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.
The past decade in business belongs to Jobs.
Og ikke minst:
Remaking any one business is a career-defining achievement; four is unheard-of.
Every industry has people who are worth more, buzz more, care more and buy more than other people. Don’t treat people the same, find the ones that matter more to you, and hug them.
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.
But none of this answers the original question: why do we have an
element? Why not an
element? Or an element? Why not a hyperlink with an include attribute, or some combination of rel values? Why an element? Quite simply, because Marc Andreessen shipped one, and shipping code wins.
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.
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.)
Looking back over human history, rationality has been the anomaly. Being rational takes work, education, and a sober determination to avoid making hasty inferences, even when they appear to make perfect sense.
Most people are sheep and they don’t realize it.
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.
Et interessant innblikk i Joseph Pecoraros jobb med Web Inspector i Safari. Absolutt verdt en gjennomlesning.
But the wave of good news has already restarted the hype machine, for which the IT industry is well known. Once again, the sector is being trumpeted as the saviour of the economy. Some even predict that IT will pull the economy out of recession, with investment in technology giving a swift boost to productivity and job creation.
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.
