I just love it when geeks go wild, but I would never put a license plate on my car saying “Mr. Geek”. Check it out… geeky license plates. (via Digg)
Linux Crashes Top 10
OK, so that was expected: after the Windows Blue Screen Of Death Top 10 (previous post link), now comes the Linux Crash Top 10 equivalent. I have two observations:
- It’s surprising how many devices are running Linux.
- Imagine you’re on a plane and the screen in front of you goes into kernel panic. Don’t you start praying that the airplane’s computers have a different system? I would.
(via Digg)
Sometimes startups should take the money they’re offered…
… instead of saying “no”, hoping to raise even more money later. Such is the case with the social network Friendster, whose founder was offered $30 million from Google but refused it a few years ago. A very interesting read from The New York Times (free registration required). (via Digg)
Blue Screen of Death Top 10
Most of us have seen the blue screen of death (Wikipedia entry) on our home computer. But have you ever seen it on a scrolling billboard? This list mentions the top 10 sightings of the Blue Screen Of Death.
10 Cool Workplaces
Check out this list of cool workplaces. My favorites are the slide at Red Bull London and the conference bike. The VW plant doesn’t look like anyone is actually doing any work there, right?
Don’t Click It
Do you know these websites that challenge the basic things in our daily lives? Don’t Click It is such a website, which attempts to demonstrate how user interfaces can be implemented with zero mouse clicks (except for the initial click to enter the website). It’s actually a test, and if you look around you’ll find interesting statistics about how much people click the mouse by mistake. (via Download Squad)
Finally – A DVD Rewinder
It really took long for someone to make this product. Until today we had to wait for the DVD movie we just watched to rewind, but not any more! Just like them old VHS tape rewinders you can now get yourself a DVD rewinder.
Now you know why it’s great to visit this blog – so much useful information, it’s overwhelming. (via Digg)
The Daily WTF and The Hidden Network
The people at The Daily WTF decided to start a job board, HiddenNetwork.com, with the stated mission to “put top-talent within the reach of employers by advertising high-quality job opportunities”. The job board is not the first attempt at this. For example, Joel Spolsky (of Joel On Software) has his own niche job board with similar goals.
What I found interesting about the new job board announcement was this observation:
Have you ever noticed how, out of all the people you work with, the ones who read tech blogs are the strongest employees? It’s not that reading blogs inherently makes you smarter, but in order to read tech blogs, you need to deeply care about technology and have a passion to improve yourself and learn more.
When people ask me how I can afford reading one hour of tech-related news every day as part of my working hours, I say that as far as I’m concerned this is part of my job. I’m a better programmer thanks to reading about new software at freshmeat.net or even reading about new Web 2.0 start-ups although my job has no relation to the world wide web. Knowing what’s going on in the tech world is a good way of keeping my mind sharp and learning new things.
How to Shoot Yourself in the Foot in Any Programming Language
I once had a teacher (Dr. Yechiel Kimchi, who taught me so much of what I know today) who said that in C++ it’s harder to shoot yourself in the foot than it is in C, but when you manage to do it – the foot is completely gone.
A funny tutorial was published, which describes how to shoot yourself in the foot in any programming language. If you know a few languages (even superficially) this will make you laugh. (via Digg)
I can recite Pi to 9 places…
… but this guy can recite Pi to 100,000 places. It only takes 16 hours and some rice balls, apparently. (via Slashdot)