Mest usaklige kodesnutt noensinne:
The Ruby code generates Python code, which generates Perl code, which generates Lua code, which generates OCaml code, which generates Haskell code, which generates C code, which generates Java code, which generates Brainfuck code, which generates Whitespace code, which generates Unlambda code, which generates the original Ruby code again.
Endret akkurat ikonene på Google Notifier i OS X. Pierre-Arnaud Marcelot:
The icons now support transparency for a better display in the new Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard menu bar.
Fungerer ypperlig hos meg i Snow Leopard.
Fake Steve om hvorfor massemedia dør:
Because time after time, blogs are simply beating the shit out of the newspapers. They’re the ones who still dare to go for the throat, while their counterparts at big newspapers just keep reaching for the shrimp cocktail.
Tarsnap:
Online backups for the truly paranoid
Og de har en interessant prismodell:
Tarsnap is priced as a utility: You pay for what you use. […] Since making money from rounding errors doesn’t seem fair, tarsnap’s accounting is performed in attodollars (quintillionths of a dollar) and rounded in the user’s favour.
Første gang jeg har hørt om attodollar.
Bruce Bawer for New York Times:
In Norway, the standard line is that there must be some mistake, that such things simply should not happen in “the world’s richest country.”
Og mer interessant:
In late March, another study, this one from KPMG, the international accounting and consulting firm, cast light on this paradox. It indicated that when disposable income was adjusted for cost of living, Scandinavians were the poorest people in Western Europe.
Emma Goldman:
If I can’t dance, it’s not my revolution!
(Brukes aktivt i markedsføringen av CPH:DOX, som jeg virkelig kunne tenkt meg å være i København for.)
Tom Slee ser tilbake på to av problemene trukket fram av Wired og New York Times, og om de ble løst i den endelige løsningen av Netflix-konkurransen.
Mark Pilgrim om hvorfor han gir ut Dive Into Python gratis:
But I don’t write for money; I write for love (or passion, or whatever you want to call it). I choose open content licenses because this is the way I want the world to work, and the only way to change the world is to change yourself first.