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Pat Eyler
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Pat Eyler writes On Ruby, a personal blog at on-ruby.blogspot.com about programming and career. Since 2007, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “Reia Interview (a new dynamic lang on the Erlang VM)”. The last post was in 2014, but the archive is still widely read.
The (mostly) tech related musings of Pat Eyler. Ruby, Erlang, Haskell, Scala, Ocaml, Publishing, and more ...
Most-linked posts?
- Reia Interview (a new dynamic lang on the Erlang VM)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2009-03-10
- IP laws gone awry: Implementing algorithms described in a book could be illegal2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-02-02
What Hacker News says?
I agree with Jay's suggestion of adding a property list to the end instead of a hash -- this leads you with much the same effect for the passthrough args. For dynamic language on erlang vm, check out http://on-ruby.blogspot.com/2009/03/reia-new-dynamic-languag...
Comment linking /2009/03/reia-new-dynamic-language-on-erlang-vm.html
on “Dynamic variables hack in Erlang”Submitted On Ruby: Good Programmers and How to Become One as a story · 36 points
HN discussionRuby language on the Erlang VM - http://on-ruby.blogspot.com/2009/03/reia-new-dynamic-languag...
Comment linking /2009/03/reia-new-dynamic-language-on-erlang-vm.html
on “Erlang Doesn’t Fit The JVM”Submitted Will Rubinius be an acceptable Lisp? as a story · 32 points
HN discussionIt's probably too late for you in this case, but in the future, it's probably a good idea never to read patents. (not legal advice) That's the policy I keep -- I don't follow links with 'patent' in the URL, because it's much worse for you if you knowingly infringe. For that matter, I don't even read paper publications out of places like Microsoft Research because of patent-related issues. Take a look at this, warnin…
Comment linking /2008/02/ip-police-line-do-not-cross.html
on “Ask HN: How to deal with patents?”Submitted On Ruby 1.9: Real World Performance On Boxing Day as a story · 5 points
HN discussionAdd people who contributed good pull requests to the project and tell them they can commit to it directly. Hopefully one (or more) of them will become maintainers (i.e. committing other people's PRs). Something like Rubinius policy for checkins ( http://on-ruby.blogspot.com/2006/12/rubinius-serial-intervie... )
Comment linking /2006/12/rubinius-serial-interview-part-i.html
on “Ask HN: What's the best way to relinquish control of an open source project?”Submitted Diamondback Ruby Interview as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted IP laws gone awry: Implementing algorithms described in a book could be illegal as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Discussion on Code Reading as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rails and Merb -- Why Merge At All? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pulling Strings with Puppet -- Book Review as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is Brooks Wrong? (9 women can't have a baby in 1 month) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Interview with Pat Maddox: "Seaside is a fascinating and fun technology..." as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Finding or Keeping a Tech Job as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reia Interview (a new dynamic lang on the Erlang VM) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Puppet and Ralsh as a story · 1 points
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