July 2010
14 posts
“The fundamentalists made two critical errors, but they’ve done a pretty...”
– A Flawed Consensus, Part 3: How Ichabod Crane Keeps Getting His Ass Kicked - the parish
“The guys that are getting paid the big bucks to deliver scalable solutions...”
– Alex Payne — Node and Scaling in the Small vs Scaling in the Large
Emerose Blog: Timing Attacks Explained →
(via atmos)
A few git tips you didn't know about →
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
Letters of Note: You're an idiot of the 33rd... →
“I wish common sense included a sense of scale. You and your consumer identity...”
– On balancing the scales. - Dear Coke Talk
Michael Feathers' Blog: Festering Code Bases and... →
“For those that have not gotten the message yet, there is no vcs that does what...”
– Always ship trunk
Related post from github, how we deploy new features
Tweetage Wasteland : Say Hello to My Little Friend →
(via atmos)
“We have a crisis of leadership in America because our overwhelming power and...”
– Solitude and Leadership: an article by William Deresiewicz | The American Scholar (via @amyhoy)
June 2010
17 posts
“The desire to live forever seems deeply ingrained in all of us, but I’ve found...”
– Pentecostal Boys Aren’t Like Holden Caulfield, Part 26 - the parish
“I speak a lot at business schools, and I ask how many people are there to make...”
– Q&A with John Scharffenberger: First wine, then chocolate, and now … tofu? :: The Ethicurean
Two important moments in every life →
InfoQ: A Crash Course in Modern Hardware →
CPUs are really complicated!
Spew →
by Neal Stephenson
“You know the best way to get the public to respect your brand? Have a...”
– Street Giant » Leroy Stick – the man behind @BPGlobalPR (via mattly)
“And I bet a lot of people thought we would never get here or that it was...”
– viruscomix - stairs
“Because in the end you don’t need it. You can live without working. You can live...”
– H
“On the Net, we face many information faucets, all going full blast. Our little...”
– Wired: Nicholas Carr: The Web Shatters Focus, Rewires Brains
“It is about realizing that the complexity of software dwarfs even the most...”
– Mea Culpa (via atmos)
“The irony is this: When you dot the i’s and cross the t’s and cancel out all the...”
– The Irony of Culture, by Rory
Open In MacVim Button for Finder - Vim →
(via atmos)
EWG's 2010 Sunscreen Guide →
The Environmental Working Group’s guide to the best sunscreens. Using any ol’ sunscreen ain’t enough!
“There’s an envelope of knowledge so vast in most other disciplines that just...”
– Shedding Bikes: Programming Culture And Philosophy (via mattly)
Simple five step plan for just about everyone and... →
therealadam:
1. Go, make something happen.
2. Do work you’re proud of.
3. Treat people with respect.
4. Make big promises and keep them.
5. Ship it out the door.
When in doubt, see #1.
Via azspot:
“Inside the Achewood Test Kitchen with Acclaimed Cartoonist Chris Onstad”
– Testicle… It’s What’s for Dinner | Eat and Drink | Portland Mercury
May 2010
14 posts
How Dr. Seuss would prove the halting problem... →
see also the story of Schroedinger’s cat (an epic poem)
“Here’s the problem: Diaspora has all the wrong things at the wrong time....”
– Diaspora’s curse - (37signals)
“It is never too late to remove a technology or library if it was clearly the...”
– Software Development And The Sunk Cost Fallacy
Wide Awake Developers: The Future of Software... →
Intridea Blog: The Future's Pretty Cool, or Why I... →
“When the biggest problem in personal technology is that the leading company is...”
– A good problem to have | Mike Industries
What The Fuck Should I Make For Dinner? →
WatchLego “CL!CK” (by a52)
“With the flattening of recognition accuracy comes the flattening of a great...”
– Rest in Peas: The Unrecognized Death of Speech Recognition - robertfortner’s posterous
April 2010
26 posts
Meditation, by Rory →
Red Sweater Blog – Elements Of Twitter Style →
“In short: Do not swallow your moral code in tablet form.”
– The New Commandments | Culture | Vanity Fair
FSI Language Courses →
Public domain language coursework
“This, my friends, is what white privilege is all about. The ability to threaten...”
– Ephphatha Poetry: “Imagine if the Tea Party Was Black” - Tim Wise (via mattly)