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• 2010-01-17

  

  Townhouse

• 2009-12-01

  How to write fast code

  “The CPU,” he said, “runs at a certain speed. It can execute a fixed number of instructions per second, and no more. There is a finite limit to how many instructions per second it can execute. Right?”

  “Right,” I said.

  “So there is no way, really, to make code go faster, because there is no way to make instructions execute faster. There is only such a thing as making the machine do less.”

  He paused for emphasis.

  “To go fast,” he said slowly, “do less.”

• 2009-11-30

  

  Myths & Misconceptions About Grid Systems

• 2009-11-16

  Be conservative in what you do; be liberal in what you accept from others.

  — The robustness principle (re: Beautiful Soup)

• 2009-11-13

  

  Pravda Vodka

• 2009-11-11

  The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

  — Socrates (via mnmal)

• 2009-11-10

  

  Coffee table 20

• 2009-11-09

  

  The fictional extreme-minimalist future

  In the effort to portray simple, they err on the side of antiseptic.

• 2009-11-07

  

  h.r.s

• 2009-11-01

  

  Watches by Denis Guidone