Month: July 2013

What’s the most intellectual joke you know?

What’s the most intellectual joke you know?

This Reddit discussion is golden.  Not only you get the collection of rather specifically humored jokes, but also for those that you don’t get there is always an explanation.  Here are a few that I liked:

Q: What does the “B” in Benoit B. Mandelbrot stand for?
A: Benoit B. Mandelbrot.

Entropy isn’t what it used to be

A good variation on the 10 kinds of people – those who understand binary and those who don’t:

There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.

Something in the Louis C.K. style:

They used to laugh when I said I wanted to be a comedian. Well they’re not laughing now!

A couple Freudian ones:

How may Freudians does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
Two; One to screw in the lightbulb and one to hold the penis… I mean ladder.

and

according to Sigmund Freud, what comes between fear and sex?
Fünf.

WordPress plugin : Google+ Comments

WordPress plugin : Google+ Comments

This looks very interesting.

google plus comments

 

There is some overlapping functionality with Social plugin, which actually brings comments from social networks back into the WordPress installation.  That’s a bit more useful in longer term, when social networks come and go.  Social also brings in likes from Facebook, and retweets and favorites from Twitter.  However for the discussion flow, this plugin might be a better fit.  I’ll probably try it on for a few days just to see how it goes.

Toni Schneider – Automattic As A Distributed Work Force

Toni Schneider – Automattic As A Distributed Work Force

Lots of Automattic employees within 7-9 months tell Toni that they can’t imagine going back to a regular job.

Automattic has been 100% distributed since day 1.

180 people, 28 countries, 138 cities make up the Automattic workforce.

Interesting point about people working from home. The assumption is that people would goof off. But Toni mentions how they have the opposite problem of people working too much.

This sounds awesome, but, personally, I don’t think I have the discipline to work this way.  I need to be in the office and I need face-to-face time.  I still appreciate the flexibility Automattic offers though.