August 24
The more carbs and sugars you eat, the more your appetite-control cells are damaged, and potentially you consume more
July 28
The truth is I fucking hate the web. It’s sucking the brains of geniuses who could be out disproving String Theory. It makes me sad to think there’s young women and men spending their life trying to win the VC Lottery rather than doing something meaningful. They will look back at this time they wasted on selling advertising and say, “I could have been significant.” Instead, they just took abuse from some shithead who took their work and made a ton of money. Pathetic.
July 16
Nonetheless, after working with Python for only two weeks, coding in Objective-C felt like being stuck in the middle of a traffic jam where all the other cars are driven by lobotomized chimps.
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This only showed me just how much I loved Python. String slicing. Unicode strings. Dictionaries and Lists everywhere. Generator Functions. List comprehension and filters. Easy to understand/parse syntax. Lots of Third-party modules. With simple APIs. That are open-source. And are actively maintained. Mature. And well documented.
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This only showed me just how much I loved Python. String slicing. Unicode strings. Dictionaries and Lists everywhere. Generator Functions. List comprehension and filters. Easy to understand/parse syntax. Lots of Third-party modules. With simple APIs. That are open-source. And are actively maintained. Mature. And well documented.
July 14
All these varieties of speech are beautiful, just as the varieties of butterflies are beautiful. No matter what your first language, you should treasure it all your life. If it happens to not be standard English, and if it shows itself when your write standard English, the result is usually delightful, like a very pretty girl with one eye that is green and one that is blue.
June 1
May 31
When you build a system where you get points for the number of people who agree with you, you are building a popularity contest for ideas.
However, your popularity contest for ideas will not be dominated by the people with the best ideas, but the people with the most time to spend on your web site.
Votes appear to be free, like contribution is with Wikipedia, but in reality you have to register to vote, and you have to be there frequently for your votes to make much difference. So the votes aren’t really free - they cost time.
If your popularity contest for ideas inherently, by its structure, favors people who waste their own time, then … the most popular ideas will not be the best ideas … The people who have the best ideas, and the ability to recognize them, also have better things to do and better places to be.
http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2008/05/summon-monsters-open-door-heal-or-die.html
May 10
Javascript and Java
javascript is crappy scripting language for use with HTML. […] Java is a full blown object oriented programming language
I think you meant to say “Javascript is a full blown power-users’ language, basically Lisp but with syntax problems, whereas Java is a crappy low-level language; the COBOL of the millenium.”
via slashdot
April 16
Command line meme
Pradeep-Gowdas-Computer: ~ pradeep$ history|awk '{a[$2]++} END{for(i in a){printf "%5d\t%s\n",a[i],i}}'|sort -rn|head
110 cd
100 ls
72 clear
31 vim
29 python
26 grep
16 git
15 rm
11 sudo
7 sqlite3
because tumblr messes up text...
110 cd
100 ls
72 clear
31 vim
29 python
26 grep
16 git
15 rm
11 sudo
7 sqlite3
because tumblr messes up text...
March 25
in other words, stop putting up barriers to entry. Play -> Learn -> Engage.
