October 2011
1 post
“C is a poster child for why it’s essential to keep those people who know a thing...”
– Dennis Ritchie « Sutter’s Mill
August 2011
2 posts
“How can you expect me to employ you if you don’t know JACSHT? The whole world is...”
– HTML / CSS / JavaScript – We Need An Acronym
“I feel strongly that “login” as a verb is an abomination and not to...”
– designcult: The secret origin of “log in”
June 2011
5 posts
“And again, our goal is not to make the most money—it’s to make the best...”
– The Omni Group Forums - View Single Post - Why not Windows?
“More information is better than less. Freedom to connect to others is a...”
– Derek Powazek - On The Network Manifesto
“Finish what’s important now and then figure out what’s important next.”
– SvN Flashback: Product roadmaps are dangerous - (37signals)
“How To Open A Bag of Charcoal”
– How To Open A Bag of Charcoal « Cheap Talk
May 2011
4 posts
“Trivial” is programmer slang for “I understand what to do and...”
– Trivialities - raganwald’s posterous
April 2011
5 posts
“Keep in mind that Apple’s penalty for losing the PC war in the 1990s is that it...”
– Daring Fireball Linked List: iPhone, Like Generalissimo Francisco Franco, Is Still Dead
“Be so good they can’t ignore you.”
– Study Hacks » Blog Archive » The Steve Martin Method: A Master Comedian’s Advice for Becoming Famous
Daring Fireball: Cutting That Cord →
The only reliable way to succeed at anything is to actually do it, repeatedly, with concentrated effort.
“The secret of success turns out to be so incredibly simple: Work your ass off.”
– Call Me Fishmeal.: Success, and Farming vs. Mining
March 2011
5 posts
“If something fails, no one will know about it because no one used it. Stopped...”
– Marketing Reddit: Have an Awesome Product and Tie it to a Fantastic Brand | The Startup Foundry
“Don’t suck twice.”
– Don’t suck twice. | The Startup Foundry
“Staff brought out surge protectors and extension cords with 10s of iOS device...”
– Kevin Rose - blogg - Apple’s Role in Japan during the Tohoku Earthquake
“The fear of the unknown is the price you pay for the opportunity to make a...”
– 52 Cups of Coffee • Cup 30
“If you aren’t in New York, you probably say “in line”. Your pizza might suck,...”
– Marco.org - Which iPad 2 should I get?
February 2011
1 post
“There’s no place on a resume for the books you’ve read.”
– Meta Bates » Blog Archive » Becoming an ‘Expert’ Developer
January 2011
5 posts
“Beware the lollipop of mediocrity. Lick it once and you’ll suck forever.”
– Wake Up Tiger: sweet temptation
“There will always be someone who is better than you at something, be quick to...”
– Noah Stokes | Es Bueno / Thirty Four
“Is it better to try changing the world and fail miserably or to just talk about...”
– This year, take the risk
December 2010
3 posts
“Why are we letting the terrorists succeed by making us act as if we’re...”
– ongoing by Tim Bray · No More Fear
“The goal of terrorism is to terrorize us: to make us afraid, and make our...”
– Why the TSA Can’t Back Down - Bruce Schneier - National - The Atlantic
“I think we’re better off knowing too much of the truth than too little.”
– Daring Fireball Linked List: Senator Dianne Feinstein Calls for Julian Assange to Be Prosecuted Under the Espionage Act
November 2010
8 posts
“Exactly two things have made airplane travel safer since 9/11: reinforcing the...”
– A Waste of Money and Time - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com
“Americans will put up with almost anything in the name of anti-terrorism. But it...”
– Where I draw the line - Roger Ebert’s Journal
“An average of twenty-six people die in (or on) elevators in the United States...”
– Our Local Correspondents: Up and Then Down : The New Yorker
“Loading up an empty elevator car with discarded Christmas trees, pressing the...”
– Our Local Correspondents: Up and Then Down : The New Yorker
“The Large Hadron Collider has successfully created a “mini-Big Bang”...”
– BBC News - Large Hadron Collider (LHC) generates a ‘mini-Big Bang’
I love science.
“XML is like violence - if it doesn’t solve your problems, you are not using...”
– Nokogiri
“During the pre-Walkman era, we had a simple means of finding out what our...”
– Tweetage Wasteland : Walkman to Facebook: How Tuning Out Led to Tuning In
“With no supporting evidence whatsoever that it will make anyone any safer, and...”
– Marco.org - For the First Time, the TSA Meets Resistance
October 2010
7 posts
“Facebook, like Google, continues to redefine “what’s important to...”
– Facebook News Feed Settings: Random or Not, Biggest Secrets Revealed - The Daily Beast
“If the building you are currently in is burning to the ground, go find the...”
– Rands In Repose: N.A.D.D.
“Those lulls in the conversation over dinner? That’s the nerd working on his...”
– Rands In Repose: The Nerd Handbook
“I know more than I did a moment ago.”
– Rands In Repose: An Unexpected Connection
“Do your own thing. It’s great.”
– Do your own thing
“Even habitual oversharers only share a subsection of themselves on social...”
– Tweetage Wasteland : What Happens in Facebook…
September 2010
6 posts
“Contribution counts for more than credentials.”
– The Facebook Generation vs. the Fortune 500 | opensource.com
“Atheism is an effect of that knowledge, not a lack of knowledge. I gave a Bible...”
– Atheists Outdo Some Believers in Survey on Religion - NYTimes.com
“the only way to balance the budget by 2020, while simultaneously (a) making the...”
– Op-Ed Columnist - Downhill With the G.O.P. - NYTimes.com
“Being poor is crying when you drop the mac and cheese on the floor.”
– Being Poor « Whatever