January 2012
6 posts
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“Instead of asking ‘what problem should I solve?’ ask ‘what problem do I wish...”
– Paul Graham
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Oliver Segovia wrote a piece on the subject of finding happiness. He argues that instead of following our passions, we should focus on finding big problems:
Like myself, today’s twentysomethings were raised to find our dreams and follow them. But it’s a different world. And as the jobless generation grows up, we realize the grand betrayal of the false idols of passion. This...
“When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people...”
– Robert M. Pirsig
November 2011
1 post
October 2011
4 posts
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“Profit in a business is like gas in a car. You don’t want to run out of...”
– Tim O’Reilly
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“But I’ll argue that Accessibility is actually more important than Security...”
– Steve Yegge
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I don’t always like music by a musician’s offspring. But when I do, I like Teddy Thompson and Damian Marley.
September 2011
3 posts
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Decay of an Artist
Shane MacGowan, original singer of The Pogues. I would love to see this guy make a Facebook Timeline. Until then. Two songs (Spotify): long ago, more recent. I can’t be the only one to like the rough version better.
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At my job, I'm the youngest programmer there
Youngest at 23 here. Then again, we’re four programmers and the oldest one is 25.
appliedcoffeetechnology:
Is it just my imagination or is that cat writing in lisp?
zombiechan:
They’re all in their 30’s while I’m 21. I’m pretty sure this is how they view me.
August 2011
3 posts
“Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we...”
– Alfred North Whitehead
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“As Apple stockpiles more money from product sales than is held by all countries...”
– The Apple-arity, Alternatives to the Singularity
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“A ship in harbor is safe—but that is not what ships are built for.”
– John A. Shedd
July 2011
5 posts
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Why Steve Jobs Couldn’t Find a Job Today →
Ask the question, “If Steve Jobs (or his clone) showed up at our company asking for a job – would we give him one?” Don’t forget, the Apple Board fired Steve Jobs some 20 years ago to give his role to a less creative, but more “professional,” John Scully. Mr. Scully was subsequently fired by the Board for creatively investing too heavily in the innovative Newton – the first PDA – to be...
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“We can wave banners about ‘life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness’, but they...”
– Charles Moore
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What everyone should know about the human eye →
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June 2011
6 posts
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“Want to increase innovation? Lower the cost of failure.”
– Joi Ito
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“Focus on the problem. If you’re only excited about the solution,...”
– Adil Wali, CTO of ModCloth
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“At MIT, his office in Building 20 was crammed with books, most overdue from the...”
– Jerome Lettvin’s obituary at boston.com
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“Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines...”
– Abelson & Sussman, SICP, preface to the first edition
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Multiple JSONP Requests and a Single Callback
…does not work. A workaround is to do
window['callback'+idx] = callback;
and then ?jsonp=callback0, ?jsonp=callback1, …
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“The advantages of doing things in software on a single device are so great that...”
– Paul Graham
May 2011
3 posts
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“All mushrooms are edible; but some only once.”
– Croatian proverb
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Development Environment Tips →
Other companies may indeed force 45-50 hour work weeks plus weekends, cram them in elbow-to-elbow and give them health plans with a $3,500/year deductible, but it doesn’t mean you can sit pretty with your lead developer grinning and taking it. There’s four things a developer, like any other human being, wants from a job: competitive salary, comfortable environment, challenging work,...
“So, to qualify as exploration a journey had to be credible, had to involve...”
– John Keay, The Permanent Book of Exploration
March 2011
2 posts
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“No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your...”
– Jascha Heifetz
December 2010
1 post
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Encrypting Certain URIs in Nginx
With the following configuration, paths beginning with /admin, /account, and /secret
will be served using HTTPS, while other paths are served unencrypted. The solution is neither beautiful nor straightforward, so let me know if you have a better one. Also make sure to use //example.com-style references to eliminate browser warnings about mixing secure and non-secure items.
server {
listen ...
August 2010
4 posts
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Preventing Spotify Crashes in the Linux Client...
This may only be relevant for Fedora users. Anyway, after I’ve run the Spotify client preview for some time, it crashes without a good explanation why. After a crash the client won’t run again until the cache is cleared.
$ rm -rf ~/.cache/spotify
It’s likely that you can be more fine-grained when clearing the cache. I haven’t investigated it much, but it may be...
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Applying patches using SCons
A project has third-party dependencies that need to be patched before being used. I’m new to SCons, but here is my go at applying patches using the build tool.
site_scons/site_init.py
import os
def TOOL_VENDOR(env):
def patch_generator(source, target, env, for_signature):
"""Generate a patched version of source in target (both being
directories). If a patch is...
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Solitary Man
Great movie with awesome music.
IMDb: Solitary Man
Spotify: Johnny Cash Experience — Solitary Man
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The Smell of Hell →
It’s gonna be another FORTRAN day. How often have you wished Moses had written a bunch of extra commandments, just for programming?
June 2010
5 posts
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WatchStudent 2010, Västermalm, Sundsvall
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“People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it’s safer...”
– Dave Barry
May 2010
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“Study finds that 100% of people who think they have constipation are full of...”
– CaptainMaxxpower at reddit
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“This is my theory of the film. Oskar will eventually become what the old man...”
– megatom0 at reddit, about “Let the Right One In”