The Dilbert cartoon referenced in Neil Stephenson's "In The Beginning was The Command Line"
Koshi's been hanging out at the legendary San Francisco dive bar, "The Zeitgeist," every day for thirty days now; takes photo's and blogs about the picnic table discussion.
"... the caganer is often tucked away in a corner of the model, typically nowhere near the manger scene. There is a good reason for his obscure position in the display, for 'caganer' translates from Catalan to English as 'pooper', and that is exactly what this little statue is doing — defecating."
"We’re born as unreal people but somehow get turned into respectable members of society with good cover stories."
"Here's something four-year-olds know: A screen that ships without a mouse ships broken."
Ethan Vizitei with a great piece on people's misconceptions about what coders do and the difficulty with which they do it.
Interesting take on AFD as launch-crazy-but-legit-projects day. I didn't use the Internet at all this AFD and sent everything in my reader to /dev/null. Now, I feel kind of bad. Sorry about that, internet.
I'm apparently the last person on the internet to see this. The rise of internet culture as recorded on Usenet. It's beautiful, really.
This is why I love Unix.
"What is catching users' eyes? Legibility, correctness, conciseness…. the list goes on and on. Simply put, this history essay is a significant release for me – one that builds on all of the great things that I was able to deliver last year [...]"
"Hernando who worked down the hall and who was large with microbrews came to him and told him that the ship day was upon them but the bugs were not yet out. The bugs which were always there even when you were in Cafes late at night sipping a ..."
“Nothing – and I mean nothing – in IT takes less than 80 hours, and whatever you think it’ll actually take, multiply it by 20, and tell management that. You see, 80/20.”
"... people of the Internet, the YTMNDers, trolls of the world, the GameFAQs members, the eBaumers; us old time Internet users, and the newest of noobs, the YouTubers and MySpacers, must band together for a fight that transcends our differences ..." :)
Orson Scott Card: "You can domesticate programmers the way beekeepers tame bees. You can't exactly communicate with them, but you can get them to swarm in one place and when they're not looking, you can carry off the honey."
"Other than the fact our child will be bright, text-based and sarcastic, we will otherwise be a normal family."
... the primary activity depicted here is standards development, particularly the historically mandated procedure for determining the linear measurement known as the "rood", related to the English "rod", the German "rute" and the Danish "rode".
"Whereas everyone else is traipsing around picking dazzling fonts to describe their world, your nerd has carefully selected a monospace typeface, which he avidly uses to manipulate the world deftly via a command line interface ..."
Now this is an interesting theory on John Gabriel's GIFWT.
"The easy and fun way to test whether a mission statement/purpose/motto is garbage is to negate it and see whether it still holds up."
"You will avoid taking care of simple things because the solution is inelegant or simply feels wrong. Time to think will no doubt yield a better result, you’ll say." Aye!
An oldy but goody :)
This just ruined my day. I'm going home. Absolutely horrible. Just horrible.
Programmer definitions of impossible, unfeasible, trivial, non-trivial, hard, very hard, and distinctly non-trivial.
"Web designer" is dead on :)
Slashdot has become a horrible discussion forum for most topics. Disk theory and UNIX sysadmin type stuff is an exception, though. This story on ZFS might have the most informational comments I've seen in years.
"It's a mutiny of sorts."
"Results 1 - 10 of about 283,000 for 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0" - This is officially the craziest thing I've ever seen on the internet (with the exception of the Hasselhoffian Recursion).
"et see" :)
"There's a time and place for a penis decal on your forehead and the Monday morning staff meeting is not it."
"A no-smoking sign on your cigarette break... at the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco corporate offices in Winston-Salem, North Carolina."
"Guns don't kill people, Chuck Norris kills people" :)
The realness a major emergency creates is soooo refreshing.
"Not everybody can wander around in an alcoholic haze and then at 40 just, you know, decide to be president."
The original european zero-wing introduction followed by a load of AYBABTU spottings in teh wild..
oh hell no.