December 2009
34 posts
“Good coders are a special breed of persistent problem-solvers who are addicted...”
– Gina Trapani via girlwithcomputer (via alandipert)
“Millions of human beings have laboured to create this civilization on which we...”
– Anarchy in the tubes
So what’s unethical about intellectual property ey?
“I am a deeply religious nonbeliever. This is a somewhat new kind of religion. I...”
– Albert Einstein (via i like this) (via soupsoup) (via knightsofidledays)
Turn On, Tune In, Veg Out →
“Nothing is more seductive than to think that we, like the Jedi, could be masters of the most advanced technologies while living simple lives: to have a geek standard of living and spend our copious leisure time vegging out.”
“Property model library (Adam) - rewrote main solver
* no longer uses exceptions...”
– http://stlab.adobe.com/ February 13, 2009 ASL - 1.0.41 Release
A Single Sperm Has 37.5MB Of DNA Information In... →
“In humans, output bandwidth is slow and small, except for the output which benefits the genes which code for us - the penis has _big_ output bandwidth.” - Predator
Insurgents Hack U.S. Drones →
“Senior military and intelligence officials said the U.S. was working to encrypt all of its drone video feeds from Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, but said it wasn’t yet clear if the problem had been completely resolved.”
It’s amazing that military intelligence would deploy multi-million dollar surveillance network equipment that was less secure than my home wireless...
Why people still believe in the Waterfall model →
“The Waterfall model is originally invented by Winston W. Royce in 1970…He even drew a figure of the model, and another showing why it doesn’t work…This model is the waterfall…scientific articles on software engineering that discuss the waterfall, they all cite Royce’s article….So they base their claims on an article that actually says the opposite: that the model...
mikeyyeah:
fuckyeahbeards:
“He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man.”
Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing” act II - circa 1599
(elizabethplaid)
Responses to Questions & Objections on Climate... →
HP USB Optical 3-button Mouse →
woo!
I’ve been looking for one of these for a while.
UGT (abbr.): Universal Greeting Time. →
“ It states that it is always morning when person comes into a channel, and it is always late night when person leaves. Local time of any member of channel is irrelevant.”
Go Programming language →
I’ve tried to write a post about Go a few times but mostly it just ends up a rant about how a lot of people haven’t taken the time to get to know the language before complaining about it on the…
