September 2011
30 posts
WatchBjörk: Moon
TextMate Tip: When I run «some command» I get:... →
From the TextMate FAQ:
This is because Ruby couldn’t be found. Likely because you have removed ruby from /usr/bin/ruby (to install latest version e.g. in/opt/local/bin).
So first figure out where ruby is on your system, in a new TextMate document type the following line and press ⌃R to execute it as a shell command:
type -p ruby
Then to figure out which (global) PATH is setup (for...
“A shadowed figure enters his office, sets down his briefcase, and the room...”
– Mad Men opening title sequence | Art of the Title (via urbanronin)
JavaScript Garden →
“JavaScript Garden is a growing collection of documentation about the most quirky parts of the JavaScript programming language. It gives advice to avoid common mistakes, subtle bugs, as well as performance issues and bad practices that non-expert JavaScript programmers may encounter on their endeavours into the depths of the language.”
Great info and cool responsive design.
Gamers solve molecular puzzle that baffled... →
Alan Boyle, Cosmic Log
For more than a decade, an international team of scientists has been trying to figure out the detailed molecular structure of a protein-cutting enzyme from an AIDS-like virus found in rhesus monkeys. Such enzymes, known asretroviral proteases, play a key role in the virus’ spread — and if medical researchers can figure out their structure, they could conceivably...
Steve Jobs and the Eureka Myth →
Adrian Slywotzky, Harvard Business Review
“We are all mesmerized by Apple’s beautiful design, from device to screen, to the packaging itself. We see what the magicians want us to see. What we don’t see is the 18 months of negotiating with the music companies. Nor the three years of teaching the supply chain that the Macbook Air had to be really thin, really light, and really...
WatchRadiohead - Live From the Basement 2011
Developer Lorem Ipsum →
Assorted immutable debugged under selected polymorphism. Compiled change management interpreted instead of the TDD. One contra variance interpreted from exclusive source control. The agile time boxed about elected YAML. A iteration rebased with assorted intermediary language. Exclusive contra variance compiled below some intermediary language.
Specific DSL interpreted instead of assorted stack...
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“In Holland, we have two words for design. One is vormgeving; in German...”
– Gert Dumbar (via banquethall via Frank Chimero)
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“Because attention determines what will or will not appear in consciousness, and...”
– Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s Flow, emphasis mine.
See also: Just don’t look.
(via jedsundwall)
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“You don’t think about Physical Graffiti or Houses of the Holy in those abstract,...”
– Klosterman on Zeppelin (via jedsundwall)
