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2012-10-31 16:07:13 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

So true!

2012-10-30 11:09:25 (3 comments, 4 reshares, 15 +1s)

Coolest sounding sentence in Wikipedia “Gently push a piece of the tube containing the intersection along the fourth dimension, out of the original three dimensional space.”
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klein_bottle

2012-10-28 11:04:54 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 9 +1s)

Meanwhile, in the CSS WG f2f (hilarious surreal discussion, although probably not that funny through the Minutes):

[11:47am] <fantasai> Bert: Only algorithm that will give you the optimal answer will be trying all possible layouts
[11:47am] <fantasai> TabAtkins: We just need a definition that gives the correct answer
[11:47am] <fantasai> dbaron: Trying all layouts is not an answer. There are layouts that always overflow
[11:48am] <fantasai> Bert: it's not no overflow, it's minimizing overflow
[11:48am] » sylvaing  "TRY ALL THE LAYOUTS" - Old performance proverb
[11:48am] <fantasai> TabAtkins: Trying all layouts is not a real answer.
[11:48am] <fantasai> dbaron: Brings up question of whether it's NP-complete
[11:48am] » glazou thinks sylvaing is not sick enough to stop trolling ;-)
[11:48am]&l... more »

2012-10-21 03:31:51 (8 comments, 0 reshares, 17 +1s)

“Just because you haven’t personally experienced sexism in IT, doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist”
— Most geek feminists

“I don’t care if you’ve seen women playing the sexism card for undeserved privilege, it doesn’t exist and it NEVER happens you sexist pig!”
— Most geek feminists

Anyone notice the discrepancy?

2012-05-02 23:39:24 (1 comments, 8 reshares, 23 +1s)

Yet another craziness of CSS. Minesweeper made without JavaScript.

2012-04-16 11:10:14 (6 comments, 32 reshares, 102 +1s)

The open source software cycle:
1. Developer creates simple app
2. Since code is simple and easy to understand, people are eager to contribute
3. App grows more complex with all the new features and bugfixes
4. App's codebase now requires substantial time investment to understand and contribute
5. (Another) developer decides to make their own "simpler" app instead of understanding how the existing one works.
6. GOTO 2

2012-03-28 07:41:35 (18 comments, 54 reshares, 112 +1s)

The various stages of development:
1. Excitement “This is gonna be legendary!”
2. Careful planning. Lots of innovative ideas.
3. Starting to write the code. Still being creative and invested into it, trying to do a good job.
4. Starting to make a few compromises, to finally get some things over with.
5. Developing less new features, spending most time testing & bug squashing. Being increasingly frustrated.
6. Bargaining with your computer (“please, just work and I’ll be nice to you from now on!”)
7. Helplessly banging head on desk.
8. Being utterly sick of even looking at it, i.e. “DEAR FSM/GOD MAKE IT STOP”


Relevant: http://xkcd.com/349/

2012-02-15 16:53:23 (0 comments, 10 reshares, 21 +1s)

2012-02-07 08:39:51 (17 comments, 2 reshares, 12 +1s)

2012-01-30 12:04:02 (4 comments, 3 reshares, 13 +1s)

Drublic made this Chrome app for dabblet, cool huh? :)

2012-01-23 08:44:25 (16 comments, 6 reshares, 24 +1s)

A big company contacts me, without me ever applying to them:

—Hey, you’re awesome! We want you to come work with us!
—Umm, not sure but lets talk about it
—So you’re interested a bit, great! Now you have to study about our history, our statistics, what our CEO likes to eat for breakfast, what kind of underwear our CTO prefers to wear oh, and you have to spend a few hours, preferably days to study everything you did at university and then we'll make you jump through hoops about all this, so that we can see if we really want you.
—…why would I do all that when I’m not even sure I want to work there?