September 2010
1 post
“Using the language of the app to pose questions about the app—getting the...”
– http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2010/09/21/chris_clark/
May 2010
2 posts
“Our affinity for the lesser team “is a mile wide and an inch deep,”...”
– http://www.slate.com/id/2252372/pagenum/all/
“greatest value of HN comments is when you finish reading one of these articles...”
– http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1360824
February 2010
1 post
“And that, apparently, we now live in a world enriched by the fulfillment of the...”
– http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1096778
“When people say a discussion has degenerated into a religious war, what they...”
– Keep Your Identity Small
January 2009
2 posts
“The text segment also maps your binary file in memory, but writes to this area...”
– Anatomy of a Program in Memory : Gustavo Duarte
The Third Bit » Unwritten →
Do want.
December 2008
3 posts
“Grandparents are odd things, cursed to die at almost the exact moment they...”
– The Musty Man - Words Between The Lines Of Age
“That said, I do think that the greatest potential benefit of DSLs comes when...”
– MF Bliki: BusinessReadableDSL
“WORK is feeling more and more like a Skinner box.”
– Preoccupations - In Hard Times, Fear Can Impair Decision-Making - NYTimes.com
November 2008
4 posts
“publish a public Web diary of what you do every day, thus discouraging you from...”
– Early Retirement
“Computer programming is an activity that is also a culture. The unfortunate fact...”
– How to be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary
“So, when the simple stuff fails, what do most people do? Think up a bunch of...”
– Geeking with Greg: Finding task boundaries in search logs
“One of its characteristics was that “reasoning by analogy” was...”
– E.W. Dijkstra Archive: On the cruelty of really teaching computing science (EWD 1036)
October 2008
3 posts
“Woe be to him that reads but one book.”
– Quote Details: George Herbert: Woe be to him… - The Quotations Page
“A programmer is greatly influenced by the language in which programs are...”
– http://www.amazon.com/Art-Computer-Programming-Fundamental-Algorithms/dp/0201896834/ref=pd_sim_b_1
“Unfortunately, most programmers (myself included) tend to use exactly the wrong...”
– Stevey’s Blog Rants: The Universal Design Pattern
September 2008
3 posts
“Or maybe this very lady is the low-wage clerk at the motor vehicle department,...”
– David Foster Wallace - Commencement Speech at Kenyon University
“If you’re interested in being on the right side of disputes, you will refute...”
– Black Belt Bayesian » DH7: Why Good Argumentative Discourse Is Like a Bad Horror Movie
“If you want to do good, work on the technology, not on getting power.”
– John McCarthy - Wikiquote
August 2008
3 posts
“Don’t hate on Python. It will come silently in the night and indent you, and...”
– Cheat! — err.the_blog
“A simple one variable theory is that the qualities of the games you play reflect...”
– Marginal Revolution: What are the best games?
“when you don’t create things, you become defined by your tastes rather...”
– Twitter / why the lucky stiff: when you don’t create thing…
July 2008
3 posts
“Two hours into the renaming I had come up with decent names for AA, BB, CC, and...”
– smuglispweeny: AA, BB, CC, and DD
“Instead of being told that subversion is on the timeline for 2 years from now,...”
– Anarchogeek: Good Bye To The Purple Mothership: Leaving Yahoo
“If a Microsoft developer commented out seeding in Vista CryptGenRandom(), they...”
– Debian needs some serious commit review « root labs rdist
May 2008
6 posts
“do keep in mind Lansford’s Corollary to Clarke’s Third Law:...”
– has_many :through - Quick RailsConf Update
“If you do the math, it’s actually quite obvious that if your popularity...”
– Giles Bowkett: Summon Monsters? Open The Door? Heal? Or Die?
“So why is there an unreasonable fear of writing parsers for DSLs? I think it...”
– MF Bliki: ParserFear
“By the way, where are those standards now? Did they save you any time, money or...”
– A conversation Clinton was having…: RE: Java haters, gtfo
“They were not built for rapid prototyping, OK? So that means when you try to do...”
– Stevey’s Blog Rants: Dynamic Languages Strike Back
“Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them...”
– Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
April 2008
21 posts
“strong beliefs, weakly held”
– Politically committed research
“Panta rei”
– Panta Rei
“Personally, the game’s objectives are only tangentially related to my own....”
– Help me play games without getting lost in the competition | Ask Metafilter
“he sifted through a United Nations CD-ROM and discovered that the single best...”
– Mahalanobis
“So if you start the kind of startup where users come back each day, you’ve...”
– Be Good
“Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if...”
– Dru’s Blog » Quotes
“…if we find for a particular query that result No. 4 should be result No....”
– 20 (Rare) Questions for Google Search Guru Udi Manber - Popular Mechanics
“…number of other questions on matters so irrelevant that I not only...”
– Giles Bowkett: Fight Corporate Obfuscation With Programmatic Analysis
“(loosely) “We believe that programmers are going to learn online…...”
– stackoverflow
“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.”
– Voltaire Quotes
“Because Wikipedia is this process. It exists today because, again, today people...”
– Ars Book Review: “Here Comes Everybody” by Clay Shirky: Page 3
“Ship happens!”
– Stop the clock, squash the bug
“If we torture data long enough, it will confess”
– Quotes
“You want to survive a car crash, or do you want to drive really really fast?...”
– Notional Slurry » Search algorithms
“The problem of grues is, of course, their recursive nature. To wit: A) Grues are...”
– Lolgrues | MetaFilter
“The new rules mean that the most valuable marketing event is almost always an...”
– Seth’s Blog: Who answers the phone?
“A new implementation of the same concept is competition; a clone of an existing...”
– Daring Fireball
“Competitive advantage is fundamentally about making markets work less...”
– Beyond the Banking Crisis: A Strategy Crisis - Harvard Business Online’s Umair Haque