a quiz question

Last night, while on the treadmill, I was browsing through tv channels. "Are you smarter than... (something)" - a quiz. A $250k question. They show the picture of Khrushchev, and ask, who the hell is this communist leader.

The answer, my friend, was Nikita Khrushchev.

the real end of paper books

So, I went to the gorgeous Borders in Palo Alto; spent 10 minutes there trying to find "computer books" department. It was on the second floor. I was looking for Real World Haskell. Lots of books - Zen of CSS, EJB patterns, Java for beginners, JavaScript for beginners, PHP for beginners, Visual .NET++ for the Indians, Manipulating Bits in C++ (for the Chinese), How To Become A Manager and Fuck Those Idiots Programmers... okay, and a couple of books on Scala. No Haskell (for the Russians). No Scheme. No Smalltalk. No ML. No OCaml. No CLU. Order online.

Sure I can order online. Why the fuck then I need Borders? I'll order it on Amazon, single-click, you know. Amazon knows my id, no need to enter your address and phone number after the beep.

But wait. Look at the books's website: http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/why-functional-programming-why-haskell.html. There are comments! So that if I do not get something, I just ask, and someone answers.

So why would I need a paper copy? Probably the only reason would be to cut on carbs to decrease the CO₂ concentration: every tree cut gives way to new growth that takes CO₂ out of the atmosphere. So there.

Except that I like it when it's warm. Both from CO₂ and from my computer on my lap.

P.S. If you consider this post racist, I just want to remind that I actually recognize only one race. Guess which one? Human race.

μWTF

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android jvm rumor

I don't think I believe it.

I was told by a colleague (whom I consider a little bit mentally deranged) that in Android, you are not supposed to use interfaces, but rather abstract classes, since an interface adds one level of indirection to the method calling sequence.

Can anybody confirm or deny?

movie to watch

Lars and the real girl

Словами не объяснить, это надо смотреть.