“The probables for India’s Twenty20 campaign not only include Irfan Pathan but also his elder brother Yusuf.

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

“It used to be a fun trick to go through pg’s essays and look for axed ideas in comments. Too bad it doesn’t work here.

“Javascript does stuff, HTML displays stuff. When you want the browser to do things (instead of merely displaying dumbly what it receives) and when these things themselves involve a lot of displaying, you end up writing HTML through Javascript. It’s a little like writing French through English (André went to Marie and said: ”Bonjour! Ça va, ma chérie?”) and just as frustrating, particularly because you sometimes have to narrate whole scenes in French (pidgin tends to be painfully verbose)..

“Under Malaysia’s Islamic law, having Muslim parents makes one a Muslim and, as such, one is not allowed to change one’s faith or marry a non-Muslim.

“Low back pain is the #2 reason that Americans see their doctor — second only to colds and flus.

“The way to keep conversations meaningful is to keep conversations separate.

“Google employees get distracted during conversation by mentally rereading their NDA and figuring out what they can say, can’t say, and can’t say that they can’t say. It just gets worse if you keep talking and extrapolating (that is to say, holding a conversation) because you’re giving them O(n^2 interrelations + m potential suggestions from them) more topics to analyze. I’ve never quite managed to crash them, but I imagine it’s entirely possible given the NP nature of conversations.

“How long will it be before there’s a Gitpedia, where everyone has their own custom version, pulling from the authors and editors they trust and respect?

“Having a better understanding of the future than everyone else is a great reason to invest. It’s also a really lousy reason to start a company. Much better to wait until you’ve discovered something new about human nature. Something that makes your assumptions more accurate for more people, more of the time, in more places. Something more useful. Something more actionable.