investigate

todo, read source.

Waste in Web Development

The TPS identifies seven types of manufacturing waste:

Overproduction
Waiting
Transportation
Extra processes
Overstock
Motion
Defects
In relation to software development, however, it’s clear that not all these types of waste translate. Lean Software Development identifies the following types of waste which translate perfectly between software and web development:

Partially complete work
Extra processes
Extra features
Task switching
Waiting
Motion
Defects
Since some of those are not immediately clear as waste, let’s examine them in more detail…

questions by a deaf person, about the sounds things make

As you requested, I have learned to "do more with less."

I'm doing more unnecessary work with less planning, less intelligence, and less guilt.

a day in the life of a peon in the corporate hellscape

gervaise theory of mgmt.

Accurate enough?

Honestly, even with all of the issues listed above, we've only scratched the surface of accurate emulation. Take the case of DICE, the digital integrated circuit emulator. Here is an emulator that works at the transistor level for absolutely perfect recreation of the very first video games ever created. To run Pong at about 5-10fps, DICE requires a 3GHz processor. Yes, you read that right: no computer processor at this time that can run Pong at the circuit level at full speed. It's not that DICE is a slow program; indeed, it is very well optimized. It's that there is enormous overhead to simulating every last transitor propagation delay.

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So as my information-less friend said - Node will scale. But that is, indeed information-less. So can Ruby, Rails, Java, C++, and COBOL - architectures scale - languages and servers don't. Just like most web apps, a Node application will probably be bottle-necked at its database. You can fool yourself that Node itself is "insanely fast" but you'd be fooling yourself (Java/Vert.x vs. Node, Java/Jetty vs. Node, Node vs. lots) and rest assured that despite scaling, some portion of your latency is baked into your language/framework performance. Your users are paying milliseconds for your choice of an interpreted and/or dynamic language.

the forum for the "D" language. seems really fucking fast for a forum ... find out why.

headphone amp

binary json format, supposed "pretty good" and tighter than json

an API is just a combination of a protocol and an endpoint.

By this point, my cynical reader is thinking, “Way to go, genius: We all know that if the culture doesn’t match the strategy, the strategy cannot work. That’s why large companies create culture-insulated silos when entering new markets. Why don’t you tell us something we don’t know, like where to find a good article to read?”

surprise. not safe for anywhere

raptor rapture rave

missle goes through 1m of concrete

documentary from film studies -- forbidden love story, filmmakers tries to verify, etc, etc

c++ style guide for the jsf

debugging: show variables one liner

You never need to put a cover on a bucket full of crabs because anytime one crab tries to climb out the others will pull it back in. Sadly, people (even friends) often act in this same manner when someone they know is excelling in some way.

[probably not true, but that is no reason to spoil a story.]

It’s true. We occasionally take a break from drinking moonshine and shooting beer bottles to do real engineering.

can't deal with it

The Tiger Mother is no philistine per se, utterly indifferent to culture and fine arts. But neither does she value culture for its own sake. Instead, her attitude exemplifies what Hannah Arendt called “cultural philistinism,” the use of art and culture by the middle classes to distinguish themselves from those beneath them: “In this fight for social position, culture began to play an enormous role as one of the weapons, if not the best-suited one, to advance oneself socially, and to ‘educate oneself’ out of the lower regions.” This attitude towards art and culture plays out in Chua’s household. Her daughters were not allowed to choose what to do with their free time; their activities had to be the kind that would look good on a college application (“Not just any activity, like ‘crafts,’ which can lead nowhere—or even worse, playing the drums, which leads to drugs”). They had to do music instead of drama (you can’t win a medal for your performance in a play). They could not choose which musical instruments they would play (for there is a strict hierarchy of musical instruments, with violin and piano at the top and percussion clearly at the bottom). This attitude also explains Chua’s devotion to the cult of virtuosity: the point of a musical performance is not to express oneself or to create something beautiful but to demonstrate the kind of technical proficiency that wins competitions.

timezone picker.
TODO: redo with static images, w/o using the slippy map.

patches etc for security linux

"A course of pure math" ebook on project gutenberg typeset with LaTeX

ruins

portable grill

idea: try to correlate staff of companies charged with fraud.... and use it as an investment strategy.

fuck buffering