December 2010
35 posts
“The ideal engineer is a composite … he is not a scientist, he is not a...”
– N. W. Dougherty
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“The product of art — temple, painting, statue, poem — is not the work of art....”
– John Dewey (via human-dog)
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Awesome, easily embeddable fonts for the web, hosted by guess who.
“Trust the wolves, but do not tell them where you are going.”
– Neil Gaiman, Instructions (via cavesoflilith)
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An excellent guide that shows how hard creating a high quality web application can be.
Watchfooyeahcode:
The last video embeded .. Again: You want to watch this :)
Software engineering as it’s taught in universities simply doesn’t work. It doesn’t produce software systems of high quality, and it doesn’t produce them for low cost. Sometimes, even when practiced rigorously, it doesn’t produce systems at all.
That’s odd, because in every other field, the term “engineering” is reserved...
5 Processing Video Tutorials | andybest.net →
notational:
Need to go back to these. The last one involves a build for a Sound visualizer.
Sound like a good time. Rebloggin’ to bookmark.
kagemachi asked: What's your favourite album of all time?
design ideas
a design idea:
a blogging platform with version control.
ie a facet-based CMS that keeps up with blogger’s needs, representing resources managed artfully to the end of always putting “the best face forward.”
free form tagging and a chronological, full-band stream are not enough. a platform that first allows and then encourages growth of expression is needed, so that users can...
“The secret to all persistent data structures is that they are trees. There, now...”
– Rich Hickey (via dbrock)
“What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and...”
– Erwin Schrodinger (via wildcat2030)
mini. Quiet Babylon: Interrobang-ON‽ →
quietbabylon:
Friends!
Computers are PRETTY NEAT
Everyone uses a computer nowadays. I bet you are using one right now! Computers are great. They can solve hard math problems, calculate artillery firing tables, and show a picture of a cat. Amazing!
But there is a CATCH!
When he was inventing the computer,…
“We’ve had a loss of the sense of the frontier. We have to reclaim that.”
– Peter Thiel
“The truth does not speak much English.”
– From a friend who works in a college admissions department: “That same student was also trying to explain that, in truth, he doesn’t speak English very well. The sentence came out like this: ‘The truth does not speak much English.’ So true, so true.” (via ajourneyroundmyskull)
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It’s always...
“The elements of math, according to [Conrad] Wolfram are: posing questions,...”
– Good.is (via jonathan-deamer)
Link’s to a TED talk by Conrad Wolfram.
Reblogging cuz I’m sure I bombed my Calc III test this morning, despite understanding the base concepts of line integrals of curves in vector fields. I understand the mathematical language well enough to translate...
