Ruby 2 (a.k.a Ruby Secunda Kathrine Pine) was released January 22, 2005 at 1:51:42 pm (PST) after a few hours of intense, last-minute debugging and deployment. We've been working on this project for just over 9 months and are quite pleased with the results! (Well, my wife really did most of the work, though I *did* play a seminal role in the initial project conception phase.)
<<< THE NAME >>>
Ruby -- named after our favorite language, of course!
Secunda -- our second child (after C), and the second Ruby
(in the roman tradition of numbering your children,
e.g. "Quintus" and "Octavius")
Kathrine -- named after the lead programmer on this project
(a tradition in her ancestral development house)
Pine -- yes, our last name, but also Matz once told me that
"matz" is Japanese for "pine"!
<<< FEATURES >>>
* Powerful audio output (even on those little tweeters)
* Net Wt. 9 pounds (or a little over 20k carats as Dave Thomas notes)
* FIFO digestive queue
* Ruby.length == 20 inches
* UNBEATABLE copy protection
* Dark brown hair
* Just plain FUN! (true to the Ruby lagacy)
<<< KNOWN ISSUES >>>
* FIFO queue occasionally behaves like a LIFO stack
* Ruby.sleep(ALL_NIGHT) seems to resume unexpectedly
* While C (her big brother) sends plenty of messages to Ruby,
Ruby doesn't seem to respond to C calls.
Ruby 2 (a.k.a Ruby Secunda Kathrine Pine) was released January 22, 2005 at 1:51:42 pm (PST) after a few hours of intense, last-minute debugging and deployment. We've been working on this project for just over 9 months and are quite pleased with the results! (Well, my wife really did most of the work, though I *did* play a seminal role in the initial project conception phase.)
Congratulations!
Just for the record: That other guy on those screenshots really has "C" as his first name?
Ruby 2 (a.k.a Ruby Secunda Kathrine Pine) was released January 22, 2005 at 1:51:42 pm (PST) after a few hours of intense, last-minute debugging and deployment. We've been working on this project for just over 9 months and are quite pleased with the results! (Well, my wife really did most of the work, though I *did* play a seminal role in the initial project conception phase.)
Congratulations on this wonderful addition to your family! I'd also
like to congratulate you on the clever play on words concerning your
"role" in the conception. Unless that pun was unintentional, then
never mind.
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On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 02:29:57 +0900, Chris Pine <cpine@hellotree.com> wrote:
My wife really did most of the work, though I *did* play a seminal role in the initial
project conception phase.
Congratulations! Note that child processes, once spawned, are
notoriously difficult to control :))
martin
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Chris Pine <cpine@hellotree.com> wrote:
Big news!
Ruby 2 (a.k.a Ruby Secunda Kathrine Pine) was released January 22, 2005
at 1:51:42 pm (PST) after a few hours of intense, last-minute debugging
and deployment. We've been working on this project for just over 9
months and are quite pleased with the results! (Well, my wife really
did most of the work, though I *did* play a seminal role in the initial
project conception phase.)
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 02:29:57 +0900, Chris Pine <cpine@hellotree.com> wrote:
Big news!
Ruby 2 (a.k.a Ruby Secunda Kathrine Pine) was released January 22, 2005
at 1:51:42 pm (PST) after a few hours of intense, last-minute debugging
and deployment. We've been working on this project for just over 9
months and are quite pleased with the results! (Well, my wife really
did most of the work, though I *did* play a seminal role in the initial
project conception phase.)
<<< THE NAME >>>
Ruby -- named after our favorite language, of course!
Secunda -- our second child (after C), and the second Ruby
(in the roman tradition of numbering your children,
e.g. "Quintus" and "Octavius")
Kathrine -- named after the lead programmer on this project
(a tradition in her ancestral development house)
Pine -- yes, our last name, but also Matz once told me that
"matz" is Japanese for "pine"!
<<< FEATURES >>>
* Powerful audio output (even on those little tweeters)
* Net Wt. 9 pounds (or a little over 20k carats as Dave Thomas notes)
* FIFO digestive queue
* Ruby.length == 20 inches
* UNBEATABLE copy protection
* Dark brown hair
* Just plain FUN! (true to the Ruby lagacy)
<<< KNOWN ISSUES >>>
* FIFO queue occasionally behaves like a LIFO stack
* Ruby.sleep(ALL_NIGHT) seems to resume unexpectedly
* While C (her big brother) sends plenty of messages to Ruby,
Ruby doesn't seem to respond to C calls.
Congrats, Chris! I have a child due on 14 MAR. Hope you don't mind,
but I'm going to borrow your idea for an announcement.
C
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On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 02:29:57 +0900, Chris Pine <cpine@hellotree.com> wrote:
Big news!
Ruby 2 (a.k.a Ruby Secunda Kathrine Pine) was released January 22, 2005
at 1:51:42 pm (PST) after a few hours of intense, last-minute debugging
and deployment. We've been working on this project for just over 9
months and are quite pleased with the results! (Well, my wife really
did most of the work, though I *did* play a seminal role in the initial
project conception phase.)
<<< THE NAME >>>
Ruby -- named after our favorite language, of course!
Secunda -- our second child (after C), and the second Ruby
(in the roman tradition of numbering your children,
e.g. "Quintus" and "Octavius")
Kathrine -- named after the lead programmer on this project
(a tradition in her ancestral development house)
Pine -- yes, our last name, but also Matz once told me that
"matz" is Japanese for "pine"!
<<< FEATURES >>>
* Powerful audio output (even on those little tweeters)
* Net Wt. 9 pounds (or a little over 20k carats as Dave Thomas notes)
* FIFO digestive queue
* Ruby.length == 20 inches
* UNBEATABLE copy protection
* Dark brown hair
* Just plain FUN! (true to the Ruby lagacy)
<<< KNOWN ISSUES >>>
* FIFO queue occasionally behaves like a LIFO stack
* Ruby.sleep(ALL_NIGHT) seems to resume unexpectedly
* While C (her big brother) sends plenty of messages to Ruby,
Ruby doesn't seem to respond to C calls.
Just for the record: That other guy on those screenshots really has "C" as his first name?
Yep. "C Maximus Pine", aka "cmax", aka "little C".
We like themes; sometimes the most creativity (or, in this case, just
the most fun) comes not from total freedom, but from interesting
constraints. There are just too many names to choose from. We needed a
theme, so we decided to name our kids after programming languages.
Ruby 2 (a.k.a Ruby Secunda Kathrine Pine) was released January 22, 2005 at 1:51:42 pm (PST) after a few hours of intense, last-minute debugging and deployment. We've been working on this project for just over 9 months and are quite pleased with the results! (Well, my wife really did most of the work, though I *did* play a seminal role in the initial project conception phase.)
Okay, this has to be the coolest thread on this list in a while. No
offense to other posters, of course.
Thanks for the announcement, Chris. My wife and I (both a bit more
conservative than you in the naming department, apparently) enjoyed it
immensely.
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On 02:58 Mon 24 Jan , Chris Pine wrote:
>Congratulations!
Thanks!
>Just for the record: That other guy on those screenshots really has "C"
>as his first name?
Yep. "C Maximus Pine", aka "cmax", aka "little C".
We like themes; sometimes the most creativity (or, in this case, just
the most fun) comes not from total freedom, but from interesting
constraints. There are just too many names to choose from. We needed a
theme, so we decided to name our kids after programming languages.
Yeah, my wife is pretty cool.
Chris
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