Interesting Links for 25-02-2013

[andrewducker]

• Why the way tax is discussed is so appalling.
  (tags: uk tax viaJennieRigg )
• Code Mocking: Totally a real thing.
  (tags: culture coding )
• Burning calcium supplements summons Cthulhu
  (tags: cthulhu video science )
• Male soldiers in Germany are growing breasts - but just on the left side.
  (tags: breasts germany military )
• Computers prescribe better

Comments

[momentsmusicaux]

Code mocking: hell yes, with some of the awful awful code I've sometimes been handed.

[ashfae]

I honestly believed the breasts on only one side thing was a hoax at first. How thoroughly strange the body is!

"legacy" code

[apostle_of_eris]

A techie joke which has become almost a personal test of programmer authenticity is the riddle
"Why did it take God only six days to create the entire universe?"

Ab vafgnyyrq onfr.

Re: "legacy" code

[andrewducker]

Greenfield development - living the dream.

[apostle_of_eris]

If you're living your life as you choose, regardless of formulas, stereotypes, or naughty bits, you're doing it feminist.
Pieces like this re-remind me how immense the counter-propaganda has been and continues to be.

[ajr]

Students to e-textbooks: no thanks

That article misses a big - if not possibly the biggest - motivating factor behind preferring paper over electrons. Textbooks are expensive. With paper books, the expense can be ameliorated by selling the textbook after you finish the course, typically to one of the students starting the course in the following term. Ebooks? Not so much.

[andrewducker]

Also, apparently the DRM on most academic ebooks is ridiculous, so they're actually harder to read than a plain PDF/ebook would be.