Anyone who spends any time at all working in software will quickly find themselves bewildered by the ridiculous number of technologies/standards/frameworks that clot our industry. It’s often hard to tell for sure what these things actually do — but a lot of them seem to be solving the same problem, in slightly different ways.
This is [...]
Holy crap, this is about the most beautiful thing I’ve ever read. It’s from a post about Elizabeth Edwards:
If I found out today that I had a year to live, and that meant I would change the way I spend my days, then I need to change the way I spend my days [...]
Here’s George Orwell complaining about the state of English usage in 1950:
I am going to translate a passage of good English into modern English of the worst sort. Here is a well-known verse from Ecclesiastes: I returned and saw under the sun, that the race is [...]
When Lapsed Cannibal was five years old, he was kidnapped by a band of gypsies and raised as a wolf cub. At age ten, he escaped and joined a traveling flea circus, where he remains to this day. He enjoys needlework, phrenology, and conquering small island nations.
Here’s a very cool insight from a reddit thread I was just just noodling through:
A programming language should never try be intuitive. Visual Basic tried to be intuitive. Applescript tried to be intuitive. Both wound up more confusing than they [should] have been. Programming just isn’t intuitive, there’s always a learning curve. Instead, [...]
Some vile microscopic organism managed to penetrate my immunilogical fortress this week. I spent thursday flat on my back, staring at the ceiling, plumbing my vocabulary for the right words to describe the particular kind of awful that I was feeling. I couldn’t summon the will to log into work, or mess around on the [...]
I’m a mass of ticks and pet peeves when it comes to English. I flinch whenever anyone says “irregardless”, break out in hives when people proclaim their intention to never “step foot” in some disagreeable establishment, and go into full anaphylactic shock whenever someone assures me that they “could care less” about something.
Which [...]
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