Author Archives: Brian Hurt

And Apple is removed from my sh*t list…

By Brian Hurt | Published: September 9, 2010

Just wanted to post this link, wherein Apple rescinds it’s restrictions on what development tools app developers can use. I hereby withdraw my call to boycott Apple.

Posted in To Be Categorized | 2 Comments

So soon we forget

By Brian Hurt | Published: August 6, 2010

The first thing to remember is that the main difference between what we did to Hiroshima and Nagasaki and what we did to Tokyo, or what Japan did to China (see “The Rape of Nanking”) or the Philippines, or what we did to Dresden, or what Germany did to Coventry or Leningrad or Moscow, or what Russia did to Berlin, etc., etc. was how cheap it was.

Posted in Classic, Politics | 2 Comments

Steve Yegge is an idiot

By Brian Hurt | Published: July 28, 2010

And to think, I used to have respect for the man. Then he goes and posts this pile of fetid dingo kidneys. I’m going to explain in detail why ditching private (and, by extension, public) is bad. Obviously this needs to be spelled out, because a lot of programmers- including Steve Yegge – don’t get it.

Posted in Open Source, Programming Language Punditry | 72 Comments

Dear deficit “hawks”: bite me

By Brian Hurt | Published: July 26, 2010

Here’s the problem I have with the recent furor over the deficit and the debt: my long term memory still works.

Posted in Politics | 6 Comments

Today’s Thought

By Brian Hurt | Published: July 8, 2010

“Great tools are what you get when your language sucks.”

Posted in Programming Language Punditry | 13 Comments

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