February 2009
38 posts
“With clarity of vision in code anything can be rewritten in days or hours even.”
– well, … florian (via florianhanke)
List of cognitive biases →
Also read this excellent post about .. well Lift09, but also about humility, which I hope to inspire with this link.
“Writing code isn’t hard, figuring out what code to write is hard.”
quoting a comment to an interesting story:
It was in the Advanced Fortran class one evening, and our teacher, George, enters the room. His 35 students await the wisdom he has for us. Without saying anything, George turns on the overhead projector and slaps a transparency on it with a code fragment. He asked simply “what does this do?”, then waited. Our young minds couldn’t...
What *other* alternatives are there?
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 2007-09-21 12:52 java -> /etc/alternatives/java
“If you’re only targeting 10.3.9, you can just use GCC 4 to do the build,...”
– some dude called OneSadCookie
“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.”
– Lao Tzu
5 tags
Better: Holism, Reductionism.
Can’t check my sources when not online.
“SRP, guys!”
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This, indeed, is the way to do it. →
“If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume
and come...”
– Chuck Palahniuk
Why you should absolutely go utf8 with your web... →
Forgotten Quicktime Feature #1
You can open A/V controls and play the video back at a multiple of its speed - with the original pitch. Generally, videos stay comprehensible at about 2-3 times of original speed.
Now I don’t know what that will do to my ADS in the long term, but it seems useful now…
On Following, Leading and ... getting out of the... →
I like war stories →
“SINCE I STARTED USING GIT, SVN STARTED RESENTING ME”
– http://feeds.labnotes.org/~r/labnotes/RkfZ/~3/Lb9XiV-3jII/
Every once in a while I need to make sure the... →
Too close to the truth →
(via florianhanke)
calling bullshit on 20 minuten
start = Date.today - 1000 * 365
endd = Date.today + 1000 * 365
wdays = Hash.new(0)
current = start
while current < endd
wdays[[current.wday, current.day]] += 1
current += 1
end
require 'pp'
pp wdays.sort_by { |k,f| f }
How do you? (Not that I care ;) ... ) →
CC is a highly contagious illness
BS detector benchmark: Your needle should go all... →
“Road kill has its seasons –
Just like anything –
It’s possums in the...”
– Tom Waits in Murder in the Red Barn
(Oh.. and don’t send it to your cellphone!)
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git-reflog, praised be thy name
Life
Kann Spuren von Nüssen enthalten.
Play
If we assume my taste for music a constant, then my management of my playlist is a random optimisation slowly approaching an optimum. When I die, just plug in my ipod playlist and voilà: the art of a lifetime. Like one of those death haïkus - the essence of the idiosynchrasy that makes me different from the rest of life.
123456789 o'clock :) →
(via florianhanke)
Broken gets fixed. Shoddy lasts forever. →
“He not busy being born is busy dying.”
– Bob Dylan
