oseph | 6 years ago | on: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Twitter* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)
My favourite way to use Twitter is not using it.
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oseph | 7 years ago | on: How IBM’s ThinkPad Became a Design Icon (2017)
Long time macbook user here who just received a used T450 in the mail last week. I bought it just to have access to a Windows machine and I plan to install linux onto it as well.
Initial impressions: I really like it! Very solid little machine, and I really like the keyboard feel as well. After years with Apple, the Thinkpad screen and trackpad are pretty crappy in comparison, but overall I love using it. Currently looking into upgrading the display to a 1080 IPS...
oseph | 7 years ago | on: Programming abstract art
I agree that this is pretty simple stuff for HN.
BUT on that same note, I've actually done something similar but hopefully a bit more organic here: http://mondaysoups.ca/daily/029.html
oseph | 7 years ago | on: Make front end shit again
front end stuff is fun! my playground: https://www.mondaysoups.ca
oseph | 8 years ago | on: Go's New Brand
This is so much better than that silly cartoon they had before. Sure it was cute and fun, but for a modern language it felt so ... childish. As someone who works professionally as an illustrator and dabbles with code, this is just my two cents, and whether you like or dislike a logo is 100% entirely subjective. This new logo/identity feels much more refreshing and importantly, professional. At least in my books.
Next up, Java's atrocious coffee cup logo perhaps?
oseph | 8 years ago | on: 5 Curly Blonde Wigs That Will Rock Your Inner Khalessi
What.
oseph | 8 years ago | on: The Contortionist's Handbook
Interesting find.
oseph | 8 years ago | on: Beej's Guide to C Programming (2007)
This is wonderful. I see that this guide is sort of "old news" to many of the experienced programmers hanging out here. But as someone who isn't that experienced and about to begin a course on Data Structures + Algorithms using C, this is amazing. Thank you.
oseph | 8 years ago | on: An 1814 Beer Flood that Killed Eight People
That last paragraph is a bit of a bummer.
After all the beer was mopped up, the company that owned the brewery did just fine. It "received a waiver from the British Parliament for excise taxes it had already paid on the thousands of barrels of beer it lost," writes History.com–meaning it didn't have to pay taxes on the equivalent amount of beer when it brewed in future. Jurors declared the beer flood an "unavoidable act of God," writes Tingle. Those whose houses were destroyed and whose loved ones were lost received nothing from the government or the company.
All is fair in beer and spillages.
oseph | 8 years ago | on: Is Gwyneth Paltrow’s pseudoscience winning?
Most humans are dumb and fall for snake oil. It's a greasy way to make money, but it's not really surprising in this day and age of "facts."
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