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peterquest··on Click Here to Kill
have these people not heard of monero?
peterquest··on How 'OK' took over the world (2011)
I'm curious as to how it was adopted by countries for which English is not the primary language. I remember being surprised when I heard Parisians using it regularly in their speech.
peterquest··on Hacker Typer
oldie but goodie.
peterquest··on Why you should learn just a little Awk - A Tutorial by Example
Ahhhh, so that's how I get a job at google.
peterquest··on Concurrency in Ruby almost as good as Node.js
Pffff, anyone who doesn't measure things on a scale of 8747-41947 is a troglodyte.
peterquest··on Concurrency in Ruby almost as good as Node.js
Ol Ed will kill kittens like nothin. I've seen him do it. He learned it from Napoleon.
peterquest··on Schizophrenic Computer Points to New Theory of Disease
Yet another problem that can be reduced to the chicken V egg dilemma.
peterquest··on Issac Asimov: What Is Intelligence, Anyway?
an excellent lesson in humility.
peterquest··on Schizophrenic Computer Points to New Theory of Disease
I couldn't help but think of a drug user's eagerness to attach deeper meaning to seemingly unimportant events while under the effects of heightened dopamine levels.
peterquest··on A Walk in the Woods with Mark Zuckerberg
That was nice of him to give them an offer they couldn't refuse.
peterquest··on Guy makes a knife from scratch. He has to make a smelter first.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc
peterquest··on Steve Jobs describes iCloud experience at WWDC 1997
wow, remember when keynote addresses contained technical information? When's the last time you heard Jobsy mention NFS at a conference?
peterquest··on Justin.tv launches TwitchTV: A destination site for eSports
Hey justin.tv, stop punishing me for logging in by making me watch another ad. It just makes me not want to log in. Is that the intent?
peterquest··on Max Levchin's Early PayPal Photos
sounds pretty web 3.0 to me.
peterquest··on The Mythical Man-Month
As a student, I read "Dreaming in Code" by Scott Rosenberg, which makes several references to this book. In it, they run into just about every conceivable problem a software project can encounter, which makes for a pretty fun read.