ligniteman's comments

On: Matthew Simmons: The only way is down

[ligniteman]

I definitely agree with you on this one patrick....

And I have done a bit of research into the "undersea natural gas hydrates"......

That is a fascinating phenomenon. Deposits are gargantuan but, man, I wouldn't want to be working the rigs that explore for them.

If you drill into a deposit the natural gas will start bubbling to the surface and when this happens your platform loses flotation and sinks. This has already happened to one or two rigs working the North Sea with loss of all hands.

By comparison, nuclear fission is much, much safer.

On: Our Electric Future - Andy Grove

[ligniteman]

A really excellent analysis of our current dilemna.

We gotta get off the fossil fuel bandwagon and start using things that can be produced at home. Andy explains how to do that.

Great post.

On: Smalltalk resurgence

[ligniteman]

I definitely agree. Nice to see that smalltalk is still being used. I haven't worked with it for over 20 years and predicted it's demise back then even though I thought it was a very powerful and useful language. Fortunately I was wrong.

On: Fear and loathing at Railsconf

[ligniteman]

What a bunch of totally irrelevant nonsense.

Ruby on Rails, like all other frameworks and languages, is just a tool you can use to achieve some end.

If it achieve's your end faster and at lower cost than some other tool then it's definitely something to consider. If it doesn't then it's not.

All this nonsense about whether it's wierd or whether it somehow relates to hookers is just a total waste of time.

It's just a frameword guys. If it works for you use it. If it doesn't work for you don't.

I mean. That's all there is to it.