RT @alexsuraci: Huge improvements to Atomy's pretty-printer:

RT @silentbicycle: , cool graphs made with #gnuplot

RT @fogus: "Engelbart's Violin" -->

My only beef is that everyone's given up on even making a decent "truck" before it existed: "Computers = Trucks":

RT @Kickingbear: Three Things That Should Trouble Apple.

@built This is all I can find: … Sounds like nostalgia to me.

@zrail FYI “@Strabd: Made a Voyager captioned screen cap. This is actual ST:VOY dialogue ”

RT @dart_lang: Just spotted: a Mustache port in #dartlang

RT @Slate: Everyone hates inflation because they don't understand what it is: #economic #lessons

Microsoft and Apple are competing to make desktop operating systems as unfriendly to developers as possible:

RT @AdamSerwer: Texas Muslim Republican keeps having to explain to his GOP friends that there is no sharia takeover.

RT @tiefenb: Awesome: Desktop Apps (Win., Linux, Mac) mit @nodejs per . Bye Bye Adobe AIR.

RT @roberte3: Text from Xcode... Awesome.

RT @BrandonEaston: @scalzi I wrote a piece inspired by yours called GEEK RACISM, take a look: #blackwriter #geek #r ...

RT @Slate: How the Obama campaign is using empirical analysis, rather than guesswork, to decide which ads to run:

RT @alexey_r: Interactive tutorial on sequent calculus by @ezyang

Building an engineering team? You should read this answer: 'What makes a good engineering culture?'

RT @rjbs: In accordance with the request of the #Perl 5 release manager's guide, I have blogged about my chosen epigraph ...

RT @scalzi: My follow-up to "Lowest Difficulty Setting" now republished on Kotaku (which also repubbed the original):

RT @scalzi: For those who want to take the plunge on the conservative mag linking to "Low Difficulty": I'll pray fo ...

RT @nkrishnaswami: Fascinating! Or, systems thinking remains too hard.

RT @SeanTAllen: Amusing if you know history "LiveScript is a language which compiles down to JavaScript.": see: htt ...

RT @kaleidic: "What Kagan and others like him offer is not enlightenment but consolation" #politics

RT @cbarrett: Guess God really does use Lisp.

"From Cubicles, Cry for Quiet Pierces Office Buzz"

RT @cruickshank: View of the eclipse from Seattle #sadtrombone

RT @zrail: Announcing Dokuen, a personal @heroku you can install yourself.

Apparently productivity users don't matter even to Apple? "Nanny Computing" and the future of OS X via @tuaw

RT @Slate: Washington State moves to partially legalize home cooking:

Thanks @beatonna! Glad you came to Maine!

RT @DavidBrin1: How far forward-looking is our Sci Fi? From io9: a chart showing how visions changed over time

RT @webisteme: Glossary to Heidegger's Being and Time

RT @silentbicycle: How are adverbs implemented in #JLang? () via @raudelmil

How I used to feel moderating IRC channels:

@Strabd reply-origin was lost. This:

RT @strangeloop_stl: Posted: "Types vs Tests: An Epic Battle?" by Amanda Laucher @pandamonial and Paul Snively @psnively - ...

RT @cstross: Two flavours that go worse together, even in programming: the Objectivist-C language ...

Putting moral labels on your food primes your brain for self-righteousness: #language #organic

RT @CodeWisdom: What's That Programming Language? - another quiz, but harder this time. Read code, guess the language.

"The notion that something is unquantifiable is alien to the mindset of the modern economist. Tell them it’s not quantifiable, and they will hear that it has not been quantified yet. This mistake matters, because economists and their business-school colleagues are very influential in the formulation of public policy. If economists rather than biologists decide what is good biology through supposedly quantitative, objective evaluations, you get worse biology. If economists decide what makes good physics, or good chemistry, you get worse physics, and worse chemistry. If you believe, as I do, that scientific progress, broadly speaking, is good for society, then making economists the arbiters of what is and isn’t useful ends up hurting everybody."

Currently reading (paperback): #language #conlang

RT @chrisamaphone: Language Log's vast compendium of articles on singular they: and I want to plug LL in general if ...

@pooya72 @swannodette Maybe "How to Read <same>" from 1992:

RT @swartable: Memoized blocks in Smalltalk. Where FP meets OO, and both are better because of it

@swannodette Related read if you haven't already seen it:

RT @kripken: tiny gc in emscripten for boehm-using code compiled to js, starting to work it looks like

RT @nein09: I always hated the Ducks, but didn't know they were this dangerous:

RT @scalzi: In which I explain why "Straight White Male" is the lowest difficulty setting in the game of life:

The Pacific Northwest has really mellowed out over the decades:

RT @Slate: By Friday, Facebook thinks it will be worth more than McDonalds:

RT @StackProgrammer: Great answer: Why is 80 characters the 'standard' limit for code width? #codingstandards

"dystopias are great literary expressions of hope..." RT @libbyking: @MargaretAtwood you might be interested in this...

RT @lindapoitevin: 2012 vs. 1984: Young adults really do have it harder today - The Globe and Mail

@briandorsey @mulka I have found to be an immensely clarifying overview.

I scored 53 in @charlesmurray's "Do You Live in a Bubble" quiz. Take it @NewsHour

RT @robconery: Men in Tech:

RT @swannodette: Low Level JavaScript #neat

RT @swannodette: An Overview of CiaoProlog

RT @swannodette: One of Steve Jobs' 25:1 programmers? A Lisp programmer - Jean-Marie Hullot . He created Interface B ...

RT @TheAtlantic: It's time to rescue democracy from the professionals

"The semantic web for the rest of us", written in Haskell:

This looks like fun (yeah, I know what you're thinking): "Summer School on Language Frameworks"

RT @fogus: RT @wallingf: New post: Code Signatures in Lisp !!!

"Mann and Ornstein have done a great public service in opening a dialogue on how to fix the mismatch between our political and constitutional systems of government. But we need to go back to the drawing board on how to fix Washington. And if no-compromise candidates like Richard Mourdock are our future, things will have to get much worse before they get better."

RT @bwebster: Not your grandfather's framework

RT @gsp1984: These two pictures will be viewed/judged identically by our children and their children.

Type inference considered harmful:

@Strabd This looks acceptable:

A lovely/infuriating @SMBCComics entry about the glottal stop, courtesy of @languagelog: