The reasons behind the desire to spend time and resources on learning something new, shouldn’t only be the prospective of getting a good job. It’s rather the joy of learning new concepts, letting the mind bend and forge to a multitude of paradigms, within different communities and environments.
Haskell Eye for the Ruby Guy
Ruby's thread scheduler is a simple cooperative timeslicing scheduler. Each thread is given in turn at least 10ms to execute undisturbed.
Ruby Threading
# Whoever comes are the right people.
# Whatever happens is the only thing that could have.
# Whenever it starts is the right time.
# When it is over it is over.
Open space
Long running tests smells because they broke the main idea of TDD - you will not use such tests for leading your __development__. And since TDD is about the development and not about testing this is fatal for the whole idea. Just using tests not mean using TDD.
Vladimir Ignatov on TIP
