Personal media summary, August 2015
In no particular order: * Roughly halfway through "Gravity's Rainbow", have rarely enjoyed a book this much. * Came across some of the best surreal art I have ever seen, in an art gal…
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10225097…
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It’s more of an oligopoly than a cloud. “The End of the Internet Dream”…
Random bit of Bad Art
Something I doodled today ... (Made with Paper)…
The Three Laws of Programs
(As seen here) 1. A program must not be hard for a human to understand, nor though lack of clarification allow a misunderstanding to take place. 2. A program must be fast and concise, unless it con…
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Type Checking. This is a group of zealous academics (and their groupies and/or grad students) who believe that they can write programs that are smart enough to figure out what your program is trying t…
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the urge suddenly comes upon me to grow a long beard and stop showering and make a pilgrimage to MIT where I beg Richard Stallman to let me live in a cot in some hallway and work on GCC with him like…
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You know how to Program. You’re a Programmer. Now you just need to learn APIs and stuff Steve Yegge, “Rich Programmer Food”…
Monthly recap (August 2015)
This month went by fast. Tara is now regularly eating breakfast/lunch/dinner, which was unimaginable a while ago, and crawling/standing all over the place, which is a bit scary. Notable "firsts…
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no syntax, no redundancy, no typingno heirarchy. No files. No operating system. http://www.colorforth.com/1percent.html…
Getting Things Done, for Dummies
I've never really been very "organized" about anything (those who know me a bit can vouch for this), but I've had to get crap done recently, so I've been forced to come up with s…
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to most people, the major difference between git and Subversion is that there’s a web site attached to git. http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-future-is-full-of-broken-machines.html…