"When I was on Plan 9, everything was connected and uniform. Now everything isn’t connected, just connected to the cloud, which isn’t the same thing. And uniform? Far from it, except in mediocrity. This is 2012 and we’re still stitching together little microcomputers with HTTPS and ssh and calling it revolutionary."

The Setup / Rob Pike

(Source: youtube.com)

"Io is worth learning just to see what a clean prototype-based language feels like. It’ll probably improve your understanding of Javascript."

hassy @ Hacker News

"One of my favorite examples, and one that I shared in my presentation, is that of clustering. Namely, to perform a clustering, we need to define a function to measure the “pairwise distance” between all pairs of objects. Can you think of a generic way to do so? How about using your favorite Zlib library?"

Intuition & Data-Driven Machine Learning - igvita.com

"Grok how the “class” pattern is just a special case of disciplined prototype re-use. Realize that prototypal inheritance makes a lot of those patterns trivial, and it’s a bit silly to spend so much time on them."

Evolution of a Prototypal Language User

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via @carllerche

"Cucumber is simultaneously the most interesting and most useless thing I’ve seen from the Ruby community in a while. The idea that you can, and should, write tests in plain English is ridiculous at the outset and from there it devolves into a series of perversions simply to express what you’re trying to get done."

Reddit thread on Cucumber

Nick Lowe - “Rome Wasn’t Built In A Day” @ NPR Tiny Desk Concert.

"three.sentenc.es is a personal policy that all email responses regardless of recipient or subject will be three sentences or less. It’s that simple."

Sentenc.es - A Disciplined Way To Deal With Email

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Heathers starring Winona Ryder and Christian Slater. Essential teen movie.