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…
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/content/files/refs/sussman---robust-design-through-diversity.pdf…
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“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.” — Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM is alleged to have said around 1943. In a twisted way, this may become somewhat true again. In the future t…
Poetic Engineering
I stumbled upon this by an extremely oblique reference: an essay by Edgar Allan Poe, on "The Philosophy of Composition". Now if you were laboring under the impression that poetry is composed…
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No matter how we try to guide the students’ introduction to language features, the Almighty Search Engine sits ever at the ready, delivering size and complexity when they really need simple answersMay…