January 2012
20 posts
“The president’s question touched upon a central conviction at Apple. It isn’t...”
– Apple, America and a Squeezed Middle Class - NYTimes.com
“Some people jog away from their house every day, only to jog back. Others walk...”
– marcoarment/secondcrack - GitHub
Watchjayparkinsonmd:
I love this Kickstarter project:
Many of the 12 million Americans living in recovery have found cooking to be a powerful ritual in their commitment to recovery. However, since the only effective treatment for alcoholism is total abstinence, cooking with wine is not an option. So the challenge is this: create a non-alcoholic cooking wine that retains the color, flavor, and aroma...
“Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You...”
– Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore (via frigidparadigms)
I haven’t touched my pens in ages. All the writing I’ve been doing has been putting checkmarks for attendance taking and status tracking. That’s not very good.
“At $14.99 per text, the price for iBooks seems reasonable, but the price of the...”
– Hands-on: iBooks 2 introduces interface changes, pop quizzes
“The purpose of mortgages, on a societal level, is to make housing more...”
The Restart Page - Free unlimited rebooting... →
Amusing.
December 2011
13 posts
“Typography exists to honor content”
– The Elements of Typographic Style (via sid05)
357 days
I haven’t gone through my Tumblr dashboard for weeks and weeks, and haven’t posted here for over 2 weeks. I can’t imagine how much I’ve missed recently in all this busyness, given that I usually read and (re)post a crapload of things here.
The world just keeps spinning right round.. some days recently I wake up and wonder if I’m going to fall off it today, because...
“Thought I’d make a throw away and tip in as there are lots of people here...”
– Thought I’d make a throw away and tip in as there are lots of people here who’ve… | Hacker News
November 2011
13 posts
“A while back now, but many of the same systems are in place in the same way, I...”
– Cracked, inSecure and Generally Broken: FACT CHECK - SCADA is online now
Programmers: You're already a pretty good designer →
I’m a seasoned hacker that is able to tackle immensely complex problems with aplomb. I’m able to untangle spaghetti code and weave it into beautiful patterns. I envision systems and code them with the same grace a jazz pianist improvises music.
But I can’t design for my life. Please help.
Scholars and grades
Someone was telling me this week that grades aren’t everything in school/college.
Well, not quite what you think it is. He was actually trying to make the point that taking lots of challenging classes and scraping a 3.5 GPA is worth much more intellectually, and significantly better for your development, than taking all the easy classes and easily clearing a 4.0.
It occurs to me now that...
A new level of dogfooding
jbdeaton:
A friend of mine, a new assistant prof at a school in Louisiana, tells the story of a senior colleague (actually pretty famous in our area of structural engineering) who remodels his house constantly. This latest round, he decided to implement a series of parabolic stone arches over his driveway and various gates. He insisted on standing directly beneath each arch when removing the...
“The abbreviation UTC is an odd compromise. The French wanted to use the...”
– The Endeavour tells us in an aside about a compromise between the English and the French. Perhaps it is a good solution – it satisfies neither side fully.
“The problem, like everything Ubuntu, is that it may be ‘user...”
– mindslight on Ubuntu (via Linux Mint: The new Ubuntu? | Hacker News)
Peer Power →
iphoting:
James Shelley on peer-influence:
“…people are allelomimetic — that is, like cows and other herd animals, our behavior is influenced by the behavior of those around us.5 (Mark Frauenfelder)”
This is probably the greatest plus point of any “reputable” school, compared to your random run of the mill school.
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October 2011
47 posts
“[Nathan Myhrvold] likes to say that the only time a physicist and a brain...”
– Malcolm Gladwell on Nathan Myhrvold and collective genius in science : The New Yorker
“When you make your own sandwich, you anticipate its taste as you’re working on...”
– David Kahneman at NYTimes Magazine’s Cooking section via Why Do Sandwiches Taste Better When Someone Else Makes Them? — Marginal Revolution
“Once you have hard how Phereclus died by a spear through his right buttock into...”
– The Economist on how Homer’s Illiad is brutally realistic.