November 2009
16 posts
“Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.”
– Peter Drucker (via Josh Kaufman » Blog Archive » On Efficiency)
“I typed up a huge bit here about how to build the 7805-based voltage regulator...”
– How can I learn some basic electronics? | Ask Metafilter
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Cormac McCarthy Interview
WSJ: How does that ticking clock affect your work? Does it make you want to write more shorter pieces, or to cap things with a large, all-encompassing work?
CM: I’m not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
Cormac McCarthy on The Road - WSJ.com
“An eclectic essayist is necessarily a dilettante, which is not in itself a bad...”
– Book Review - ‘What the Dog Saw - And Other Adventures,’ by Malcolm Gladwell - Review - NYTimes.com
The Zen of Python
PEP 20 — The Zen of Python
Beautiful is better than ugly. Explicit is better than implicit. Simple is better than complex. Complex is better than complicated. Flat is better than nested. Sparse is better than dense. Readability counts. Special cases aren’t special enough to break the rules. Although practicality beats purity. Errors should never pass silently. Unless...
Damn, that's nerdy
A few years later, I connected with a woman through the Python community; soon we married (with “The Zen of Python” among our marriage-readings), we started our honeymoon with a red-eye flight to OSCON (I was presenting, she was co-organizing and chairing sessions), we wrote books together… today, our car’s license plate reads “P♥THON”.
—Alex Martelli
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“The Session has pretty good Google juice. The markup is pretty lean, the content...”
– Adactio: Journal—Perfect Pitch
“Think of it like this. What if I told you that each time you wanted to save a...”
– Rands In Repose: The Foamy Rules for Rabid Tools
“From the beginning of the 1992-1993 season, NC State is the only full-time BCS...”
– The Unholy Trilogy and Other Groups of Distinction | StateFans Nation
