March 2012
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“An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is...”
– David Deutsche (via nathanielstuart)
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“If you stand
there long enough the air will thicken
with dusk and...”
– Philip Levine, from “How to Get There” (via proustitute)
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February 2012
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“No one I know has any specific memories. Just a vague, vestigial knowledge of a...”
– Warm Bodies|Isaac Marion (via youngadultbookquotes)
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Isomorphismes: Where do theories come from? →
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_ignorance
http://philosophy.lander.edu/logic/ignorance.html
http://www.csun.edu/~dgw61315/fallacies.html
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Sharing Poetry: Robert Frost, "Stopping By Woods... →
sharingpoetry:
Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year. He gives…
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“A blank sheet of paper is God’s way of saying it’s not so easy to be God.”
– Absent Things as if They Are Present (via nevver)
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“Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into...”
– Clifton Fadiman, The New Lifetime Reading Plan (via excessivebookshelf)
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“Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others’ faults....”
– Rumi (via fuckyeahrumi)
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“Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The...”
– Paul Brunton (via thesearepeopleyouknow)
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“Silence is a fence around wisdom.”
– German Proverb (via thesearepeopleyouknow)
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“This is a subtle truth:
whatever you love. you are.”
– Rumi (via fuckyeahrumi)
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Async Req. - How do I serve the client
https://github.com/LearnBoost/Socket.IO/wiki/How-do-I-serve-the-client
http://www.ape-project.org/
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How to implement schema changes in a NOSQL storage... →
http://simol.codeplex.com/
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“Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one...”
– Claude Monet (via creatingaquietmind)
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“Writing is gratitude. It is like writing a thank you note to the world.”
– Pam Houston read the full interview at full-stop.net (via wwnorton)
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“You’re very naive and fragile because you act as if you don’t believe in...”
– (via nickmiller)
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“I didn’t know what hate felt like, not the hate that comes after love. It’s huge...”
– Jeanette Winterson (via creatingaquietmind)
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Rising →
fuckyeahterminals:
This is why Lisp is better, compare.
CLISP:
(setq tuples ())
(do ((n (read *standard-input* nil) (read *standard-input* nil))
(k (read *standard-input* nil) (read *standard-input* nil))) ((null n))
(setq tuples (append tuples (cons (list n k) nil)))) ...
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Paul Graham's LISP Code →
fuckyeahterminals:
Love reading different people write LISP, since the language really tailors to the person everybody has significantly different LISP code - it’s a window into the mind of another person.
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“Krogstad: The law cares nothing about motives.
Nora: Then it is a very bad law.”
– A Doll’s House, Henrik Ibsen (@monmonomnom)
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“Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow.”
– Arthur Stringer (via creatingaquietmind)
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“And in the end, of course, a true war story is never about war. It’s about...”
– How to Tell a True War Story by Tim O’Brien (via saragladwin)
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“For most of life, nothing wonderful happens. If you don’t enjoy getting up and...”
– Andy Rooney (via creatingaquietmind)
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“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” —Lao Tsu
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“Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none.”
– Lois Lowry, Gathering Blue (via feuduciel)
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“I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I...”
– Franz Kafka (via skeletalroses)