Miss Everything...

• You are beautiful. You're the most beautiful thing in the world to me.
• Then treat me that way. I'm always on your side, dad, always. Even when I shouldn't be. But I'm sick of it. Get your shit together before it's too late! I don't care if you and mom never say another kind word to each other, but I'm sick and tired of parenting you both. I'm a fucking kid! I don't know what I'm doing half the time. But I do know this - if you keep cracking jokes and taking another drink and pretending that life is one big, stupid party, you will miss everything.

I miss your smell

• I miss your smell.
• That's it?
• When you left, I couldn't wash the sheets because I didn't want to lose that completely... You. And... it fucked me up for a long time because I would wake up and I'd smell you and I'd think you were there. And that would... My heart would break all over again. I think that's why I go in for the kiss all the time.
• I know, yeah.
• I think I'm going for... another hit.
  

Word of the day: infovore

infovore: A person that has a voracious appetite for information.

Context:

Confronting your ignorance on its own leads to arrogant infovores who never get anything done, while exposing your ignorance without seeing it as a problem to be solved leads to excessive humility and helplessness.

©Apprenticeship Patterns

Quote of the day: Leadership

When I made my presentation for Leadership Gala 2009, I quickly looked for a quote on leadership to support it. I always admired the inspiring quotes from the "cool" Alumni, so I felt that it was my turn and I chose:

Leadership is based on inspiration, not domination; on cooperation, not intimidation.William Arthur Wood

It's funny how sometimes the little dots in your life connect: under the warm summer sun, on a beach in the Danube Delta, my cousin's girlfriend was reading a book that I found interesting, and today I discover a quote - on leadership - that shares the same author with the aforementioned book:

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader. Hermann Hesse

What is the quote on leadership that you like most? How does it sound?

Please everybody... don't!

Today I've been told that if he/she gets the wrong perception, as long as I have my idea well defined, it's his/her problem, not mine. I know it depends, but I have to realize that there is also this possibility...

In some teams in AIESEC we didn't vote, because everybody was supposed to agree with the decision before it was taken...
Until an alumnus said:
"No, we vote! The ones that don't agree will have to live with it."

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby

Hug a developer

Utilizatorul Web isi castiga experienta in alta parte

Am descoperit azi un Top 10 greşeli în Web Design şi acolo am dat peste legea lui Jakob Nielsen referitoare la Experienţa Utilizatorului Web care spune că:

users spend most of their time on other websites.

Asta înseamnă că utilizatorii îşi formează aşteptările referitoare la situl nostru în funcţie de ceea ce le oferă de obicei celelalte situri. Dacă diferenţele sunt mari, situl va fi mai greu de utilizat iar utilizatorii vor pleca!

Totuşi, unde e fina linie între inovaţie si conservatorism?

Leapsa "intelectuala"

Am primit-o de la JO şi chiar mi se pare cea mai interesantă leapşa de până acum. După o traducere liberă, instrucţiunile ar suna aşa:

1. Ia cartea care este cea mai aproape de tine.
2. Deschide-o la pagina 123.
3. Găseşte a 5-a propoziţie/frază.
4. Postează pe blog textul următoarelor 4 propoziţii/fraze să cu aceste instrucţiuni.
5. Nu îndrăzni să scotoceşti prin rafturi după cartea aceea foarte deosebită sau "intelectuală".
6. Dă mai leapşa departe la alţi 6 prieteni.

La mine, răspunsul e din Programming Collective Intelligence şi sună cam aşa:

You can now test the function in your Python session. Reload the module and rerun the sampletrain method, since creating a new instance of the class will wipe out its existing training:

» reload(docclass)
module 'docclass' from 'docclass.pyc'
» cl=docclass.classifier(docclass.getwords)
» docclass.sampletrain(cl)
» cl.weightedprob('money','good',cl.fprob)
0.25
» docclass.sampletrain(cl)
» cl.weightedprob('money','good',cl.fprob)
0.16666666666666666

As you can see, rerunning the sampletrain method makes the classifier even more confident of the various word probabilities as they get pulled further from their assumed probability.
The assumed probability of 0.5 was chosen simply because it is halfway between 0 and 1.

Mai departe, sunt curios ce vor raspunde:

• Ana-Maria
• Andi
• Simona
  
• Alex
• Anca
• şi iarăşi Anca.

A vision on marriage... by Chris Rock

Bill Maher interviews Chris Rock on real time show aired March 2007. It's mostly about Chris' movie I think I love my wife.

• Only married people can understand the movie.
• Only married people could understand how you can be miserable and happy at the exact same time.
  

I have seen the movie, I have enjoyed it, and I yet again realized that it's sometimes true that In marriage no one can hear you scream.

Dupa noapte vine zi

Ei, după noapte vine zi, cât ai vrea în loc s-o ții, după jale bucurii, viața nu trece-ntr-o zi, omule!

I will follow

There isn't an ocean too deep,
A mountain so high it can keep,
Keep me away...

You Are Never Alone

Like hieroglyphic inscriptions, to be decoded by those who ain't frozen

[...]

To live in the past, is to ride your life away

Guerrilla o da in bara

Dintre toate radiourile pe care le-am ascultat pana acum, Guerrilla e pe primul loc intre preferintele mele. Asa se face ca de luni pana vineri, intre 5PM-8PM il ascult pe Bogdan Serban si muzica aleasa de la Guerrilla Logout.

Bogdan Serban ne spune ce mai este de facut cu orele ce-au ramas din zi, intr-un interval in care majoritatea dintre noi isi inchid calculatoarele si, in ciuda patronatului, sparg usa biroului, bagand serviciul in starea de Logout.

In seara asta, pe la 7 fara 20, mi-a fost dat sa ascult o stire despre niste tricouri Wi-Fi... Eu, ca un geek wannabe ce ma aflu deja ciulisem urechile! Doar ca ce mi-a fost dat sa aud mi-a redefinit putin punctul de referinta:

cica exista variante diferite, la care se aprind ledurile fie la un semnal de 802.11 biti fie la unul de 802.11 giga...

Pai frate, eu chiar nu stiam ca exista o diferenta atat de mare intre standardele 802.11b, respectiv 802.11g. :D

Eh... oameni suntem... sortiti imperfectiunii...

A thousand miles away...

Hey there Delilah
Don't you worry about the distance
I'm right there if you get lonely
Give this song another listen
Close your eyes
Listen to my voice it's my disguise
I'm by your side

A Vision of Students Today

What is it like to be a student nowadays?

Found thanks to Radu.

Je ne veux pas travailler

Déjà j'ai connu le parfum de l'amour
Un millions de roses
N'embaumeraient pas autant
Maintenant une seule fleur
Dans mes entourages
Me rend malade

Karmacoma jamaica an' roma

You sure you wanna be with me I've nothing to give
Don't lie and say this lovin's best
Don't leave us in emotional place
Take a walk take a rest now take a rest

Massive Attack – Fake the Aroma

aPaw: When Cluj comes marching in!

When Cluj comes marching in!
Originally uploaded by Marius B

Part of the old Iasi coming back all the way from Cluj! The title was inspired fom one of AIESEC Cluj's shouts, also inspired (I think) from Louis Armstrong's When the saints go marching in:

He was born poor, died rich, and never hurt anyone along the way...

Fragilitate

• De l-ai rupt?
• Avea gust de lemn... De ce a trebuit sa fie slab, acum cand am avut nevoie? Trebuia sa reziste, sa nu se rupa...

...sa revii in viata mea

...și dorul tău să-l port doar eu
iar altcuiva să nu-l poți da...