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“ While working for a Japanese customer, they didn't take me serious 'til I brought our utility man along who was close to retirement and told them he's my superior. Everything went fine from that moment onwards. He didn't know anything about the matter at hand, but all he really had to do was to nod from time to time ”

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I didn’t mean by this that Java programmers are dumb. I meant that Python programmers are smart. It’s a lot of work to learn a new programming language. And people don’t learn Python because it will get them a job; they learn it because they genuinely like to program and aren’t satisfied with the languages they already know

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“ Unfortunately my application Woman Calendar was discovered containing crack countermeasures. It would phone home and silently move your last ovulation day a few days off so any female teenager pirates would get a rude awakening at school while writing a test. Little did I know that one of my teenage daughters has a jailbroken iPod touch ”

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“ APL would be awesome to see in a sci-fi action movie. I can imagine someone sitting at a three-color terminal muttering "Reshape the enemy missile vector...transpose...pi times logarithm...grade up--and--execute!" followed by explosions and cheering ”

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“ Design must seduce, shape, and perhaps more importantly,evoke an emotional response ”

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I see the people that do the real work and what's really sad, in a way, is that... the people that are the most giving, hard working and capable of making this world better, usually don't have the ego and ambition to be a leader. 

They don't see the interest in superficial rewards,they don't care if their name ever appear in the press, they actually enjoy the process of helping others, they're in the moment

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“ A man once criticized Picasso for creating unrealistic art. Picasso asked him: "Can you show me some realistic art?" The man showed him a photograph of his wife. Picasso observed: "So your wife is two inches tall, two-dimensional, with no arms and no legs, and no colour but only shades of gray?" ”

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Turn the music up in your car or home stereo to a pretty strong (but good) volume. Ask a friend to join you. At one point, when they're in the flow, cut the sound completely. Kill the power. Notice their response. Now do it again, but this time fade the volume.

This is not a trivial thing.

And although Apple and the iPhone certainly aren't the first to use this kind of "absence-of-abruptness" to the user experience, they've done it in an elegant, subtle, flow-supporting, enchanting way

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“ Lua is like a really experienced prostitute. Not necessarily beautiful, but can do all the tricks and can get the job done efficiently and inexpensively. ”

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“ Connection pooling in ActiveRecord is an ugly hack. It works OK with Rails because ActionController removes the current thread's connection from the pool after every request. If you use another framework, ActiveRecord will pause every few requests because it will have a connection pool timeout error. ”

“ ...It [H.261] included such well-established concepts as YCbCr color representation, the 4:2:0 sampling format, 8-bit sample precision, 16x16 macroblocks, block-wise motion compensation, 8x8 block-wise discrete cosine transformation, zig-zag coefficient scanning, scalar quantization, run+value symbol mapping and variable-length coding... ”