February 2012
1 post
Is It Better to Buy or Rent? →
The answer to the question depends on many factors. Compare the costs of buying and renting equivalent homes.
January 2012
3 posts
nickd: Distance. →
taphead:
We don’t write well enough. Linkbait invective spreads quickly because it angers people, in turn prompting a degradation in the quality of writing. People write opinions unchecked and unedited, leading to thoughtless arguments and shoddy research. We don’t read well enough. We deal with problems…
December 2011
2 posts
Keira Knightley's Vagina
thenewinquiry:
A Dangerous Method taps the allure of sexual dysfunction
by Kartina Richardson
David Cronenberg’s new film A Dangerous Method opens with the ominous notes of a cello, that, leading out of the opening credits, give way to a horn and string crescendo and the disturbing first scene: Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley) arrives screaming, restrained by men, in a black carriage...
asada's memorandum: The Day I Saw Van Gogh's... →
asada0:
Japanease version
The other day, I experienced the “Color Vision Experience Room” at the event of the Hokkaido Color Universal Design Organization (HCUDO), where I had invited to speak. The event’s main objective was to educate the public about the diversity of color vision which exists in…
November 2011
2 posts
October 2011
3 posts
the understatement: Android Orphans: Visualizing a... →
understatementblog:
The announcement that Nexus One users won’t be getting upgraded to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich led some to justifiably question Google’s support of their devices. I look at it a little differently: Nexus One owners are lucky. I’ve been researching the history of OS updates on Android phones…
“Наверное, на свете есть такие люди, которых вы можете обидеть тем, что ничего не...”
– Правила жизни Тома Йорка - Журнал Esquire (via aqva)
http://dss.collections.imj.org.il/isaiah#66:24 →
Digitized scrollable scrolls with the English translation.
September 2011
3 posts
“I was shy the way many geeky girls can be. Professors hardly noticed that they...”
– The Educational Experiences That Change a Life - NYTimes.com (via aqva)
«Битву за Москву 1941 года» сделают игрой для... →
Чистый изумруд. А уж имена, имена.
Historical Photos of Hungary Brought to Life with... →
August 2011
4 posts
A modular package language for Haskell
skilpat:
What’s the difference between a “package” and a “module”? Though modules have evolved beyond their low-level origins into richly composable, type-based abstractions, packages are largely stuck in a Linux-like land of version ranges and imprecise specifications.
How can we bring packages up to speed with contemporary module systems? For my first big project, I’m investigating this...
m.e.driscoll's blog: The Secret Guild of Silicon... →
medriscoll:
A couple of weeks ago, I was drinking beer in San Francisco with friends when someone quipped:
“You have too many hipsters, you won’t scale like that. Hire some fat guys who know C++.”
It’s funny, but it got me thinking. Who are the “fat guys who know C++”, or as someone else put…
July 2011
2 posts
On Being Geeky: 101 Geek Guy Myths: #59 Everything... →
geekyjoey:
Yeah, it was so much better being a kid when I had until wait to Saturday morning to see my favorite cartoons. Especially when missing an episode meant having to find a friend that saw it instead of simply searching the Internet. How is it that I would ever want to grow up and not play Captain…
But Seriously...: How to Update Facebook From... →
justinbee:
Facebook provides each user with a unique email that they can use to update their Facebook with. This way you can email a status update, picture, etc. without needing to access the site or the app, plus it works with any email address.
We can use that email address to cross post from Google+,…
April 2011
4 posts
Principle of Least Software | Jonathan Buys →
mnmal:
Use only the software that you need. No more, no less. Choose one application for each task, and become an expert on that application.
(Via Minimal Mac)
Shedding Bikes: Programming Culture And Philosophy →
recently heard that RMS is pissed at cloud service companies because they are causing the decline of open source. I do have to say I agree with him that there’s a decline in open source, but I’m going to lay out a completely different reason why. This is based on my experience as being classified a “Long Beard” during an era where consumer internet shifted and the...
January 2011
1 post
Who Can Name the Bigger Number? →
The sequence of Busy Beaver numbers grows faster than any computable sequence. Faster than exponentials, stacked exponentials, the Ackermann sequence, you name it.
Because if a Turing machine could compute a sequence that grows faster than Busy Beaver, then it could use that sequence to obtain the D‘s—the beaver dams. And with those D’s, it could list the Busy Beaver numbers, which (sound...
December 2010
1 post
November 2010
1 post
Kickstarter - A Paper Internet →
October 2010
1 post
June 2007
6 posts
“In Putin Russia the code refactors you.”
“Творящий брадобритие ненавидим от Бога, создавшего нас по Образу Своему. Аще...”
– “Деяния стоглавого собора”, 1551 год, цит по Шинкарёв “Митьки”
“As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to...”
– Dick Cavett
“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.”
– Mark Twain
May 2007
9 posts
“Jazz attracted me because in it I found a formal perfection and instrumental...”
– Django Reinhardt
“All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.”
– Aristotle
Why You Never See Baby Pigeons →
“Your project is to build a time machine. The deadline, is yesterday.”
– The Riaz Moola Filter
Attitudes of highly creative people →
121 000 USD продаж Gishа →
http://www.gameproducer.net/2007/05/09/sales-stats-gish-121000-sales/ Title: Gish Developer: Chronic Logic Development time: About 6 months with three developers. Total Sales: 4521 Price: $19.95 USD SWREG (Credit card orders): $79543.98 PayPal: $1436.86 Manual orders (checks, cash, money orders): $195.48 Total income from other sites: $6212.04 IGF Prize winnings: $16000.00 Total Retail...
