Cholesterol

Used an FDA-approved home testing kit to check my cholesterol, and it’s 165 mg/dL! I never expected it to be that good, considering I’m 38 and have a family history of heart disease. My dad fights his cholesterol.

In ‘99 I got it checked professionally and it was the same.

Ice Water In Hell

Walt Mossberg: “How many copies of iTunes are out there?”

Jobs: “Lots. Several times more than the number of iPods.”

Walt notes that that makes it one of the most ubiquitous pieces of software out there — and it’s predominantly on Windows machines.

“That makes Apple one of the biggest developers of Windows software around,” Walt observes.

Jobs: “That’s right. … It’s like offering a glass of ice water to people in hell.” (emphasis added)

— All Things Digital

Thanks to Todd Sternisha for pointing out this juicy quote.

Flickr!

Finally got a Flickr account. Went out on a limb and got Pro. (I’ve always hated limitations.)

This is what a web app should be.

Gavin

Gavin


Haskell

I’ve decided today that Haskell is my favorite programming language, and further that the functional paradigm is superior to the object-oriented one.

In fact, I think object-orientation is a bit of a mistake. (Just a few years ago I couldn’t even imagine making this statement.) There’s nothing wrong with the idea of structured types per se. The problem is with method dispatch and the semantic “attachment” of methods to objects.

If you’re going to have objects, it should work like Dylan.

“Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“The principle that the majority have a right to rule the minority, practically resolves all government into a mere contest between two bodies of men, as to which of them shall be masters, and which of them slaves; a contest, that — however bloody — can, in the nature of things, never be finally closed, so long as man refuses to be a slave.”
— Lysander Spooner
“Vices are not crimes.”
— Lysander Spooner
  • Todd: Jesus, I should introduce her to Ed when she comes out.
  • Me: Even more oblivious?
  • Todd: Every conversation requires me to take a detour while I catch Ed up on the last 20 years of progress in science and the arts. It's like talking to Rip Van Winkle.
  • Me: hahahhahahahahahahahahaha
“Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.”
— Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.