“What will Mark Zuckerberg do next? Who cares! You do, in an involuntary, Pavlovian way…”

1st person I really, really want to punch

The third here was Russell Brand whose hairy granola appearance made me want to punch him. I’ve since come around to regarding him as a decent person. I’m not interested his new age blather but his politics are solid.

Code quality

July 10, 2012

“The contract we have with the machine is that if the program is in any aspect, at any time, and in any way, imperfect with respect to any of its inputs, the computer has license to do anything it wants. And it can often do the worst possible thing, and at a time of its own choosing, which could be the worst possible time. And when that occurs the fault is not the computer’s, it is the programmer’s. So our programs have to be perfect.” — http://vimeo.com/25606006

“There are always going to be stupid people who don’t want to get it right, and for them, it’s really good that JSHint is available.”