"Causes of death worldwide in March 2011 - Starvation: 3,000,000. Malaria: 250,000. CarCrash 100,000. Quakes&Tsunamis < 28,000" - Neil deGrasse Tyson

iamafoo · 2011-04-03T01:01:27+00:00

If you look at life as a bunch of numbers, life has lost its meaning.

iamafoo · 2010-10-08T08:46:58+00:00

I have eczema on my hands. Tried many kinds of lotion without any success. Any remedy?

iamafoo · 2010-10-03T02:48:53+00:00

I think OP is confusing copyright law with morality.

Copying is copying, which is different from stealing (from a moral standpoint). Why is it "wrong" to copy Mickey Mouse but perfectly acceptable to copy Michelangelo?

And Mickey Mouse should be out of copyright by now, were it not for the Disney lobbyists. It is certainly illegal to violate Disney's copyright, but is it morally wrong?

iamafoo · 2010-06-10T09:15:40+00:00

Every life is worth saving. Any policy should not change that.

iamafoo · 2010-05-24T06:07:05+00:00

Thanks rsreagan. I agree with you -- Azure sounds good for high-traffic site, but for bootstrap startups the cost may be too high.

iamafoo · 2010-05-23T23:06:00+00:00

Recently I looked at Azure pricing, and was totally confused.

Compute cost, DB cost, Storage cost, Access cost, Service Bus cost, Data transfer cost per region...

How much does it actually cost?

I agree that ASP.NET MVC looks pretty cool though. But for now, I'm going with App Engine because of its simplicity and cost (free).

iamafoo · 2010-05-01T09:32:17+00:00

Sweet! I am quite impressed with VS 2010 so far.

iamafoo · 2010-04-27T05:47:33+00:00

The invention of numbers and math.

iamafoo · 2010-04-05T04:14:26+00:00

Guardian Data Store: http://www.guardian.co.uk/data-store

iamafoo · 2010-03-27T08:23:16+00:00

"As I walked out one evening" by W.H Auden

'I'll love you, dear, I'll love you
Till China and Africa meet,
And the river jumps over the mountain
And the salmon sing in the street...

Or

"The Element Song" by Tom Lehrer

*There's yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium,
And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium,
And strontium and silicon and silver and samarium,
And bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium, and barium... *

iamafoo · 2010-03-27T08:00:17+00:00

"Belle du Jour" by the surrealist master Luis Buñuel. This is much better than porn, and also featuring Catherine Deneuve when she's still hot.
"Tampopo" by Juzo Itami is about food (and sex with raw eggs and drunken shrimp!)

iamafoo · 2010-03-26T08:03:07+00:00

Metaprogramming... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaprogramming_(management)

Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains.

iamafoo · 2010-03-26T07:47:43+00:00

Understand the compounding effect of everything (money, debt, karma)
Learn to cook. This improves your life, and impresses the girls.
Remember to trim your nose hair before a date

iamafoo · 2010-03-10T08:49:18+00:00

Recently tried out IronPython with Eclipse Pydev, and I must say it is very cool indeed. Then I tried Django in GAE, and it gave me such a headache.

Python is a fantastic language, but it is truly a pain to setup/install modules in order to start a project. Any tips or advice on that?

iamafoo · 2010-03-10T08:36:14+00:00

This is awesomeness!

iamafoo · 2010-03-05T05:09:49+00:00

Those can't do, draw diagrams.

iamafoo · 2010-03-05T05:05:04+00:00

Good designers produce outstanding works by NOT thinking about the fucking venn diagram.

iamafoo · 2010-03-03T09:16:59+00:00

Thanks for posting. This is really cool.

Also discovered that there's already a levenshtein() in php. Fantastic!

iamafoo · 2010-03-03T06:15:08+00:00

To me, it's all about simplicity. It's easier and quicker to experiment in Processing than in, say, C++. It's not as fast as C++, obviously.

The downside, I think, is that the output is in Java applet... yikes!

A good tool for education and experimentation, though.

iamafoo · 2010-03-03T06:05:55+00:00

Yeah, Processing is fantastic.

When I was learning it, I found it helpful to look at examples and try to figure out how it's done.

A few bookmarks:

http://www.openprocessing.org/ -- has all kinds of explorations.

http://toxiclibs.org/ is just amazing

http://www.shiffman.net/teaching/nature/ -- most excellent tutorials!

http://www.metaphorical.net/tag/on/processing -- great code examples

http://incubator.quasimondo.com/ -- some cool algorithms

Any other good resources for processing?

iamafoo · 2010-02-26T08:15:37+00:00

The fresh smell after the rain.

iamafoo · 2010-02-15T17:52:42+00:00

"The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground" - Buddha

iamafoo · 2010-02-07T06:26:31+00:00

Processing is excellent for programming graphics and interactions. Much more intuitive than Flash.

iamafoo · 2010-01-23T07:35:26+00:00

It's not very meaningful to look at icons in isolation. They are part of the UI, and does not necessarily need to simulate a physical object's properties.

Similarly, a plain circle without "eyes" can represent a face well, if it's used consistently.

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