Tumblenated

Sep
4th

Thu

Surfing the Internet today is like unprotected sex with strangers; Chrome is the condom of the cloud.

— Sam Johnston on Google Chrome (http://samj.net/2008/09/google-chrome-cloud-operating.html) — He forgot to mention that the condom has a hole, and because of the EULA, Google owns all of your offspring.

Aug
27th

Wed

It’s “Advanced Rails”, by Brian Ediger. The intro is a detailed overview of all the Ruby magic that helps make Rails the labyrinthine black box of impenetrably obfuscated smoke and mirrors that give us all so much joy and pleasure.

— Gregory Murphy when asked about a Ruby book recommendation.

Aug
24th

Sun

Patenting the absurd This is why I am not impressed when I hear that someone has a lot of patents. Getting a patent is nothing — just submit anything, pay the fee, and wait a few years. Any idiot can do that, as is clearly demonstrated in this patent application.

Aug
11th

Mon

Hadoop: When grownups do open source Best article I’ve read so far this month. Yes, he’s a little harsh, but I think he’s right.

Aug
5th

Tue

We also learn to program mostly by memorizing rules: Write short functions. Order your resource locks. Save your work regularly. Don’t override your pure virtual private abstract copy destructor operator without sacrificing a goat to Bjarne. You know. Rules.

— http://steve.yegge.googlepages.com/what-you-need-to-know

Aug
3rd

Sun

Mojave is the new Pepsi Insightful analysis of the arguably pointless and insulting Mojave “experiment” by Microsoft. Of course, I don’t use any Microsoft products, at all, and I thank Apple for that.

Jul
29th

Tue

10 things not to worry about I’ve been eating hot dogs for 30+ years, and I’m not going to stop because some nutter says I should. Great list of seemingly plausible things you don’t have to worry about.

Jul
25th

Fri

Yet another place I will never live “Not suspicious” my ass. Sounds to me like the local government is collaborating with the developer. Just another place I won’t be moving to any time soon.

Jul
19th

Sat

Carl Icahn: Idiot and Destroyer of companies The guy can barely make up his mind, doesn’t have a clue about technology, has a long history of destroying companies, has no idea what to do with Yahoo!, yet the arrogant bastard wants to take over the company. Isn’t America wonderful?

Jul
16th

Wed

The French discover hamburgers Makes me want to travel to Paris just so I can try out these burgers. They sound delicious.