praj speaks

"it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered..."

Sun, 17 Nov 2013 03:58:07 -0500

“it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to ‘be happy.’ But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.’”

- Viktor Frankl (via)

Comparing… via http://imgur.com/a/U4TeK

Sat, 29 Jun 2013 01:27:34 -0400

Comparing…

via http://imgur.com/a/U4TeK

The Suffering of an American Drone Operator

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 23:25:31 -0500

“Did we just kill a kid?” he asked the man sitting next to him.

“Yeah, I guess that was a kid,” the pilot replied.

“Was that a kid?” they wrote into a chat window on the monitor.

Then, someone they didn’t know answered, someone sitting in a military command center somewhere in the world who had observed their attack. “No. That was a dog,” the person wrote.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/pain-continues-after-war-for-american-drone-pilot-a-872726.html

"In a restricted sense, functional programming (FP) means programming without mutable variables,..."

Fri, 28 Sep 2012 19:03:55 -0400

“In a restricted sense, functional programming (FP) means programming without mutable variables, assignments, loops, and other imperative control structures.”

- Martin Odersky - Functional Programming Principles in Scala

Don’t waste your time in crappy startup jobs.

Mon, 27 Aug 2012 21:30:00 -0400

Don’t waste your time in crappy startup jobs.

"Eventually, some say, even Texas might move to the Democratic column as more Latinos move in and..."

Sun, 26 Aug 2012 23:08:00 -0400

“Eventually, some say, even Texas might move to the Democratic column as more Latinos move in and vote.”

- The Sun Belt, Eclipsed

marissacattel:

Sun, 26 Aug 2012 12:37:49 -0400

marissacattel:

Top Ten differences between White Terrorists and Others

Tue, 14 Aug 2012 00:15:09 -0400

Top Ten differences between White Terrorists and Others:

Spot on!

TCP Fast Open

Sat, 11 Aug 2012 00:01:09 -0400

TCP Fast Open:

After SPDY, I think TCP Fast Open is another emerging technology (also from Google) that can have significant impact in reducing network latency.

adamgotterer: Chat Roulette never fails to amaze me. I predict...

Fri, 10 Aug 2012 15:12:46 -0400

adamgotterer:

Chat Roulette never fails to amaze me. I predict this will go viral. You saw it bere first (although I stole it from Jess Agi).

(7k views right now. I predict 1M by the end of the weekend.)

How Much Has Citizens United Changed the Political Game?

Sun, 22 Jul 2012 12:19:28 -0400

How Much Has Citizens United Changed the Political Game?:

A good read.

"…but the man who (more than any other single person) cracked the Enigma code and unified..."

Tue, 26 Jun 2012 11:45:44 -0400

“…but the man who (more than any other single person) cracked the Enigma code and unified computer programming with mathematical logic deserves to to be remembered for those things, not for the accident of his sexual preferences or a myth of final martyrdom later forcibly grafted onto his life.”

- Abusing Alan Turing

Bye Bye Delicious && Hello Pinboard.in

Sun, 17 Jun 2012 15:17:17 -0400

Delicious is trying to become Pinterest and nowadays their site seems to be slow and buggy from time to time.

All I want is a link bookmarking service that doesn’t suck and works for me just like Delicious used to work back in days.

And $10 one time fee doesn’t seem to be high if you consider Pinboard’s UI is quite clean and does what a link bookmarking site is supposed to do.

My Pinboard.in Profile

wired: [via sexynerdgirl]: RELEVANT TO MY INTERESTS. BEST....

Thu, 31 May 2012 12:04:36 -0400

wired:

[via sexynerdgirl]:

RELEVANT TO MY INTERESTS.

BEST. EVER. RLY.

Serialization frameworks benchmark based on data payload

Fri, 11 May 2012 16:52:28 -0400

Informative and in-depth shootout talk on serialization formats

Slides

Full Video

{"code": "sailthru"}: Data Science and User Engagement

Fri, 04 May 2012 17:59:37 -0400

{"code": "sailthru"}: Data Science and User Engagement :

sailthrucode:

In both the business and technology sector there is a lot of talk about big data, predictive analytics, data mining, machine learning, behavioral statistics, and data science. Regardless of the terminology, data science can have a significant impact on your business by providing insights and…

guillee: Space shuttle Enterprise, mounted atop a NASA 747...

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:17:31 -0400

guillee:

Space shuttle Enterprise, mounted atop a NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), is seen off in the distance behind the Statue of Liberty, Friday, April 27, 2012, in New York. Enterprise was the first shuttle orbiter built for NASA performing test flights in the atmosphere and was incapable of spaceflight. Originally housed at the Smithsonian’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Enterprise will be demated from the SCA and placed on a barge that will eventually be moved by tugboat up the Hudson River to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in June. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

This is an awesome photo.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to Concurrency

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 21:39:15 -0400

…concurrency refers to the idea of having many actors running independently, but not necessarily all at the same time. Parallelism is having actors running exactly at the same time.

Awesome read even if its mainly focused on Erlang

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/461/take-the-money-and-run-for-office This...

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 17:32:00 -0400

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/461/take-the-money-and-run-for-office

This episode of This American Life is one of the brilliant pieces of investigative journalism I have read / listened in long time. Kudos to them!

Shocking how you have to sell your soul to lobbyists, Super PAC and special interests to survive in Washington DC partly thanks to Supreme Courts’s Citizen United mess.

"It was a little like the Wall Street version of Michael Bay’s nonclassic Con Air, in which the..."

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 21:06:48 -0400

“It was a little like the Wall Street version of Michael Bay’s nonclassic Con Air, in which the world’s creepiest serial killer, most demented terrorist and most depraved redneck are all thrown together on the same plane. In this case, it was the most careless mortgage lender (the spray-tanned huckster Angelo Mozilo from Countrywide, who was named the second-worst CEO of all time by Portfolio magazine), the most dangerous mortgage gambler (Merrill, whose CEO was the self-worshipping jerkwad John Thain, the ex-Goldman banker who bought himself an $87,000 area rug as his company was cratering in 2008) and the most relentless packager of mortgage pools (Bank of America), all put together under one roof and let loose on the world. These guys were so corrupt, they even shocked one another: According to a federal lawsuit, top executives at Countrywide complained privately that Bank of America’s “appetite for risky products was greater than that of Countrywide.””

- Matt TAIBBI Bank of America: Too Crooked to Fail