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“Being miserable and treating other people like dirt is every New Yorker's God-given right.”
— Mayor Lenny Clotch, Ghostbusters II
Tagged: Ghostbusters
“You are right, in one sense, when you speak of honesty. An effort, anyway, with the usual human or feminine retractions. To retreat is not feminine, male, or trickery. It is a terror before utter destruction. What we analyze inexorably, will it die? Will June die? Will our love die, suddenly, instantaneously if you should make a caricature of it? Henry, there is danger in too much knowledge. You have a passion for absolute knowledge. That is why people will hate you.

And sometimes I believe your relentless analysis of June leaves something out, which is your feeling for her beyond knowledge, or in spite of knowledge. I often see how you sob over what you destroy, how you want to stop and just worship; and you do stop, and then a moment later you are at it again with a knife, like a surgeon.

What will you do after you have revealed all there is to know about June? Truth. What ferocity in your quest of it. You destroy and you suffer. In some strange way I am not with you, I am against you. We are destined to hold two truths. I love you and I fight you. And you, the same. We will be stronger for it, each of us, stronger with our love and our hate. When you caricature and nail down and tear apart, I hate you. I want to answer you, not with weak or stupid poetry but with a wonder as strong as your reality. I want to fight your surgical knife with all the occult and magical forces of the world.

I want to both combat you and submit to you, because as a woman I adore your courage, I adore the pain in engenders, I adore the struggle you carry in yourself, which I alone fully realize, I adore your terrifying sincerity. I adore your strength. You are right. The world is to be caricatured, but I know, too, how much you can love what you caricature. How much passion there is in you! It is that I feel in you. I do not feel the savant, the revealer, the observer. When I am with you, it is the blood I sense.

What is more touchingly real than your room. The iron bed, the hard pillow, the single glass. And all sparkling like a Fourth of July illumination because of my joy, the soft billowing joy of the womb you inflamed. The room is full of the incandescence you poured into me. The room will explode when I sit at the side of your bed and you talk to me. I don’t hear your words: your voice reverberated against my body like another kind of caress, another kind of penetration. I have no power over your voice. It comes straight from you to me. I could stuff my ears ad it would find its way into my blood and make it rise.

I am impervious to the flat visual attack of things. I see your khaki shirt hung up on a peg. It is your shirt and I could see you in it – you, wearing a color I detest. But I see you, not the khaki shirt. Something stirs in me as I look at it, and it is certainly the human you. It is a vision of the human you revealing an amazing delicacy to me. It is your khaki shirt and you are the man who is the axis of my world now. I revolve around the richness of your being.

"Come closer to me, come closer. I promise you it will be beautiful.”

You keep your promise.

Listen, I do not believe that I alone feel that we are living something new because it is new to me. I do not see in your writing any of the feelings you have shown me or any of the phrases you have used. When I read your writing, I wondered, What episode are we going to repeat?

You carry your vision, and I mine, and they have mingled. If at moments I see the world as you see it (because they are Henry’s whores I love them), you will sometimes see it as I do.”
— Anaïs Nin, A Literate Passion
Tagged: Love Letter, Passion, Muse
“When Facebook makes something a priority, there is a huge opportunity for fast moving, nimble, technical and hacker minded startups who can work fast enough to deconstruct the algorithms that determine what gets placed in the feed and optimize for that. The short term winners will do just that and see extraordinary growth and reach. The long term winners will build on this reach and align their interests with Facebook’s. They will create highly engagement experiences that are valued by Facebook’s users on top of their reach. They won’t assume that this window will be open forever, and will build their own channels to communicate with their users. Many will eventually alleviate their Facebook dependency over time.”
— Jeremy Liew, On your marks. Get set. Go. The fourth Facebook goldrush just started.
Tagged: Facebook, Facebook Referral Traffic, The Present Of Media
“When that traffic drops, one way publishers can make up the difference is by paying Facebook to surface their stories in people’s feeds. “People are going to have to buy traffic from Facebook to level out the peaks and valleys,” one of the publishers said. “Long story short, they’re putting a vice around people’s necks.””
— Lucia Moses, Digiday, Uh-oh, some publishers see a drop in Facebook traffic
Tagged: Facebook, Digital media, Facebook Referral Traffic, The Present Of Media
“Some publishers saw their Facebook traffic nosedive last month, even as Facebook pushes initiatives designed to get users to stay in its app.”
— Digiday, Lucia Moses, Uh-oh, some publishers see a drop in Facebook traffic
Tagged: Facebook, Digital media, Facebook Referral Traffic, The Present Of Media
“We are building for a future where Slack is dwarfed by the aggregate value of the companies built on top of it.”
— Slack API, The Slack Platform Roadmap
Tagged: Slack, Product Design, Platform
“Today, developers are increasingly turning to managed services for toolsets and infrastructure requirements — tasks traditionally managed by DevOps teams. AWS and other managed service providers have allowed for a dramatically simplified way of working, reducing complexity on the developer end and, thus, allowing them to focus on software development instead of installing databases and ensuring processes like backup, redundancy and uptime.”
— Andrey Akselrod, Managed services killed DevOps
Tagged: AWS, Ops, SASS
“Instead of implementing outbound link tracking ourselves, we used the autotrack plugin to do this for us. Autotrack comes with a set of plugins for tracking common user interactions. Theres a bunch of things it can help with, but the main one we wanted was the outboundLinkTracker plugin.”
— Chris Coyier, Learning to Use Google Analytics More Effectively at CodePen
Tagged: Google Analytics, Analytics, CodePen, Frontend
“The easiest way to send custom dimension data with your hits is to set their values on the tracker object. Since all hits sent from a tracker include all the key/value data it's currently storing, setting custom dimensions on the tracker will ensure those values get sent with all future hits.”
— Chris Coyier, Learning to Use Google Analytics More Effectively at CodePen
Tagged: CodePen, Google Analytics, Analytics, Frontend
“ What happened to the days when tech companies were hiring good engineers. Nowadays this political correctness is going way way way over the top of common sense.”
— Unknown, Men of Designer News
Tagged: Sexism, Tech, Designer News, Diversity
“Erlang promotes the least amount of error handling in favor of quickly crashing processes. To address error recovery, Erlang defines the concept a supervision tree—a hierarchy of watchdog processes whose only responsibility is to restart failed worker processes.”
— Peter Hizalev, Why Erlang Matters
Tagged: Erlang, Programming
“Erlang designers made a great tradeoff from the outset: immutability and single assignment (very uncommon in conventional programming languages), enforced by the VM.”
— Peter Hizalev, Why Erlang Matters
Tagged: Erlang, Programming, Immutability
“I've been waiting to meet you.”
— Lana Del Rey, Be Air
Tagged: Fate
“Twisting off to the sun, all my missions float away, I've got no Houston to whine down to, I've got no protocol. My soul is celestial-bound.”
— Ken Andrews, Another Space Song
Tagged: Moving Away, Song Lyrics
“You know that I’m two levels above you baby. 
Talking crazy ain’t gonna leave you nothing but choked. 
And that jealousy is gonna leave you broke. 
So the only thing left now for these cats is God.
And you know we’re too hard for these cats, 
I’m going win cause I’m too smart for these cats.”
— Puff Daddy, Victory
Tagged: Rap Genius, Rap Poetry
“With everyone’s interests misaligned, the hoped-for network effects won’t materialize.”
— Alex Magnin, Medium For Publishers Will Be A Hard Sell
Tagged: Digital Advertising, Medium, Network Effects
“Though we may be sober now, we will never be clean.”
— Bianca Sparacino, We love certain people like addictions
Tagged: Weight, Moving On, History Is A Nightmare, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“Narratives in which one thing follows from the previous thing are usually imaginary.”
— Sarah Manguso, The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir
Tagged: Narrative Fallacy
“the Facebook codebase has over 20,000 React components, and that’s not even counting React Native”
— Dan Abramov, React v15.0
Tagged: React, React v15.0, Frontend
“React 15 no longer emits extra nodes around the text, making the DOM output much cleaner.”
— Dan Abramov, React v15.0
Tagged: React, React v15.0
“We’re switching to major versions to indicate that we have been using React in production for a long time.”
— Dan Abramov, React v15.0
Tagged: React, React v15.0
“We are now using document.createElement instead of setting innerHTML when mounting components. This allows us to get rid of the data-reactid attribute on every node and make the DOM lighter. Using document.createElement is also faster in modern browsers and fixes a number of edge cases related to SVG elements and running multiple copies of React on the same page.”
— Dan Abramov, React v15.0
Tagged: React
“Search engines and social networks are always trying to crawl your pages, but they only see the javascript tags...We render your javascript in a browser, save the static HTML, and you return that to the crawlers!”
— Prender.io, How it Works
Tagged: Angular, SEO, SASS, Phantom JS
“The idea is simple: we’re going to have our application running from our application port, and then a PhantomJS instance of our application running from a snapshot port. Requests from non-bots will be served directly from our application port (it doesn’t matter what port that is), and requests from bots and search engines will be served pre-rendered html content via the snapshot port.”
— Jesse Lawson, Diy Angular JS Seo with Phantom JS ( The easy way! )
Tagged: Phantom JS, Angular, SEO
“You are ancient ideas in a mortal body.”
— Nikita Gill, If You Are Still Fighting But Losing Hope, Read This
Tagged: History Within Us, You Are The Universe, Conservation, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“This is a confession: I love you. Last Sunday in church— bad you, who refused to come to see our beautiful new windows!— only last Sunday, my dear one, when I asked the Lord what to do about it, I was told to act as I am acting now. You see, there is no alternative. I have loved you from the minute I saw you. I am a passionate and lonely woman and you are the love of my life. 

Now, my dearest, dearest, mon cher, cher monsieur, you have read this; now you know. So, will you please, at once, pack and leave. This is a landlady’s order. I am dismissing a lodger. I am kicking you out. Go! Scram! Departez! I shall be back by dinnertime, if I do eighty both ways and don’t have an accident (but what would it matter?), and I do not wish to find you in the house. Please, please, leave at once, now, do not even read this absurd note to the end. Go. Adieu. 

The situation, chéri, is quite simple. Of course, I know with absolute certainty that I am nothing to you, nothing at all. Oh yes, you enjoy talking to me (and kidding poor me), you have grown fond of our friendly house, of the books I like, of my lovely garden, even of Lo’s noisy ways— but I am nothing to you. Right? Right. Nothing to you whatever. But if, after reading my “confession,” you decided, in your dark romantic European way, that I am attractive enough for you to take advantage of my letter and make a pass at me, then you would be a criminal— worse than a kidnaper who rapes a child. You see, chéri. If you decided to stay, if I found you at home (which I know I won’t— and that’s why I am able to go on like this), the fact of your remaining would only mean one thing: that you want me as much as I do you: as a lifelong mate; and that you are ready to link up your life with mine forever and ever and be a father to my little girl. 

Let me rave and ramble on for a teeny while more, my dearest, since I know this letter has been by now torn by you, and its pieces (illegible) in the vortex of the toilet. My dearest, mon très, très cher, what a world of love I have built up for you during this miraculous June! I know how reserved you are, how “British.” Your old-world reticence, your sense of decorum may be shocked by the boldness of an American girl! You who conceal your strongest feelings must think me a shameless little idiot for throwing open my poor bruised heart like this. In years gone by, many disappointments came my way. Mr. Haze was a splendid person, a sterling soul, but he happened to be twenty years my senior, and— well, let us not gossip about the past. My dearest, your curiosity must be well satisfied if you have ignored my request and read this letter to the bitter end. Never mind. Destroy it and go. Do not forget to leave the key on the desk in your room. And some scrap of address so that I could refund the twelve dollars I owe you till the end of the month. Good-bye, dear one. Pray for me— if you ever pray.”
— Charlotte Haze, Lolita (Vintage International)
Tagged: Love Letters, Subtle Comedy
“Since a subtle interaction exists between sound and shape, I see q as browner than k, while s is not the light blue of c, but a curious mixture of azure and mother-of-pearl.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited (Vintage International)
Tagged: Azure, The Color of Letters, What Color Is Q?, What Color Is K?, Literary Synesthesia
“It is astounding how little the ordinary person notices butterflies.”
— Vladimir Nabokov,
Tagged: Butterflies, The Beauty Flies By, Seeing Seeing
“Lenin had been a risk-taker. Trotsky had been one, too, until Stalin had made him the Bill Gates of the Soviet Union, the excoriated crypto-reactionary. But Stalin himself hadn’t needed to take so many risks, because terror worked better. Although, to a man, the new revolutionaries all claimed to worship risk-taking— a relative term in any case, since the risk in question was of losing some venture capitalist’s money, at worst of wasting a few parentally funded years, rather than, say, the risk of being shot or hanged— the most successful of them had instead followed Stalin’s example. Like the old politburos, the new politburo styled itself as the enemy of the elite and the friend of the masses, dedicated to giving consumers what they wanted, but to Andreas (who, admittedly, had never learned how to want stuff) it seemed as if the Internet was governed more by fear: the fear of unpopularity and uncoolness, the fear of missing out, the fear of being flamed or forgotten. In the Republic, people had been terrified of the state; under the New Regime, what terrified them was the state of nature: kill or be killed, eat or be eaten. In both cases, the fear was entirely reasonable; indeed, it was the product of reason. The full name of the Republic’s ideology had been Scientific Socialism, a name pointing backward to la Terreur (the Jacobins, with their marvelously efficient guillotine, may have been executioners, but they fashioned themselves as executors of Enlightenment rationality) and forward to the terrors of technocracy, which sought to liberate humanity from its humanness through the efficiency of markets and the rationality of machines. This was the truly eternal fixture of illegitimate revolution, this impatience with irrationality, this wish to be clean of it once and for all.”
— Jonathan Franzen, Purity: A Novel
Tagged: Risk Taking, Seduction of Unreason, Terror, Web Economics
“It was Andreas’s gift, maybe his greatest, to find singular niches in totalitarian regimes. The Stasi was the best friend he’d ever had— until he met the Internet... The New Regime even recycled the old Republic’s buzzwords, collective, collaborative.”
— Jonathan Franzen, Purity: A Novel
Tagged: The Night After The Revolution, Inherent Control

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