I started reading The Productive Programmer today, and I’ve already, in the first 15 pages or so (including introduction), found some interesting tidbits worth sharing.
Archive for the ‘general’ Category
The Productive Programmer and vim
Thursday, July 24th, 2008How to convince people you have no clue what you are talking about
Friday, June 13th, 2008(Rules taken from an email thread I’m reading right now).
The email thread was trying to ascertain if there are effectively things equivalent to Apple Keychain on Linux. Here’s how my favorite response went:
do it again
Saturday, May 17th, 2008Xobni. Is. In. Public. Beta.
Monday, May 5th, 2008Upgraded to WordPress 2.5!
Monday, April 7th, 2008That is all :) Oh, and I deleted the Tom Cruise crazy video post (where he talks about what it means to be a scientologist), because it isn’t on youtube anymore. The youtubes have let me down.
Lawrence Lessig on who he’ll be voting for
Thursday, February 7th, 2008ha. haha. hahahaha.
Thursday, January 31st, 2008Apparently, if it weren’t for big evil IBM oppressing Microsoft, OOXML would have been a standard in “business as usual”. Oh, you heard me right. Go read the article. Once you’ve finished laughing, come back.
A joke
Thursday, December 13th, 2007I heard this one from my father when he had had a few too many beers (my dad is rather funny in general, but even more so when his grip on sobriety loosens up). This won’t be entirely accurate to what he said, but the general gist should be correct:
In the words of the great Ben Folds…
Thursday, December 13th, 2007Give me my money back, you bitch.
And by “you bitch”, I’m referring to Liberty Mutual, who have yet to pay me back for the accident.
not a dichotomy
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007Sometimes I hear people debating the relationship between synchronous and asynchronous execution. Or maybe distributed vs client/server architectures. The thing to remember, in both of these cases (and a few more), these things are not dichotomous – one is completely subsumed by the other.