September 2011
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The Pragmatic Bookshelf | Read Our Magazines →
PragPub has a couple of articles for semi-beginners on Scala this (#27) issue.
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“Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”
– Helen Keller
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“Life gradually became less a search for meaning than a process of optimization.”
– Elif Batuman
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My 261 professor is the shit.
Adam: Is there a reason %ebx is callee-saved? It seems a little, um, suspicious.
Eddie: Apparently Gordon Moore, and Robert Noyce — the founders of Intel — dated some girl whose name started with B, and…
Adam: Wait really?
Eddie: Of course not.
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Sonnet XLIII
When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see, For all the day they view things unrespected; But when I sleep, in dreams they look on thee, And darkly bright are bright in dark directed. Then thou, whose shadow shadows doth make bright, How would thy shadow’s form form happy show To the clear day with thy much clearer light, When to unseeing eyes thy shade shines so! How would, I say, mine...
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Chinese to be made compulsory in Sindh schools →
The fuck?
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BBC News - Wikileaks: India's Mayawati 'sent jet... →
Why politics in India sucks:
“When she needed new sandals, her private jet flew empty to Mumbai to retrieve her preferred brand,” the cables say.
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Whose Line Online →
Every episode of Whose Line Is It Anyway?.
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“It’s nice to forget, but once in awhile it’s probably good to be...”
– @Nora
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“But we love trees, we love the snow, the friends we have, the world we share,...”
– Dar Williams, The Christians and The Pagans
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Sony's Norio Ohga, the 'Father of the CD,' Dies at... →
via reddit:
Ohga insisted that the CD be designed to be 12 centimeters (4.8 inches) in diameter so that it could hold 75 minutes worth of music. It was necessary for the CD to support 75 minutes of playback in order for it to be able to hold the entirety of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.
