March 2010
9 posts
“The dump is the best place on the planet. Saturday AM and you want to get away,...”
– TheGreatWhiteNorth, in a reddit comment on web programmer vs “real programmer”.
A fucking gem.
“YES BUT YES BUT YES BUT, YOU SAY: WHAT ABOUT THE NECESSITY OF WRITING IN ALL...”
– David Mamet, from David Mamet’s Memo to the Writers of The Unit.
Movieline calls this “Mamet’s Master Class” on script-writing. It’s also a bit of good advice about managing your managers.
And also, it’s damn funny.
Well, Apps Kind of Are the "Internet," Actually
Tim Bray said:
The iPhone vision of the mobile Internet’s future omits controversy, sex, and freedom, but includes strict limits on who can know what and who can say what. It’s a sterile Disney-fied walled garden surrounded by sharp-toothed lawyers. The people who create the apps serve at the landlord’s pleasure and fear his anger.
And John Gruber responded:
This is, indeed, the core...
“Will the autopsy scar be the only thing that was ever “cool” about...”
– Achewood on the Game of Maturation, among his other enlightenments.
Why the fuck am I so down?
After all, I have earned 1,342 link karma and 13,294 comment karma on reddit.
“As my platoon guide once said: “Be happy, if not for this shit we would just be...”
– alaska miller on how The Hurt Locker is the movie that explains it (the military, the wars we’ve been waging since 2001, etc. etc.) for this generation. Which I would consider reblogging if tumblr would get its head out of its ass and do the right thing but no.
