September 2011
39 posts
italian kid loves led zeppelin - YouTube →
“If the universe is finite but unbounded, it is also possible that the universe...”
– Observable universe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“If males are the recipient of these rocket sperm, they are just stuck with them....”
– For Deep-Sea Squid, Same-Sex Sex Is Only Half the Story - NYTimes.com
What are the numbers that every computer engineer... →
“What naturalists really fear is not becoming dogmatic or giving up the...”
– Why I Am a Naturalist - NYTimes.com
“אמת”
– “Truth, Even Unto Its Innermost Parts” Brandeis University - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“LGTM! (I hope nobody was using the API.)”
– Yes, somebody was using it. Issue 6770009: Remove snapshots-related code that is implemented in DevTools heap profiler. - Code Review
“9/11 is the day four jet airliners crashed into our civil rights.”
– me
“In the Roman Empire, the military was paid a “salarium”, or money...”
– Jeff Kay’s answer to How would the world be different if salt were as scarce and difficult to obtain as oil? - Quora
“many Googlers, especially V8 principals, do not like JS and don’t believe it can...”
– I hope they replace it with Go. My TXJS talk (Twitter remix) | Brendan Eich
“There is no underlying patriotic instinct to find middle ground with the rest of...”
– Apocalyptic GOP Is Dragging Us Into a Civil War | Rolling Stone Politics | Taibblog | Matt Taibbi on Politics and the Economy
“At some point, I remember passing a number of firefighters heading up the...”
– 9/11: What did it feel like to be inside the World Trade Center at the time of the 9/11 attacks? - Quora
“To all,
I am very sad to tell you that I’ve just been fired over the phone by...”
– LOL Exclusive: Carol Bartz Out at Yahoo; CFO Tim Morse Named Interim CEO - Kara Swisher - News - AllThingsD
Carpe diem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
Morals & Morality: What are some behaviors that... →
An engineer, a biologist and a mathematician are all watching an empty house. After ten minutes, they see 2 people walk into the house. After another 20 minutes, 3 people walk out.
Engineer: Whoever told us this place was empty must have given us bad data.
Biologist: Fascinating! They must have reproduced!
Mathematician: There are now negative one people in that house.
“The most reliable gear is the one that is designed out of the machine.”
– This quote is from a post about rationalism, but I realize that this applies to software engineering. This is a powerful argument to make your code as simple as possible. Reduce as many steps as we can. There less there is, there less chance there’s one more bug. Twelve Virtues of Rationality
“The roots of knowledge are in observation and its fruit is prediction.”
– Twelve Virtues of Rationality
“Surrender to the truth as quickly as you can. Do this the instant you realize...”
– Twelve Virtues of Rationality
“That which can be destroyed by the truth should be.”
– Twelve Virtues of Rationality
“There’s a whole further art to finding the truth and accomplishing value...”
– What Do We Mean By “Rationality”? - Less Wrong
“The correspondence between reality and my beliefs comes from reality controlling...”
– Yudkowsky - The Simple Truth
“GPS uses principles of general relativity to correct the satellites’...”
– Global Positioning System - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This Is What Amazon's Kindle Tablet Looks Like →
Looks sweet, sweet for $250.
Vim sessions are very awesome. →
Usually you might have certain files open depending on what you’re working on right? Vim session lets you automatically open those files. Keep multiple sessions around, and if you save the session files in your repo it acts like a reminder of things you still have to do because they’ll show up in a git status.
OpenStack™ Compute enters testing stage at... →
“we will be incorporating a ton of new features and products that have been requested by many: a new control panel and monitoring system based on the technology from our acquisition of Cloudkick…”