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Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)

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18mar2006

Rails plus 37signals in Wired and BusinessWeek, DHH apparently is the “hottest hacker on earth”. LMAO.

Math For Programmers, by Steve Yegge on his new blog. I still have to meet a good programmer that’s bad at math…

accanto a casa
accanto a casa by stefano.salvi

What is so special about this photo?, very cute.

#rpa
19:26 <mfp> hmmm COCOMO says Rails is worth $1e6 -> largest hype/buck rate ever

Datenschutz ist (k)ein Thema an der Schule, schlimm schlimm.

An Interesting Sequence, can you find the next number? Of course, it’s easy. But have a look how to express that mathematically!

Ruby Hacking Guide now has some parts translated into English.

#ruby-lang
19:26 <jast> 'mentally young' is a more politically correct way of saying 'retarded', isn't it

Oil paintings of x-rated picnics.
Behind the walls of medication I’m free.
Every falling leaf in a compact mirror
hits a target that we can’t see.
— Silver Jews, The Wild Kindness

Zen is Boring, “Let’s face it. Zen is boring. You couldn’t find a duller, more tedious practice than Zazen.” This is so fantastically insightful.

Programmers go bananas, okay, outlining “Functional Programming with Bananas, Lenses, Envelopes and Barbed Wire” for ordinary people, this is a must read. Excellent.

DSCN0998
DSCN0998 by Mary Hawkins

Moderation Strategy Pattern Language, lots of nice patterns.

Every nerve in my body is so vacant and numb
I can’t even remember what it was I came here to get away from
Don’t even hear a murmur of a prayer
It’s not dark yet, but it’s getting there.
— Bob Dylan, Not Dark Yet

#perl6
14:37 <Ara4n> gibson had a fairly whimsical model for jetlag in Pattern Recognition - that your soul has to catch up with your body (if you believe in such a distinction)
14:38 <Ara4n> the idea of one's disembodied sense of spiritual self drifting sadly over the pacific/atlantic trying to catch up with your abnormally speedy self is appealing :)

20.000 Benutzer auf jabber.ccc.de, Kudos an die Admins!

Story of the guy next door, by Omaze. “He has a very defining appearance, though, in that he’s burned from the waist up.” Scary and sad.

HungryNil is an Objective-C like nil for Ruby.