http://www.quitfacebookday.com/
http://youropenbook.org/
I held off deleting my never-used account just so I can do it today. I have to say, even though I didn't use it, it feels great to fuck over Facebook even if it's only 2.5 × 10^-9 of their userbase.
Sticking it to the assholes even when your impact is negligible. That's freedom.
Monday, May 31, 2010
Thursday, May 20, 2010
What you will not see here
Politics is the mindkiller.
I've long ago completely given up on pretending to take politics seriously. I don't want to hear your unique contribution to political science, I don't care what special interest group you represent, and I have no damn interest in re-enacting a word for word argument older than writing.
Yes, I do have political beliefs. But no, you won't hear about them directly.
See, for me politics is an $ENV variable that I only care about when it completely screws something up. It's something I believe you can and should be able to safely ignore if you have actually have a life.
Programmers are known for having political opinions that would get us tarred and feathered if made publicly known. This is because, after bashing your head against the wall of complexity the human brain was simply not evolved to handle, you tend to regard political beliefs as the amateurish moves of people who couldn't debug a loop if their lives depended on it. We are not interested in Position X for the same reason actual physicists are too fascinated studying real mysteries to devote much interest in your pet mysticism.
People who devote their time to figuring out how complex systems will bite them in the ass, have no time for people who don't understand Murphy's Law.
So, no glorified ape dominance hierarchy gossip. I will delete any comments containing needless political snark. You know what I mean: if my post is about the Y Combinator and you just have to make a witty comment about that damn Foo party, kill yourself. Please.
I've long ago completely given up on pretending to take politics seriously. I don't want to hear your unique contribution to political science, I don't care what special interest group you represent, and I have no damn interest in re-enacting a word for word argument older than writing.
Yes, I do have political beliefs. But no, you won't hear about them directly.
See, for me politics is an $ENV variable that I only care about when it completely screws something up. It's something I believe you can and should be able to safely ignore if you have actually have a life.
Programmers are known for having political opinions that would get us tarred and feathered if made publicly known. This is because, after bashing your head against the wall of complexity the human brain was simply not evolved to handle, you tend to regard political beliefs as the amateurish moves of people who couldn't debug a loop if their lives depended on it. We are not interested in Position X for the same reason actual physicists are too fascinated studying real mysteries to devote much interest in your pet mysticism.
People who devote their time to figuring out how complex systems will bite them in the ass, have no time for people who don't understand Murphy's Law.
So, no glorified ape dominance hierarchy gossip. I will delete any comments containing needless political snark. You know what I mean: if my post is about the Y Combinator and you just have to make a witty comment about that damn Foo party, kill yourself. Please.
This is not a rant
Zed Shaw is one of my heroes. He's a Formidable Asshole: not only is he usually right, but he'll make damn sure you know it. The internet is built on the backs of these guys, and they'll slap you if you ever forget it.
He recently came up with the idea of compartmentalizing his blog into rants and nonrants. This makes sense on many levels, so I'm trying the same thing.
Pookrants will contain my frequently illucid rants, while Zipwith will contain nonrantish material.
In an unrelated note, I am returning to blogging somewhat seriously after a few years. I've got plenty of rants festering, and a fully functional bullshit detector. This will be fun.
He recently came up with the idea of compartmentalizing his blog into rants and nonrants. This makes sense on many levels, so I'm trying the same thing.
Pookrants will contain my frequently illucid rants, while Zipwith will contain nonrantish material.
In an unrelated note, I am returning to blogging somewhat seriously after a few years. I've got plenty of rants festering, and a fully functional bullshit detector. This will be fun.
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