"Ask a wage slave what he'd like to accomplish. Chances are the response will be something like "I'd start every day at the gym and work out for two hours until I was as buff as Brad Pitt. [...]"
Why hasn't he accomplished all of those things? "Because I'm chained to this desk 50 hours per week at this horrible [...] job."
So he has no doubt that he would get all these things done if he didn't have to work? "Absolutely none. If I didn't have the job, I would be out there living the dream."
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Retirement forces you to stop thinking that it is your job that holds you back. For most people the depressing truth is that they aren't that organized, disciplined, or motivated." - Alex
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"We look at outrageously talented and successful people - the Beatles, Mozart, Rockefeller, Bill Gates - and assume there is such a thing as pure genius. Not necessarily, argues Malcolm Gladwell..." - Alex
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"Many years ago, some of my friends used to do the rubber-sword live action RP - dressing up as orcs and running about in the woods hitting each, that sort of thing.
One Sunday a group of four or five were driving back in a van from an event where they had been playing Knights Templar when, driving past a bus stop, they happened to see some bloke pushing a girl about.
I often wonder what went through the minds of the bloke and girl as a battered transit van pulled up next to them and a gang of knights in shining armour piled out. They restrained the bloke, hailed a cab and paid for it to take the girl home, and then gave the man a short homily: "Remember, son, hitting women is wrong - and we're watching", before leaping back into the van and screeching away." - Alex
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"COLOURlovers™ is a resource that monitors and influences color trends. COLOURlovers gives the people who use color - whether for ad campaigns, product design, or in architectural specification - a place to check out a world of color, compare color palettes, submit news and comments, and read color related articles and interviews." - Alex
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"Memoize is a replacement for make. It is designed to be simple and easy to use. Above all, it allows you to write build scripts in normal languages like Python or the shell rather than forcing you to rely on make's hopelessly recondite makefile language." - Alex
ooh, I've dreamed about writing this forever. I really like the idea of including "BUILD.py" with some software, which just executes the set of commands to compile it, using memoize if it happens to be available. I think that would be way better than automake and its awful friends for software source distribution. If there's platform sensing to be done, it could just be done on the fly (and memoize-d). - ⓞnor
I just tried this on a small personal project. Seems to work, and so so so much simpler. - ⓞnor
I love that it uses strace to determine the input files used by a command, rather than making you maintain dependency lists yourself. - seth
Yeah, that's the key thing. It's nice to not even have to begin to think about header files and junk like that. You can also be redundant in your build script: for each program, compile all source files that should go into that program, and link them all together. If some source files are part of multiple programs, it will just skip compiling them after the first time. - ⓞnor
"I am a programmer for a large security company. My new girlfriend is really hot, and very open-minded in the bedroom, if you know what I mean. She’s been having money problems, and has dropped hints that maybe I know a way of making lots of money quickly. I do know a loophole in a bank’s wire-transfer security that I could exploit, but we’d have to take enough to leave the country for good. The thought of us living rich in a tropical paradise is very tempting, believe me! What should I do?" - Alex
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"Epic Games is a privately owned company and does not disclose its earnings. But on a Monday morning in late April, while standing in Epic’s parking lot, at Crossroads Corporate Park, in Cary, North Carolina, awaiting the arrival of Cliff Bleszinski, the company’s thirty-three-year-old design director, I realized that my surroundings were their own sort of Nasdaq. Ten feet away was a red Hummer H3. Nearby was a Lotus Elise, and next to it a pumpkin-orange Porsche. Many of the cars had personalized plates: “PS3CODER” (a reference to Sony’s PlayStation3), “EPICBOY,” “GRSOFWAR.”" - Alex
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""Karoshi" is a Japanese word and means "death by overwork". In this game many things are not what you'd expect and the goal of each level is counter-intuitive: you need to die.
Each stage presents a new challenge. There are several objects you can use to solve puzzles, and in later levels the game will even break it's own rules to surprise you." - Alex
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