Sodium Dreams

Sparse updates from Brendan Berg

 
Our discrete analysis said we needed seven buffers per chip; Feynman’s equations suggested that we only needed five. We decided to play it safe and ignore Feynman.

↪ Jan 8, 2011#quote#computer science8 notes

 
 
A man, a plan, a canoe, pasta, heros, rajahs, a coloratura, maps, snipe, percale, macaroni, a gag, a banana bag, a tan, a tag, a banana bag again (or a camel), a crepe, pins, Spam, a rut, a Rolo, cash, a jar, sore hats, a peon, a canal—Panama!
Guy Steele’s version of the extensible Panama palindrome

↪ Dec 1, 2009#quote#linguistics#palindrome3 notes

 
 
You need to specify what you want to search for, 3chars at least
—A php.net search error message. Is 3chars anything like 4chan?

↪ Nov 18, 2009#quote#interfarce

 
 
Viral marketing idea: A truck pulls up and sprays a gravy hose at people waiting for a bus. Later, they remember to buy Keds.
Jordan Morris [The sad thing is that it would work.] (via merlin)
 
 
A Subversion filesystem has its data spread throughout various database tables in a fashion generally understood by only the Subversion developers themselves.
—Thanks, guys. That makes me feel great about my data.

↪ Sep 11, 2009#quote#technology1 note

 
 
It’s humbling that I could be killed by 3.2 kilobytes of genetic data. Then again, with 850 Mbytes of data in my genome, there’s bound to be an exploit or two.
—Andrew Huang, on hacking genomes (via Bruce Schneier)
 
 
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
—Bill Vaughan  (via hunsonisgroovy)
 
 
When anything is made, people will find a way to see their reflection in it. As soon as their reflection appears, they’ll want to fuck it.
—Paul Constant, on narcissism, in his review of twitter using twitter
 
 
LISP remains an influential language in ‘key algorithmic techniques such as recursion and condescension.’

↪ Jun 6, 2009#quote#programming