Mon Jul 30
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“ There is abundant evidence to show that high buildings make people crazy. ”
Christopher Alexander in A Pattern Language
Sun Jul 29
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“ How can a train be lost? It’s on rails. ”
Jason Schwartzman
Thu Jul 26
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Tip Offline RDoc
Run the gem_server executable bundled with RubyGems and point your browser at localhost:8808
Wed Jul 25
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“ I’m really open minded but Larry Wall is insane. ”
Marcel
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“ The data-parallel languages of the future will be functional languages. ”
Simon Peyton Jones
Mon Jul 23
Sat Jul 21
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“ I used to tell my senior staff to get me poets as managers. ”
Sidney Harman
Tue Jul 17
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“ Subject: 3 days of video storage left. ”
Recent internal email at YouTube
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“ It’s a shame this poor little usage gets such a bum rap. ”
Jennifer Dailey-O’Cain on the quotative like
Mon Jul 16
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Tip Avoiding left turns saves gas
Last year, UPS cut 28 million miles from truck routes, saving roughly three million gallons of fuel, in good part by mapping routes that minimize left turns.
(source: http://tinyurl.com/2d6uy6)
Sun Jul 15
Fri Jul 13
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“ Yeah, it’s kind of the ‘Myst’ of websites. Real pretty to look at, but don’t try to move or anything. ”
Alan Francis on the new project.ioni.st archive feature
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Copying and pasting in OS X from Ruby
IO.popen('pbcopy', 'w+') do |clipboard| clipboard.write('Hello') end # ^V # => "Hello" IO.popen('pbpaste') do |clipboard| puts clipboard.read end # => "Hello"
Wed Jul 11
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“ Food first, then morality. ”
Bertolt Brecht
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“ The past is not dead. It’s not even past. ”
William Faulkner
Mon Jul 9
Sun Jul 8
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Tip Projectionist Archives
For Projectionist’s second birthday it got an Archives section at http://project.ioni.st/archives.
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Misunderstood
Fri Jul 6
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“ Like most Bobbindoctrin productions, this show is built for grown-ups. But unlike most Bobbindoctrin productions, the content in THE GIFT OF NIGHT will not traumatize children. ”
Disclaimer about The Gift of Night puppet show
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“Twilight” by Dawn Landes
Tue Jul 3
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