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fuckyeahcomputerscience: ayiie: When I find my code in tons of...

Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:13:05 -0400

ayiie:

When I find my code in tons of trouble,
Friends and colleagues come to me,
Speaking words of wisdom:
“Write in C.”

As the deadline fast approaches,
And bugs are all that I can see,
Somewhere, someone whispers:
“Write in C.”

Write in C, write in C,
Write in C, oh, write in C.
LISP is dead and buried,
Write in C.

I used to write a lot of FORTRAN,
For science it worked flawlessly.
Try using it for graphics!
Write in C.

If you’ve just spent nearly 30 hours
Debugging some assembly,
Soon you will be glad to
Write in C.

Write in C, write in C,
Write in C, yeah, write in C.
BASIC is for wimps.
Write in C.

Write in C, write in C,
Write in C, oh, write in C.
Pascal won’t quite cut it.
Write in C.

Write in C, write in C,
Write in C, yeah, write in C.
Don’t even mention COBOL.
Write in C.

And when the screen is fuzzy,
And the editor is bugging me.
I’m sick of ones and zeros,
Write in C.

A thousand people swear that T.P.
Seven is the one for me.
I hate the word PROCEDURE,
Write in C.

Write in C, write in C,
Write in C, yeah, write in C.
PL1 is ’80s,
Write in C.

Write in C, write in C,
Write in C, yeah, write in C.
The government loves ADA,
Write in C.

Write in C, write in C,
Write in C, yeah, write in C.
Java’s not quite there yet,
Write in C.

Odds are, it's wrong

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:47:00 -0400

Odds are, it's wrong:

Science fails to face the shortcomings of statistics.

sudobyte: Pixel City - Procedurally generated city (via...

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:39:28 -0400

sudobyte:

Pixel City - Procedurally generated city (via ShamusYoung)

zioglitch: Which one are you?

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:37:14 -0400

zioglitch:

Which one are you?

theessentialman: (via thedailyrhubarbian)

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:37:08 -0400

theessentialman:

(via thedailyrhubarbian)

somethingfortheladies: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World Soundtrack...

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:34:03 -0400

somethingfortheladies:

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World Soundtrack

Metric

Black Sheep

Metric is my personal favourite band, and this track was due out on their latest album Fantasies until the band decided that it didn’t fit. No matter, “Black Sheep”, a tribute to the late Queen frontman Freddie Mercury, found its way onto the soundtrack for the movie Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. The soundtrack is rumored to include other rockin’ artists like Beck and Broken Social Scene.

Little Billy's Letters to famous and infamous people

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 03:44:18 -0400

Little Billy's Letters to famous and infamous people:

Reading these letters was heart-warming.

/the/path/of/most/resistance

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 03:12:11 -0400

/the/path/of/most/resistance

Recommendation algorithm wants to show you something new

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:17:55 -0500

Recommendation algorithm wants to show you something new

Code Bubbles: Rethinking the UI paradigm of Integrated...

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:06:08 -0500

Code Bubbles: Rethinking the UI paradigm of Integrated Development Environments

you - yes, you! - can teach yourself how to program.

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:40:05 -0500

you - yes, you! - can teach yourself how to program.:

sudobyte:

in the beginning was the question
…
a friend of mine asked me that a couple of nights ago, to my delight. my answer, of course, was
…
as a matter of fact, any self-respecting programmer you’ve ever met is mostly self-taught. that’s because as soon as a neophyte starts coding, they find out…

The Panic Status Board

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:57:00 -0500

The Panic Status Board

"Another writer again agreed with all my generalities, but said that as an inveterate skeptic I have..."

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:38:45 -0500

“Another writer again agreed with all my generalities, but said that as an inveterate skeptic I have closed my mind to the truth. Most notably I have ignored the evidence for an Earth that is six thousand years old. Well, I haven’t ignored it; I considered the purported evidence and *then* rejected it. There is a difference, and this is a difference, we might say, between prejudice and postjudice. Prejudice is making a judgment before you have looked at the facts. Postjudice is making a judgment afterwards. Prejudice is terrible, in the sense that you commit injustices and you make serious mistakes. Postjudice is not terrible. You can’t be perfect of course; you can make mistakes also. But it is permissible to make a judgment after you have examined the evidence. In some circles it is even encouraged.”

- Carl Sagan, “The Burden of Skepticism”

The full story of how Facebook was founded

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 02:27:09 -0500

The full story of how Facebook was founded

Goddamn Electric Bill - Ten Thousand Years

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 04:30:52 -0500

Goddamn Electric Bill - Ten Thousand Years

Photo

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:03:38 -0500

Photo

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:36:00 -0500

Mozilla Ubiquity dies an incredibly quiet death

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:35:05 -0500

Mozilla Ubiquity dies an incredibly quiet death:

“Let me start off by saying I personally think Aza Raskin is a genius. Really. When Windows Phone 7 Series just came out, everyone was all amazed about how ‘the data is the UI’, and how everything is so semantic and clean. Well, it’s been done.”

sudobyte: szymon: New York City gets Two Feet Of Snow

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:59:49 -0500

sudobyte:

szymon:

New York City gets Two Feet Of Snow

The Essential Man: On Friends

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:57:28 -0500

The Essential Man: On Friends:

Your time is valuable.

Time is like currency, and who you choose to surround yourself with and spend that currency on reflects who you are.

If you are to spend your money to buy crack, there is a high likelyhood you are a crackhead, or at the very least, increasing your chances to be one.

There…