Tall, Snarky Canadian (Page 31)

My impressions of Scala

06 Jan 2014 3 min read Scala

TL;DR Scala is fine and I would definitely use it over vanilla Java, but I still prefer Go if I'm not able to use Python. My Impressions Why did I

How can I fight climate change in my day-to-day life?

31 Dec 2013 5 min read

The idea of making the planet harder to live on because I and my fellow human beings can't keep their fossil fuel burning under control feels like children who are addicted

The key challenges in designing a programming language

22 Nov 2013 4 min read project management

I have been involved with Python’s development process [http://docs.python.org/devguide/] as an official core developer of the language for a decade over Python’s 24 years in existence and

My thoughts on Go (again)

02 Nov 2013 5 min read

A little over three years ago I blogged my thoughts on the Go programming language [http://sayspy.blogspot.ca/2010/10/my-thoughts-on-go.html]. At the time I said Python [http://www.python.org/

Taking the Time to Re-evaluate Assumptions

09 Sep 2013 2 min read

Up until today I never really thought about using FLAC [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLAC] for my personal audio files. Yes, I still own and buy digital music (Andrea is the one