Stuff and things

Okay, anyone who follows me on Twitter or the like has probably...

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 23:24:06 +0100

Okay, anyone who follows me on Twitter or the like has probably seen me link this over and over but I can’t stop watching it

"Right now I’m heading to Microsoft’s campus with a tape measure and a book of carpet..."

Sun, 26 Jul 2009 14:56:50 +0100

“Right now I’m heading to Microsoft’s campus with a tape measure and a book of carpet swatches the size of my head. Finally: an office of my own!”

- Codeweavers to overtake Microsoft by 2018

"You make a bucket on Amazon S3, filled with MP3s. When someone visits your S3 Radio station, it..."

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:57:10 +0100

“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

"We reject kings, presidents and voting. We believe in rough consensus and running code."

Wed, 27 May 2009 22:08:15 +0100

“We reject kings, presidents and voting. We believe in rough consensus and running code.”

- David Clark

Yes, I really was bored enough to do this.

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 23:26:57 +0100

Yes, I really was bored enough to do this.

Mercurial support for Project Hosting on Google Code

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:30:27 +0100

Mercurial support for Project Hosting on Google Code:

Neat!

"Adobe Flex Builder 3 software is currently available for free for software developers who are..."

Sat, 04 Apr 2009 11:37:26 +0100

“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

Online translation tool, eh? (via. AdFreak via. Colin)

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:00:32 +0100

Online translation tool, eh? (via. AdFreak via. Colin)

www.www.extra-www.org

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:01:19 +0000

www.www.extra-www.org

"There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things"

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:00:59 +0000

“There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things”

- Phil Karlton

"How do you solve a problem like Moria? How do you travel through without a sign? How do you find a..."

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:32:00 +0000

“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.

"Yet these things are said to be scientific. We study them. And I think ordinary people with..."

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:34:24 +0000

“

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

"The important thing here is that the music is not in the piano. And knowledge and edification is not..."

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:16:30 +0000

“The important thing here is that the music is not in the piano. And knowledge and edification is not in the computer. The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.”

- Alan Kay

Live at The Ark

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:45:00 +0000

Live at The Ark:

The Ark in Edinburgh has live video streams of their gigs (with an archive). This is a really cool idea and it’s great to see a local venue doing it.

Thanks to Andy (whose band Proxy will be playing from 8pm tomorrow 21st Jan) for pointing this out.

Why did the Zunes fail?

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 14:52:00 +0000

while (days > 365)
{
    if (IsLeapYear(year))
    {
        if (days > 366)
        {
            days -= 366;
            year += 1;
        }
    }
    else
    {
        days -= 365;
        year += 1;
    }
}

(source)

"…apparently there’s big money in fart apps — nearly $10,000 a day for the most popular ones."

Fri, 26 Dec 2008 17:54:42 +0000

“…apparently there’s big money in fart apps — nearly $10,000 a day for the most popular ones.”

- What

"Effectively, Merb 2 is Rails 3."

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 13:24:09 +0000

“Effectively, Merb 2 is Rails 3.”

- Interesting news from Rubyland

iPhone Dev Spends $500k on Development, Still Not Approved by Apple

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:56:00 +0000

iPhone Dev Spends $500k on Development, Still Not Approved by Apple:

This app sounds really neat. Maybe they’ll give up and transfer over to a platform I can use…

Go on Scala! You know you can do it!

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:11:00 +0000

Go on Scala! You know you can do it!

"The good news are you really do not need general “quality” or “being free from bugs” to run MySQL in..."

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:06:21 +0000

“The good news are you really do not need general “quality” or “being free from bugs” to run MySQL in production.”

- I know what Peter Zaitsev meant by this, but this is a pretty sorry line for anyone to have to say