“ The fundamentalists made two critical errors, but they’ve done a pretty good job of convincing millions of believers that they aren’t errors. By reading Genesis as literal rather than mythological, they have forced themselves to adopt a literalist hermeneutic that cannot be applied consistently, even to similar writings, throughout the Bible. […] Second, they failed to understand that Biblical authority does not emanate from a manuscript; it comes from the community that conveys authority on that text. ”
20100727 @ 1752
July 27th
“ The guys that are getting paid the big bucks to deliver scalable solutions aren’t up at night feverishly rewriting their systems in Node. They’re doing what they’ve always done: measuring, testing, benchmarking, thinking hard, keeping up with the academic literature that pertains to their problems. That’s what scaling in the large necessitates. ”
20100727 @ 1739
July 25th
July 16th
priority
- halorgium: aim high IMO
- halorgium: small goals + small timeframes == great
- halorgium: large goals + large timeframes == fail
- halorgium: basically not small == fail :P
- halorgium: except if small + small == large
- atmos: => true
July 15th
“ I wish common sense included a sense of scale. You and your consumer identity have absolutely no moral mass whatsoever. Nothing you can buy at Walmart will ever count as an ethical unit of measure that has weight on a global scale. ”
20100715 @ 0704
July 12th
July 9th
