Understanding Rust futures by going way too deep. #rust

Google Mail was cool. Free mail! Huge storage! Excellent spam filtering! — Gmail slowly disappearing from my life

Same move for me. See also Hasta la Vista Gmail.

Mathematics has no side effects.
Math cannot modify the value of a variable–either global or local. It cannot mutate an element in an array. And, a mathematical function always returns the same value for the same input.
The literal rendering of mathematics into code cannot contain side effects.
Mathematics is a purely functional language. — Translating math into code

The web is a continuum. It’s like my old analog TV. It’s not exactly like DTV. Nor can it match it in some areas of functionality. It does, however, have other strengths. When digital TV fails, it fails completely. Analog TV, to use parlance of the web, degrades gracefully. The web could be similar, if we choose to make it so. It could be “the analog” web in contrast to “the digital” platforms. Perhaps in our hurry to replicate and mirror native platforms, we’re forgetting the killer strength of the web: universal accessibility. — The Analog Web

Evaluating Compression with Pareto, Docker and Gnuplot.

The Mathematics of 2048: Optimal Play with Markov Decision Processes.

Burning out and quitting.

Ranking is a farce. Apparent performance is actually attributable mostly to the system that the individual works in, not to the individual himself. — Statistical process control after W. Edwards Deming

Why are hyperlinks blue?. TL;DR Mosaic former project use blue in its release notes.

Why I recommend CGI instead of web frameworks.