jake

Nov
21st

Sat

authentic vintage geek, down to the scotch-taped wiring. (via Extra Ketchup)

Most hacker-founders would like to spend all their time programming. You won’t get to, unless you fail. Which can be transformed into: If you spend all your time programming, you will fail.

— Paul Graham, What Startups Are Really Like

Nov
20th

Fri

An organization that wins by exercising power starts to lose the ability to win by doing better work.

— Daring Fireball Linked List: Paul Graham on How the App Store Has Damaged Apple’s Reputation With Developers

An automated magnetic tape vault at CERN computer center, seen on September 15th, 2008 … The handling of the magnetic tape cartridges is now fully automated, as they are racked in vaults where they are moved between the storage shelves and the tape drives by robotic arms. (via Large Hadron Collider ready to restart - The Big Picture - Boston.com)

via www.topatoco.com (h/t to josh)

Nov
19th

Thu

tip: python

quick and easy way to remove non-ascii characters from a string: filter(lambda c: ord(c)

tips python

Nov
18th

Wed

Amazon.com: Laptop Steering Wheel Desk: Electronics

“This has been a total lifesaver. It allows me to prop my sheet music against the wheel, allowing me to play the guitar with both hands while driving.”

Nov
17th

Tue

tip: shell

use !, ^, etc. for quick navigation of previous commands http://bit.ly/1BLVdt

tips shell

Gladwell frequently holds forth about statistics and psychology, and his lack of technical grounding in these subjects can be jarring. He provides misleading definitions of “homology,” “sagittal plane” and “power law” and quotes an expert speaking about an “igon value” (that’s eigenvalue, a basic concept in linear algebra).

— Book Review - ‘What the Dog Saw - And Other Adventures,’ by Malcolm Gladwell - Review - NYTimes.com

Nov
16th

Mon

The History of the Internet in a Nutshell