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Very Gradual Change (via @keeproductions)
Monday, November 2nd, 2009Out for Sushi for @eskelton’s Birthday
Friday, October 30th, 2009
How to Become a Hacker
Thursday, October 29th, 2009Hackers solve problems and build things, and they believe in freedom and voluntary mutual help. To be accepted as a hacker, you have to behave as though you have this kind of attitude yourself. And to behave as though you have the attitude, you have to really believe the attitude.
This reminds me of a high school friend who once told me, "Punk isn't a kind of music, it's an attitude." Whatever dude.
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Social Sites Infographic
Thursday, October 29th, 2009
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Hey Jude
Thursday, October 29th, 2009
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Sunrise over Sabo Bridge
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
It’s a beautiful fall day in Mpls
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
In the Beginning was the Command Line
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
I posted this years ago, but I just ran across Neal Stephenson's essay "In the Beginning was the Command Line". If you haven't read this, you really should.
About twenty years ago Jobs and Wozniak, the founders of Apple, came up with the very strange idea of selling information processing machines for use in the home. The business took off, and its founders made a lot of money and received the credit they deserved for being daring visionaries. But around the same time, Bill Gates and Paul Allen came up with an idea even stranger and more fantastical: selling computer operating systems. This was much weirder than the idea of Jobs and Wozniak. A computer at least had some sort of physical reality to it. It came in a box, you could open it up and plug it in and watch lights blink. An operating system had no tangible incarnation at all. It arrived on a disk, of course, but the disk was, in effect, nothing more than the box that the OS came in. The product itself was a very long string of ones and zeroes that, when properly installed and coddled, gave you the ability to manipulate other very long strings of ones and zeroes. Even those few who actually understood what a computer operating system was were apt to think of it as a fantastically arcane engineering prodigy, like a breeder reactor or a U-2 spy plane, and not something that could ever be (in the parlance of high-tech) "productized."
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Auto Tune the News Just Keeps Getting Better
Monday, October 26th, 2009
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