The telephone
“The telephone was an aberration in human development. It was a 70 year or so period where for some reason humans decided it was socially acceptable to ring a loud bell in someone else’s life and they were expected to come running, like dogs. This was the equivalent of thinking it was okay to walk into someone’s living room and start shouting. It was never okay.”- Rick Webb about this (via toldorknown)
Attitüde
Wir in Deutschland leisten uns eine sogenannte “Alternativmedizin”, deren penetrante Popularisierung – angesichts solcher realen Nöte – wohl eher als peinliche Attitüde einer übersättigten Wohlstandsgesellschaft gesehen werden muss.
via http://excanwahn.wordpress.com/2010/04/15/400-millionen-stunden-schulausfall/
The floating point guide
Ich bin gerade über einen sehr schöne Seite gestolpert, die schön zusammen fasst was jeder über Floatingpoint Arithmetik wissen sollte: http://floating-point-gui.de/
Nature in Numbers
Wunderschöne Animation zur Fibonacci Folge in der Natur
Nature by Numbers from Cristóbal Vila on Vimeo.
Art and science of software development
Can we please start pushing the art and science of software development toward the austere? I’d love someday to hear a young coder tell a story about someone they idolized like, “There was this guy I worked with who once optimized a complicated red- black tree getting 300% performance boost. I was baffled and ask, ‘How’d you do that? That’s impossible.’ To which he responded…”
“’That’s my linked list my son.’”
Quelle: zedshaw