February 2012
9 posts
“Quite frankly, even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C ...”
– Linus Torvalds on C++
“ActiveRecord::Base is an ActiveRecordClassFactory in denial.”
– Giles Bowkett: Rails Went Off The Rails: Why I’m Rebuilding Archaeopteryx In CoffeeScript
“Twitter is less like a message board, more like texting a friend… and anyone who...”
– No Argument | Joe Hill Fiction
“At a deeper level Retaliation is more than just a “simple python...”
– codedance/Retaliation - GitHub
“Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People...”
– Steve Jobs, quoted in Daring Fireball: Walter Isaacson’s ‘Steve Jobs’
“The several weeks you waste trying to figure out how to point Gnus at your mail...”
– Learn Emacs in Ten Years — Edward O’Connor
“Early studiers of cults were surprised to discover than when cults receive a...”
– Evaporative Cooling of Group Beliefs - Less Wrong
“Just like you shouldn’t let sunk cost determine future decisions, don’t let sunk...”
– The mad dash to remove something before the deadline - (37signals)
“I tell them, “I write this shit for you!” But a lot of writers...”
– The Believer - Sherman Alexie in conversation with Neko Case