"Add Clippy or his friends to any website for instant nostalgia. Our research shows that people love two things: failed Microsoft technologies and obscure Javascript libraries. Naturally, we decided to combine the two."

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excellent presentation

"Is it rational to expect people to be rational in a voting booth when they have already shown their irrationality by showing up at the polls in the first place, considering that their (or rather, his or her) single vote is virtually certain not to change the outcome?

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"This is a very Clojure wrapper for Soundcloud API. Want to hack a Soundcloud-based app in Clojure? Most likely that'd be a good use for you."

"This is a basic guide that chronicles my experimentation with the 1 gate gasless FE. Experienced players who have already studied Yuffie’s play will probably not find it that enlightening, but I hope those who typically FFE and are curious about switching might find some useful notes. I’ve also included some novel sim city that I find helpful. "

how god looks to an atheist reading the bible

"This is a nice, economically aggressive but safe 1 gate FE. It gets you more economy than most comparably safe expand builds."

"Do not feel absolutely certain of anything.
Do not think it worth while to proceed by concealing evidence, for the evidence is sure to come to light.
Never try to discourage thinking for you are sure to succeed.
When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavour to overcome it by argument and not by authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.
Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always contrary authorities to be found.
Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you do the opinions will suppress you.
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent that in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter.
Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.
Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness."

"However, by 2007, the leisure differences between high and low educated men are substantial. Specifically, low educated men experienced a 2.5 hours per week gain in leisure between 1985 and 2007. High educated men, during the same time period, experienced a 1.2 hour per week decline in leisure."

some kiwi NZ guys talking about java and such

favorites:
"Yoda conditions"
"Stringly Typed"
"Higgs-Bugson" (unreproducable)
"Baklava Code" (too many layers)
"Common Law Feature"

"There are three kinds of movie: ones with slow zombies, ones with fast zombies, and ones where the zombies lurk just out of camera view."

they never snack

"The humans consider vegetable life to be their most bitter enemy. So much so, they cut off plant reproductive organs as mating gifts."

windows should be more like linux, and always do 8-bit strings, and consider them utf8.

"A computer scientist is a mathematician who doesn't believe in telepathy."

"I think that I shall never envision
An op unlovely as division.

An op whose answer must be guessed
And then, through multiply, assessed;

An op for which we dearly pay,
In cycles wasted every day.

Division code is often hairy;
Long division's downright scary.

The proofs can overtax your brain,
The ceiling and floor may drive you insane.

Good code to divide takes a Knuthian hero,
But even God can't divide by zero!"

wherein Day9 disses Grant Imahara

"The Ten Commandments of Egoless Programming, as originally established in Jerry Weinberg's book The Psychology of Computer Programming:

Understand and accept that you will make mistakes. The point is to find them early, before they make it into production. Fortunately, except for the few of us developing rocket guidance software at JPL, mistakes are rarely fatal in our industry, so we can, and should, learn, laugh, and move on.

You are not your code. Remember that the entire point of a review is to find problems, and problems will be found. Don't take it personally when one is uncovered.

No matter how much "karate" you know, someone else will always know more. Such an individual can teach you some new moves if you ask. Seek and accept input from others, especially when you think it's not needed.

Don't rewrite code without consultation. There's a fine line between "fixing code" and "rewriting code." Know the difference, and pursue stylistic changes within the framework of a code review, not as a lone enforcer.

Treat people who know less than you with respect, deference, and patience. Nontechnical people who deal with developers on a regular basis almost universally hold the opinion that we are prima donnas at best and crybabies at worst. Don't reinforce this stereotype with anger and impatience.

The only constant in the world is change. Be open to it and accept it with a smile. Look at each change to your requirements, platform, or tool as a new challenge, not as some serious inconvenience to be fought.

The only true authority stems from knowledge, not from position. Knowledge engenders authority, and authority engenders respect – so if you want respect in an egoless environment, cultivate knowledge.

Fight for what you believe, but gracefully accept defeat. Understand that sometimes your ideas will be overruled. Even if you do turn out to be right, don't take revenge or say, "I told you so" more than a few times at most, and don't make your dearly departed idea a martyr or rallying cry.

Don't be "the guy in the room." Don't be the guy coding in the dark office emerging only to buy cola. The guy in the room is out of touch, out of sight, and out of control and has no place in an open, collaborative environment.

Critique code instead of people – be kind to the coder, not to the code. As much as possible, make all of your comments positive and oriented to improving the code. Relate comments to local standards, program specs, increased performance, etc.
The human principles of software are truly timeless; The Psychology of Computer Programming was written way back in 1971, a year after I was born!"

subtle sexism in the tech industry

paper towels wadded by the bathroom door as an analogy for media piracy

a list of medieval occupations

beautiful and wallpaper-worthy portal/half life 3 painting

The char in question should show up in the parens if you have it. (💩)

"This is a node.js module that classifies if a sentence can be replied with "that's what she said"."

article about Rip's Chicken in Ladd, IL

" The Hebrew Calendar is based on very deep and complicated mathematics, involving diophantine approximation, but it is very surprising that the gaps between consecutive Christmas-in-Hanukkah years is always a member of the set {2,3,5,8}. "

they entertained themselves to death

double forge, some of the way

know they enemy

imgur album of absurdist/offensive phrases on beautiful wallpapers

"Every time you shuffle a deck of playing cards, it's likely that you have come up with an ordering of cards that is unique in human history."

non-emusic Fanu album

interesting post about LISP never catching on

decent guide

If you make more than $34k/year, you're in the world top 1%.

""Today, of Americans officially designated as 'poor,' 99 percent have electricity, running water, flush toilets, and a refrigerator; 95 percent have a television, 88 percent a telephone, 71 percent a car and 70 percent air conditioning. Cornelius Vanderbilt had none of these." Nor does much of the world."

yes

"An excerpt from Frans de Waal’s Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals "

the original pinocchio was gruesome

"From a Japanese perspective, Christianity can be a way to spice up a story with an exotic religion, similar to how in some Western stories, Hinduism, or at least Hinduism-like aspects, are used for the same purposes. These don't stop at simple metaphors; sometimes whole references exist to events or even specific names to Christian folklore or religious texts. These are sometimes unusual, incorrect, wildly inappropriate, or the simple product of religious syncretism. Likewise, the symbols, rituals, and trappings of Christian sects are used often without awareness of the meaning.

The notable exception to this is not making explicit references to Jesus unless it is in a formal context by a religious person or churchworker. Notably, even in works containing a critical portrayal of an organized religion, or one that is outright evil, the requisite Christ Figure generally never is."

"Most Japanese are not Christian. They hear Westerners talk about it; and most of it gets lost except for the imagery of some poor guy getting ritually killed and then reanimated, and a vague understanding of a specific kind of afterlife and hell. Ironically, this makes the more unfamiliar aspects seem somewhat morbid to those unfamiliar with the context — in fact, similar to how many Westerners view Vodou/Vodun/Voodoo. Additionally, many places are familiar with crosses as historically common execution devices but lack the religious baggage making their depiction explicitly taboo."

demonstrate alternative but self-consistent logic

1 gate FE -> use warp prism harass to pin zerg back while you take a 3rd -> immortal/blink/archon timing attack

most claims about fibonacci, phi, and golden spirals are bullshit

“I didn’t learn guitar until five or six years ago. When I did, it opened up a whole new world. Working with keyboards, I fell into a dogma of patterns. With keyboards I know exactly what’s going to happen when I do certain things. With guitar, it forces you to make mistakes and you learn to play things in a different way. Sitting down and starting with a synth line doesn’t appeal to me as much as the guitar. A lot of times I take the guitar away, like it’s scaffolding, and it creates this whole other thing that becomes its own thing.”

"This project will aim to serve as a reference for excellent content to help atheists illustrate their points with theists. There is so much good content of this type on the Internet, but it's easy to forget it when you're either in, or about to enter, a debate."

"Don't say another Goddamn word. Up until now, I've been polite. If you say *anything* else -- word one -- I will kill myself. And when my tainted spirit finds its destination, I will topple the master of that dark place. From my black throne, I will lash together a machine of bone and blood, and fuled by my hatred for you this *fear engine* will bore a hole between this world and that one.

When it begins, you will hear the sound of children screaming -- as though from a great distance. A smoking orb of *nothing* will grow above your bed, and from it will emerge a thousand starving crows. As I slip through the widening maw in my new form, you will catch only a glimpse of my radiance before you are incinerated. Then, as tears of bubbling pitch stream down my face, my dark work will begin.

I will open one of my six mouths, and I will sing the song that ends the earth."

the source of that "Sounds of the Studio" clip from Hot Chip's "Shake A Fist"

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determines when various milestone timings pass, such as your 1-millionth second, etc.

monopoly used to have an auction rule which made it better, but nobody uses that anymore

"In political theory and theology, to immanentize the eschaton means trying to bring about the eschaton (the final, heaven-like stage of history) in the immanent world. It has been used by conservative critics, foremost William F. Buckley, as a pejorative reference to certain utopian projects, such as socialism, communism and transhumanism.[1] In all these contexts it means "trying to make that which belongs to the afterlife happen here and now (on Earth)" or "trying to create heaven here on Earth.""

forge FE into two base mass blink w/ fast upgrades

they were overusing the apple logo, and stole the swedish camp ground icon for the command key and menus isntead

amazing and evil looking sculptures in the eastern bloc

this is that really nasty one where you make a pylon cage behind their minerals.

interesting "aggro-gothic" album

"Ten swinging jazzy dubstep tracks including music by Gramaphonedzie, Stenchman, Funtcase Vs Ellafitz, Adventure Club, MiMOSA, Sa Bat' Machines, High Rankin, Heyoka and Jazzstepp_a." Much swingier than dubsteppy.

Norvig critiques Chomsky's aversion to statistical learning

promising free album

seems like 1.33 made this viable again

Anihc talks about how to play without colossi

FFE -> lots of gates -> upgrades (+2 attack, charge) -> mass zealot/archon -> 3rd base or timing attack

paper about why people like spectator starcraft

very effective terran cheese rush

"Naniwa came up with a build that hits almost as hard as a 4 gate, yet expands almost as early as a 1 gate expand."

magical 70s space sex lounge

nexus first PvT, woot

"This build actually tries to pressure the Zerg permanently to force as many units as possible until you secured your 3rd base and can finally get the scary deathball. You want to get the maximum of units out of a minimum of production buildings. This is an economic opening, allin-ing is obviously no good idea after forcing units.
Being even or ahead in workers and bases is a reachable goal."

weekly amateur tournament, sometimes for small amounts of money

amusing and strange douglas adams story about cookies

"We present a novel approach — Double Entendre via Noun Transfer (DEviaNT) — that applies metaphor identification techniques to solving the double entendre problem and evaluate it on the TWSS (That's What She Said) problem."

titles coming to netflix streaming

people have better intuition about logical problems if you frame them in terms of detecting cheating rather than other arbitrary problems

a programmer talks about his work on visual effects for Tron Legacy

"Charles Schulz's Peanuts comics often conceal the existential despair of their world with a closing joke at the characters' expense. With the last panel omitted, despair pervades all."

hilariously wrong predictions

hilariously incorrect german predictions; only the lamest one came true