language
The ancient languages are the scabbard which holds the mind's sword.
brevity
I have made this a long letter because I haven't the time to make it shorter.
diet
David Lee Roth's Diet:
On the road you have to avoid good foods at all costs. It's totally unavailable. What I do is eat a lot of greasy burgers and wash them down with anything with lots of sugar. Somebody took me to a health-food restaurant, and I got a big salad. I passed out halfway through. It took three chili dogs and a Snickers bar to revive me.
Growth and Economics
Submitted by robin on Thu, 2009-06-04 08:03.Our free-market economic model assumes constant growth, and our companies are happy to incorporate that model as a basic assumption. Almost every manager in a commercial enterprise is expected to grow revenues and profits.
language
History teaches us that a language may grow from obscure beginnings, reach an apex of strength, grace, and utility, and then suffer a long and sad process of decay. It happened to Hebrew, it happened to Greek, it happened to Latin; and it may happen to English.
3D and Parallel Programming
Submitted by robin on Tue, 2009-06-02 07:55.Where 3D programmers talk in terms of shaders, textures and fragments; specialists in parallel programming talk about streams, kernels, scatter, and gather:
* a stream – that is, a flow of elements of the same type – can be represented on the GPU by a texture. To give you an idea of this, consider that the equivalent in classic programming languages is simply an array.
understanding
Understanding what some one says to you is . . . attributing to him the idea which his words arouse in yourself.
language
Roughly and ordinarily and plainly speaking, you hear American doctors and lawyers and schoolmasters talking in such a way that it is very clear that they have no real understanding of their own language and its good or bad form. I'm not referring to the deliberate use of slang and colloquialisms; I'm referring to the pathetic attempts of such people to speak with unwonted correctness and horribly failing.
The Fringe
- Buy Two Books, Get the Third Free!
- New! O'Reilly Photography Learning Center
- O'Reilly Authors Get Jolted
- The Largest MySQL Gathering on Earth
- Free 14-Day Safari Trial
- Need I.T. Career Advice? Ask Trish.
- Larry The Cow Graphics Contest
- Interview with David Gallo and Cassius Adams from SevenL Networks, a sponsor of Gentoo for 6 years running.
- Gentoo at FrOSCon 5
- 2010 Gentoo Screenshot Contest Results
- Gentoo at LinuxTag 2010 in Berlin
- Gentoo Screenshot Contest 2010
- Gentoo White Nights in St. Petersburg/Russia
- Help Wanted: The Gentoo Foundation
- Interview with Andrzej Wasylkowski from the checkmycode project.
