May 2008
46 posts
Cities and Ambition →
Another fabulous essay by Paul Graham. Especially insightful to me, moving to NYC in a month.
I am a post-coital idiot
hugehuge:
Recumbent 3 a.m. conversation a few days ago:
She [sincerely and without warning]: I’m attracted to everything about you. Even the Darth Vader sword hanging on your wall.
Me [thinking]: Oh my god, that’s the sweetest thing anyone has said to me in a very long time.
Me [out loud]: Correction: it’s a lightsaber.
21 Ruby Tricks You Should Be Using In Your Own... →
A lot of these are really handy! On the other hand, please don’t ever use #7 or #15.
“The fast-growing company, which works hard to recruit people to join, says to...”
– Why Zappos Pays New Employees to Quit—And You Should Too
Brendan: Our family is catholic.
Steph: Oh really? I think not.
Brendan: Yeahhuh. Catholics are christians who dont go to church. So that's us.
“Source code to my new web app, IsTwitterFucked.com:
TOTALLY”
– Gruber via Favrd
“If you don’t hear TSA moan “Oh, for God’s sake…!”...”
– Andy Ihnatko via Favrd
“My son had a dream that “Dr. Seuss” cut off his penis. Cancel the...”
– Scott Simpson via Favrd
“Wondering when we’re going to get tired of #page { width: 960px; margin: 0 auto;...”
– beep via Favrd
“So my feature request is this, Tumblr: please allow rich styling of post titles...”
– Another Tumblr Feature Request: Smarter HTML Escaping in Post Titles
Agreed! Will makes a great case for this, and seeing as it’s already being done in the body text, why not in titles?
New Weezer music video is filled with your... →
marco:
Weezer’s new Pork and Beans music video incorporates lots of YouTube viral video stars.
I tried to embed this, but apparently embedding has been disabled for this video. STUPID. Who made that call? Why would you ever want that? Why refuse free publicity?
I’m not a huge Weezer fan or anything, but this is really cool.
Paul Simon — Father and Daugter
Lies We Tell Kids →
marco:
Excellent Paul Graham article on why and how we lie to kids.
Paul Graham continues to impress:
Very smart adults often seem unusually innocent, and I don’t think this is a coincidence. I think they’ve deliberately avoided learning about certain things. Certainly I do. I used to think I wanted to know everything. Now I know I don’t.
The more confident people are, the...
Calvin: You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.
Hobbes: What mood is that?
Calvin: Last-minute panic.
“You know what’s vegan and just as delicious as cheese? NOTHING. Yum.”
– kissane (via Favrd)
WatchZero Punctuation reviews SSB:B (NSFW)
I do enjoy this game, but this is great. Other good ZP includes Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, Super Paper Mario and Mario Galaxy. (Hell, they’re all good)
The End of the Internet. →
zayile:
My grandmother was sent this link in an email and got so confused that she called me…
“Facebook was named the second most popular thing among undergraduates, tied with...”
– Facebook on Wikipedia
Pixars iPod-like heroine →
Apparently Johnathan Ive helped design Eve from Pixar’s upcoming Wall-E. (via DF)
Things younger than John McCain →
via saramcpherson via onemoretimewithfeeling
“Note to Tumblr: if you use the Tumblr bookmarklet on a Tumblr post, it should...”
– Jabberwocky
That’s actually a brilliant idea. Hey Tumblr folk, let’s make it happen!
“Everyone here is fat and looks the same.
[…]
I feel like I’m in a different...”
– Marco in Fat Ohio
Welcome to the Midwest. As sad as it is, I recognize this every time I go home now. Not that Ithaca, NY is the most diverse place in the world, but it looks like a freaking UN meeting compared to Cleveland, OH.
Can’t wait for NYC.
Mocks Aren't Stubs →
A must-read if you test your write code.
“I’ve always felt I’d be more comfortable with the Law of Demeter if...”
– Martin Fowler in Mocks Aren’t Stubs
When the Rain Comes – Third Day
Such a pretty,...
“When you’re sweating for hours over a tiny detail, stop and ask yourself, “Is...”
– Workaholics fixate on inconsequential details
SvN tends to be a little too much noise these days, but there is still the occasional gem in there.
“If you are asking what license this software is released under, you are asking...”
– The Mu License in its entirety.
a = 0 if random.random() < 0.5 else 1
computersnob:
in love with python’s take on the ternary operator…
The first time I tried to use a ternary in Python, I typed the traditional cond ? if : else and the compiler yelled at me. I actually had to go lookup how to do a ternary on Wikipedia. I must say though, the syntax is pretty nice. It certainly makes you think about what the default should be and consider the ‘else’...
why's unholy →
Compile Ruby to Python bytecode. And, in addition, translate that bytecode back to Python source code using Decompyle.
Ruby on Rails Recipe
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Gotta love that this was created for the CHOW launch party. I’m sure it’s no coincidence that CHOW is built on Rails!
“A while ago I woke up in a hot sweat. I’d realised that I’d stopped...”
– Moved to MT
Ruby in particular makes this an easy tray to fall into, especially with “well-solved problems” such as blogging software. Sometimes a new application really brings exciting new features to the table. Sometimes it’s just new.
“In business you learn at a faster rate, and there’s a lack of bureaucracy and...”
– Carl Camden in Teachable Moments