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I just marked “Something Slightly Less Terrible” as a favorite in Readability. http://www.readability.com/articles/qyhkxqwb
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“Coding, like writing, is a mechanical act.”
Just one of many gems in “Coding is not the new literacy” by @ibdknox:
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Got my 2-year-old to eat persimmon! I’ll consider that a win.
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This insightful post explains much about my relationship with traditional media:
/via @waxpancake
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“…somehow the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.”
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The world, to me: “You’re out of work, you need a job.”
Me: “What is work anyway? Can we take it from first principles?”
World: *facepalm*
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Writing a little Clojure code today… feels nice to get back to it!
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As a Wikipedia supporter, this is deeply troubling: markbernstein.org/Jan15/Infamous…
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iPhoto (for Mac) is so incredibly slow. There’s no excuse for this. I can’t wait for it to be replaced by the new iOS-inspired Photos app.
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The closing words of @DesiMakesMovies in this great @deathsexmoney episode really resonated with me: wnyc.org/story/desiree-…
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Whoah, @cyberduckapp, my favorite file transfer app for years, now has a CLI version!
blog.cyberduck.io/2015/01/15/ter…
Very cool!
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Great post on data processing:
“Command-line tools can be 235x faster than your Hadoop cluster”
/via Hacker News
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So my daughter woke up at 6:30 this morning & I managed to get her back to sleep for another hour. Is there a medal for that? A merit badge?
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Any establishment playing a song from The Crow soundtrack has my respect and enthusiasm.
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I’m enjoying Becoming a Technical Leader by Gerald M. Weinberg. 30 years old, still quite relevant.
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If you use “astounding” in the title of your job posts, you’re going to attract some astounding assholes.
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The anime of Attack on Titan is seriously intense, not for the faint of heart. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on…
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To Be Takei just hit Netflix! I’m excited to watch it. Trailer is here: tobetakei.com
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I really enjoyed The Martian by Andy Weir when I read it last year — turns out it has a great backstory!
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TIL: there’s a street in Manhattan named “Little West 12th Street”. Love it.
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Prokofiev’s Peter & the Wolf is like a time machine for me, takes me back to ~5 yrs old. ❤️ thanks Mom! rd.io/x/QV7o_TdeP622/
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I just marked “Staying agile in the face of data deluge: Martin Kleppmann” as a favorite in Readability. http://www.readability.com/articles/z14fmmhi
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TIL: houses can suffer cascading failures like any other kind of system.
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I miss video games.
(Got tired of my Xbox 360; never got into games on iOS; sitting with a laptop is too reminiscent of work. PS4 beckons…)
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So… I’m once again looking for work. The last opportunity wasn’t a good fit, but I learned from it and I’m ready to take on whatever’s next!
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I hope this works! http://t.co/zquwSN6jPW
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Cuties in the woods! http://t.co/jzKRlU1cTD
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This vision for the future of humanity & technology is bold, courageous, ambitious, positive, and compelling. ted.com/talks/hugh_her…
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I just marked “Clear Your Mental Cache” as a favorite in Readability. http://www.readability.com/articles/3a48rfj0
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I just marked “http://www.economist.com/news/christmas-specials/21636612-time-poverty-problem-partly-perception-and-partly-distribution-why?fsrc=scn/tw/te/pe/ed/whyiseveryonesobusy” as a favorite in Readability. http://www.readability.com/articles/h0qmzxxv
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Just saw a Morgan 3-wheeler on Houston. Bare sheetmetal. Goggles. Hot!
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I just marked “Say No” as a favorite in Readability. http://www.readability.com/articles/zik9famh
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I just marked “The Argumentative Jew” as a favorite in Readability. http://www.readability.com/articles/ok0dxm9q
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“From Open (Unlimited) to Minimum Vacation Policy” paperplanes.de/2014/12/10/fro… Good for them!
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I just marked “Professional Transitions (or: the shutting down of Mozilla Labs)” as a favorite in Readability. http://www.readability.com/articles/i3dmpcgy
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I just marked “Why the data center needs an operating system” as a favorite in Readability. http://www.readability.com/articles/ehvbv1hs
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I just marked “Doctors, emails and blood test results: Sensitive medical data on the Internet” as a favorite in Readability. http://www.readability.com/articles/2qeltf7j
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Been working with @circleci lately and I’m quite impressed. Excellent service.
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Ursula K. Le Guin’s powerful speech on literature, publishing, & freedom at the National Book Awards: parkerhiggins.net/2014/11/will-n… — so inspiring!
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Broke out the balaclava this morning. COME AT ME, WINTER.
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Looks like I won’t be able to make it to @clojure_conj next week. Bummer. Anyone want my ticket?
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I just marked “Healthy Codebase and Preparatory Refactoring” as a favorite in Readability. http://www.readability.com/articles/05gks5dh
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New books! http://t.co/s6UbvGtAIv
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I just marked “Wednesday, 12 November 2014 – The Pastry Box Project” as a favorite in Readability. http://www.readability.com/articles/mmjg78gg
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Interesting… I contributed to the open-source docs for a closed-source API: github.com/github/develop…
Not sure how I feel about that.
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Interstellar is amazing!
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I have so many side projects stalled in so many different ways that I made a decision matrix to choose which to focus on.
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Philae has landed!
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Couldn’t figure out why I couldn’t see the printer on the network. Turns out it’s not hooked up to the network! Doh!
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I just marked “The problem of managing schemas” as a favorite in Readability. http://www.readability.com/articles/mykrz3a7
(Originally published on App.net.)
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