I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open,…
— Unix and Beyond: An Interview with Ken Thompson
via Minima
BBC NEWS | French reject internet piracy law →
A proper way to treat sitizens as mature humans. It’s like Germany with its Autobahn except that here nobody is going to die if someone downloads something “illegal” not knowing about that.
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
Podcast with Ryan Tomayko →
An interview with Ryan Tomayko about Python/WSGI, Rack, Sinatra, Rack::Cache, Heroku.
One can find interesting Ideas and get some fresh insight into what is happening in the Ruby and Python world.
By the way, Heroku was new to me (and actually it stil stays there) but at first look it seems to be simple and do what one needs to have done without a lot of trouble.
