Salon.com posts a fun slideshow of some great Muppets musical moments: The Muppets’ greatest hits.
Go see the new movie. You won’t regret it.
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A nice guide to using iTerm2, tmux, emacs, irssi on the Mac
Edouard Swiac posts a guide to “Hacking like a hacker on a Mac using iTerm2, tmux, emacs, irssi (and more).”. I’m using Solarized now in Emacs and Terminal and might come back to this to add a few more tweaks to my work environment.
entaroadun/hnpickup – An educational example of a data mining app
entaroadun/hnpickup looks like a nice project to introduce you to some data mining application design patterns to follow any place. It uses Google App Engine and Python.
The Java Ecosystem (for the Sinatra or web.py lover)
Shaneal Manek’s posted a piece on Java that is another one for the bookmarks (and one to experiment with if you aren’t familiar), that introduces some Sinatra or web.py capabilities to the Java crowd: The Modern Java Ecosystem (for the Sinatra or web.py lover).
Here goes his example project on Github.
The Python Ecosystem – An Introduction
mirnazim.org posts a fantastic intro to the ‘Python Ecosystem’ that is worth bookmarking and coming back to: Python Ecosystem – An Introduction. Discussion at Hacker News.
Here is some great Python related news: Adrian Holovaty is getting back involved with Django!.
“Superwoman Was Already Here”
brain pickings links to two great presentations that get you thinking about education by introducing you to Montessori philosophy: Superwoman Was Already Here: The Montessori Philosophy, Animated | Brain Pickings.
Be a Jerk: The Worst Business Lesson From the Steve Jobs Biography
Unfortunately too many will take the wrong lessons for their own ends: Be a Jerk: The Worst Business Lesson From the Steve Jobs Biography – Tom McNichol – Business – The Atlantic.
Don’t be an asshole. You’re not Steve Jobs, and even if you were, it doesn’t make it right.
Steve Jobs: “computer science is a liberal art, it’s something everyone should know how to use, at least, and harness in their life”
“Quotes from Steve Jobs Lost Interview”:
“Learning to program teaches you how to think. Computer science is a liberal art.”
NPR.org: “Steve Jobs: ‘Computer Science Is A Liberal Art'”:
“In my perspective … science and computer science is a liberal art, it’s something everyone should know how to use, at least, and harness in their life. It’s not something that should be relegated to 5 percent of the population over in the corner. It’s something that everybody should be exposed to and everyone should have mastery of to some extent, and that’s how we viewed computation and these computation devices”
Related:
YouTube: WGBH: “Steve Jobs 1990 Lost Interview Part 1”:
Reddit.com: “Want: a non-technical description of CS”
Happy 12th anniversary Richelle
I hope I one day learn how to express how deeply I love you and how you make my heart feel. Love you sweetheart.
Tom Petty’s “I Won’t Back Down” covered by Eddie Vedder
YouTube: Pearl Jam – I Won’t Back Down (Gorge ’06):
Personal practice for the week is this. What an awesome version of a great song.