A mistress of perfect consistency, the computer rejects all but the flawless, offering no explanation. When the acceptable is finally offered, the machine’s acceptance is total, unwavering and eternal.
›› Paul Lutus articulates why programmers are societal misfits
That’s some seriously insane (but totally valid) CSS by Román Cortés.
And now I’m feeling thirsty.
In the last year or so, with a growing baby who is so much fun to be with, going to the movies has been a rare event. So nowadays, I find myself watching a lot of movies on HBO.
That’s how I caught Wanted. It was one of those movies that I wanted to watch on the big screen but never found the time to. Directed by Timur Bekmambetov, who also did Nightwatch and Daywatch, Wanted is quite a visual spectacle (and I am including Angelina Jolie in that). A dead-end office worker who turns into a deadly assasin, James McAvoy’s Wesley Gibson realises he can bend bullets like Beckham. It was a fun movie, though I thought James McAvoy’s baby-faced assasin look could have been grunged-up a bit.
This is good programming shit, made with good ASCII art shit.
Speaking of which, have you noticed the Google logo when you search for ascii art?
XML is a specialized alphabet that can capture any kind of computer file as a regular text.
›› USA Today really know their shit, don’t they
Let’s say we have a pizza. It has a radius of z and it has a height of a. That would mean it has a volume of
pi * z * z * a.
Thank you reddit. (And yeah, my computer science background makes me define this as a formula, not an algorithm.)
Damn, I’m hungry.
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Brainfuck is so bad it’s good! There is also a JavaScript Brainfuck interpreter if you are so inclined.
Wired has some awesome pictures of computer equipment and parts awaiting their end at an electronics scrap recycling factory in the United States.
Duke Nukem Forever has topped Wired’s annual Vapourware list since the late 17th century, and it carries on the fine tradition this year. I wonder whether this game will launch before the next Guns N’ Roses album…
Datacent has a (not very) nice, long list of hard drive sounds, which you usually hear before they die and go to cyberspace hell with all your data.
If imagining a drive failure makes your heart skip a couple of beats, make sure you back up your stuff regularly.
So a couple days (or was it weeks) ago, I saw this comic from the ever excellent xkcd and thought it was pretty funny. Today, I find out that YouTube really implemented it!
The audio playback is pretty good (though it unsurprisingly muddles through lorem ipsum text). One can only hope users guilty of idiot comments will suffer unspeakable blows to their self-esteem from this new feature.
Most folks who visit random notes
seem to hang around for about
9.100 minutes on average.
My name is and I just learned that the hash sign is also known as an octothorp. It's exactly this kind of unnecessary information works its way into conversations that scares people away from me. Not that I am really complaining though…
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