Aaron Swartz looks at the productivity problem, how not to proscratinate, etc. This is just what I needed right now.
Nice to see hollywood capitalizing on national crisis so soon. Bastards.
Excellent description of where Enterprise Architects should be moving and why…
Tesla’s wikipedia entry. I’ve been wanting to read up on him for some time now.
When you see everything stacked up like this, it’s a bit harder to call the impeachment crowd “crazy”.
Holy crap I can’t wait to get my hands on this.
All roads lead to Lisp…. eventually… we think. :)
“Guns don’t kill people, Chuck Norris kills people” :)
More ID bashing from the Catholic HQ.
Can’t find enough of these…
Bwwwahahahahahahahahhaa..
ABC’s Bob Woodruff got a camera in there somehow..
Firefox extension with some promising script debugging/spying features.
Holy crap! Where can I get some thermite?
What a surprise!
Big Content would like to outlaw things no one has even thought of yet
best game ever…
or, “How the iPod destroyed the Broadcast Flag” :)
“I have enjoyed reading (and writing), collecting, and pondering the following quotations, which I think are all relevant to teaching and learning programming.”
Go Bill! ‘Bout time you got a blog.
“This leads to my point: In computer science, nothing [still] makes sense [even] if you violate the identity principle.” :)
Wikipedia entry on the “Agreed Framework” for nuclear non-proliferation reached between the US and North Korea in 1994. Understanding how we backed out of this agreement is key to understanding the current issues w/ N. Korea.
Great read…
Serendipitously appeared during a google images search for “newpaper”.
Malcom Gladwell’s blog :)
Best post ever.
I do this all the time…
History and potential future of. (via Paul Hammond and Eric Meyers)
It’s impossible for diffuse flames (jet fuel, paper, office stuff) to reach temperatures needed to melt steel. This guy thinks there were thermite charges in the buildings.
Decent looking ruby library that implements a fair bit of an Atom Publishing Protocol client.
Bullshit: “It takes seven years to digest gum”
I’m going to have to jump all over this.
why on rebinding blocks to specific objects.. I had to do the same thing a little while ago. Using instancemethod seemed like a hack but if it’s good enough for _why, it’s good enough for me.
I’m starting to “get it” now… Makes a ton of sense.
dangerous waters…
How to get rdiff-backup to not do that.
this is insane
the best shit ever
let’s go back to ‘97
They ripped a bunch of .NET code out of Vista, replacing it with C. Interesting.
But instead of ducking grues and collecting zorkmids, you’re interacting with whatever program code you’re working on, as well as the data and hardware devices that it uses. “It treats the web and APIs as just more objects and places, and is a platform fo
Hell yes Steve Yegge will be teaching me mathematics. I haven’t been this excited about a new blog in a while to be honest.
“That means that every page I scan, out of the fifteen thousand or so, produces about $19.5 million of value for the world; that’s about $9.8 billion an hour. My hourly wages have usually been less.”
Evolution is at work. We leave them to themselves and we’ll stick to ourselves, and in another 250,000 years we can eat them as either game or domesticated farm animals. God knows we don’t have to selectively breed them for size.
“When I became a convert from Judaism to born-again Christianity after watching The Chronicles of Narnia, I thought things were going to get a lot easier for me…”
I have no idea how I missed this. Great Yegge piece from October 2004.
Fairly acurate prescription…
Help a brother out: “if I could make a website to get 2,000,000 hits, she would have a menage a trois (that’s a threesome to you non french-speakers)”
Norse Mythology soooo kicks science’s ass in this issue…
So I’m considering automating my del.icio.us to just automatically add links with “statistically infrequent” words as tags to all Steve Yegge’s posts…
people pay for this shit?
Nice little Feynman short on google video. Feynman talking, Feynman painting, Feynman being the complete bad-ass that only Feynman can be… I can’t get enough of him.
I’ll have to come out of hiding to bookmark this one. Too good to not make my wow list.
It boggles the mind…
Visible in accelerated form on Fox News’ recent “coverage” of whether bombing the piss out of Iran would be a good idea right now. Go Think Tanks!
This place is everything a weblog should not be.
This site is really starting to come along now. The latest addition on how to manage vertical spacing in intervals is something I’ve been wondering about for a while now.
Outstanding piece. Adrian ought to write more often. Microformats.org could really use someone with Adrian’s background to squash some of the “why?” type questions.
Unused Audio Commentary By Howard Zinn & Noam Chomsky, Recorded Summer 2002, for The Fellowship of the Ring Platinum Series Extended Edition DVD, Part One
“The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you’re on vacation in another city and ‘Jeopardy’ comes on at 7 p.m. instead of 7:30.”
All you have to do is add a few lines to ~/ssh/config.
Some praise for Site24x7.
Need an analogy but don’t have the time to actually think of one your self?
Cedar Point announces their new coaster for 2007. It looks like the first real attempt at building something serious since the Millenium.
Your mom is like HTML, a tiny
and a whole lot a .It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
A well thought out and respectful response to Fowler’s argument that business software doesn’t have to be boring (RailsConf 2006). Good points abound but I have to disagree with the premise.
MacOS X: How to turn textmode tools into first class applications. Mutt.app, Vim.app, Irssi.app, Top.app, etc.
Reddit Broke (Sorry).
The Dilbert cartoon referenced in Neil Stephenson’s “In The Beginning was The Command Line”
We should all be as pissed off right now. 9/11 is a disease.
On the relationship between the “Black Hole Theory of Design” and “Greenspun’s tenth Rule of Programming”.
“I can pop my eyes out four centimetres each, it is a gift from God, I feel blessed.”
Bruce nails it. (Crypto-Gram/2006-09-15)
Surprisingly insightful.
Blame the Babylonians - they used the Sexagesimal system. Don’t get excited - it means that instead of using base 10 (as we do) they used base 60.
Dijkstra’s writing style is so perfect.
Best UNIX productivity article I’ve read in a long while.
“The archetypal perversely awful algorithm”
Space goes inward.
It would be massively troubling if anything happened to Olbermann. He’s the only even modestly sane person coming out of the TV at this point.
Intense.
Fpoon, fpoon, fpoon, fpoon, fpoon.
“I could whip you up something in Java that would take 2 minutes to design, 30 minutes to implement, a day to write the deployment descriptor for, and 3 months to get sign off from the app support people at the client site _b”
The best attempt I’ve seen at splicing multiple API references together. This uses the external documentation but provides indexing and browsing features.
Ego surfing on code.google.com :)
Holy shit!
“The success of GNU/Linux and other free software projects is annoying.”
“Why would my sister want to borrow someone else’s broom, you sexist ass? My sister is a lawyer for the friggin’ ACLU! before tossing her Napa Valley cab in the poor guy’s face.”
Editor’s note: Kevin Tillman joined the Army with his brother Pat in 2002, and they served together in Iraq and Afghanistan. Pat was killed in Afghanistan on April 22, 2004. Kevin, who was discharged in 2005, has written a powerful, must-read document.
A nice go at classifying different types of code transition.
More good stuff from Chalain. This time the topic is classes that end in “er”.
This is the most thorough of five reports I’ve just read, each speculating that a US attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities before the Nov. elections may be likely: “I think the plan’s been picked: bomb the nuclear sites in Iran,” says Gardiner. “It’s a terr
Kos / Oct 17 wrap up on Ohio congressional districts. I’m in the 13th, btw.
This is quite possibly the funniest thing I have ever read in my entire life.
“You know what I love about Reddit? Someone can ask a question like this, and not one comment points out how completely ridiculous it is.”
and vice versa.
This is my favorite episode of WNYC’s RadioLab and maybe my favorite piece of radio, period. The segment, “The Invisible Hand” is outstanding. The show is now in podcast and the last five eps are available in mp3. “Emergence” is only available as a RealAu
A paper by Sir Francis Galton first published in the March 7, 1907 issue of the scientific journal, NATURE. The paper provides what appears to be the first solid explanation for why Google’s ranking algorithm, not to mention the form of government we’ve come to know as “democracy”, are so capable.
“Then they spend one day debugging shit that’s gone wrong with Eclipse (or its mangling of the CVS repository, or some ant dependency problem, or)… And meanwhile they whine that 256 megs of RAM isn’t enough to edit a fucking text file (and do NOTHING el
A brief history of the Kid templating language and an endorsement for the next generation of XML-based templating: Genshi.
Big list of resources on CSS based forms.
My best attempt at saying something nice about Sun’s GPLing of Java, even if a bit grudgingly.
Somebody should create a feed that posts a single random entry per day from the Atom Wiki.
Q: What do you call a Michigan cheerleader with two brain cells? A: Pregnant
The kid is sick.
I give Aaron two weeks (tops!) at Wired before he’s off to something bigger and better.
Wonderfully done.
The REST / Web Arch. crowd falls back to its secret weapon in the fight for mankind: The Dialogue.
MIT is representin’
What the GPL could have accomplished (and may well still).
All hail the king adrock.
Go RedMonk. This is a major pick-up, IMO.
Aristotle just destroys that recent reg article that suggests we need to shit-can 20 years of engineering masterpiece for distributed objects. Nice piece!
“So what do you do when you’re pretty sure that the end of the world as we know it is coming soon, but your girlfriend doesn’t believe you?” (via skvidal)
Good perspective on Java going GPL.
If someone puts one of these together I’ll buy it for $50 USD.
I take back everything bad I’ve ever said about Java Applets ;)
I have no idea … but I’m digging the Kid and TG references ;)
Ouch! That’s not only evil, it’s dumb. gasp
I don’t know but it’s definitely the coolest.
This guy gets around…
Sometimes I think Aaron’s brain is my brain in the future. I’ve had all of these same ideas rattle around in my brain before but they never seem to line up so neatly for me. It bugs me a little.
I’m sure I don’t know.
It turns out Pearl Harbor was a pretty massive blunder for the Japanese. Fascinating.
Extremely clear and right take on REST, WS, and other techniques for distributing systems.
We moved from Windows / MS SQL Server to FreeBSD / PostgreSQL about 5 months ago and I’ve been nothing but completely happy with the transition. 8.2 is a pretty nice upgrade if you’re doing data warehousing style stuff.
Wherein the author lists 8 reasons (maybe 3 of which are approaching objective or even valid) and also spells Adrian’s name wrong: “Adrian Zolovaty”. Ruby/Python flame-bait is exactly what we need.
A perfect article.
Prediction: Microsoft will use 3D nonsensically and egregiously for the next two years. 3D notepad!
Nice article on burnout, which I have to admit I’ve been struggling with on and off for the past six months or so :-(
That’s what I’m saying. As soon as I saw this guy talking about auto-pilot software crashing a plane due to division by zero, I thought: 5 / 0 rescue nil wtf are you talking about? We’ve had exception handling, conditionals, and NaN forever.
Bwwwwaaaaahhhahahaaaaahhaa.
“Yet for some strange reason, the MScCS students seem to value fancy algorithms over working algorithms.”
“Dependency management is probably the most important contribution of open source to software engineering.” – I don’t know about that but it’s definitely up there. It’s mind boggling that MS hasn’t developed some form of package management.
I guess this could be good thing. Good people have a tendency of being taken advantage of in ways they wouldn’t expect at MS though so I have to give the whole deal a respectful thumbs-down.
Holy… This is big. Huge big.
Nice bit of history showing the chain of events that led to WS-*.
Handsome Flash based color mixing tool and color theme sharing site.
I’m sorry but it is just baffling to me how developers and cough evangelists can put up with this kind of behavior as being the sort-of default mode of operation at MS. The company needs to consider massive sweeping changes in the way they treat develop
Danny Coward Q/A on invokedynamic and “hot swapping” (method replacement). Pretty good piece until the end where we enter into some scary Java-static-typing-is-good-because-it-let’s-you-publish-APIs non-sense.
Wow, I’m flattered blush Turns out I *do* know something about SOA after all. Speaking of “Motherhood and Apple Pie” - I quite liked that essay but it was one of those that never really took off.
Cleveland is so hard-core. Sometimes I really do love this place.
“Java’s solution to the problem of C++ allowing you to blow your foot off was to chop off your legs.”
Simon rebuilds his weblog with Django.
I need to get back into following free culture. The anti-DRM sentiment is unprecedented.
A look at the new Coherence Mode feature in Parallels desktop.
Interesting corollary to Vox Populi. (Via Aristotle Pegaltzis)
A Cocoa port of rdesktop. Universal Binary, multiple concurrent sessions, no X11 makes it the best RDP client for Mac on paper.
Seamless window support for rdesktop (and perhaps Cocoa Remote Desktop). Similar to Parallel’s Coherence Mode for RDP.
Another casualty in the war against blog games.
Ranks programmers by who they consider themselves superior to. Comedy.
“OH DEAR LORD ITS SO BEAUTIFUL. I AM SO PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN RIGHT NOW.”
Saying the US is divided is an understatement - the country exists simultaneously in two parallel worlds and is connected only by a small machine that shoots newspapers clippings back and forth. The National Review exists in the other one.
OMFG this explains my whole life.
Interesting look at how the FSF is picking up a more activist role with tech. politics and policy. Mentions the GPL v3 process, BadVista.org, and the anti-DRM site, Defective By Design.
“I have yet to find a women who wants to be squirted with a Zune. I’ve stopped asking.”
A prediction piece on the possibility of a Ruby backed coup d’état on the JVM and what that might mean to the pragmatic web developer.
403 Go Away!
This looks promising: handles all of Markdown proper plus various extensions.
“Each resource demarcates a subset of an application’s state, and becomes a handle by which other applications can interact with that state.”
