If you don't hate your code from six months ago, you haven't learned enough in the previous six months.

This might be the most brain-melting thing I've ever seen in Ruby: http://mamememo.blogspot.com/2010/09/qlobe.html #rubyisthenewperl

@hagus Your mom's so fat she doesn't support files larger than 4 GB.

“You have a performance problem, so you introduce a cache. Now you have a correctness problem and a performance problem.” – @psu_13

Depression isn't always agony or despair. Often it's just a quiet thought distortion that subtly convinces you your problems are unfixable.

I am printing this checklist out to serve as an easy reference for the introduction of any new programming languages: http://t.co/1ZLyKPFb

This is beautiful: the mayor of Boston tells Chick-fil-A, in so many words, to fuck off: http://t.co/t6pAZmfc /via @lettersofnote

Haskell (and Erlang) just got mentioned in the Economist. Yesssss. http://www.economist.com/node/18750706?story_id=18750706

Cynicism is the ultimate admission of defeat. It is existential Stockholm syndrome.

This, ladies and gents, is how to properly apologize for a moment of thoughtlessness: https://t.co/6LSOeTXF Mad props, @unclebobmartin.

Dammit, SIGGRAPH people, stop being so amazing http://t.co/XI0OSnqc!

Teaching someone a new language/environment is a great way to realize how much brokenness and inconsistency you’ve internalized.

Remember, [[NSNull null] isEqual: nil] is false. But [[NSNull null] isEqual: [NSNull null]] is true. But [nil isEqual:nil] is false.

Haaaahahahahaha:  http://perl8.org 

In which a Haskell-based parser is 5x as fast as egrep and 10x as fast as an equivalent C++ one: http://t.co/dUsV1ZbF

On being a member of the "dumbest generation": http://tumblr.com/xp31kpihh1

This microwave has the worst UI of any appliance I have ever used. It’s like a Blackberry fucked the obelisk from 2001.  http://twitpic.com/bs34pe 

people keep asking me what modern languages to learn. If you know the JVM, pick Clojure or Scala. Otherwise, pick Haskell.

a fun fact about computers is that they don't fucking work ever

If this doesn't make you all misty-eyed and excited about technology and future generations, you can fuck off: http://t.co/wNd3IQz