Best thing I’ve read in a while…
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Random thoughts, frustrations, ideas and opinions. Quality not guaranteed, consume only under adult supervision
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Laying down the regulation
The best way to regulate is to line the banks up occasionally and shoot one of them.
“One former regulator” quoted in One regulator to rule them all [economist.com] in The Economist
A bit Wild West but I’m sure it will go down well with the voters.
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All those benefits!
A computer is a clock with benefits.
Paul Ford, in What is Code [bloomberg.com] on Bloomberg
Many, many benefits.
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Editor Wars
Good romp down my programming past: The Oldest Rivalry in Computing [slate.com]
I started life as a Emacs user — based almost entirely on the fact that I loved and studied AI and Emacs’ use of LISP made it the natural choice as soon as i was aware of its existence. Later the realworld of SSH connections and computer hopping made use of vi a more convinient skill. So in the end, I’m an atheist. Emacs vs. vi is like Relativity vs. Quantum Mechanics – so far they are incompatible but you need both for a working universe.
“There is no cloud, just other people’s computers.”
I don’t know who said it, but it’s brilliant. I found it in this image on Coding Horror [codinghorror.com]:
It’s a good way to remember where you are storing things when you store them in the cloud. You stored them in other people’s computers.
Are you down with OPC?