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check this two out.

just cute

http://www.doogtoons.com/potd/2007/04/otters-in-love-pick-for-41107.ht ml

cute with evil vengance

http://www.doogtoons.com/potd/2007/04/pet-anaconda-pick-for-41007.html

some people I know could use it as advice

the.codist{} - All I Need To Know To Be A Better Programmer I Learned In Kindergarten

Some random quotes from some random friends (you know who you are), from

Why to Not Not Start a Startup

“The adult response to “that’s a stupid idea,” is simply to look the other person in the eye and say “Really? Why do you think so?””

“If you don’t think you’re smart enough to start a startup doing something technically difficult, just write enterprise software. Enterprise software companies aren’t technology companies, they’re sales companies, and sales depends mostly on effort.”

“make something great and not worry too much about making money.”

“Not having a cofounder is a real problem.”

“Find something that’s missing in your own life, and supply that need—no matter how specific to you it seems. Steve Wozniak built himself a computer; who knew so many other people would want them?”

“A lot of people look at the ever-increasing number of startups and think “this can’t continue.” Implicit in their thinking is a fallacy: that there is some limit on the number of startups there could be. But this is false.”

“9. Family to support

This one is real. I wouldn’t advise anyone with a family to start a startup. I’m not saying it’s a bad idea, just that I don’t want to take responsibility for advising it.”

“ Like a lot of people that age, I valued freedom most of all. I was reluctant to do anything that required a commitment of more than a few months. ”

“If you start a startup that succeeds, it’s going to consume at least three or four years. (If it fails, you’ll be done a lot quicker.) So you shouldn’t do it if you’re not ready for commitments on that scale. Be aware, though, that if you get a regular job, you’ll probably end up working there for as long as a startup would take, and you’ll find you have much less spare time than you might expect. So if you’re ready to clip on that ID badge and go to that orientation session, you may also be ready to start that startup.”

“12. Need for structure

If you’re one of these people, you probably shouldn’t start a startup. In fact, you probably shouldn’t even go to work for one. In a good startup, you don’t get told what to do very much. There may be one person whose job title is CEO, but till the company has about twelve people no one should be telling anyone what to do. That’s too inefficient. Each person should just do what they need to without anyone telling them.”

“Perhaps some people are deterred from starting startups because they don’t like the uncertainty.”

“One reason people who’ve been out in the world for a year or two make better founders than people straight from college is that they know what they’re avoiding. If their startup fails, they’ll have to get a job, and they know how much jobs suck.”

“And since most of what big companies do is boring,”

“At first it may seem cool to get paid for doing easy stuff, after paying to do hard stuff in college. But that wears off after a few months. Eventually it gets demoralizing to work on dumb stuff, even if it’s easy and you get paid a lot.”

“And that’s not the worst of it. The thing that really sucks about having a regular job is the expectation that you’re supposed to be there at certain times. Even Google is afflicted with this, apparently. And what this means, as everyone who’s had a regular job can tell you, is that there are going to be times when you have absolutely no desire to work on anything, and you’re going to have to go to work anyway and sit in front of your screen and pretend to. To someone who likes work, as most good hackers do, this is torture.”

“If you’re a founder, what you want to do most of the time is work.”

“A significant number of would-be startup founders are probably dissuaded from doing it by their parents. ”

“16. A job is the default

This leads us to the last and probably most powerful reason people get regular jobs: it’s the default thing to do. Defaults are enormously powerful, precisely because they operate without any conscious choice.“

I have decided to stop spamming everyone with IM of cool stuff I read during the day and just make a small post with links to all of them… so here is the first one. And I hope they don’t become daily because then it will stop being fun.

First let me start with a nice blog post for all of us that are in love with OOP. Then some very interesting old but great slices from a Linux conference (so it seems) with a LOT of bash features, at least hidden for me, or as the author puts it, for those of us that think bash(1) is way too long. Last on the code stuff it’s a nice idea from someone with very nice ideas.

The next three are a good lesson, a story and a idea.

So I was wasting some time yesterday and I came up with this video, it turns out this guy is a cartoonist, it turns out he has a series of them 16 so far and I was just impress.

As for the cartoons themself he has a huge collection which at the time of this writing had 658 strips all online all free, it turns out he is a “huge geek” - from one of the videos and has a lot of cartoons about gaming and computers in general

I’ll recommend him to fix some of those feeds, I’ll really like to have a feed of all the videos and I’ll kill for one with only the cartoons.

I’ll also recommend you to active permalinks  all those default WP URLs are ugly

So I sat down to clean my old RSS reader feeds and of course my new one too.

I found a bunch of crap so I decided to post some videos that are “worth it”

Suits telling the truth
Heads Up!
How an ExtraLife Comic is made
PMS SURVIVAL TIPS
sparklefriends8 (A little creepy at the beggining)

This is the best ad I have seen in some time, and no it’s not a funny joke or some super expensive stuff. It’s just a small word puzzle.

At first I though it wasn’t real but it turns out that this was actually created for a campaign, Lopez Murphy came out third on the 2003 election, 16% seems very good for a new party and just one year out.

Anyway whoever wrote the text in the ad is very clever, as Fan of Don Lapre ask, why in english? I guess because in Spanish it will be so hard to accomplish something like this:)

First of all this all comes from Larry Wall, yes the guy that made perl. In one of his many books, he said this.

“We will encourage you to develop the three great virtues of a programmer: laziness, impatience, and hubris.” — LarryWall, ProgrammingPerl (1st edition), OreillyAndAssociates
quote stolen from here

Now the concept in question is defined by Larry as follows

Laziness

The quality that makes you go to
great effort to reduce overall energy expenditure. It makes you write
labor-saving programs that other people will find useful, and document
what you wrote so you don’t have to answer so many questions about it.
Hence, the first great virtue of a programmer. Also hence, this book.
See also impatience and hubris. (p.609)

I agree 100% here, programmers are lazy, my rule of thumb is that if you have to do something twice the second one will be a script or program, or if the task is so huge and repetitive I won’t wait until the first manual run.

Now what’s this about good vs bad, it’s a two side story. Good lazy is what Larry defined, nothing more,Bad lazy on the other hand is divided in 2

1. People that don’t understand the laziness virtue
2. Lazy people that think that’s a good thing.

From those #1 is the most problematic since they think that by being lazy (not doing anything for example) they are following Larry’s path, this kind of people is the one you have to turn your back and run, this is the kind that goes to the net downloads some code, doesn’t understands it and asks you to “help them” modify it to do something else (which most of the time is homework), they may be hope for some of them but beware they can be very time consuming always know went to stop trying to safe them.

But #2 is the worst being lazy is the best thing you could be, just because after your done being lazy you haven’t accomplish anything and your X amount of hours older

So why I wrote this? well I got quoted by warchief and for some reason people keep misquoting me on this so here is a reference.

Anyway stop your bad lazy reading stuff on the internet and go do something that express your good laziness.

You got to hear this.

A little background this is a small part of FLOSS weekly, on the interview Chris Dibona, Leo Laporte and Jeremy Allison, now Jeremy is of Samba and they are talking about smb2 which is the new file transfer networking protocol for Vista (the thing under \\ and map drives,etc.

yes you hear it right 1500 packets to delete a file, and all of it just to BEEEEEP Samba.

here is a link to the full episode

http://www.twit.tv/floww14

PS: sorry I forgot to post this went It was relevant

someone to

1. come up with the idea
2. will trash it and notice it’s good
3. that will code the prove of concept
4. that will take the code and make it clean and beautiful
5. make the interface beautiful
6. make the interface functional
7. will organize everyone so we actually ship something

Now in my findings giving a puntiation of 1-3 I’m like this

1. 1
2. 3
3. 1
4. 3
5. 0
6. 2
7. 2

how about you?
which kind of explains why most stuff is just sitting either on my head or my laptop. and will also explain why I have some many unfinish stuff.
so if your the oposite of me please lets work together