1. Dear President Obama,

    I am aware that the company challenging your NSL practices is located one block from me. I know that you are completely within your rights to send a bunch of MQ-9s to come level my neighborhood in San Francisco since there is a chance that the CEO of the company will be amongst the casualties. However, please refrain from doing so.

    http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/03/nsl-found-unconstitutional/

  2. Absolutely brilliant. Not sure how adoption is, but as conceptual art this is pretty cool. rafer: Korean Emart recently placed 3D QR code sculptures throughout the city of Seoul that could only be scanned between noon and 1 pm each day — consumers were given discounts at the store during those quiet shopping hours. (via In Seoul, retailer uses 3D QR codes and the sun to deliver discounts only during its quiet times | Springwise)

    Absolutely brilliant. Not sure how adoption is, but as conceptual art this is pretty cool.

    rafer:

    Korean Emart recently placed 3D QR code sculptures throughout the city of Seoul that could only be scanned between noon and 1 pm each day — consumers were given discounts at the store during those quiet shopping hours. (via In Seoul, retailer uses 3D QR codes and the sun to deliver discounts only during its quiet times | Springwise)

  3. Q: Whats the best way to daemonize a haskell process? A: Angel

    Tonights question was a rather simple one.  Basically, the answer is Angel courtesy of the good haskellers at bu.mp.  Its a daemon for daemonizing other processes, but written in Haskell, it comes with all the usual assurances and goodies.  

    Its been a long night so it will be short post.

  4. cargo-culting the how to be awesome guy; or, chalkboard effects in illustrator

    So, like most of the HN/reddit reading population, I read this post on tricking yourself into being awesome today and found his basic premise of “ask yourself something you dont know once a day, find the answer and blog about it” to be a compelling habit that I’d like to pick up.

    Today, I settled with how to make chalkboard style text effects in Illustrator.  I pretty much following the examples in this vectips tutorial to the word, except for skipping one or two resource heavy steps.  

    My end result wasn’t spectacular, but was passable design for an engineer.  I’ve attached the work below this.

    Lastly, a note on the cost/benefit of doing this.  My total time on this blog entry was about 35 minutes.  I do feel that getting in the habit of spending 30 minutes a day learning something new and talking about it is entirely worth the time spent.  Its exceedingy likely that 95% of the posts will be spectacularly unremarkable, but who knows, maybe some quality will sneak in. 

      

  5. Anonymous asked: Are you still doing hachicode or are you having any other project?

    a new, awesome, exciting project called raise.  who are you?  anonymity is for fools and pedos.

  6. Five hours in.  So hungry.  Currently putting down a mix of: kale + beetroot + apple + cucumber + carrots + cinnamon like it was the last meal I’ll ever have.. 

    Five hours in.  So hungry.  Currently putting down a mix of:

    kale + beetroot + apple + cucumber + carrots + cinnamon

    like it was the last meal I’ll ever have.. 

  7. Cry ‘Havoc!’ and let slip the dogs of the juice fast

    So as part of my somewhat quiet but ongoing goal of maximizing every moment of my life, I am going to consume nothing but juice, water, and an occasional espresso for at least the next 72 hours (until Thursday, 12 noon, PDT) and possibly longer.  

    Why do this?  I eat a lot of garbage (living next to a popeyes is subobpital) and always feel a bit drowsy or that there is a haze over my mind.  There are those that believe a juice fast will detoxify your body, accelerate your metabolism, and improve focus.  The science is at best undecided on this.  So, why is a die hard, rational empiricist undergoing an unproven technique for self improvement?  It is not a fix, it is an experiment.  It may work, it may not.  I can’t wait to find out.  

    At least one of the other members of the house I’m living at temporarily, Factory0, is doing this with me.  I firmly believe that social pressures and feedback are the only way to create lasting personal changes.  I look forward to exploring this. 

    Also, I will readily admit that the occasional shot of espresso is not exactly detoxifying.  But, the world doesn’t stop for my crazy experiments and my housemates have an amazing espresso machine.  It would be criminal to not exploit that.   

  8. Twilio’s definitive brogramming primer (by TeamTwilio)

    Currently debating the merits of drafting a power point on “Why Functional Brogramming Matters”

  9. Good talk.. is the media finally acknolwedging atheists? who, by the way, are larger than almost any other minority group..

    (via Up with Chris Hayes - Sunday’s Show: Atheism)

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