{"id":1882,"date":"2010-08-02T22:00:45","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T21:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=1882"},"modified":"2010-08-02T22:00:45","modified_gmt":"2010-08-02T21:00:45","slug":"bookmarks_for_july_22nd_through_august_2nd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2010\/08\/02\/bookmarks_for_july_22nd_through_august_2nd\/","title":{"rendered":"Bookmarks for July 22nd through August 2nd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some fresh bookmarks from delicious.com<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.antipope.org\/charlie\/blog-static\/2010\/08\/space-cadets.html\">Charles Stross: Space Cadets<\/a> &#8211; Why colonizing space would be fundamentally different from colonizing the Wild West, and why the libertarian-leaning people who like to talk about space colonization wouldn&#039;t like the reality.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/neuroanthropology.net\/2010\/07\/21\/life-without-language\/\">Life without language<\/a> &#8211; The case of a profoundly deaf Mexican immigrant who grew up in a house with hearing parents who could not teach him sign language. At the age of 27 he still had no language.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/771\/\">xkcd: Period Speech<\/a> &#8211; <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.m3p.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/07\/23\/bad-code-isnt-technical-debt-its-an-unhedged-call-option\/\">Bad code isn&rsquo;t Technical Debt, it&rsquo;s an unhedged Call Option<\/a> &#8211; Call options are a better model than debt for cruddy code because they capture the unpredictability. If I slap in an a feature without cleaning up then I get the benefit immediately. If I never see that code again, then I&rsquo;m ahead and, in retrospect, it would have been foolish to have spent time cleaning it up. On the other hand, if a radical new feature comes in that I have to do, all those quick fixes suddenly become very expensive to work with.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=stzmHm6eF-0&amp;feature=player_embedded\">YouTube &#8211; Domino&#039;s Pulling the Cheese<\/a> &#8211; All the work (and all the tricks) that go into shooting a pizza ad. Tweezers, screws, blowtorches&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some fresh bookmarks from delicious.com Charles Stross: Space Cadets &#8211; Why colonizing space would be fundamentally different from colonizing the Wild West, and why the libertarian-leaning people who like to talk about space colonization wouldn&#039;t like the reality. Life without language &#8211; The case of a profoundly deaf Mexican immigrant who grew up in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,75,592,126,585,76,61,593,25,472,382,35,581,495,579,578,197,156,365,394,591,580,586,178],"class_list":["post-1882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-favourites_on_the_web","tag-advertising","tag-bookmarks","tag-colonization","tag-comics","tag-deafness","tag-delicious","tag-development","tag-exploration","tag-food","tag-funny","tag-humour","tag-language","tag-languages","tag-linguistics","tag-photography","tag-pizza","tag-politics","tag-programming","tag-society","tag-software","tag-space","tag-technicaldebt","tag-thought","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1882"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1900,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882\/revisions\/1900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}