Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
05aug2005
DTrace and PHP, evil, evil, evil. Repeat after me: evil!
Other Things the Road to Hell Is Paved With a list by Angela Genusa.
Flock has landed, mysterious. What the hell is it?
Du bist alt, wenn du während du dir die Schuhe zu bindest dir überlegst was man sonst noch tun könnte wenn man schon mal hier unten ist. — zamiwoop
An explanation of colorblindness by John Hicks, very clear.
Unfortunate Childrens’ Books, a photoset on Flickr. Wow.
What to Do If You Have a Proposal for the Unified Field Theory? …and what not to do. By Michio Kaku. If I only knew that sooner. ;-)
Free the Curriculum!, Jimbo Wales—founder of Wikipedia—wants “a complete curriculum (in all languages) from Kindergarten through the University level.” Great!
Functional Pattern Matching for Smalltalk. Nifty!
What Business Can Learn from Open Source, Paul Graham’s OSCON 2005 talk.
Worse is better, I really hope Joel Reymont is right, but it’s gonna be hard work.
Why can’t a dish break a hammer?
Why oh why oh why?!
‘Cause a hammer’s a hard head.
Goodbye goodbye goodbye.
— Woody Guthrie, Why, Oh Why?
A Brief Introduction to the Concatenative Language Kont by Brian Mastenbrook. Maybe I should revive my BlueMoon language again, it had partial continuations.
Overloading – Syntactic Heroin? What is multi-method dispatch then?
OSCON D3, brian d foy summarizes the day. Featuring scary offline tales.
Scrubbing, Shreding, Nuking Old Data by Chris Josephes. A nice example of a problem no-one thought of until it was there.
The Video Blogging World by Joshua Paul. Traffic, traffic, think of the traffic.
OSCON Day 3: Real world scalability by Robert Kaye. It’s amazing how useful a “worse is better” solution like memcached turns out.
Ein Säufer hat sich stumm gegrölt.
Die Hausfrau hat sich eingeölt.
Selbst nachts bleibt diese Affenhitze
Über die Stadt wie eine Mütze.
Es wird verrückt selbst der Solide.
Dann häufen sich die Suizide.
Touristen kotzen von den Boten.
Das ist die Zeit der Irren und Idioten.
— Hans-Eckardt Wenzel, Die Zeit der Irren und Idioten
MLpedia, a wiki to bring together information on a range of machine learning topics, written and maintained by researchers.
The Cruelest Cut by stzu. An anti-circumcision post, also providing a good overview in general.
Scott Laird’s FOSCON 2005 slideshow on Flickr. Featuring Why The Lucky Stiff.
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