May 2009
53 posts
“Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes...”
– Article 19 of “Universal Declaration of Human Rights (via nelix)
hitting snooze button does not stop time from... →
(via dawnowar)
yeah, but try convincing your unconscious mind of that. It’s damn tricky. Many a time it has convinced me that getting up requires solving complex math problems and while I lie there trying to solve this problem, stunnedly I’m asleep again.
macuyiko:
Really looking forward to Google Wave, I think this could really be the next big thing! #googlewave
Someone at Google watched too much Firefly, I think.
Michael Lynton: Guardrails for the Internet:... →
yeah, he doesn’t get it. Intellectual property law is about promoting creativity by giving people a financial incentive to create.
If creativity will still occur on a massive scale without intellectual property then there is no need for it.
“ “length” is kinda a dirty word. :-) length($string) will behave a...”
– Journal of masak (6289)
I’ve avoided perl for years, but that is a good idea.
“almost all of the queries performed great, except one query that had sub-second...”
– Programmers Need To Learn Statistics Or I Will Kill Them All
“It is claimed that students took part in the fights in the “cage” at...”
– Knox Grammar fight club
That’s not at all in the spirit of the movie.
5 Real Life Soldiers Who Make Rambo Look Like a... →
(via knightsofidledays)
“… it is often better to wait til you have several examples of the...”
– RalphJohnson - Code Harvesting
that’s how I code, brute force with copy and paste and then attempt to cut back the code once the duplication starts to annoy me.
“Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.”
– Mark Twain
Uzbl - the uzbl browser. →
“what is not browsing, is not in uzbl. Things like url changing, loading/saving of bookmarks, saving history,.. are handled through external scripts that you write”
sounds interesting…
“What I cannot create, I do not understand”
– — Richard Feynman
via (alan dipert)
“In the absence of clinical data, we should endeavor to structure our diet to be...”
– A Review of Taubes’ “Good Calories, Bad Calories”
Resty - a bash REST client →
dhotson:
Neato!
Nice simple idea, needs more of this
Database of all children in UK launched →
Starting with the children..
“Of the elementary proofs, multiplying 0.333… = 1⁄3 by 3 is apparently a...”
– 0.999… - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
So as we can see the floating point representation of maths is retarded.
“His final time was 54 years, 8 months, 6 days, 8 hours, 32 minutes and 20.3...”
– Better Late … | Futility Closet
“Officers told him they had done the “blind test” and didn’t...”
– Blind man dragged off plane in Philadelphia, accused of faking - Boing Boing
What is a “blind test”? I usually pretend to punch people in the face to make sure they can’t see when they are wearing a blindfold. But it’s not that great a test.
Adblock Plus and (a little) more: An approach to... →
I never click on ads, infact I hardly ever see them anymore. I couldn’t describe an online ad I’ve seen recently and what it was advertising. People that specifically filter out ads wouldn’t be clicking them anyway, so them not seeing them doesn’t make a difference.
thomas.apestaart.org » C →
“Somehow I spent all this time on this planet without ever learning that in C, numbers[4] == 4[numbers]"
I knew that array syntax was just pointer arithmatic but I never thought it would work the other way arond.
“My crazy Polish dad came inside after digging a hole for a new tree in the...”
– One Sentence archive - story #3062
Court Upholds Hacking Conviction of Man for... →
(via slashdot.org)
“He was sentenced to 15 months and a $5,000 fine for the two felony convictions and ordered to pay the city about $2,400 in restitution for personal business on city time.”
Wow! That’s seriously fucked up, WTF? Using myspace, facebook,tumblr etc. at work against company policy would also come under this law.
redis →
dhotson:
jessta:
dhotson:
Looks pretty cool, a data structure server.
Tokyo cabnet is pretty similar. We need more of this and less xml/html/other bullshit. Screw the web, I want large numbers of servers with huge amounts of raw data that I can query.
Actually, I don’t mind the whole idea of XML or JSON style databases.. being able to structure and query data in different ways is often...
Getting up is hard to do
It took me 30mins to get out of bed this morning because my brain was trying to convince me that I needed to solve complex computer science problems to get up, eventually I realised it was bullshiting me and made coffee.
redis →
dhotson:
Looks pretty cool, a data structure server.
Tokyo cabnet is pretty similar. We need more of this and less xml/html/other bullshit. Screw the web, I want large numbers of servers with huge amounts of raw data that I can query.
Is Lala's DRM a new way to lock up music? →
This guy has discovered access control lists applied it to music and skipped over the part where DRM is impossible…and then applied for a patent on his ‘idea’.
Again idiots are using the already invented and pretending to invent the impossible.
“1980 - Alan Kay creates Smalltalk and invents the term “object...”
– One Div Zero: A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages
Everything where it belongs…
Australian Drugs Campaign →
Latest australian government anti-drug campaign, continuing the traditition of misleading the public until the public just ignores anything they say.
OpenID Providers →
So I recently discovered stackoverflow, and noticed they use OpenID for login, this lead me to notice that google, yahoo, blogger, flickr, livejournal etc. are all OpenID providers. This has lead to…
“This made it seem like there was a lot of money out there, which fuelled the...”
– The worst is yet to come - Planning - Money - Business - Home
Update on ODF Spreadsheet Interoperability →
WTF? ODF spreadsheet doesn’t include a standard documented formula language? It seems to me that seems like the most important thing to standardise in a spreadsheet format.
Target bans plastic bags next month →
“From June 1 shoppers at Target can bring their own bags, buy a reusable bag for $1 or a compostable corn starch bag for 10 cents.”
Sounds to me like Target has decided that charging for bags is better than giving them away for free. I wonder if they’ll still ask to look in my backpack when I leave their store.
