I heard this joke a long time ago and somehow it never gets old, especially when the person telling the joke turns things around a bit.
His recipe is a classic; his sense of humor is hard to resist:
(image found via Neven)
Category: Link
Conway's Law
The Grass is Always Greener
Here is a little tongue in cheek developer career philosophy/humor:
(via xkcd via Greg Wilson)
Where to Find Jobs in Statistics
A Library for Conditional Module Inclusion and Compilation in PLT Scheme
Dynamically Requiring Code at Runtime
Here is a good thread on conditional inclusion of code in PLT Scheme. Basically the OP wanted to use platform-specific module code (think development versus on the cluster). The recommended solution was to use dynamic-require.
Hamming's Insight
Scratch Programming
Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art — and share your creations on the web.
Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning skills. As they create and share Scratch projects, young people learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also learning to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively.
I wonder how this compared to PLT Worlds.
(via plt)
A Native PDF Editor
Here, for OS X, is a native PDF editor (or PDF based word-processor, depending on how you look at it). It seems interesting; and perhaps “easier” than LaTeX.
(via downloadsquad)
Elastic tabstops
The argument: Code an in editor should be dynamically formatted using something like intelligent table-based layouts.
Seems like an OK idea. Read about it here.