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.
—Danny Hillis, on Richard Feynman’s analysis of the Connection Machine architecture
↪ 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)
↪ Oct 22, 2009#quote#idea32 notes
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)
↪ Sep 1, 2009#quote
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
—Bill Vaughan (via hunsonisgroovy)
↪ Aug 3, 2009#quote21 notes
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
↪ Jul 15, 2009#quote
LISP remains an influential language in ‘key algorithmic techniques such as recursion and condescension.’
↪ Jun 6, 2009#quote#programming
