Quotable Quotes
"It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors"
"You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know."
"To get back one's youth, one has merely to repeat one's follies"
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
"The only thing you have to do in this life is die,... Everything else is a choice."
The Age of Miracles - Karen Thomson Walker
"Without Pain, How Could We Know Joy? (This is an old argument in the field
of Thinking-About-Suffering, and its stupidity and lack of sophistication
could be plumbed for centuries, but suffice it to say that the existence
of broccoli does not in any way affect the taste of chocolate.)"
"... all felt Romantic, but not romantic."
"The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory."
"You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do
have some say in who hurts you."
"quantum entanglement of tubes and bodies"
The Fault in Our Stars - John Green
"A man's life was five dogs long, Cortland believed. The first was the one
that taught you. The second was the one you taught. The third and fourth
were the ones you worked. The last was the one that outlived you."
UR - Stephen King
"It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck
comes you are ready."
Old Man And the Sea - Earnest Hemingway
"No one in the world ever gets what they want and that is beautiful"
"People who live in glass houses should shut the fuck up"
"I'd come to see my rig for what it was: an elaborate contraption for
deceiving my senses, to allow me to live in a world that didn't exist.
Each component of my rig was a bar in the cell where I had willingly
imprisoned myself"
Ready Player One - Ernest Cline
"magic formula of a great game - easy to learn, difficult to master"
Masters of Doom - David Kushner
"You'd be happy, in the same pitiful way someone like our friend Ritchie is.
Nothing affects you, and you affect nothing."
"Maybe she's afraid that if I can't have her, I won't want her."
I Am the Messenger - Markus Zusak
"I'm reminded of a wise man who once said that he would never want to join
a club that would have him for a member."
The Ghost Brigades - John Scalzi
"Because substitutes that cannot be substituted are generally called identities"
"Bobby seems to be asking, in bold Helvetica type and in all earnestness"
Self-Reference Engine - Toh EnJoe
"... you've seen a room where the gravity has failed twice in different
directions"
"You love because you want to need someone the way you did when you were
a child, and have them need you too."
"It struck me that if you could train your mind to operate when awake as
it does in your sleep, then you could dream while you were awake, and see
a different world"
Only Forward - Michael Marshall Smith
"No one ever sees what is behind the mirror."
Unknown
"That which, being added to another does not make it greater, and being
taken away from another does not make it less, is nothing"
The History of Calculus and its conceptual development - Carl Boyer
"People thought languages were just substitution puzzles"
Damocles - S. G. Redling
"The only way to beat the competition is to stop trying to beat the competition."
Blue Ocean Strategy - W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne
"Alicia made her mouth into a ~"
"Immortality is a mass event"
"Anticlimax is the currency of mortality"
Anticopernicus - Adam Robers
"... number-one goal of all computer users is to not feel stupid."
"The essence of good interaction design is to devise interactions that let
users achieve their practical goals without violating their personal goals."
The Inmates are running the Asylum - Alan Cooper
Originally Posted on Oct 11, 2014
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2016
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Before fixing performance issues
2014
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Software Engineering Code of Ethics and Professional Practice
2012
Coffeescript: To switch or not to switch
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When your git branch diverges from your remote
Something like Olivia - John Mayer
Online courses - New technology, Old rules
Why Patriotism doesn't make sense
Why sea steading is important to pursue?
Rolling back latest git commit
iTunes Download stopped (err =9006)
Good essay on user centric software design
Why we need to explore Seasteading?
2011
How to write interactive CLI utility in node.js
The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov
How to print stack trace anywhere in Javascript
It's not fair to compare Android with Internet Explorer
How to debug WebWorker threads?
Why can't I criticize Government if I don't vote? I sure can.
Why the hi-tech minds are writing Social apps?
Ever growing todo list is a good sign for creative projects
Lesser women in tech... So what?
HTML5 offline cache - use swapCache carefully
How Wikipedia and Flattr can together change the World
2010
Functional programming in Javascipt using Underscore.js
Youtube ETA - Chrome extension
Why secure airports when it's planes that fly?
Mac book red light audio jack problem on Linux
How to save HTML5 canvas image to Google App Engine
Why don't they publish eBooks for free but with embedded ads?
Reality distortion field around
ReaderScope 2.0.6 - Find Comments
Why "Open" is not the first concern of user?
Mutt, Gmail, gdata, notify-send: A Perfect Email solution
Are you the Matt Damon of your game?
ReaderScope 1.8.{2,3} - new authentication and global share
Portable apps for iPhone, Android, Pre, n900 - Can Processing.js help?
ReaderScope 1.8.1 - rethinking features
Android fragmentation : How big a deal is it?
ReaderScope v1.7 - Widget, new Icons and .... Ads
on Git: tips for SVN users and Git in Dropbox cloud
How to do an online IDE for Android app development
Make Android speak your Twits with "TwitSpeak"
2009
ReaderScope 1.5 - quicker, better, prettier
Preview android.R.drawable.* images
Is definition of "Evil" changing?
ReaderScope 1.4 (with a Theme Pack)
The AND-OR problem of laptop and mobile phone
ReaderScope v1.3.3 - offline podcasts
ReaderScope v1.3.2 - Social Channels
ReaderScope v1.3 - Beyond Google Reader
Frets on Fire for Maemo - Update
ReaderScope 1.2.7 - Podcasts, Expanded View
Sprint HTC Hero problems with ReaderScope
ReaderScope 1.2.1 - Auto Login
ReaderScope 1.1.3 - SDCard storage
ReaderScope 1.1.1 quick-n-easy features
ReaderScope 1.1 - Social Beacons
ReaderScope 1.0.2 - making deep cache simple
ReaderScope beta4 - offline fun
ReaderScope beta3 - Tweet the news
Intercepting Up/Down keys from bash script
Makeshift XML beautifier in python
HTC Magic (Indian version) - expectations and facts
Android development with Vim + Eclim
FoF - PyOpenGL = miniFoF (possibly for n810)
Twitter client with inkface-pygame v0.2.2
Frets on Fire on Maemo 5 (Fremantle)
Static IP configuration on Fedora 10
Smooth scrolling with Inkface+pygame
Inkface v0.2 update and automated GUI testing
Testing Android (Koolu Beta 3) on Openmoko Freerunner
Clutter animation paths with Inkscape+Inkface (v0.1.3)
Debian repository on Google App Engine
Inkface v0.1.2, Twitter-inkface client
2008
Debugging python reference counts
(k)ubuntu 8.10 - not ready for my home yet
Migrating to Google App Engine
Android opened - first looks inside
Inkface - SVG based GUI design
Today's slashdot and open source
OpenMoko, Android and a great hacking post
2007
XML RPC server inside apache mod_python
Nice review article on virtualization technologies
Once again... a quote from 'Troy'
Sea surfing under the Golden Gate
2006
How do I backup to Amazon S3 storage service
Gas prices... seems like big scam
If Harry Potter were a computer hacker ...
2005
repeat (ps | grep) = filtered top
Halo fixed on ATI Mobility Radeon 9000
Warning: const is a keyword in ANSI C
2004