"Along with this kernel of useful insights there also tends to be a small kernel of software developers who actually get it. Object technology is not about SmallTalk. Patterns are not about frameworks. Components are not about COM or CORBA. Model-driven is not about Rational Rose. SOA is not about web services. Agile is not about Scrums. Responsibility-driven Design is not about mock objects. Craftsmanship is not about masters and apprentices or guilds or taking oaths."
– Enough With The Movements! Movements Are Stupid. - Software People Inspiring Source: codemanship.co.uk
(via xkcd: Cadbury Eggs)

(via xkcd: Cadbury Eggs)

Source: xkcd.com
This is hysterical. What happens when you dose pregnant teddy bears with varied concentrations of PURE EVIL.

This is hysterical. What happens when you dose pregnant teddy bears with varied concentrations of PURE EVIL.

"

I am a nonaccredited, overly logical psychologist, therapist, mechanic, diplomat, businessman, and teacher working in an industry that is still defining itself each and every day.

That is as concise a definition I can give for the modern-day programmer.

"
– The Developer’s Code, Ka Wai Cheung Source: pragprog.com

FOX's "The Finder" on the Designated Hitter

  • Walter Sherman: It's a no brainer. There's nothing more anti-American than the designated hitter.
  • Leo Knox: Al-Qaeda is more anti-American than anything.
  • Walter Sherman: This country was founded on a celebration of our individual freedoms. The designated hitter puts the team's collective success over that of the individual. Can't bat? Don't worry. We'll send somebody to do that part of your job for you so we can all win together. There's a name for that, Leo. It's Communism.
  • Leo Knox: You can't get any more anti-American than actually trying to destroy America.
  • Walter Sherman: Al-Qaeda's doomed to failure. Hiding in caves? Designated hitters walk among us as heroes. It's subversive.

Holy crap you guys. This is awesome.

joeymcallister:

thedailywhat:

Kickass Cover of the Day: Sarah Blackwood and the four members of Walk Off the Earth split one guitar in their striking cover of Gotye and Kimbra’s Sting-ish single “Somebody That I Used to Know.”

[reddit.]

Gotye and Kimbra’s original was my favorite track of 2011, and this is a wonderful cover. Definitively want to hear more from Walk Off the Earth.

Source: thedailywhat
"While evangelicals often champion a gospel of greed and personal empowerment,… liberals often speak on behalf of oppressed groups they never meet, advocating utopian and unrealistic schemes to bring about peace and universal love. Neither group has much interest in testing their ideologies against reality."
– “Losing Moses on the Freeway” - Chris Hedges Source: help.adobe.com
(via Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal)

(via Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal)

Source: smbc-comics.com