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Vivek Haldar: Why you would want to program at fifty (or any other age)

Sat, 03 Nov 2012 07:05:00 -0400

Vivek Haldar: Why you would want to program at fifty (or any other age):

The meme is strong in this one. It keeps popping up again and again, and seems to have struck a chord in the hacker community.

Whether you want to do something at an arbitrary time in the future is a superficial, if interesting, question. The deeper question is what motivates you do it now,…

infinity-imagined: The orbits of the moons and planets form a...

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 20:44:33 -0400

infinity-imagined:

The orbits of the moons and planets form a 4-dimensional fractal helix in spacetime.

heyoscarwilde: track list typography by Jack De Caluwe ::...

Mon, 08 Oct 2012 20:04:17 -0400

heyoscarwilde:

track list

typography by Jack De Caluwe :: via jacksploitation.com

nevver: That doesn’t sound like fun

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 13:45:22 -0400

nevver:

That doesn’t sound like fun

gingerlandcomics: The Boat

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 11:38:54 -0400

gingerlandcomics:

The Boat

"When I’m introspective about the last few years I think the biggest mistake that we made, as a..."

Wed, 12 Sep 2012 10:48:19 -0400

“When I’m introspective about the last few years I think the biggest mistake that we made, as a company, is betting too much on HTML5 as opposed to native… because it just wasn’t there. And it’s not that HTML5 is bad. I’m actually, on long-term, really excited about it. One of the things that’s interesting is we actually have more people on a daily basis using mobile Web Facebook than we have using our iOS or Android apps combined. So mobile Web is a big thing for us.”

- Mark Zuckerberg @ Disrupt SF 2012. (via tobie)

nevver: The content factory

Mon, 03 Sep 2012 21:45:27 -0400

nevver:

The content factory

amandaonwriting: The Top 10 Writers Block Quotes 1. Writer’s...

Thu, 30 Aug 2012 11:41:21 -0400

amandaonwriting:

The Top 10 Writers Block Quotes

1. Writer’s block? I’ve heard of this. This is when a writer cannot write, yes? Then that person isn’t a writer anymore. I’m sorry, but the job is getting up in the fucking morning and writing for a living. ~Warren Ellis

2. I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer’s block, oh, I have to wait for my muse. I don’t. Chain that muse to your desk and get the job done. ~Barbara Kingsolver

3. All writing is difficult. The most you can hope for is a day when it goes reasonably easily. Plumbers don’t get plumber’s block, and doctors don’t get doctor’s block; why should writers be the only profession that gives a special name to the difficulty of working, and then expects sympathy for it? ~Philip Pullman

4. I’ve often said that there’s no such thing as writer’s block; the problem is idea block. When I find myself frozen–whether I’m working on a brief passage in a novel or brainstorming about an entire book–it’s usually because I’m trying to shoehorn an idea into the passage or story where it has no place. ~Jeffery Deaver

5. You can’t think yourself out of a writing block; you have to write yourself out of a thinking block. ~John Rogers

6. There’s no such thing as writer’s block. That was invented by people in California who couldn’t write. ~Terry Pratchett

7. I haven’t had trouble with writer’s block. I think it’s because my process involves writing very badly. My first drafts are filled with lurching, clichéd writing, outright flailing around. Writing that doesn’t have a good voice or any voice. But then there will be good moments. It seems writer’s block is often a dislike of writing badly and waiting for writing better to happen. ~Jennifer Egan

8.Writer’s block doesn’t exist…lack of imagination does. ~Cyrese Covelli

9. Writer’s Block is just an excuse by people who don’t write for not writing. ~Giando Sigurani

10. Discipline allows magic. To be a writer is to be the very best of assassins. You do not sit down and write every day to force the Muse to show up. You get into the habit of writing every day so that when she shows up, you have the maximum chance of catching her, bashing her on the head, and squeezing every last drop out of that bitch. ~Lili St. Crow

"My life is really evil, like There are people who are starving in the world, and I drive an..."

Wed, 08 Aug 2012 21:06:39 -0400

“My life is really evil, like There are people who are starving in the world, and I drive an Infiniti. That’s really evil. There are people who would just starve to death. That’s all they ever did. There’s people who are like born, and they go, “Oh, I’m hungry,” and then they just die. And that’s all they ever got to do. And meanwhile, I’m in my car, like having a great time and I sleep like a baby. It’s totally my fault, ‘cause I could trade my Infiniti for like a really good car, like a nice Ford Focus with no miles on it,and I’d get back like $20,000. And I could save hundreds of people from dying of starvation with that money, and every day I don’t do it. Every day I make them die with my car.’”

- Louis C.K.
S01E02 (via louiequotes)

I really love Köln (Taken with Instagram at Früh am Dom)

Mon, 23 Jul 2012 12:53:03 -0400

I really love Köln (Taken with Instagram at Früh am Dom)

"Creativity is, in a nutshell, a bit crazy - and most crazy people are too disorganized to do much...."

Sun, 24 Jun 2012 17:56:18 -0400

“Creativity is, in a nutshell, a bit crazy - and most crazy people are too disorganized to do much. But geniuses require to be a bit crazy, yet also do prolonged focused work - and this is a reason why there are so few of them.

So - high intelligence is very rare (and some societies have too low an average intelligence to generate more than a tiny proportion of very intelligent people).

Within this tiny group of highly intelligent people, on top of all this, to get the coincidence of a creative way of thinking with a sufficiently persevering personality type is very rare.

And among this small percentage of a small percentage, there are the workings of sheer luck, there is the higher than normal risk of (self) sabotage by mental illness and addiction, there are the problems of a higher than usual probability of an abrasive or antisocial personality - and (as Murray identifies) the likelihood that for a person to aim very high requires a belief in transcendental values (the beautiful, the truth, virtue) - and that some societies (such as our own) lack this belief.

Put all these together and it is clear why in all societies genius is rare; and why genius is completely absent from most societies.”

- - Bruce Charlton, Why Genius Is So Rare

(h/t wildcat2030)