January 2009
49 posts
The Lazy Manifesto: Do Less. Then, Do Even Less. |... →
I love being lazy, I’m so lazy I didn’t bother reading the whole article.
A few links to annoying properties of C
Integer Issues in C Advanced Test in C
this is going to suck...
Temp in degrees celsius
Forecast for Thursday Min: 29 Max: 43 Forecast for Friday Min: 27 Max: 43 Forecast for Saturday Min: 24 Max: 35 Forecast for Sunday Min: 22 Max: 31 Forecast for Monday Min: 21 Max: 34 Forecast for Tuesday Min: 20 Max: 29
Racist violence mars Australia Day celebrations →
damn it guys, we’re supposed to be keeping this racism thing on the down low. We can’t have the rest of the world realising, it’ll be bad for tourism.
“The Bool type is the coproduct of the terminal object with itself. — As a...”
– Improved documentation for Bool Was: Comments from OCaml Hacker Brian Hurt
A great example of why I can’t learn haskell. Nobody who knows haskell seems to think that the ideas involved in haskell as to complex that they require very complex explainations.
How'd it get to be morning?
dawnowar:
I hate when I do that.
Happens to me all the time. Ah, the sun is coming up, time for sleeping.
“Torvalds also explains why he moved away from KDE. “I thought KDE 4.0 was...”
– Torvalds on Filesystems, Netbooks, KDE 4.0
Abortion Foes Recall Lincoln’s Slavery Stand →
ragdoll:
(via yaldabaoth):
(From the article):
Looking east at the thousands of marchers gathered from Fourth to Seventh streets on the Mall, Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) said Obama needed to be reminded “that the reason we built that monument to president Abraham Lincoln is because he saw the humanity in a slave that the Supreme Court said was not human.” Nothing could make Obama less like...
libexception is an exception handling library for... →
Hacker deleted 10,475 public servants →
This headline should really read “NT Government allowed unauthorised person to delete the records of 10,475 public servants and spent 1m to fix their mistake”
“People will be influenced by a feeling of lightness due to a slight pressure...”
– Protips #462 « The Three Laws of Business
writing-linux-programs-in-raw-binary →
I’m about to start my third year of Comp Sci(RMIT) and I wonder why none of my subjects contained anything like this.
Peeve.
sooshi:
Me: I’m a Psychology major. Random: Psychology, huh. Sooooo, tell me what I’m thinking right now. Me: Psychology, not psychic, you moron.
I think they’ve got a point. Psychology is a lot about attempting to tell people what other people are thinking.
“We’re much better at building software systems than we are at predicting what...”
– Phil Windley’s Technometria | Alan Kay: Is Computer Science an Oxymoron?
There is a big problem with my computer science course…it doesn’t contain science, but instead contains a lot of engineering.
ZSFA -- 2009-01-08 -- The Two Flaws Of Libertarian... →
“Coffee is the new foreplay.”
– Blair Waldorf (via sooshi)
“Because the device skips the resource-sucking parts of the operating system and...”
– TechCrunch Tablet Update: Prototype B
ummm…which resource sucking parts? The most resource sucking thing on my computer is the browser(firefox). But nice tablet, I’d love to get one.
macuyiko:
1 day 3 hours 7 minutes left, I’m excited!
The interesting thing about a change in government is that things usually don’t change that much.
Little girl gives a flower to soldier on tank →
(via macuyiko)
“People’s whole lives do pass in front of their eyes before they die. The process...”
– Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent (via sooshi)
“While I personally believe that ReactOS will always be chasing a moving target,...”
– ReactOS: Looking Back Upon 2008
“The female orgasm is the focus of much research because it appears to have no...”
– Does the size of his wallet matter? | The Australian
lol, WTF? Idiots shouldn’t do science. The female orgasm has the same purpose as the male orgasm; to increase the likelihood of more sex, thus a higher chance of reproduction.
“If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon...”
– - W. Somerset Maugham
yeah because majority of the time talking isn’t about communicating, it’s about forming emotional connections.
I'd turn vegetarian....but →
I’d turn vegetarian, but I can’t work out what organisms I should and shouldn’t continue to murder. I mean, I have to murder some of them to survive…but which ones? are there organisms that deserve…
Press TV - Iran thwarts CIA-backed regime change... →
lol, good times.
Censorship in Australia - Wikipedia, the free... →
“All the states actually…ban the sale of X18+ rated material, though possessing it and ordering it from elsewhere is quite legal. In practice, sex shops commonly carry extensive stocks of X-rated films regardless of the law.”
It’s worrying when laws are there but not enforced, as then most people don’t realise the laws exist.
Police, pepper spray and tasers →
We need a police force. They need to be armed with the ability to subdue and disable a suspect that is a physical threat. But giving anyone these abilities needs to require a large amount of oversight as there is only a very limited set of situtations where the use of these abilities is humane and nescessary.
macuyiko:
Hmm… MS CES keynote: ‘we know that users have 5 to 15 windows open’. There must be something wrong with me, I have 10-30 windows open :).
I usually have 4 windows open; irc, firefox, nano, and another xterm.
Police set to step up hacking of home PCs - Times... →
hmmm…how can they ethically do this? For this to work they’d have to have information about expolits in software and would be ethically bound to disclose this information in the interests of national security.
