May 2013
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“Every day, we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data — so much that 90% of the...”
– IBM What is big data?
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“Hereupon he built himself a place to study in under ground (which was still...”
– Plutarch on the Self-Training of Demosthenes
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“Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger...”
– Douglas Adams
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The Paradox of the Proof →
“I was like, ‘Yes, Google, I am kind of interested in that!’” Ellenberg recalls. “I posted it on Facebook and on my blog, saying, ‘By the way, it seems like Mochizuki solved the ABC Conjecture.’”
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http://toxicdump.org/stuff/FourierToy.swf →
http://toxicdump.org/stuff/FourierToy.swf Circles!
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“God moves in extremely mysterious, not to say, circuitous ways. God does not...”
– Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman ; Good Omens (The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch) ; 1990 ; Victor Gollancz Ltd. ; Pp. Pgs 23-24 (via unixfortune)
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Watch
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April 2013
13 posts
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“Whether on social media platforms, TV or in real life, why are conversations...”
– BK Shivani
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sennavieve asked: Hello, in your post about the CISPA protest, you mentioned a challenge to the Congressman to go head-and-head with a fourteen year old. Is this actually a thing? Is there a place to sign up?
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“Je ne suis pas d’accord avec ce que tu dis. Mais je me battrai...”
– Voltaire.
(Except in real life you would also have to punch some people…)
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March 2013
12 posts
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“Everybody knows that our cities were made to be destroyed.”
– Caetano Veloso - Maria Bethânia (1971)
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“Some things you’re not letting happen right now because the timing isn’t perfect...”
– Abraham Hicks (via nirvikalpa)
This is VERY bad advice
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“The British Have Invaded 90 Percent of the Countries on Earth”
– Fact.
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“May The Road
Rise Up To Meet You”
– Irish Blessing
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My .nethackrc file
Put this file in ~/.nethackrc.
# This is an example nethackrc file. You should edit this to suit the needs
# of your personal nethack build and add some reasonable default options
# for your users.
# If you compiled dgamelaunch with the `vi' editor enabled instead of ee,
# perhaps a helpful blurb such as this might help:
# This editor is vi-like. Type ESC a couple times, then ':q!' (without...
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“Setze jutges d’un jutjat mengen fetge d’un penjat si el penjat es...”
– “Seven judges of a court eat the liver of a hanged man, if the hanged un-hangs himself he will eat the seven livers of the seven judges that judged him.” Catalan tongue twister.
February 2013
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“Are you there father? It’s me, you.”
– Jesus
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WatchExcellent mix to fight a stressed out day. If I survive I’m having a beer or two tonight.
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“Unix is not so much a product as it is a painstakingly compiled oral history of...”
– Neal Stephenson, “In The Beginning Was the Command Line” (via nocturnals-anonymous)
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the net is a waste of time →
michael-lightwave:
“In the age of wooden television, media were there to entertain, to sell an advertiser’s product, perhaps to inform. Watching television, then, could indeed be considered a leisure activity. In our hypermediated age, we have come to suspect that watching television constitutes a species of work. Post-industrial creatures of an information economy, we increasingly sense that...
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“In an application I wrote (couple thousand lines of code) there was a single...”
– Coding Confessional 