September 2011
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May 2011
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Barry Schwartz on our loss of wisdom
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March 2011
3 posts
Time Crisis - Ft. Andy Whitfield
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We are born scientists
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Zappos Family Music Video
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February 2011
4 posts
Cat peeing in toilet
This is what my life has come to…watching a cat piss in a toilet on youtube at 1 o clock in the morning LordGuinness 3 days ago 235 Posted via email from Tim says what? | Comment »
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Crying Man
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January 2011
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What stops female founders?
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Hoodies
From http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2011/01/17/managing_nerds.html: What is your nerd’s hoodie? I write better when I’m wearing a hoodie. There’s something warm and cave-like about having my head surrounded — it gives me permission to ignore the world. Over time, those around me know that interrupting hoodie-writing is a capital offense. They know when I reach to pull the hoodie over my...
December 2010
5 posts
TIME Interviews Natalie Portman
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A bad design is a good reminder - (37signals)
I used to curse it, but now I’ve made peace with it. I actually like having it around. Every time I see water on the floor, or on my shirt, I’m reminded of the subtle differences between good and bad design. Subtle because sometimes all it takes is the smallest little thing to turn bad to good (or good to bad). via 37signals.com Posted via email from Tim says...
A bad design is a good reminder - (37signals)
A bad design is a good reminder Jason F. Dec 23 38 comments Latest by JF Our new office has a dishwasher. It’s sleek, modern, and silent. It blends into the stainless cabinets and countertops just perfectly. It has the same handle style as the drawers and doors to the left and right. It has no buttons or lights or anything on the outside. You don’t even...
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November 2010
1 post
An Open Letter to Wired Magazine
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October 2010
4 posts
W=UH
I hold the following to be the “equation of life”: W=UH Where W=wrongness, U=ugliness, and H=hardness. In English this equation means: “if something is ugly or hard, it is wrong” I first formulated this philosophy in regards to programming computers, where it is undoubtedly true, but gradually realized it had applicability to life in general. You may have noticed the...
Happy Birthday, Dizzy!
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No matter what night preceded it, [Dagny] had never known a morning when she did not feel the rise of a quiet excitement that became a tightening energy in her body and a hunger for action in her mind—because it was the beginning of day and it was a day of her life…. She sat down at her desk, smiling in defiance at the distastefulness of her job. She hated the reports that she had to...
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Like so many others, I had become a slave to the Ikea nesting instinct. Like a coffee table in the shape of a yin-yang, I had to have it. The Klipsk personal office unit. The Hovetrekke home exerbike. Or the Ohamshab sofa with the Strinne green stripe pattern. Even the Ryslampa wire lamps of environmentally-friendly unbleached paper. I’d flip through catalogues and wonder “What kind...
July 2010
2 posts
Make hidden application icons transparent
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Ethical and Legal are not the same thing
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May 2010
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February 2010
3 posts
Here is New York
There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter — the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and...
Hmm…looks like posterous -> tumblr autopost doesn’t deal with gists very well :(
Default/Optional arguments in Ruby blocks
While doing some work with define_method today, I was looking for a way to specify blocks with default argument values so that I could define methods with default argument values. It seems that Ruby doesn’t support this doing this: 1 2 3 4 # Does NOT workdefine_method :method_name do |first_arg=“default1”, second_arg=“default2”| # …end This is...
January 2010
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The Evolution of a Programmer
High School/Jr.High 10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD" 20 END First year in College program Hello(input, output) begin writeln('Hello World') end. Senior year in College (defun hello (print (cons 'Hello (list 'World)))) New professional #include <stdio.h> void main(void) { char *message[] = {"Hello ", "World"}; int i; for(i = 0; i < 2; ++i) printf("%s",...
Facebook rewrites PHP runtime
Well, I was able to put all the pieces together on this one, finally, and I now understand exactly what is up: Facebook has rewritten the PHP runtime from scratch. This coming Tuesday, they will make a big announcement around this project, and will make it available as open source software. I’m not really sure of any of the details of the project, but I do know that Facebook hired someone...
Facebook rewrites PHP runtime
Well, I was able to put all the pieces together on this one, finally, and I now understand exactly what is up: Facebook has rewritten the PHP runtime from scratch. This coming Tuesday, they will make a big announcement around this project, and will make it available as open source software. I’m not really sure of any of the details of the project, but I do know that Facebook hired someone...
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Original ad: Hey there! My roommate and I are looking for another housemate. We live in a large apartment in Upper Darby. There are two bedrooms and a spacious living area. The rent is $250 a month, which includes cable, internet, electric, and water. My roommate and I are both vegans and will only live with another vegan. IF YOU AREN’T A VEGAN, YOU NEED NOT APPLY. We are looking for...
Hillary Clinton calls for Web freedom, demands... →
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called Thursday for a global Internet free of censorship and demanded that China investigate claims by Google that e-mail accounts belonging to human rights activists had been targeted by hackers.
“He who treads softly goes far.”
December 2009
6 posts
KeyMinor.com →
Key Minor is a musician’s community Q&A site that’s completely free. Whether you have questions to ask or answers to give, every thing that Key Minor offers is completely free of charge. If you want to register so you can collect key-points and win cool flair that will show up next to your name, great, but otherwise feel free use the site as you wish.
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College admissions directors curious about the experience of touching a third rail can review what happened when the president of the University of Alberta suggested that Canadian males, including white males, needed a helping hand.
She got fried … by her own students.
Last month, President Indira Samarasekera pointed to the preponderance of women in higher education in Canada (three...
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Pareto Principle →
The Pareto principle (also known as the 80-20 rule,[1] the law of the vital few, and the principle of factor sparsity) states that, for many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes.[2][3] Business management thinker Joseph M. Juran suggested the principle and named it after Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, who observed in 1906 that 80% of the land in Italy was owned by 20%...
November 2009
7 posts
God monitoring
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Pandora
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“Separate the pieces that change from the pieces that don’t.”
XSS escaping on by default for rails
Glad to see rails following Django’s example here.
http://github.com/rails/rails/commit/9415935902f120a9bac0bfce7129725a0db38ed3
October 2009
23 posts
WatchOld 1950’s video extolling life in the suburbs