Nick Sieger

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I’m happy to announce that I’m joining the Living Social team on Monday! Besides the obvious reason of jumping at the chance to work with the caliber of team they’re building, I see this new opportunity as a chance to focus my attention. More about this below.

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Visualization of the Grammars of Ruby, Java and Javascript

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As part of the momentum surrounding the Ruby implementer’s summit , I have decided to take on a pet project to understand Ruby’s grammar better, with the goal of contributing to an implementation-independent specification of the grammar. Matz mentioned during his keynote how parse.y was one of the uglier parts of Ruby…