Joe Gregorio

"""The book is called Fashion, Faith and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe. Each of those words stands for a major theoretical physics idea. The fashion is string theory; the fantasy has to do with various cosmological schemes, mainly inflationary cosmology [which suggests that the universe inflated exponentially within a small fraction of a second after the Big Bang]. Big fish, those things are. It’s almost sacrilegious to attack them. And the other one, even more sacrilegious, is quantum mechanics at all levels—so that’s the faith. People somehow got the view that you really can’t question it.""" - Joe Gregorio

Wow, the Pulse demo looks nice. First SAP demoed Gravity, now Novell introduces Pulse. The ball is really rolling for Wave in the enterprise. - Vlado Handziski

I take everything by Edward L. Glaeser with a big grain of salt, but this does look like an interesting result. - Joe Gregorio

Buys Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad. Wonder how much this is influenced by trends in gov't investment in high-speed rail, more concern over transportation costs for everything (rail is incredibly efficient). This also makes me wonder what their land holdings are, and how much fiber could you lay on that land, how many cell towers, how much is unused and could be converted into commercial or residential real estate, etc. - Joe Gregorio

http://twitter.com/login to the rescue. I don't use Tripit, so I can't help. - Giulio Piancastelli

Peter Norvig talk. - Joe Gregorio

"One of the reasons data­driven programs are not common, at least among beginners, is the tyranny of Pascal. Pascal, like its creator, believes firmly in the separation of code and data. It therefore (at least in its original form) has no ability to create initialized data. " How many years later and Java has the same issue. - Joe Gregorio

While the hoopla will only sell more books, the actual conversations being spawned might actually educate. - Joe Gregorio

Sweet! Thanks for implementing this. For many tasks leads to lower brain explosion than Perl regex. - Uche Ogbuji

Yeah, another conservative railing against the decline of rural America. We're just days away from Fox News declaring this a "Secret Liberal war on Rural America" when it's just the continuation of a 100 year long trend. - Joe Gregorio

People went way too nuts over that article. There are very good reasons no one is seriously writing pre-forking servers anymore. The reason it works for Unicorn is because Ruby's GC is totally garbage. - Toby DiPasquale

beats the hell out of editing binary data - Charlie Wood

Let them edit JSON! - Dethe Elza

Sadly, editing XML is easier than editing JSON, for humans. - Patrick Mueller