

The trouble with this “worse is better” strategy is that it worked very well and has now materialized in the form of an army of proud Java morons wreaking havoc in Ruby’s community.

I’d be asking “Why the flaming hell won’t my Sooper Serious Important Adult Type Job let me take off a couple of other days to spend with my kid if I happen to spend the weekend at a job-related conference?”

Oh, and Tim? Halloween falls on Friday next year, so you might want to get a head start on the your rant for when someone schedules something during the week. Maybe you could write it in XML-encoded UTF-32 Klingon, with each individual byte nested inside about 50 levels of useless, anal-retentive markup. That would rock! As well as getting you Major Geek Cred!

He’s always had that “I have come down to bless your puny language with my presence” attitude. Relax NG, man; you can’t, like, “schedule” a Ruby conference.

Maturity? Na, haven’t seen it… want a funyon?

This is the best blog post ever.

boo yah!

My dad likes funyons.

I’m a dad… and I get paid to write Ruby, sometimes. In my PJs, too. And now my kid is waking up and I’ve got to stop spending time on Ruby.

amen, tim. amen, _why. amen, phred. ruby’s cool. kids’re cool. explaining weekend confs to kids is not cool, but sometimes must be done.

Ruby is not a party?

/me sheepishly removes lamp shade from head.

I am not a dad. Nor am I a Ruby programmer, by trade or by hobby. Wait, why am I even on this page?

Hey tom, I got a totally different meaning from Tim’s post. I thought he was daring to say that he prefers working insane hours to spending time with his kids. Good news though is that so much of the conf world is made available, for free even!, through things like confreaks. So instead of giving up his weekends, he can spend 9 a.m. through 3 p.m. on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday watching all the recorded videos. Choices are great!!!!!!!!!!!!

I had to read this post three times before … before it hit me.

• _Farewell
• corporate
• sponsors.
• hello personal
• responsibility
• and
• real
• human
• priorities._

Dammit, Jim, I’m still wearing my Mr. Spock ears. I can still nerd out on Ruby and get paid for Ruby. Besides, not a dad and, at this rate, not gonna be one.