Premature Optimization

The Israeli office of Zend had a Purim party on Sunday. For those of you who don’t know (most of you?) Purim is a Jewish festival where we celebrate (just like any other Jewish holiday) the fact that some other evil-doer was out to destroy us but failed. The difference is that on this festival, it is a custom (and to some a religious  obligation) to “be happy” - or in other words, dress up in silly costumes and get so drunk you won’t recognize your friends anymore.

I’ve picked up a few pictures of me and my team members from the party, I think they pretty much speak for themselves:

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Usually I don’t read political blogs. But I came across this post in Henri Begius’ blog (which is a very good blog), mainly because it got aggregated by Planet PHP for some reason. That led me to read this post in roozbeh’s blog - which was very interesting.

What I found interesting is that roozbeh, an Iranian open-source developer working on the FriBidi project (along with Arabs and Israelis AFAIK) does not seem to understand the Israeli mindset, and is worried from an Israeli attack on Iran as a retaliation on the results of the war in Lebanon the past summer. I didn’t find any way to leave a comment in roozbeh’s blog - so I will leave my comments here in hope to start up a real discussion.

Now I don’t know allot about Iran - but this is what I do know about Israeli - Iranian relations:

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