My new hero is definetly the anonymous Specialist who has written this astounding piece of code. Also from the same person, behold the astounding Quadrasort! He’s writing code like all problems were solvable as a supercharged instance of obfuscated brainfuck. I think he’s beyond mad – so he has to be a genius, right?
A little while ago a weird-looking structure was found in Mars. To me it looks more like the Little Mermaid of Copenhagen.
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I just got back from a holiday (of which more later). Within the mountain of mail was a slip from the post office – the Ren & Stimpy DVD boxes I ordered had arrived! Ren & Stimpy is perhaps the best cartoon you can find: it’s superbly surrealistic, funny as hell and filled with totally crazy plotlines and details. They are not for everyone – you can with Youtube and see if you like them.
Some time ago while playing with Google Earth I found an odd structure, which I suspected might be an impact crater. Since impact craters are not so terribly common, and since I can barely distinguish caldera from caldeirada, I wanted a professional opinion from someone well versed with rocks, i.e. a geologist.
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“Weeks of coding can save you days of planning”. It’s funny, because it’s true – and not only that, it surely applies to other fields as well! A true gem.
Suppose you’re a surgeon, soon to conduct a delicate surgery on a heart patient. You hold tightly to your rusty and trusty chain saw as you climb a rope into an operating room which is located at the open roof of the hospital. It’s windy and there’s a lot of birds, but that’s the way it’s always been, so you are sort of used to it already – why change it?
Or, suppose you’re a painter, soon to paint a house. You grab some blueberries for the colour and a tiny sponge with which you will slowly wipe the house blue. It’s a bit awkward, not to mention terribly slow, and the quality is bad, but that’s the way it’s always been, so why change it? “But that’s absurd! Nobody does things in such a difficult way!”, you say. Well, suppose you’re a software developer…
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