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… They are ripe for ridiculing because they are ridiculous in many cases, and the only reason they are advancing is because they plug in the conceptual and theoretical holes in their theories with buz…
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I wish it would dawn upon engineers that, in order to be an engineer, it is not enough to be an engineer. José Ortega y Gasset, 1939…
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a rebel spirit succumbing to perhaps the only force that could destroy it: gentrification Aeon Magazine, “How Yuppies Hacked the Original Hacker Ethos”…
Penzu. Use It.
No proselytizing here, I'll make it brief (140 characters, to be precise): I use Penzu, you should too. It is awesome. It gets you to do more writing. Your journal is private. Available on the we…
Monthly recap (July 2015)
(Intended to make up for an absence of Facebook, and for personal archival ... this one is rushed, will do a better job next month!) Yosemite was the first long-ish "go somewhere and stay there…
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Linux is only free if your time has no value http://www.jwz.org/doc/linux.html…
Frosty Trees
... Made this on my iPad using ArtRage ...…
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Clarification requires insight, and acquiring insight is the primary creative act in programmingAnd those places are where the bugs live. https://people.csail.mit.edu/cph/community.html…
Personal media summary, July 2015
I finished reading listening to Fukuyama's "The Origins of Political Order" (very interesting stuff), and moved on to his sequel, "Political Order and Political Decay" (corresp…
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all of the ad supported sites I visit are diversions. They’re entertaining and informative and amusing and above all absorbing, because that’s what the modern web has driven such sites to beIn many wa…
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Many don’t even realize that they’re using the Internet’s infrastructure when they like an Instagram photograph or leave a comment on a friend’s Facebook video. It’s just an app. https://medium.com/m…
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The NYT seems to be the perfect machine for exposing the uttermost eyerollingist of douchebags. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9991744…