“You look like you didn’t know what to do about having to enter the adult world, so you decided to prolong childhood”
—Voices of the defenders of grad school. And me crushing them.
September 2011
9 posts
August 2011
16 posts
“TDD teams produced code that was 60 to 90 percent better in terms of defect density than non-TDD teams. They also discovered that TDD teams took longer to complete their projects—15 to 35 percent longer.”
—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, they’re getting their wallets stolen and their offices robbed.”
—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 Dwarves”
—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 very good at accepting job offers”
—More rooftop-ready results on reservation wages
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“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 them to buy anything they want without any money whatsoever, [but] people will believe anything if they want it bad enough. That was the genius of our whole scheme.”
—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 about it, and therefore, about how you can deny your culpability.”
—On Rioting in London
