January 2012
3 posts
“The sane default attitude today is the world is small and life is long.”
– ribbonfarm
“You can see the writing on the wall here; the characters were born in the...”
– Born to the Metaverse: Scream 4 and the Future of Pop Culture
“The problem with bundler is it is the gem dependency solution for rails, and is...”
– Issue #635
December 2011
4 posts
“I spent the next 6 months making the comprehensive market research.”
– appdevsecrets
“You know, the bat-signal was probably the first cloud-based notification system.”
– someone on Twitter
“You must be new on the Internet.”
– Slashdot
November 2011
13 posts
“democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
– Issac Asimov
“Bill Gates live on video is a screenshot? I think not.”
– John Siracusa, The Wrong Guy
“I don’t agree Eric’s argument; “fuck” makes code more...”
– ruby-trunk - Bug #5625
“janitors are happier than lawyers and the discrepancy arises from the amount of...”
– Make Your Work More Meaningful
http://cdn.front.moveon.org/wp-content/uploads/2011... →
“if this taco was under God’s dominion then surely all other great evils must be...”
– Yelping With Cormac | Taco Bell
“For those of us who aren’t Dr. Who, just having a certificate isn’t a panacea.”
– Wil Shipley
October 2011
3 posts
“what if economists have it all wrong, that self interest is primarily about...”
– Why Envy Dominates Greed
“Not only is the flesh weak, but so is the spirit… especially when it comes to...”
– Dr. Seth Hazlitt
“i’m four score and twenty years closer to the edge, and i’m about to...”
– @medical_sword
September 2011
9 posts
The 7 Stages of Robot Replacement
A robot/computer cannot possibly do what I do.
OK, it can do a lot, but it can’t do everything I do.
OK, it can do everything I do, except it needs me when it breaks down, which is often.
OK, it operates without failure, but I need to train it for new tasks.
Whew, that was a job that no human was meant to do, but what about me?
My new job is more fun and pays more now that robots/computers...
“Zappos used Mechanical Turk to fix grammar, spelling in reviews on zappos.com....”
– @timoreilly
“Nearly two-thirds of the … gap between the likelihood of men or women to enter a...”
– Do women compete better in teams?
“We kept our country at peace. We never went to war. We never dropped a bomb. We...”
– Jimmy Carter
“The true speed demon of the group, however, was Japanese, which edges past...”
– The speed and density of language
“This would be like team captains offering spread estimates before games and...”
– Fixing the Game
“You can add things later when it becomes clear what’s important, but you’ll...”
– iPad Application Design
“You look like you didn’t know what to do about having to enter the adult world,...”
– Voices of the defenders of grad school. And me crushing them.
August 2011
16 posts
“TDD teams produced code that was 60 to 90 percent better in terms of defect...”
– Exploding Software-Engineering Myths
“Dedication to “semi-quality” isn’t dedication at all.”
– Relentless Quality
“While would-be cyber Cold Warriors stare at the sky and wait for it to fall,...”
– The Problem with Using the Cold War Metaphor to Describe Cyberspace Risks
“I needed a password with eight characters so I picked Snow White and the Seven...”
– Funniest Joke at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
“To be unsentimental is to be self-aware.”
– The Scientific Sensibility
“some people aren’t very good at looking for jobs and further some people are not...”
– More rooftop-ready results on reservation wages
“A focused mind is one of the most powerful forces in the universe.”
– my fortune cookie
“irreducible transaction costs are a fly in the libertarian soup”
– Do property rights increase freedom? (Japan edition)
“Screaming ‘YOU’RE NOT MY LADDER’ at your step-ladder”...”
– OmnomnomLuke
“Sure, people should have known better than to trust a magical card that allowed...”
– Visa Exposed As Massive Credit Card Scam
“Robots are the future. Suck that, China.”
– Folksy Economic Wisdom
“Due to imminent collapse of society we regret to announce we are closing at 6pm”
– @pbump
“You are generation fail, precisely because you judge everything by how you feel...”
– On Rioting in London
“Why did the hipster burn his mouth?” “He ate the pizza before it was...”
– @listrophy
July 2011
19 posts
“The evidence continues to mount that the Japanese hate the iPhone.”
– iPhones and iPads Drive Softbank’s Explosive Q1 Profits