Vim 7.0 tabs suck. “Along the way I noticed that everyone is trying to do the same thing. Everyone just wants to open a tab for each buffer automatically and have it just work. It seems fairly obvious that tabs should work this way. It surprises me that the developers missed this.” What s/he said! (Link and profanity via Reddit)
Truth or art? Of course over complicating seems to be a desired trait to some people. 37Signals points to the Ars Electronica 2006 Simplicity: The Art of Complexity. The picture is intriguing in a weird way, the description is anything but simple. Proust is easier to read. Oh, it’s an art thing. Got it. Matt at 37Signals takes it quite literally and suggests an intervention.
Moore’s Law in Reverse: Ryan askes: “If the performance of harware doubles every so many months, why doesn’t the amount of time we spend worrying about the performance of our software get cut in half?”
I’ll trade any RAD for more of this. Tim Bray ends up diving into Ruby code: “’m not sure what the lesson is… but the code spelunking was frighteningly easy. This is not typical of other peoples’ HTTP libraries; I have bitter memories of bashing my head to a bloody pulp against LWP back in the last millennium. Did I mention readability?”
Which camp are you in? It’s time for the annual post-FooCamp bitchfest, but I’m linking to Stowe Boyd’s voice of reason. Google if you want to find the negative reactions. I dropped by BarCamp. It was friendly, full of inspiring people and I went home with a goodie bag full of great ideas.
