This premise resulted in way too many ideas to post to twitter:↵http://www.synkretie.net/writings/world%20building%20-%20flat%20earth.html↵I think I shall do this for more ideas from now on.

Coding while suffering a hangover is a bad idea

By some fluke of fate, I must’ve ended up being the one free instance. Or maybe their idea of torture is just very subtle.

Idea: Find a heisenbug via binary search. Insert debug instrumentation across only half the output, run, repeat. May be multicausal though.

Finding the right community is a journey: How do two people find out to lack the same idea if they cannot articulate it or even think it?

Those affected became unable to think certain thoughts: if they so much as resembled the killed idea, they fizzled.

All we knew was that the virus acted very specifically: it took out an idea, excised it from the mind, and left a taboo in its stead.

Humans dance their bodies around things to infuse them with meaning, e.g. a sacrificial fire↵They do the same dance with words, around ideas

song idea: Little Fluffy Clouds, but set in Hell↵nothing remains but the rhythm, and souls scratch feebly on the inner surface of the sound

Presidential Elections 2016
Back in 2011 was the last time I wrote about Presidential Elections (2012). I can’t believe we are about to get into them again. In 2012 I knew exactly who to vote for, but in 2016, with the selection we have thus far, I really have no idea about who is the most viable—if there is one. Certainly not [this one](http://ballotpedia.org/Donald_Trump_presid … ⌘ Read more

From an old ideas file I found: If I ever establish my own micronation, declare a fractal exclusive fishing zone.

Idea: Twitter wall + text2speech + autotune

Nice Idea but I don’t believe this belongs to the database. https://t.co/Uy1wiVBNNz

Comment on Mir Performance with Unity 8 Shown Off in New Video by FFaael
In reply to Andrei Zisu.

No you can not skip qml if you plan to use qtquick. Without qtquick you don’t get the nice animations etc. Yes you can write the business logic in some other language, but it is also possible to write it in JS instead. Especially with small simple apps is probably a good idea using … ⌘ Read more

Comment on Ubuntu 13.10 Default Wallpaper Revealed by Tobias Müller
In reply to John Porter.

I don’t know about that, I guess the combination of it both is Quite a good idea… Cause you can easily see that 13.10 is newer than13.04, you can’t see that from raring ringtail and saucy salamander… Unless you know its alphabeticaly. And in non english speaking countrys … ⌘ Read more

Nix logo

Image

Long overdue, the Nix project finally has a logo!
The logo was originally created by Simon Frankau for the Haskell\
 logo competition, who kindly gave us permission to use it
for the Nix project. (The snowflake motif is even more
appropriate for Nix, because nix is Latin for
snow.) Any further modifications are entirely our
fault. ⌘ Read more

Programmers != Antisocials
BBC NEWS: Business: Bill Gates: The skills you need to succeed

A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code.

This isn’t true at all.

Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk with cu … ⌘ Read more

What a load of crock!
If it weren’t enough that you have to go through airport hell every time you must take an airplane, some people is trying to cash in, and they are using terrorism to their advantage. Enter Clear card.

From their CEO (read while playing patriotic music on the background, waving an American flag) :

“I started Verified Identity Pass with a simple idea: In the post 9-11 era we have to take new measures to protect ourselves yet not destroy our way of life by strangling the free f … ⌘ Read more

HotOS paper on NixOS
Eelco Dolstra presented the paper Purely\
Functional System\
Configuration Management at the 11th Workshop on\
Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS XI). It gives an
overview of the ideas behind NixOS. The
slides
are also available. ⌘ Read more

I shall not censure
From today on, I shall not censure on this weblog. Any comment left (no spam comments, of course. Who needs those?) will be shown uncensored. I will only mask foul words (just because of my ICRA rating, safe for children), and correct capitalization as needed, but nothing else. I don’t remember ever censuring –I don’t write enough, really. But now I have taken that idea, if ever was, away from my mind. ⌘ Read more

Got a Mac, once again
My first knowledge about Mac’s came sorrounded by a mist of legend, legend that has lived until today: Mac’s are wonderful, powerful, friendly machines, that boot with a graphic interface and which mouse has only one big button. Ok, that was what I thought 15 years ago or so, but you get the idea.

Eight months ago I bought a dual 1.42 Ghz PowerMac G4, with 2GB RAM, 128 VRAM, 120GB HD, SuperDrive, Bluetooth… beautiful machine. Then wife lost her job and some of my most valuable po … ⌘ Read more

It is over now, or it isn’t
Well, I got my car back today and it seems to be functioning all right. After this experience the only conclusion I can draw is: definitely, “Holler Mitsubishi” service completely sucks, their Service Manager does not have a slight idea on what customer service is, their mechanics — or, at least, one of them — do not know what the heck they are doing… to sum it up: do not take your car there. Trust me. I will wait one or two days, to make sure the car is fine and then I … ⌘ Read more