January 2012
1 post
“In much of the world, this would be solved by fighting in the streets until...”
– http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2627690&cid=38745458
Jan 18th
July 2011
1 post
1 tag
“The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign...”
– Senator Barack Obama Senate Floor Speech on Public Debt March 16, 2006
Jul 27th
June 2011
1 post
“16:36 <Lasers> Homeless folks — They looks creepy — but...”
Jun 16th
April 2011
2 posts
““Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of...”
– Bertrand Russell  (via cosman246)
Apr 17th
4 notes
2 tags
“An economics professor at Texas Tech said he had never failed a single student...”
– http://www.polytickle.com/bm/polytickle-blog-tshirts/epic-fail-socialism-101-polytickle.shtml
Apr 14th
4 notes
February 2011
1 post
1 tag
Fringe: The Firefly
Walter: You know the future. Tell me how I can save my son from dying.
The Observer: There are things that I know. But there are things that I do not. Various possible futures are happening simultaneously. I can tell you all of them, but I cannot tell you which one of them will come to pass. Because every action cause ripples. Consequences both obvious and unforeseen. For instance, after I pulled you and Peter from the icy lake, later that summer, Peter caught a firefly. I could not have known he would do that. But because he did, a young girl three miles away would not. And so later that night, she would continue looking, trying to find another one. I could not have know that when she did not come home, her father would go looking for her, driving in the rain. So that when the traffic light turned red, his truck skidded through the intersection at Harvard Yard, killing a pedestrian.
Walter: Did that happen?
The Observer: You and I have interfered in the natural course of events. We have... upset the balance in ways I could not have predicted.
Feb 23rd
4 notes
October 2010
1 post
1 tag
“Our Tax System Explained Using the ‘Beer’ Language When pondering...”
– David R. Kamerschen, Ph.D. Professor of Economics.
Oct 22nd
August 2010
2 posts
“Soft-Boiled Rice One time, three men met at a trail crossing. One was a...”
– http://www.bohol.ph/article117.html
Aug 12th
Of Programming Languages and Operating Systems
I am reminded of an IRC quot about programming languages which equally applies to operating systems
Being enlightened gentlemen, we split all programming languages into two groups, sucks and doesn't-suck and put all of them into the first group.
Aug 10th
July 2010
4 posts
“Mercurial separates the act of committing new code from the act of inflicting it...”
– http://hginit.com/00.html
Jul 26th
1 tag
“…the “music industry” is nothing more than privileged...”
– http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1718330&cid=32895594
Jul 13th
“Listening to E.S. posthumus while doing Calculus homework makes me feel like my...”
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iu-WAHBbW8
Jul 11th
“The narcissist is an actor in a monodrama, yet he is forced to remain behind the...”
– http://samvak.tripod.com/
Jul 5th
June 2010
2 posts
1 tag
“Too many people believe standards drive technological development. When the...”
– http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1692976&cid=32640672
Jun 21st
1 tag
“When it turns out you were correct, people opinions of you do not change and...”
– http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1688530&cid=32598422
Jun 16th
May 2010
1 post
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you...”
– Mark Twain
May 4th
April 2010
11 posts
“Technology companies are born because they create a better way of doing things....”
– http://bhorowitz.com/2010/04/28/why-we-prefer-founding-ceos/
Apr 28th
“I have recently read a lot about XP, SCRUM, FDD (feature driven development),...”
– http://discuss.fogcreek.com/joelonsoftware/default.asp?cmd=show&ixPost=160253
Apr 27th
1 tag
“Morals are inherently relative to personal values and situational details....”
– http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1632142&cid=31991490
Apr 26th
“I’ve watched developers on multiple occasions stay up until sunrise to solve a...”
– http://www.softwarebyrob.com/2006/10/31/nine-things-developers-want-more-than-money/
Apr 19th
“To be a startup you need to be the band that sells a million copies of a song,...”
– http://www.paulgraham.com/startupfunding.html
Apr 16th
“…we have found that after all, there isn’t a sharp line dividing...”
– Jane Goodall http://www.ted.com/talks/jane_goodall_on_what_separates_us_from_the_apes.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOLAGYmUQV0
Apr 15th
“I used to work at a factory owned by a Fortune 500 company, and one of my pals...”
– http://www.linkedin.com/answers/technology/software-development/TCH_SFT/608599-18685503
Apr 13th
2 tags
“Twitter: the UDP of human conversation.”
– http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1617428&cid=31840136
Apr 13th
“Program management believes engineering will never ship, product management...”
– http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2010/03/29/bits_features_and_truth.html
Apr 12th
2 tags
“3d movies do nothing for me. Do they have special glasses that improve overall...”
– http://entertainment.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1615240&cid=31817360
Apr 12th
2 tags
“Have you ever tried to create or edit articles in Wikipedia? I’ve had...”
– http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1614620&cid=31813528
Apr 11th