Stuff and things

Calum writes things of questionable importance here.
Jun 24
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“ You make a bucket on Amazon S3, filled with MP3s. When someone visits your S3 Radio station, it builds a playlist from the contents of the bucket and starts streaming it to the listener, in a random order.
— S3 FM
May 27
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“ We reject kings, presidents and voting. We believe in rough consensus and running code.
— David Clark
Apr 28
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Yes, I really was bored enough to do this.
Yes, I really was bored enough to do this.
Apr 24
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» Mercurial support for Project Hosting on Google Code
Neat!
Apr 04
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“ Adobe Flex Builder 3 software is currently available for free for software developers who are affected by the current economic condition and are currently unemployed.
— This is sorta generous of Adobe, while being a nice way to spread skills in their technology
Apr 03
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Online translation tool, eh? (via. AdFreak via. Colin)
Online translation tool, eh? (via. AdFreak via. Colin)
Mar 18
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» www.www.extra-www.org
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“ There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things
— Phil Karlton
Feb 24
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“ How do you solve a problem like Moria?
How do you travel through without a sign?
How do you find a word that means Moria?
A civilisation? A gaping Black Pit? A mine?
— Ladies and gentlemen, we have reached the peak of our culture.
Feb 13
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Yet these things are said to be scientific. We study them. And I think ordinary people with commonsense ideas are intimidated by this pseudoscience. A teacher who has some good idea of how to teach her children to read is forced by the school system to do it some other way — or is even fooled by the school system into thinking that her method is not necessarily a good one. Or a parent of bad boys, after disciplining them in one way or another, feels guilty for the rest of her life because she didn’t do “the right thing”, according to the experts.

So we really ought to look into theories that don’t work, and science that isn’t science.
— Old news for everyone on earth I’m sure, but I’d never read Richard Feynman’s Cargo Cult Science before and it’s well worth it