The mankind adopted the decimal system is a physiological accident. Those who see the hand of Providence in ev erything will have to admit that Providence is a poor mathematician. For outside its physiological merit the decimal base has little to commend itself. Almost any other base, with the possible exception of nine, would have done as well and probably better. —Tobiaz Dantzig in Number, the language of science.
valerij1970
The journal of a homeless guy in London. He has a job, he sends money back to his family. He just does not have a permanent place to live.
He writes in russian.
High Performance JavaScript
This is a very nice book with tons of interesting tips and tricks.
The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying. —John Carmack
JavaScript: сделаем Scheme или что-то похожее
From now on, everything about that is in russian and about JavaScript will go there. Boom.
Buying an iPad for your kids isn’t a means of jump-starting the realization that the world is yours to take apart and reassemble; it’s a way of telling your offspring that even changing the batteries is something you have to leave to the professionals. —Cory Doctorow, Why I won’t buy an iPad (and think you shouldn’t, either).
