nuclear powered soup

"Since we're getting a lot of email asking the same basic questions, we figure..."

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:40:34 GMT

"Since we're getting a lot of email asking the same basic questions, we figured we'd just answer them here:

Q: I own TF2 on the PC. Do I have to buy it again on the Mac?
A: No. If you own TF2 on the PC, you own TF2 on the Mac (and vice versa). You don't have to buy the game twice. In addition, the Steam Cloud will automatically propagate your configuration settings and custom sprays to your Mac for you.

Q: Is it just some crappy emulated version of TF2?
A: No! Also: How dare you! Mac users aren't getting a crappy emulated version of the game. TF2 will run natively on OSX, like an actual big boy game for adults.

Q: Hmm, that all sounds pretty good. But I'll bet I can't play with my friends who own Macs if I'm on my PC.
A: Mac and PC users will all play together, on the same servers. We're not creating two separate universes. We're all going to be one big, happy family with guns locked in a bloody, never-ending struggle for cap points."

–Team Fortress 2

"Ja, ja, bla bla, guten Morgen. Deine Mudder."

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:10:46 GMT

"Ja, ja, bla bla, guten Morgen. Deine Mudder."

–st4rbucks

"Cat: It's degrading that you Twitter as if I only talk in LOLspeak. Me: I'm s..."

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:56:42 GMT

"Cat: It's degrading that you Twitter as if I only talk in LOLspeak. Me: I'm sorry. Here, type for yourself. Cat: 384fsdw 1 kFJW DEq;"

–wilw

"In a distant galaxy someone is saying "they develop software like they play r..."

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:01:08 GMT

"In a distant galaxy someone is saying "they develop software like they play rugby and assemble autos? Really?""

–mfeathers

Lost: Baywatch

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:37:15 GMT

Lost: Baywatch

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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:16:12 GMT

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"Und der Sensenmann legte seine Sense zur Seite und stieg auf den Mähdrescher,..."

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:18:56 GMT

"Und der Sensenmann legte seine Sense zur Seite und stieg auf den Mähdrescher, denn es war Krieg."

–rawr_it

"Bevor es Internet gab, verbrachten viele Leute sicher Unmengen an Zeit damit,..."

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:19:51 GMT

"Bevor es Internet gab, verbrachten viele Leute sicher Unmengen an Zeit damit, zu überlegen, was sie mit all ihren Katzen-Fotos machen sollen"

–st4rbucks

Trailer For Every Oscar-Winning Movie Ever

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:44:11 GMT

Trailer For Every Oscar-Winning Movie Ever

""Gentleman Computer Scientist:" Someone who knows enough to write a new progr..."

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:23:52 GMT

""Gentleman Computer Scientist:" Someone who knows enough to write a new programming language, but doesn't. news.ycombinator.com/..."

–raganwald

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Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:35:06 GMT

[Reposted from vifon via EineFragevonStil]

"Ich spüre eine tiefe Frostration."

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:07:46 GMT

"Ich spüre eine tiefe Frostration."

–Mellcolm

"Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where..."

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:00:53 GMT

"Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it."

–Laurance J. Peter

[Reposted from aleKSandra]

"Schrödinger's cat walks into a bar. And doesn't."

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:59:42 GMT

"Schrödinger's cat walks into a bar. And doesn't."

–Roflcopter.pl - najlepsze cytaty, strona 28

[Reposted from rzekomy via aleKSandra]

Yes!

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:58:54 GMT

Yes! Also: George Clooney is my spirit animal

"Es gibt nur einen Grund, warum man stöhnend mit den Beinen überm Kopf im Bett..."

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:03:20 GMT

"Es gibt nur einen Grund, warum man stöhnend mit den Beinen überm Kopf im Bett liegen sollte. Skinny Jeans sind NICHT dieser Grund."

–st4rbucks

"Aber es war doch nur ein Mem und alle machen da mit und ich will doch kein Au..."

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:01:48 GMT

"Aber es war doch nur ein Mem und alle machen da mit und ich will doch kein Aussenseiter sein. #19wordsafterdeath"

–rawr_it

"But the particular aspect of time that I’m interested in is the arrow of time..."

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:05:03 GMT

But the particular aspect of time that I’m interested in is the arrow of time: the fact that the past is different from the future. We remember the past but we don’t remember the future. There are irreversible processes. There are things that happen, like you turn an egg into an omelet, but you can’t turn an omelet into an egg.

And we sort of understand that halfway. The arrow of time is based on ideas that go back to Ludwig Boltzmann, an Austrian physicist in the 1870s. He figured out this thing called entropy. Entropy is just a measure of how disorderly things are. And it tends to grow. That’s the second law of thermodynamics: Entropy goes up with time, things become more disorderly. So, if you neatly stack papers on your desk, and you walk away, you’re not surprised they turn into a mess. You’d be very surprised if a mess turned into neatly stacked papers. That’s entropy and the arrow of time. Entropy goes up as it becomes messier.

So, Boltzmann understood that and he explained how entropy is related to the arrow of time. But there’s a missing piece to his explanation, which is, why was the entropy ever low to begin with? Why were the papers neatly stacked in the universe? Basically, our observable universe begins around 13.7 billion years ago in a state of exquisite order, exquisitely low entropy. It’s like the universe is a wind-up toy that has been sort of puttering along for the last 13.7 billion years and will eventually wind down to nothing. But why was it ever wound up in the first place? Why was it in such a weird low-entropy unusual state?

–What Is Time? One Physicist Hunts for the Ultimate Theory

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Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:20:00 GMT

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Kenjitsu

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:15:22 GMT

"The art of knowledge-fighting"

http://jsomers.net/blog/kenjitsu

"A Canadian is just an unarmed American with health insurance."

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:56:11 GMT

"A Canadian is just an unarmed American with health insurance."

–LarryBlanken

"There’s a really simple tip almost everybody can use to increase productivity..."

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:54:01 GMT

"There’s a really simple tip almost everybody can use to increase productivity tremendously. Not only is the tip free, it might even make you a bit of money. *And* it’ll make you smarter. It’s really easy, there’s only one step involved: Sell your TVs."

–How Software Engineers and Designers Can Increase Their Focus

"I don’t even use a to-do app. If something is important, I’ll remember it. If..."

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:52:03 GMT

"I don’t even use a to-do app. If something is important, I’ll remember it. If I have an idea I’m afraid I might forget, I set a reminder in my calendar on a date when I know I’ll have time to work on it. On that date, I’ll either work on it, discard it, or reschedule it."

–How Software Engineers and Designers Can Increase Their Focus

Where in the World is Kathy Sierra? -- Or, the best tech writing blogger ever

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:25:26 GMT

http://davidbarneswork.posterous.com/where-in-the-world-in-kathy-sierra-or-the-bes

"Like countless other intellectual fads over the years (“relevance,” communism..."

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:41:38 GMT

"Like countless other intellectual fads over the years (“relevance,” communism, “modernism,” and so on—history is littered with them) OOP [Object-oriented programming] will be with us until eventually reality asserts itself. But considering how OOP currently pervades both universities and workplaces, OOP may well prove to be a durable delusion. Entire generations of indoctrinated programmers continue to march out of the academy, committed to OOP and nothing but OOP for the rest of their lives."

–Richard Mansfield, author and former editor of COMPUTE! magazine (1979–1994), on transcending thesubject/object dichotomy. (via tlvx)

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"<Overkill> Hello. I just want to say there was a small fire on my stove..."

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:14:20 GMT

"<Overkill> Hello. I just want to say there was a small fire on my stove a few minutes ago, and I took the liberty of putting it out before going on IRC and talking about it."

–XKCDB: The #xkcd Quote Database

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fseek.me » Blog Archive » How to convince any C developer to dump gcc and use...

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 09:41:31 GMT

fseek.me » Blog Archive » How to convince any C developer to dump gcc and use clang

[Reposted from phil via antifuchs]

"I had planned to teach my robot right and wrong, but so far I'm pretty impres..."

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 03:51:01 GMT

"I had planned to teach my robot right and wrong, but so far I'm pretty impressed with its choice of victims."

–badbanana

"Reloading. The toilet paper tube clatters to the ground like a spent bullet c..."

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:50:16 GMT

"Reloading. The toilet paper tube clatters to the ground like a spent bullet casing."

–scottsimpson

Tim Burton's Secret Formula (via @imabuddha)

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:02:43 GMT

Tim Burton's Secret Formula (via @imabuddha)

And ... Your Point Being ?

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 18:44:32 GMT

And ... Your Point Being ?

[Reposted from saiwala via EineFragevonStil]

you walked into a door

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 18:44:10 GMT

you walked into a door

[Reposted from wytukaze via cygenb0ck]

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Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:07:22 GMT

[Reposted from deinneuerfreund via cygenb0ck]

"Today I understand the word "enterprise" to mean "We can afford to do it all ..."

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:26:09 GMT

"Today I understand the word "enterprise" to mean "We can afford to do it all wrong.""

–chromatic_x

"“Sony Inventing New Handheld Device to Take on Apple.” Sony inventor: “Here ..."

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:56:11 GMT

"“Sony Inventing New Handheld Device to Take on Apple.” Sony inventor: “Here it is, sir. We call it a ‘handgun.’”"

–wilshipley

"THE DEADLOCKS ARE STALLING FROM INSIDE THE PROCESS"

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:08:18 GMT

"THE DEADLOCKS ARE STALLING FROM INSIDE THE PROCESS"

–al3x