Kategorie: Allgemein

Woningsdag.

It's always been a weird tradition, and now it shows.

Freess.

A free press is indispensable for a functioning society of free citizens. Opponents of freedom try to discredit reliable news agencies by sowing doubt. The least we can do is spend time and effort to get informed by the news that talented and courageous journalists bring to us and that others do not want us to read.

Jan van Eijck: On the Notion of Mainstream Media (MSM)

M-x midnight-madness.

If you run one Emacs session for a period of days, as many people do, it can fill up with buffers that you used several days ago.

GNU Emacs Manual: 19.4 Killing Buffers

D'Arachide.

Luxusproblem des Tages: Falscher Zeichenabstand auf dem Erdnussbutterglas.

Firstell.

It is not only the violin that shapes the violinist, we are all shaped by the tools we train ourselves to use, and in this respect programming languages have a devious influence: they shape our thinking habits. This circumstance makes the choice of first programming language so important.

E.W. Dijkstra: To the members of the Budget Council (concerning Haskell), 12 April 2001