Archive for October, 2007
Some Google Diggin
Every once in awhile I like to dig on Google to see if any of my friends have shown up. I found my brother-in-law (to be someday)'s company website Guillotine Post.
Don't Outsource, Hire a Robot!
I have been reading articles about outsourcing for some time and I have always thought to myself, someday, a robot or program will be doing the job of people. I think that we are getting closer and closer to the day when peoples jobs will not be so complicated that a machine can not learn [...]
My Quest For Another Language – Part 2
It's between Ruby or Python.
I hear all the buzz about Ruby, but performance is… lackluster (see shootout Python vs. Ruby). Even with the latest versions of Ruby 1.9.0 and Pyro Python, the fact remains, Python is a lot faster than Ruby. There's another discussion as well about the differences between the two languages (Ruby vs. [...]
My Quest For Another Language – Part 1
Some Initial Thoughts…
I have been searching for a language for a few years now. I think it's because of all the ones I start working with, there are just things I don't like about them… Java, PHP, Ruby, Python to start with (I am not going to C, or C++). So I have been looking [...]
We live in an unscientific age.
Every day it seems that I am reminded about how unscientific we are today. I remember reading a talk by Richard Feynman on the very same subject. It's not so much that things in general are unscientific but that things are often unscientific for no reason at all and more imporantly, things that should be [...]
PHP vs. Ruby
I have been searching for the answer to this for a long time and still do not quite have an answer for this … So to help me decide I set out to write two simple useful programs to find my Google Rank, one written in PHP and the other written in Ruby.
They are both [...]