A programmer's view of the Universe, part 1: The fish
Bravo. Here's hoping I never reach the end of that vine. I like to think there's always more.
Outsourcing Cooking with Craigslist for $60/week
T hat’s right – for just $60 a week, I’ve bought myself some time to chase after some dreams: working out, playing guitar, and of course writing.
Sleep deprivation is not a badge of honor
Forgoing sleep is like borrowing from a loan shark. Sure you get that extra hours right now to cover for your overly-optimistic estimation, but at what price? The shark will be back and if you can’t pay, he’ll break your creativity, morale, and good-mannered nature as virtue twigs. N…
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Joel on Software: Anecdotes
Michiko Kakutani reviews Malcolm Gladwell’s latest book in the New York Times: “Much of what Mr. Gladwell has to say about superstars is little more than common sense: that talent alone…
Jim Hefferon's Linear Algebra: A free textbook with fascinating applications
Random code snippets, projects and musings about software from Eric Kidd, a developer and occasional entrepreneur.
The Great Ubuntu-Girlfriend Experiment
Introduction I’ve toyed with Linux since 2002, when I first installed Mandrake. With the latest release of Ubuntu, I was interested to see how far Linux had come since then in terms of being …
Do you know any programmers who exhibit these personality traits?
I’ve been observing an unusual programmer friend of mine for some time now. (Yeah… a “friend”, that’s it….) He has such a strange combination of potential and in…
LaTeX vs. Word vs. Writer
I’ve earlier performed a little test , comparing two files: one produced with MS Word, the other with OpenOffice.org Writer. The purpose then was to demonstrate that Word isn’t necessarily such a bad piece of software — it’s just not always used in a way which is likely to give nice results: most people don’t change…
Horrible
I can turn a phrase. High school journalism is where I discovered this. Mrs. Wickett kept bringing stories to me in my junior year "Needs a clever headline." I
Paul Buchheit: The first thing that you need to understand about humans
Humans aren't rational -- they rationalize. And I don't just mean "some of them" or "other people". I'm talking about everyone. We have a "l...