Erik Svedäng eriksvedang

"Scar Tissues Make Relationships Wear Out"

04/26/2103. From a lecture by Professor John Ousterhout at Stanford, class CS142.

This is my most touchy-feely thought for the weekend. Here’s the basic idea: It’s really hard to build relationships that last for a long time. If you haven’t discovered this, you will discover this sooner or later. And it's hard both for personal relationships and for business relationships. And to me, it's pretty amazing that two people can stay married for 25 years without killing each other.

[Laughter]

> But honestly, most professional relationships don't last anywhere near that long. The best bands always seem to break up after 2 or 3 years. And business partnerships fall apart, and there's all these problems in these relationships that just don't last. So, why is that? Well, in my view, it’s relationships don't fail because there some single catastrophic event to destroy them, although often there is a single catastrophic event around the the end of the relation

FreeBSD on a MacBook Pro

Since 2008 or 2009 I work on Apple hardware and OS: back then I grew tired of Linux desktop (which is going to be MASSIVE NEXT YEAR, at least since 2001), and switched to something that Just Works. Six years later, it less and less Just Works, started turning into spyware and nagware, and doesn't need much less maintenance than Linux desktop — at least for my work, which is system administration and software development, probably it is better for the mythical End User person. Work needed to get software I need running is not less obscure than work I'd need to do on Linux or othe Unix-like system. I am finding myself turning away from GUI programs that I used to appreciate, and most of the time I use OSX to just run a terminal, Firefox, and Emacs. GUI that used to be nice and unintrusive, got annoying. Either I came full circle in the last 15 years of my computer usage, or the OSX experience degraded in last 5 years. Again, this is from a sysadmin/developer ki

	type term =
	\| Lam of (term -> term)
	\| Pi of term * (term -> term)
	\| Appl of term * term
	\| Ann of term * term
	\| FreeVar of int
	\| Star
	\| Box

	let unfurl lvl f = f (FreeVar lvl)

	#!/bin/bash

	# this forces Arena into full screen mode on startup, set back to 3 to reset
	# note that if you go into the Arena "Graphics" preference panel, it will reset all of these
	# and you will need to run these commands again
	defaults write com.wizards.mtga "Screenmanager Fullscreen mode" -integer 0
	defaults write com.wizards.mtga "Screenmanager Resolution Use Native" -integer 0

	# you can also replace the long complicated integer bit with any other scaled 16:9
	# resolution your system supports.

	(require 'org)

	(setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil)
	(setq org-display-inline-images t)
	(setq org-redisplay-inline-images t)
	(setq org-startup-with-inline-images "inlineimages")

	(setq default-frame-alist
	(append (list '(width . 72) '(height . 40))))

	#include <stdio.h>

	/*
	* Calculates what Ada Lovelace labeled "B7", which today we would call the 8th
	* Bernoulli number.
	*/
	int main(int argc, char* argv[])
	{
	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
	// Data

	{-# LANGUAGE TypeOperators #-}
	{-# LANGUAGE GeneralizedNewtypeDeriving #-}

	import Control.Applicative
	import Data.Char
	import Data.List (intersperse)
	import Data.Monoid hiding (All, Any)
	import Data.Foldable hiding (all, any)
	import Prelude hiding (all, any)

	#define true 1
	#define false 0
	#ifndef SPEED
	#define SPEED 2
	#endif
	#ifndef CYCLEMODE
	#define CYCLEMODE CONCERT
	#endif
	#ifndef SEQ
	#define SEQ 0

	4 round game - Standard
	=========================
	Average: 6.23449
	Min: 1 , Max: 30
	00: 0 / 0

	01: 311 / 0.0311

	02: 24755 / 2.4755
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Erik Svedäng eriksvedang

"Scar Tissues Make Relationships Wear Out"

FreeBSD on a MacBook Pro

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