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May 29 2012 ∞
  • A pattern can be called a pattern only if it has been applied to a real world solution at least three times.
  • The pattern admonition that an idea be UsedThreeTimes to be a true pattern is reminiscent of the RulesOfThree from Biggerstaff and Richter:
  • You must have looked at at least three systems to understand what is common across them (and therefore reusable)
  • It takes three times as much effort to make something reusable as to make it usable
  • You will receive payback after the third release.

May 24 2012 ∞
“ My work is a game, a very serious game.
— M. C. Escher, Dutch artist (1898 - 1972)

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“ Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
— Edward Gibbon quotes (English Historian, 1737-1794)

May 23 2012 ∞
“ One man isn’t enough for a woman or too much.
— http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100274/

May 22 2012 ∞
“ Бабий Яр. Вдоль дымящегося рва идут два хохла, глядят и плачут:
— Ай-яй, Мыкола, дывись, що немци з нашими жидами зробыли, ой беда!
— Да-а, беда-а. Ну ничого, вот немцив победим, мы с йих жидами и не то зробым.

May 21 2012 ∞
“ Perl - The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.
— Keith Bostic

May 20 2012 ∞
“ It is interesting and of non-trivial importance that Lisp’s original implementation, and its most popular 1970s implementation on DEC 10s, ran on machines in which exactly 2 pointers fit in each memory word.
— Implementing Lisp Discussion

May 19 2012 ∞
“ GOOD IDEAS ALTER THE POWER BALANCE IN RELATIONSHIPS, THAT IS WHY GOOD IDEAS ARE ALWAYS INITIALLY RESISTED.
— ignore everybody | gapingvoid

May 18 2012 ∞
“ Хвастовство глупого человека искренно: хвастовство умного — носит злой, несимпатичный характер.
—

Даниил Хармс

May 14 2012 ∞
“ When men stop believing in God, it isn’t that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
— Umberto Eco

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