December 2011
0 posts
Soup: Nurse Reveals Top 5 Regrets of the Dying →
kellyoxford:
From Arise India Forum:
“For many years I worked in palliative care. My patients were those who had gone home to die. Some incredibly special times were shared. I was with them for the last three to twelve weeks of their lives People grow a lot when they are faced with…
October 2011
1 post
A lesson in how to win against peaceful... →
Dear Mr Robert Doyle, “First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.” - Mahatma Gandhi The key strategy behind peaceful civil disobedience is that any action an…
June 2011
3 posts
November 2010
1 post
Hierarchical File Systems are live and well →
I thought I’d respond to this paper “Hierarchical File Systems are dead” People have been talking about searchable and tagable local file systems for decades. The main problems with searching and…
October 2010
4 posts
macuyiko:
Facebook allowing you to download your data may be the most open thing they did in a long while. Good for them!
Yeah, I didn’t expect them to make that move for a while.
September 2010
16 posts
Add Asteroids to any page with JavaScript... →
thechangelog:
OK, this is just too cool. Erik Rothoff has created a bookmarklet that lets you add Asteroids to any web page and blow stuff up!
The game uses JavaScript and the HTML5 <canvas> element to render game elements.
To install just drag the bookmarklet to your bookmarks, navigate to the page you would like to destroy, and launch the bookmark. Fun!
[Source on GitHub]
STFU Driven Development →
dhotson:
“In STFUDD or ‘Shut the Fuck Up Driven Development’, you don’t write anything at first. You just shut the fuck up.”
QDB: Quote #925050 →
WatchStack and Tile for Haiku
Duke Nukem Forever: Video Clip →
“The amateur PL community today creates one laughable PL after the next, exactly...”
– The Axis Of Eval: No more “minimal early Lisps”, pulleezz
“Indeed. Networks are conceptually far too simple not to be made unusable by...”
– -Rob Pike
trouble with http.ListenAndServe (can’t connect remotely) - golang-nuts | Google Groups
Rob Pike: Know your science →
“If you’re going to use the terms of science to inform your world, please make a point to understand the science too. Your world will be richer for it.”
“Where I can see the comparison between Art and Programming failing is when a...”
– From the comments of Art and Computer Programming - O’Reilly Media
As a reaction to Code != Art
(via fooyeahcode)
xpra - partiwm - Project Hosting on Google Code →
“So basically it’s screen for remote X apps.”
August 2010
50 posts
Chrome has this annoying feature of only rendering a loaded page when you switch to that tab. Fine when my CPU has low load, annoying when it’s under high load.
“If you need more than 3 levels of indentation, you’re screwed anyway, and should...”
– Linus Torvalds (via fooyeahcode)
hack mode: n.
fooyeahcode:
What one is in when hacking, of course.
More specifically, a Zen-like state of total focus on The Problem that may be achieved when one is hacking (this is why every good hacker is part mystic). Ability to enter such concentration at will correlates strongly with wizardliness; it is one of the most important skills learned during larval stage. Sometimes amplified as deep hack mode
...
“echo 80 stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/games/fortune fortune -a »...”
– 7 days of The 140 Characters Webapp Challenge - wrapped up! | f055.net (via fooyeahcode)
yeson19.com →
If you’re in California, you should vote for this. Why do I care? Because it’s a first step in ending the USA’s war on drugs, which effects trade and laws all over the world.
“…Look down. Back up. Where are you? You’re in an IDE, with the code...”
– Buzz by Kevin Bourrillion
Ten Ways to Screw Up an On-Site Interview →
I’ve been doing the rounds of interviewing for programming positions and I’ve come across a large chunk of these.
Loper OS » Seven Laws of Sane Personal Computing →
Windows DLL-loading security flaw puts Microsoft... →
Watchterminally-incoherent:
Video : first cyborg of the world - Vidivodo
“A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and...”
– Tom Knight (via alandipert)
Of course you can…
“An unsafe write doesn’t wait for a database response (aside from the TCP...”
– http://www.snailinaturtleneck.com/blog/2010/08/19/if-it-quacks-like-a-rdbms/#comment-70016620
MongoDB defaults to “unsafe” mode. Which sounds more like “insanely unsafe mode”. Safe mode should make sure it’s written to disk, unsafe mode should make sure the database...
“We’ve also done some research and what is interesting is that a lot of...”
– Firefox 4: One generation ahead of everyone else speedwise - Browser - derStandard.at › Web
It’s interesting that users make choices about software on such trivial features.
