May 18 2009
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Saw this on a bank branch ahead of the economic meltdown. foreshadowing…
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If (and only if!) you have seen the new Trek movie, check out the When Worlds Collide comic tie-in.
Feb 03 2009
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A conversation I just had at work
- Coworker: what do I type in html for a hard return within text?
- Me: <br />
- Coworker: sweet, thanks. do I need to add anything to the beginning?
- Coworker: what if I want to put in a blank line between paragraphs?
- Me: you can wrap the paragraphs in <p> </p>
- Coworker: excellent... and to make text bold?
- Coworker: (sorry, last question)
- Me: <b></b> or <strong></strong>
- Coworker: Thank you!
- Me: another important one <blink></blink>
- Coworker: what does that do?
- Coworker: make the word sparkle?
- Me: it inserts unicorns and grants wishes
Dec 12 2008
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Clay Shirky on Love, Internet Style
On AT&T engineers scrutinizing community support like comp.lang.perl.misc:
They didn’t care. They didn’t care that they had seen it work in practice because the already knew it couldn’t work in theory.
A couple other great quotes:
Perl is a Shinto Shrine. Perl exists not as an edifice but as an act of love.
We have always loved one another. We’re human. It’s something we are good at. But up until recently the radius and half life of that affection has been quite limited.
Dec 05 2008
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Dharmesh Shah’s insights from Business of Software 2008
Your idea can suck or be non-existent. The number one thing you need to do is get started. The right idea, the one that you are actually going to hopefully make money on some day, will likely not occur to you until after you have started a company.
You should get your product out there and start charging for it as early as possible and charge as often as possible. Lots of good things happen when you start charging people for money. The most important of which is: they tell you when your product sucks because they refuse to buy.
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Scheme Bricks pull the reletively obscure programming language Scheme into service for a live musical performance.
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Python 3000 released 992 years too early
Dubbed Python 3000 as that was the “expected” release date, Python 3.0 has arrived. The Announcement 3.0 Version of A Byte of Python Discussion: reddit, ycombinator
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LilyPond: Musical Typography
Just ask any musician that plays classical music: new scores do not look as nice as old ones.LilyPond creates beautifully crafted sheet music from a relatively simple notation. They call it Automated Engraving and explain how the software, by contrasting with Finale, is responsible for the quality.
