October 2011
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Graphing Calculator Story →
Pretty incredible: I used to be a contractor for Apple, working on a secret project. Unfortunately, the computer we were building never saw the light of day. The project was so plagued by politics and ego that when the engineers requested technical oversight, our manager hired a psychologist instead. In August 1993, the project was canceled. A year of my work evaporated, my contract ended, and I...
Oct 31st
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My git log makes me sound like a deranged man.
Some gems: SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT, this works. 140/140 on make grade, baby. Adding le user_mem_asserts to page_fault_handler. FUCK MY LIFE THERE WAS A PERM ISSUE. I hate everything. p.s. fixed spawn and shit. Remove swear words. Interrupts. BAM. sys_program_read. DONE. BAM. Ruby script to generate code. I’M NOT PROUD OF THIS, OKAY? These are le comments. Stacy’s mom has got...
Oct 30th
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“Tomorrow the world may burst into fragments. In that threat hanging over our...”
– [via @sparker] Albert Camus, “The Wager of Our Generation,” in Resistance, Rebellion, and Death, (New York: Vintage, 1960), pp. 239-240.
Oct 30th
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me: Svilen i'm bored and tired and cranky
Svilen: haha
Svilen: that sounds like my usual state of mind
Svilen: dealing with it requires hard years of training
Svilen: and drinks
Oct 29th
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Oct 27th
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Cuteness of the day →
via Natalie.
Oct 27th
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formulatepro - Google Project Hosting →
Haven’t been as excited to discover an app since CoconutBattery!!!!! [An Open-source project to let you] overlay text and graphics on PDF documents. Great for filling out forms.
Oct 27th
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Oct 26th
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How come you can literally feel a "heart break" in... →
Oct 26th
BBC - BBC Radio 4 Programmes - Last Word,... →
BBC episode on Ritchie: Pioneering computer scientist who has died aged 70. Dennis Ritchie was by no means a public figure, but his work in computer science had a major impact on the development of the digital age. He was the co-creator of the operating system, Unix, and he wrote a new computer language, C. Together they paved the way for portable computing. Dennis Ritchie studied physics at...
Oct 24th
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Oct 24th
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A Love Letter To A Friend « Thought Catalog →
Oct 24th
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Domestic violence is now legal: Kansas repeals... →
Oct 24th
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If I was in a train going close to the speed of... →
Cooooooool.
Oct 24th
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Obligatory “Hello from Seattle” post.
Oct 23rd
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Obama's announcement of Iraq withdrawal date puts... →
Oct 23rd
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The deification of Steve Jobs is Apple's greatest... →
Oct 22nd
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How Russian Tycoon Yuri Milner Bought His Way Into... →
Fascinating.
Oct 22nd
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David Guetta!
Oct 22nd
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Anonymous exposes pedophile ring - hacks Lolita... →
Oct 22nd
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2008 Redux: Taxpayers to help bailout Merrill... →
The future scares me.
Oct 22nd
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I feel so… responsible.
Oct 22nd
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Oct 22nd
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“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.”
– Khalil Gibran
Oct 21st
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The Ten Commandments For Twitter Users « Thought... →
Oct 21st
Noah's Readings: Don Knuth on "purpose" →
noahsreadings: I started thinking about this as an interesting metaphor for society and the world in general. It might help us to reformulate our notions of “purpose.” There is a good reason for a thousand people to work on a problem even though only one of them is going to solve it, and even though the people know in advance that only one of them is going to influence the final answer....
Oct 20th
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Oct 19th
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IdentityBlog - Digital Identity, Privacy, and the... →
Oct 19th
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BBC Radio - The home of BBC Radio on the internet →
Radio is fucking amazing. Too bad it’s taken me so long to discover how terrific this is!
Oct 16th
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Stevey's Google Platforms Rant →
(via qc): This is a blunt rant by Google engineer, Steve Yegge, about why Google doesn’t get platforms, but Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft and Apple do. He seemingly starts off ranting against Amazon’s dysfunction until you reach the end. It was meant to be a private Google+ posting, but it was accidentally made public. The result is a highly entertaining read.
Oct 16th
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“Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish...”
– Thoreau
Oct 16th
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“Sometimes I think there is a beast inside of me, in the cavern that’s...”
– Jodi Picault
Oct 16th
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Paris
Oct 15th
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34 Regrets I Have About The Past 34 Years «... →
Oct 14th
`fortune` never ceases to amuse me.
It’s grad exam time… COMPUTER SCIENCE Inside your desk you’ll find a listing of the DEC/VMS operating system in IBM 1710 machine code. Show what changes are necessary to convert this code into a UNIX Berkeley 7 operating system.  Prove that these fixes are bug free and run correctly. You should gain at least 150% efficiency in the new system.  (You should take no more than...
Oct 13th
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Oct 13th
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Dennis Ritchie just passed away.
Found out when I was sitting here reading the original UNIX papers in awe of their work. Rest in peace. “UNIX is very simple, it just needs a genius to understand its simplicity.”
Oct 13th
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An Awkward Letter To My Best Friend(?) « Thought... →
Oct 12th
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“Life is a dance. Sometimes we lead. Sometimes life leads.”
– Hacker News | I quit my job last March and it was a bad idea.
Oct 12th
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Gary Johnson, Republican Presidential Candidate:... →
If you’re seeking the presidency but no one notices, are you still seeking the presidency? Gary Johnson was governor of New Mexico for eight years, balanced the hell out of his budgets, and climbed Mount Everest with a broken leg. You’d think that would at least give him a shot at the GOP nomination. Nope. Lisa DePaulo hits the surreal non-campaign trail with the most compulsively...
Oct 12th
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sanödox: Have you Ever Wondered How Alcoholic... →
Pretty cool.
Oct 12th
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Oct 12th
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Oct 7th
Oct 6th
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“Belief implies a level of giving a crap I am never going to achieve.”
– Gregory House in the season premiere of House. I love this show.
Oct 6th
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Man Hospitalized After Ripping Own Eyes Out With... →
Oct 5th
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For College Women, Dating Could Be Worse Than... →
Oct 4th
Oct 4th
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An open letter to Stripe « Handcrafted →
Stripe sounds lovely and I wanted to add a voice from Europe calling for you guys to hurry up and get over here. The payment processing industry is probably a mess in the US, but I can almost guarantee you it’s even more of a mess over here if you’re not in the UK. Sounds like a great business opportunity, right?
Oct 3rd
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ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT!! →
It’s true. We will do 10 episodes and the movie. Probably shoot them all together next summer for a release in early ‘13. VERY excited!
Oct 2nd
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