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Clean desk. Let’s see how long this lasts. (Taken with instagram)
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Clean desk. Let’s see how long this lasts. (Taken with instagram)

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The way to make a program faster is to never let it get slower.
The WebKit Open Source Project

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I don’t really have any good uses for Path, and not many people I know are on there, but the new applications is so well made and designed that I kind of feel like I have to use it.

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Path - When scrolling in the app, the clock updates itself with the time of the update you’re looking at
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I don’t really have any good uses for Path, and not many people I know are on there, but the new applications is so well made and designed that I kind of feel like I have to use it.

littlebigdetails:

Path - When scrolling in the app, the clock updates itself with the time of the update you’re looking at

/via Rene Sijnke

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As 2011 draws to a close, I remind us all that in life and in the universe, it is always best to keep looking up.
Neil deGrasse Tyson

Source: twitter.com

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You Guys Are Millionaires Right?

Shouldn’t all software be free? How can you live with yourself for charging for it? No. Very few bits of software ever written were not funded by someone. People have to eat, they have to sleep somewhere and feed their families. Take Android for example: it’s free, and open-source, yet every Google engineer working on it is paid, likely far higher than you are. They are able to not charge you, because they make all their money in search & advertising. Notice that they don’t open-source any of their search code, for good reason: that’s their core business, Android isn’t. To me truly free, open-source software is a religious myth, in much the same way that [pick a religion you don’t agree with] is. It comes with it’s own proselytes, zealots and ideologies, but it’s ultimately a lie.

Further to the above, what’s so offensive about charging for software? When was the last time you walked into a shop, saw a great product you really needed, and just stole it? When was the last time you debated with a shop-keeper about how this product you wanted should really be free? Software costs money to make, real money. Charging for it is how that money is recovered. Don’t let all the VC funded startups that give out everything for free fool you, paid software is often how you get great software. Since great people are able to make great things, without having to worry about how they are going to feed and clothe themselves.

I really believe in software that is funded directly; i.e. by paying directly for a piece of software, vs. ads or a large company funding projects with other cash cows. That way, good software is supported directly by the user action instead of using sneaky ways to make money or perhaps other ulterior motives.

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Inside the mind of the octopus

Didn’t realize that octopuses were this interesting. The fact that they have a complex nervous system, even extending into their tentacles, absolutely amazes me.

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The Economics of Death Star Planet Destruction

Hilarious, but accurate and in-depth look at how destroying planets works for the economy of the Empire.

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Wikipedia And The Death Of The Expert

So long as we believe that there is such a thing as an expert rather than a fellow-investigator, then that person’s views just by magic will be worth more than our own, no matter how much or how often actual events have shown this not to be the case.

Wikipedia is a sign of the opening up of knowledge. Experts in a field are now becoming people who can help guide us more rather than holders of unreachable secrets. Wonderful article.

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I laugh only at the naiveté [of the proponents of quantum theory]. Who knows who will be laughing in the coming years.

Albert Einstein defending his enjoyment of watching quantum theorists struggle.

Via How the Hippies Saved Physics by David Kaiser

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The Talk Show #71

One of the best episodes of the Talk Show so far. A great and long discussion that reminds me again why I love this show.

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