28 month ago
kellan : Tim Bray: "Python programmers are Serious Men and Women who Don't Have Time For Ponies." - No luv for Perl, the original pony enabled language? #
wearehugh : ongoing · Want a New Pony?
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31 month ago
kellan : Bush: "The best moment of my presidency was catching a perch on my lake" - Like Rafe said, something the President and I can agree upon. Make sure to vote in the poll #
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33 month ago
kellan : The fact that 20 million viewers are riveted each week - to the travails of a fictional community that feels both abandoned by the world and besieged by unseen enemies says a lot about where this country's head is at. #
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34 month ago
kellan : Topix: The Architecture and Ambition of Craigslist - "Craig's lead-into-gold trick is that he gets his posters to accurately classify their spam." #
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34 month ago
kellan : I tried being an artist - and all I got was older #
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34 month ago
kellan : Bill Clinton: "First of all, in this age of culturally changed circumstances, - I should make it clear for the record that Senator McCain and I are not married." #
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34 month ago
kellan : "WoW is very pretty and very complex. It's not just a nice GUI for a spreadsheet application like some other RPGs" - Nicely put. #
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34 month ago
kellan : "the small pieces only join well when there are some established rules" - Nicely put, certainly sounds better then Magpie's unofficial "open minded, but lazy" motto #
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35 month ago
kellan : "Everyone wants to go to Baghdad. Real men want to go to Tehran." - Catching up on a weekend of news, I'm powerfully reminded of this pre-Iraq 2.0 quote. #
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35 month ago
kellan : Gall’s Law: A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. - A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system. #
deusx : Gall's law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system."
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35 month ago
kellan : "There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things" - Tim Bray quoting Phil Karlton #
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36 month ago
kellan : "To sum up: its hard, we're lazy, and you're the first person who's asked for it" - On open source, and feature requests #
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37 month ago
kellan : "The problem, though, is that the Unbearable Lightness of Being is a really bad book. - Milan Kundera is the Dave Matthews of Slavic letters." On Dating without Kundera. Doubles as a graduate level course in Slavic literature. #
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37 month ago
kellan : "Reuse-in-the-large (components) remains a mostly unsolved problem, even though everyone agrees it is important and desirable." - Lars on "Why I left OpenACS for Rails". Relevant to varying degrees to Zope, Drupal, and the lot. #
Paul Hammond : Reuse-in-the-large is an unsolved problem: Why I left OpenACS for Rails - pinds.com: Lars Pind's Blog - when you take away that piece, you’re left with an little known, hard-to-install, overly complex, partially debugged, aging toolkit built on a stack that nobody else uses
Simon Willison : Reuse-in-the-large is an unsolved problem: Why I left OpenACS for Rails - Fascinating insight in to the reason frameworks that do less do more.
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37 month ago
deusx : Letters To Harry: Puppy Power - "Unattended children will be given espresso and a free puppy."
kellan : Unattended children will be given an espresso.. - and a free puppy #
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37 month ago
kellan : <strong>|<strong> - "no, really, dude, I mean it: vertical bar!" #
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37 month ago
kellan : "Most importantly, PHP allows me to feel accomplishment before getting bored" - This is the promise of PHP/Rails above and beyond just being agile #
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37 month ago
kellan : Margot: "i am naming my first female child Dolor Sitamet" - The fact that that sounds like an excellent idea is probably a sign I shouldn't be having kids. (also a touch goth) #
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38 month ago
kellan : "Paris killed Achilles, remember, but Troy still lost." - Best commet yet on the Oracle/InnoDB/MySQL store. Yay for squeezing every ounce of meaning out of a metaphor. #
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39 month ago
kellan : "While commies have enhanced suspension-of-disbelief capability..." - Turn of phrase that made me smile. As opposed to us anarchist who always see with blinding clarity. #
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39 month ago
kellan : "A terrorist attack is just a badly-placarded HAZMAT incident." - Some basic info on emergency kits, but I just liked that line #
Jeremy Zawodny : Emergency Kits - Emergency Kits: what to pack for the day the shit hits the fan
Matthew M. Boedicker : lists of things to put in emergency kits
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40 month ago
kellan : RDF was the LSD of the 90s - It all makes so much more sense now #
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52 month ago
kellan : del.icio.us/tag/programming+quotable #
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