February 2012
2 posts
January 2012
4 posts
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laying eyes on someone Animated with Loopcam for iPhone.
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Indoctrination of children into religious belief systems is one of the great...
– Matt Gemmel, http://mattgemmell.com/2012/01/16/morality-and-persecution/
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lemon square dance Animated with Loopcam for iPhone.
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A typical conversation on SoundCloud's IRC
17:55 cloudhead: o/
18:05 xla: \o
18:06 kesselborn: \o/
18:07 jchome: /o\
18:13 fronx: o_o
18:14 cloudhead: \o\ /o/
18:14 fronx: \(o_o)/
18:15 jchome: d(^_^)b
18:17 sebastian: ( ^_^)/~~~
December 2011
8 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-25) →
Junior Boys (20)
Johnny Cash (17)
johnny_ripper (13)
Björk (13)
Final Fantasy (10)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-18) →
johnny_ripper (124)
Junior Boys (23)
My Brightest Diamond (16)
Why? (13)
MGMT (10)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-11) →
The Flashbulb (146)
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss (22)
MGMT (20)
johnny_ripper (15)
My Brightest Diamond (11)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-4) →
My Brightest Diamond (30)
The New Pornographers (16)
Foster The People (15)
Fleetwood Mac (12)
Feist (9)
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November 2011
15 posts
char*: Look Ma, I'm a Tech Blog →
jessiechar:
1 paragraph commentary on something to do with an earnings report
Long article quote with single comment at end
Short article quote with no comment at end
Picture of something shiny
Siri reference
Glowing review of my friend’s app
Criticism of something I don’t understand
Essay on why…
I’ll leave this with a short comment.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-27) →
Why? (20)
The Postal Service (13)
Pink Floyd (3)
Kate Bush (2)
Johnny Cash (2)
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It is important not to accuse an application of being buggy if it does unusual,...
– http://haproxy.1wt.eu/download/1.4/doc/configuration.txt
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-20) →
Years (25)
Feist (20)
Johnny Cash (13)
Sister Crayon (10)
The Doors (9)
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Humor rewards the discovery of our mistakes.
– Why do we find things funny?
c i n e m a s c a p e s - Google Street View... →
in search of enchanted and remote lands typically only reserved for the eyes of it’s inhabitants, but now are captured on camera by the automated and aesthetically-neutered google street view cars that linger.
"One small step for [a] man …" →
At the time of the mission, the world heard Neil say “That’s one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind”. As Andrew Chaikin details in A Man on the Moon, after the mission, Neil said that he had intended to say ‘one small step for a man’ and believed that he had done so. However, he also agreed that the ‘a’ didn’t seem to be audible in the...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-13) →
Johnny Cash (48)
Years (24)
The Doors (20)
Feist (20)
Massive Attack (18)
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Flow is a JavaScript framework that lets you... →
Flow directly addresses the “mess” inherent to JavaScript coding; that is, the modes, exceptions, states, and steps that are implied by a sequence of functions.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-6) →
The Flashbulb (41)
Curtis Mayfield (10)
Caribou (10)
Years (8)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience (5)
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Because of an unfortunate temporary lapse of inspiration, we couldn’t think of...
– http://blog.fogus.me/2011/11/03/in-the-shadow-of-john-mccarthy/
October 2011
21 posts
The word “dynamic” was chosen by Bellman to capture the time-varying...
– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_programming
Simple Made Easy →
Rich Hickey emphasizes simplicity’s virtues over easiness’, showing that while many choose easiness they may end up with complexity, and the better way is to choose easiness along the simplicity path.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-16) →
Years (68)
Say Hi (22)
Balmorhea (14)
Feist (10)
Broken Bells (8)
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The Pure programming language →
Pure is a functional programming language based on term rewriting. This means that all your programs are essentially just collections of symbolic equations which the interpreter uses to reduce expressions to their simplest (“normal”) form. This makes for a rather powerful and flexible programming model featuring dynamic typing and general polymorphism. In addition, Pure programs are compiled to...
The future is a function of the past. It doesn’t change it.
– Rich Hickey, http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Are-We-There-Yet-Rich-Hickey
I think programmers have become inured to incidental complexity… when they...
– Rich Hickey, http://www.simple-talk.com/opinion/geek-of-the-week/rich-hickey-geek-of-the-week/
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-9) →
Deerhunter (23)
Woodpigeon (9)
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Kohwi (2)
Foster the People (2)
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There is no idea so simple and powerful that you can’t get zillions of...
– Alan C. Kay, http://www.readability.com/articles/pjlouagz
When you specialize, you are basically putting yourself into a mental state...
– Alan C. Kay, http://www.readability.com/articles/pjlouagz
I made up the term object-oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in...
– Alan C. Kay, http://www.readability.com/articles/pjlouagz
People currently think of text as information to be consumed. I want text to be...
– http://worrydream.com/#!/ExplorableExplanations
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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to...
– Steve Jobs, 1955-2011 (via jessiechar)
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-2) →
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Radiohead (2)
Cults (1)
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Laplace operator →
“The Laplacian Δƒ(p) of a function ƒ at a point p, up to a constant depending on the dimension, is the rate at which the average value of ƒ over spheres centered at p, deviates from ƒ(p) as the radius of the sphere grows.”
If Monads are a “monoid on functions which produce side effects”, then I think...
– http://beheadinghydras.wordpress.com/2011/09/29/simple-comonads-at-bfpg/