Author: BillSaysThis

Twitters for 2011-10-15

  • Sweet! RT @pauldalglish “@Brad_Jones1: Custom #LFC Beats headphones courtesy of @kingjames. Boom! yfrog.com/nzh0jaj”<–How good are these? #
  • Sadly loved the @warblyparker home trial only to learn they don't do progressive lenses #
  • @mathowie you coming to tonight's @hackerdojo party? #
  • @ifttt Can a recipe run daily, not every 15 mins? #
  • @ifttt I'm all ears, is there a doc page? #
  • @ifttt at least a course-grained selector, 15 mins, hour, day, week would be #swell #
  • Wow @hackerdojo is packed tonight, great Expansion Party open house so come on by! #

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“Jewish Problems”

While I rarely post here about Jewish web things I can’t resist with this.

Two (Jewish) researchers have published a paper titled “Jewish Problems” and while you might expect this to be somewhere in the social sciences, that would not be nearly so interesting.

Instead the paper covers a set of questions used by the Math department at Moscow State University in the Soviet era to limit the number of Jewish students accepted.

The paper spawned a healthy discussion on Hacker News–but not about the specific problems of course.

The reason for my post is one pseudonymous comment, my favorite comment on Hacker News in a long time.

In this post, which he starts with “Answering as someone Jewish. . .”, the commenter goes on for a number of paragraphs calmly and logically explaining the (illogical and sad) reasons for most of the historical discrimination against Jews.

Nothing earth-shatteringly original but the simplicity and completeness as well as lack of emotion really made it memorable for me. In this new year, when so many things are decided by shouting and money, I very much appreciated reading this.

Twitters for 2011-10-11

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Recent Programming Finds: JavaScript

While watching the 49ers absolutely destroy the Bucs this afternoon I went spelunking in the Most Watched JavaScript repos on Github. Here are some nice ones which, admittedly, may also fit with my current needs at Zuberance. (Oh yeah, we’re hiring so ping me if you do or want to do Scala with MongoDB or manage the quality of same.)

Twitters for 2011-10-06

  • Feel like @SMFulton3 is trying to say something, never quite does | If HTML5 Kills Blog Format, I Won't Shed Tear http://t.co/vWMfKD3R /@RWW #
  • @bcurren SV Ruby is having a free Backbone + Rails workshop on 6 Nov at Hacker Dojo, I'm looking for sponsors, any interest? #
  • @sprint any chance of ETF help for ATT iPhone switchers? 😉 #
  • Sad to lose Steve Jobs, he made an amazing contribution to us all http://t.co/jMXWtRp7 #rip #

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Twitters for 2011-10-03

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