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Gibbon, Heron, Ibex

I wonder if anybody else finds it weird that we end up calling the Ubuntu distributions by the...
Oct 31st
“XML 1.1 is/was, effectively ignored in many circles. Now we...”
— Pet Peeves - XML | ITworld
Oct 31st
“Beer is actually a good source of folate, niacin, magnesium,...”
— Beer Nutrition - Beer Can Be...
Oct 30th

Anti-Laziocracy

Irresponsible people are seriously underrepresented in our anti-laziocracy. If only we irresponsible...
Oct 30th
“The traditional concept of innovation, defined by Joseph...”
— Linux.com :: Portrait: Eric...
Oct 28th
Neopythonic: Why explicit self has to stay
Oct 28th
The Hassle Free Holiday Flying Guide
Oct 26th
Airline Seating Charts, Best Airplane Seats -...
Oct 26th
CoderMalfunctionError (Java 2 Platform SE...
Oct 25th
DailyTech - One Lightbulb Project Hopes to...
Oct 25th
“Hasty generalization is a logical fallacy of faulty...”
— Hasty generalization -...
Oct 24th
“While the science should speak for itself, that won’t...”
— Official Google Blog: Down to...
Oct 24th
SparkFun Electronics - LED Matrix - Serial...
Oct 24th
“less prone to blowing up when run under full load or when...”
— Solid State Capacitors
Oct 24th

A rush of pragmatism to the head

I love that feeling of efficiency you get when you generate code from metadata using other code. A...
Oct 24th
I wonder how much of my day was wasted watching code compile… I long for interpreted...
Oct 21st
overview for consultant_barbie
Oct 18th
“WEP’s hackability has been widely known since 2001,...”
—  Credit card processors...
Oct 16th
“The study found that Adobe Flash is used on roughly 35...”
—  Opera study: only 4.13%...
Oct 16th
C++ encourages either redundant code or lots of auto-generated code to eliminate redundancy. Pick...
Oct 15th
“Upstart is an event-based replacement for the /sbin/init...”
— upstart - event-based init...
Oct 15th
“When it comes to terrorism, however, trillions of...”
— Why Data Mining Won’t...
Oct 14th
“I think a large part of the problem is that the spectrum of...”
— Ian Bicking: a blog :: The...
Oct 13th
“you should expect them to cross party lines when the data is...”
— Scott Adams Blog: My Views on...
Oct 13th
I yearn for linters, style guides, and code reviews. Hell, I even yearn for re-entrant code at...
Oct 10th
“C is a very good example, because it is one of the most...”
— Eli Bendersky’s website...
Oct 10th
“McCain 2008 is so unlike McCain 2000, it’s very hard...”
— Havoc’s Blog September,...
Oct 10th
“Here’s the core issue: the UI’s main loop needs...”
— Havoc’s Blog September,...
Oct 10th

Curiouser and curiouser

I had a weird dream last night where I flushed a cat or two down the toilet for no reason I can...
Oct 10th
“I didn’t say globals are evil. I said Globals are...”
— Could Emacs be rewritten in...
Oct 10th

Lisp is the exception

Lisp seems like an exception to every temporal programming language statement. There wasn’t...
Oct 10th

Ars Technica Podcast

My apartment-mate and I wholeheartedly agree that an Ars Technica podcast would kick ass. I would...
Oct 10th
Intel to examine AMD split for x86 licensing...
Oct 10th
I just found a pretty big counter-marketing vulnerability in Peta’s new slogan: Meat’s...
Oct 10th

Slightly smarter than totally stupid

Wow… I just got a spam comment on my blog saying, “If you want to remove yourself from...
Oct 10th
Designed: Senz aerodynamic umbrellas -...
Oct 9th
“Newman’s Own food label, for example, donated all...”
— Presentation Zen: Paul Newman...
Oct 9th
I can’t wait for the mass commoditization of digital whiteboards. Think of the gain in...
Oct 9th
I wonder if the amount that the dentist yells at you varies with how much better or worse the teeth...
Oct 6th
The standards body has also admitted, however, that a...
Oct 3rd

Humility and awesomeness

Humility is one of those things that you have to do without thinking about. As soon as you start...
Oct 3rd
With no real intent to do so, I frequently weigh the balance between my current level of...
Oct 3rd

Words of wisdom

Never shout, “Don’t go in there, that’s the ladies room!” unless...
Oct 2nd
Bread and circuses - Wikipedia, the free...
Oct 2nd
“When McCain won the nomination, though I was not going to...”
— Havoc’s Blog September,...
Oct 2nd
“Congress sold out the country, not me,” replied Bernanke....”
— xkcd » Blog...
Oct 2nd
“Says one developer, “Friends, that thing had so many...”
— Code To Joy: Quotes from an...
Oct 2nd