Category: quotes
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‘Science is not for scientists, but for the world’
This is an article from a Belgian magazine, Knack – all copyright is theirs. I’m just posting it here, because Hannah Arendt (“The banality of evil“) is a fascinating person and I think this article is important enough to be shared in English. https://www.knack.be/nieuws/belgie/wetenschap-is-er-niet-voor-wetenschappers-maar-voor-de-wereld/article-opinion-1807221.html ‘In times of rapidly increasing polarization, it is especially important not…
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How To Report A Bug
From Hacker News to the Greatest Bug I Never Fixed to a wonderful comment in the Perl doc forums: I submitted a proposal to OSCON called “How To Report A Bug” about the social issues involved in reporting and accepting bug reports. Its still pending, but its caused me to do a little writing for…
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This is water
This speech by David Foster Wallace is taken from the web archives. Continuing the eBooks saga… Amazon want to charge you $9.99 for the Kindle version when its available for free. I’m republishing it here because I don’t understand why its buried, and the original post was taken down (I hear the patter of a…
Ian Channing 