DHH：从编程失败到Rails传奇的旅程

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在这期Lex Fridman播客中，Ruby on Rails的创始人、37signals的联合创始人兼CTO戴维·海涅迈尔·汉森（DHH）分享了他独特的编程之路。从5岁渴望Commodore 64却得到另一台电脑的失望，到青少年时期运营BBS和参与盗版游戏，再到多次尝试学编程失败，DHH的故事充满波折。直到接触互联网和PHP，他才找到了编程的“心流”体验。而真正让他从爱好者转变为职业程序员并爱上这门艺术的，是Ruby语言。访谈中，DHH不仅深情回顾了Ruby如何以其人性化的设计美学俘获了他，还犀利地批评了JavaScript生态的过度复杂化，辩护了Chrome浏览器对开放网络的贡献，并猛烈抨击了GDPR带来的Cookie横幅是“好意通向地狱”的纪念碑。

金句

• "No one anywhere who's serious believes that Cookie banners does anything good for anyone. Yet, we've been unable to get rid of it." —— 任何一个认真思考的人都不会认为Cookie横幅对任何人有任何好处。然而，我们却无法摆脱它。
• "A lot of people, I think, are very uncomfortable with the fact that they are essentially CRUD monkeys... And they have to compensate for that existential dread by over complicating things." —— 我认为，许多人对自己本质上只是“增删改查猴子”的事实感到非常不适……他们不得不通过过度复杂化事物来补偿这种存在性恐惧。
• "Ruby is, as beautiful as it is, is not an accident and it's not easy." —— Ruby的美丽并非偶然，也来之不易。
• "Matts believes in humanity. He believes in the unlimited capacity of programmers to learn and become better." —— Mats（Ruby创始人）相信人性。他相信程序员拥有学习和成长的无限潜力。
• "I make sure that when I release the first version of any new thing I work on, it's a little broken... there's no easier way to get the collaboration of other programmers than to put something out that they know how to fix and improve." —— 我确保发布的第一个版本总是有点小毛病……吸引其他程序员协作的最简单方法，就是放出一个他们知道如何修复和改进的东西。

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