April 2012
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March 2012
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The Turing Problem →
Another great episode from Radiolab, this one is dedicated to Alan Turing.
February 2012
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“When you ask for more information, explain what you need the information for, or...”
– Raymond Chen on The Old New Thing Blog.
“At first this behavior might seem illogical. Why would the mouse prefer another...”
– From The Mouse and the Rectangle by Dustin Curtis.
Also, a TED Talk from VS Ramachandran
January 2012
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“Sure, each one of us wanted to finish ahead of all the others, but we also knew...”
– runwell on running the Olympic trials.
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Annoying commercials in the future →
Fortunately, humans are excellent adapters. By the time things reached a dystopic climax, we were already comfortable with it
December 2011
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“Everyone has their bullshit. You can simply decide whose you’re willing to...”
– Marco Arment
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“I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live...”
– Muhammad Ali (via dustyprogrammer)
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November 2011
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Sometimes the best thing that can happen to you is... →
The Beginner's Guide to Watching Good Boxing... →
October 2011
Brogramming: How does a programmer become a...
I am OK being a *gnarlar*. How does a programmer become a brogrammer?
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OWASP Top 10 Mobile Risks →
# Encoding != encryption
# Obfuscation != encryption
# Serialization != encryption
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“* Sharing
* Openness
* Decentralization
* Free access to...”
– The MIT Hacker Ethic
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“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations,...”
– Richard P. Feynman
September 2011
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“The difference between direct and indirect manipulation—between three buttons...”
– Malcolm Gladwell - “Creation Myth” (The New Yorker, May 16, 2011)
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“Chuck Norris does not deploy, he develops on the production environment.”
– The interwebs.
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file associations in notepad++ →
finally found where I can define file associations in notepad++!
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“There really are only two acceptable models of development: “think and...”
– Linus Torvalds
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“La noche del Tani, te acordás pobre Tani, qué biaba. Se veía que el Tani estaba...”
– Extraído del cuento “Torito” de Julio Cortázar
August 2011
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Watchdo you feel lucky, punk?
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“Fourth observation: I was losing my sense of what it meant for my feet to get...”
– Josh Whiton
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“Science does not purvey absolute truth, science is a mechanism. It’s a way of...”
– Isaac Asimov
CodeKata →
How do you get to be a great musician? It helps to know the theory, and to understand the mechanics of your instrument. It helps to have talent. But ultimately, greatness comes from practicing;…
Via @nprnews: When Aliens ‘Attack’ And Fight ‘Cowboys’ | http://t.co/mFrEucr
The Lists, To-dos and Illustrated Inventories of... →
”(…) revealing their personal habits, priorities and decision-making schemata through the lens of the seemingly mundane and, in the process, demystifying artmaking and the creative life”.
“this is a meeting to kick-off planning for the track of work under the tech roadmap” What the hell does that mean?
Why Users Fill Out Forms Faster with Unified Text... →
“When you use unified text fields with top aligned labels, the user’s visual fixations are less and move in a single, vertical direction.”
It looks like I will have to be in México for a little longer… I’m excited!
MSBuild Extension Pack - Home →
MSBuild tasks, loggers, factories
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Maps of the city of New York. →
NY Public Library Digital Gallery
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