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vivekhaldar

  1. I kinda like styluses. bit.ly/J7JVgg
  2. Proud to be on the usesthis.com community: bit.ly/MlUjop :-)
  3. @mirceapricop Yup.
  4. "The problem isn’t that we cannot formally verify software, it is that at present the cost/benefit ratio is too high." bit.ly/K97PfR
  5. Don't fall in love with your own words.
  6. After spoken thought, and written thought, comes.... executable thought. bit.ly/Jhryap
  7. Sign of the times: the feelings you get at a U2 concert are *very* different than those at a JayZ/Kanye concert.
  8. RT @codetique: @vivekhaldar We couldn't agree more. Check out our code review tool bit.ly/JhPAC7
  9. Dear World -- review Python code for my RSS fetching tool. bit.ly/JhPlHo (on @codetique)
  10. "the more reluctant researchers are to share their data, the more likely it is that papers contain statistical errors." bit.ly/KDU2Pv
  11. New post: Executable Thought. bit.ly/Jhryap
  12. @danbenjamin is a class act. 5by5.tv/specials/6
  13. I know the git command line, but the GitHub Mac client is pretty cool. bit.ly/MuSkk1
  14. Photo: At just the right time, the cloud cover actually let us see the solar eclipse with naked eyes. tmblr.co/Z2YEOyLsehw2
  15. Executable Thought - Imagine that you were a teacher in ancient Greece. Your expository traditions were... tmblr.co/Z2YEOyLqZlUy
  16. @mirceapricop It's nothing but the germ of an idea right now. I'm unsure myself. Someday, it might become a blog post.
  17. I can't shake this thought: what if beauty is nothing but density of reference?
  18. If the great philosophers of the past lived today, they would be incurable bloggers.