George Carlin - Religion is bullshit. (via rgbda)
… and anyway, they’re [Mozilla] really busy right now — unlike the fine young minds at Apple and Opera, who, unbeknownst to their managers, have outsourced all their browser development to summer interns and are spending their newfound free time reenacting Roman toga parties.
When the fall is all that’s left [dive into mark]
Penny Arcade! - He Who Fights With Nerds
I will not play these games.
The main thing that distinguishes legacy code from non-legacy code is tests, or rather a
lack of tests. We can get a sense of this with a little thought experiment: how easy would
it be to modify your code base if it could bite back, if it could tell you when you made a
mistake? It would be pretty easy, wouldn’t it? Most of the fear involved in making
changes to large code bases is fear of introducing subtle bugs; fear of changing things
inadvertently. working effectively with legacy code
lack of tests. We can get a sense of this with a little thought experiment: how easy would
it be to modify your code base if it could bite back, if it could tell you when you made a
mistake? It would be pretty easy, wouldn’t it? Most of the fear involved in making
changes to large code bases is fear of introducing subtle bugs; fear of changing things
inadvertently. working effectively with legacy code
The True Price of SMS Messages » a gthing science project
Thank you AT&T for the colossal ass rape that is SMS pricing.



