April 2010
10 posts
The Essential Man: On Saying No →
One of the best decisions I have made recently is to say no more often.
For many people, there is an understandable desire to avoid immediate confrontation. To avoid disappointing and hurting people’s feelings. Nobody wants to be the bad guy.
What ends up happening is you dance around the no…
Emacs starter kit →
The Starter Kit should provide a saner set of defaults than you get normally with Emacs. It was originally intended for beginners, but it should provide a reasonable working environment for anyone using Emacs for dynamic languages. It also bundles a number of useful libraries that are not distributed with Emacs for various reasons.
Privacy and Control →
alexainslie:
“To the older generation, privacy is about secrecy. And, as the Supreme Court said, once something is no longer secret, it’s no longer private. But that’s not how privacy works, and it’s not how the younger generation thinks about it. Privacy is about control. When your health records are sold to a pharmaceutical company without your permission; when a social networking site changes...
Google warns that privacy opt-in rules could... →
sudobyte:
I’ll have to agree with Google on this one. The ability for a server to collect information about you has always been around since the internet existed. Services on the web use data gathered from its users to determines where to improve itself.
There’s no free lunch.
For the few already paranoid, you don’t sign up for the service before reviewing the privacy policy. That should be...
The Tetris effect →
fuckyeahcomputerscience:
clee:
The Tetris effect occurs when an activity to which people devote sufficient time and attention begins to overshadow their thoughts, mental images, and dreams.
Computer programmers and developers sometimes have similar experiences, and report dreaming about code when they sleep at night, and return to work the next day feeling like they had never left.
One hundred push-ups →
The Seductive (Yet Destructive) Appeal of Loud... →
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