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Comment on My Morning Jacket by Pages tagged "my morning jacket"

Pages tagged "my morning jacket" — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:41:15 +0000

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Comment on Who is the Buddha that makes the grass green? by John Cowan

John Cowan — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:20:10 +0000

You betcha. Imagine (this example is I think originally Gregory’s though I read about it in a book by Dennett) that you are standing in a room wallpapered by lots of copies of a picture of Marilyn Monroe. If you have normal vision, it *seems* to you that you see all the MM pictures simultaneously, that you *perceive* a tessellation of the walls of the room by MM pictures.

But that cannot be. You can only focus on a small number of them, the ones directly in front of your fovea, at any one time. Your eyes are constantly moving, to be sure, so you are constantly cross-checking that all the MM pictures are actually still there, but if some of them changed into a vaguely similar picture while you weren’t looking at them, there is about a 50% chance that *you wouldn’t notice*.

Comment on New Languages & Compilers by Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water? « Douglas Purdy

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:23:50 +0000

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Comment on FFSync by New Version of FFSync « Douglas Purdy

New Version of FFSync « Douglas Purdy — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 05:26:43 +0000

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Comment on The Decline and Fall of * by Dave Peck

Dave Peck — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 01:38:45 +0000

There is the ancient Jewish story of King Solomon, who once asked his wisest adviser to “bring him something that would devastate him when he was joyous, and that would make him joyous when he was devastated.”

The adviser searched far and wide and, near despair that he would fail his king, met a peasant who spoke three simple Hebrew words. The adviser immediately returned and crafted a ring for Solomon that contained those words…

The ring read “gam zeh yaavor” or “This, too, shall pass.”

I’ve always thought of this phrase as a superset of “memento mori” — it is the most important and humbling truth one can hold.

Comment on “The Freedom of Leaving Files Behind” by CharlesS

CharlesS — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:39:19 +0000

Here you go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intentional_programming ,you left this URL in the elevator…

Comment on New Languages & Compilers by “The Freedom of Leaving Files Behind” « Douglas Purdy

“The Freedom of Leaving Files Behind” « Douglas Purdy — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:27:21 +0000

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Comment on WiFi at Starbucks by co-worker

co-worker — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:06:11 +0000

but that is a statement about the company, not the geography…

Comment on The Decline and Fall of * by Ikiru « Douglas Purdy

Ikiru « Douglas Purdy — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:32:53 +0000

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Comment on WiFi at Starbucks by metadouglasp

metadouglasp — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:47:32 +0000

@co-worker:

As Reagan once said, “I didn’t leave the Democratic Party. The party left me.”

As long as Microsoft doesn’t leave me (allows me to work on my vision and values my work), I won’t leave it.