February 2012
2 posts
“They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright...”
– Carl Sagan (via reddit)
January 2012
1 post
November 2011
1 post
September 2011
2 posts
2 tags
clojure + emacs on windows (the september 2011...
There are a bunch of tutorials floating around online on how to get started with an emacs/slime setup for clojure on windows, but—not surprising given the rapid rate of changes in the clojure ecosystem—I wasn’t able to find one that wasn’t outdated or ran without throwing esoteric errors on installation. After a lot of trial-and-error, I managed to get a proper workflow up and running,...
June 2011
2 posts
May 2011
1 post
April 2011
3 posts
March 2011
4 posts
“If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it...”
– Trin Tragula (attributed)
“In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
Little minds have little...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
February 2011
3 posts
December 2010
2 posts
“Lies written in ink can not conceal a truth written in blood”
– Lu Xun
October 2010
1 post
September 2010
15 posts
1 tag
WatchHulu - America’s Got Talent: Week 10: ArcAttack
WatchOne child’s most exciting day last week. [VIDEO]
August 2010
2 posts
July 2010
2 posts
Watch
Planck scans the full sky:
The main disc of our Galaxy runs across the centre of the image. Immediately striking are the streamers of cold dust reaching above and below the Milky Way. This galactic web is where new stars are being formed, and Planck has found many locations where individual stars are edging toward birth or just beginning their cycle of development. (via ESA Portal - Planck...
May 2010
5 posts
“1980 - Alan Kay creates Smalltalk and invents the term “object...”
– One Div Zero: A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages
“whoa”
April 2010
8 posts
“Light bulbs are not actually “light bulbs” but dark absorbers.”
– QDB: Quote #193646
mind=blown
we shall not be a nation of douchebags
