April 3rd, 2013
March 8th, 2013
February 27th, 2013
Haiku Error Messages
“Imagine if instead of cryptic, geeky text strings, your computer produced error messages in Haiku…”
February 23rd, 2013
February 21st, 2013
Steve Wozniak on emerging technologies: Natural language recognition, self-driving cars, and conscious computers
February 19th, 2013
Is programming a creative pursuit?
I’d make the argument that a programmer produces a work of art in the same way that a novelist or a poet does. Understanding that art requires the use of some more mental faculties — understanding symbols, structures, mathematics, semantics and their inter-relation. The process is perhaps harder than looking at a painting. But the payoff to the observer is no less than listening to, and appreciating a piece of music.
(Source: lab241)
February 9th, 2013
January 5th, 2013
AND WE CAN DO THIS FROM ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD.
Let’s get this out of the way: Being a programmer is one of the most singularly satifying careers in the world. We get to wake up every morning and create things, solve interesting problems, and, if we’re doing our jobs well, make people happy. AND WE CAN DO THIS FROM ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. This means that we get to shape our lives and careers in ways that are impossible in many professions. If that doesn’t make you smile, please see your doctor (who, by the way, doesn’t get to have as much fun on his job as you do).
Why go abroad? I can just as easily “earn abroad” while living here. You see, I’m a programmer. Physical location is important in other fields, but not mine: I trade in ones and zeroes that can be instantaneously transported from wherever I am to anywhere in the world.
All I need is a company good enough to understand this, and a portfolio good enough to convince them to hire me.
(via lab241)December 30th, 2012
What every computer science major should know
Checklist for the new year?
December 27th, 2012
(Source: bridotaku, via ilovereadingandwriting)
Lovely lettering by illustrator Emily McDowel, reminiscent of the Live Now project.
December 22nd, 2012
He just was smart, curious, and had access to the internet.
Chris Anderson on Jordi Muñoz, with whom he started 3D Robotics, makers of personal flying drones. Jordi was 19 years old. (via lab241)
December 20th, 2012
December 14th, 2012
In order to advance the state of the art, we have to be willing not only to try new ideas, but to retreat when those ideas prove untenable or when something better comes along.
