Clippings

Bret Victor – Inventing on Principle (by CUSEC ) Their principles Elizabeth Cady Stanton — “Women should vote” Larry Tesler — “No person should be trapped in a mode” Doug Engelbart — “Enable mankind to solve solve the world’s urgent problems” (a vision of “knowledge workers” using complex powerful information tools to harness our collective intelligence) Alan Kay — “Amplify human reach and bring new ways of thinking into a faltering civilisation that desperately need it”...

(via Hakiri » Was Huxley right? ) I stumbled upon the following cartoon on twitter. I have read " 1984 " [ George Orwell , 1949] but not " Brave New World " [ Aldous Huxley , 1931 ]. Will be visiting the local library soon. In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared taht what we love will ruin us. Further work by Aldous Huxley:...

Se educas o teu cavalo aos gritos, não esperes que te obedeça quando simplesmente lhe falas. — Dagobert D. Runes (via Guillermo Ballenato in Faltam regras na educação das crianças – Expresso.pt )

CSS = California Style Sheets Jenn $chiffer (via A Call For Web Developers To Deprecate Their CSS — Medium )

{width=“400” height=“296”} code-switching\ the phenomenon of alternating between two or more languages during spoken conversation (via The REAL Real Problem with Facebook ∙ An A List Apart Column ) [code

How long can you work on making a routine task more efficient before you’re spending more time than you save? (across 5 years) (via xkcd: Is It Worth the Time? )

The ultimate analytics platform. Send your data to any service with the flick of a switch. (via Segment.io – The ultimate analytics platform ) “It is basically the adapter pattern for analytics services.” (thoughtbot’s playbook )

Being organized is the first and most important part of cooking (…) it’s all about setting yourself up to succeed. Thomas Keller (in his book Ad Hoc at Home )

Code Like a Chef: Work Clean | The Table XI Blog Interesting concept, specially the part gotten from the Ad Hoc at Home cooking book (by Thomas Keller ), which got me to dig out for the full text snippet ( emphasis added): Being organized – as we say in our kitchen, working clean – is a skill to develop. We call it mise-en-place , French for, literally, ‘put in place....

Don’t hate, create. Ben Horowitz (in Can-Do vs. Can’t-Do Culture | Re/code )