“This removal of the baggage that comes along with trying to win the approval of others frees up a tremendous amount of time and energy to focus in the direction of being who you truly are, not who someone else wants you to be.”
“That, in fact, is the problem with using polling in any form to synthesize a different form of asynchronous I/O. Every CPU cycle that is a poll is wasted, and lost to overhead rather than accomplishing a desired task. Every CPU cycle that is not a poll represents an increase in latency of reaction to pending I/O. Striking an acceptable balance between these two opposing forces is difficult.”Asynchronous I/O - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“The judge who sentenced four men to jail for their involvement with The Pirate Bay is also a member of the same copyright protection organisations as a number of the main entertainment industry representatives in the case”Pirate Bay judge ‘biased’: experts - The Local
You’re looking at the proud new owner of this domain hack
Solid thoughts, as usual, from Andrew Kortina.
Skype has one of the most beautiful, friendly aesthetics of any brand I can think of. I peruse their brand book once every few months as a source of inspiration. If you’re into design / branding / marketing at all, I highly *highly* recommend checking this out.
Download the Skype Brand Book: http://bit.ly/skypeBrandBook
Photo above from the page, “How are clouds made?” Awesome.
New reading
Our new player is sexy. Like Uncle Scrooge.New Involver Player FTW
Radiohead The National Anthem Live (perfect audio) (via fabiocchi)
If you have never seen this song performed live before, do yourself a favor and watch this video. Instruments include: Guitar, Bass, Drums, Digital Synth, Saxophone, Trombone and local french television broadcast.
“The NVIDIA® Tesla™ S1070 Computing System (Dual PCI Express 2.0 cable connections) is a four-teraflop 1U system powered by the world’s first one-teraflop processor.”NVIDIA Tesla C1070 1U Computing System - Scalable Many Core Supercomputing for Data Centers
“Arts & Crafts is proud to announce on behalf of House of Anansi Press, details of the forthcoming book titled This Book Is Broken a biography, documenting the incredible story of the ever-evolving indie-rock collective that is Toronto’s Broken Social Scene.”
“Third, discover where your intellectual arrogance is causing disabling ignorance and overcome it. Far too many people — especially people with great expertise in one area — are contemptuous of knowledge in other areas or believe that being bright is a substititue for knowledge. First-rate engineers, for instance, tend to take pride in not knowing anything about people. Human beings, they believe, are much too disorderly for the good engineering mind. Human resources professionals, by contrast, often pride themselves on their ignorance of elementary accounting or of quantitiative methods altogether. But taking pride in such ignorance is self-deating. Go to work on acquiring the skills and knowledge you need to fully realize your strengths.”
Peter F. Drucker (via jakelodwick)
This is something i’ve been thinking a lot about lately.
