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ranting

Wait. Festering what?

"It's not often an article makes me want to rip out my eyeballs, shove them in a nearby festering scrotum, tie them up and slap them repeatedly at my laptop screen..."

  
Best thing I’ve read in a while…

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ranting

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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ranting

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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quotes

Its A Roller Coaster.

Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride. 

Anthony Bourdain, quoted in 23 Brilliant Life Lessons from Anthony Bourdain [airows.com]
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ranting

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.