Tumbly goodness, page
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Kottke
says a tumblelog is a quick and dirty stream
of consciousness… with more than just links.
Anarchaia was the first, but there are many copies. And they
have a plan.
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There’s a Dunkin’ Donuts for every 7,389 residents in my home state of Massachusetts (SvN). In fact,
There are 269 Dunkin’ stores or kiosks within a 15 mile radius of Boston proper
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Tony pointed out a neat idea to me. Some organizations are good at listening. Some are good at talking. A few are even good at both.
But having a dialogue is different. It's about engaging in (sometimes) uncomfortable conversations that enable both sides to grow and change.
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Spending to save —
And if you really want to help fight AIDS in Africa, instead of buying that (RED) Gap t-shirt for which Gap will donate 50% of its profit to The Global Fund, buy a cheaper one at American Apparel and send the $13 difference to the Global Fund yourself.
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It’s quite flattering to be cited in the same breath with Tim Bray and Neal Stephenson. Actually, I inadvertently sat next to Tim during Sam Ruby’s talk at last year’s ETech, but didn’t introduce myself — I was too fanboy-starstruck to say anything. #
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ECMAScript 4 committee wiki, including all sorts of juicy proglang geekery. (via Brad.)
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trevicate (v): to end written communication abruptly, in the manner of Trevor the Vampire. Formed from ‘trevor’ and ‘truncate’, and inspired by the following output from a MacPorts install of PHP (from Brad):
---> Installing php5 5.2.1_1+darwin_8+macosx If this is your first install, you might want
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Erin and I ran into this while walking around the neighborhood the other day.
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Curt Schilling has a blog.
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Those outside the Ruby community have occasionally remarked that the culture seems, well, a little weird. They’re wrong; in fact it’s extremely weird.
— Tim Bray
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I have to say that as a guy with a CS degree myself, I find it unseemly when computer geeks whine about unfair competition from foreigners who have the nerve to be willing to do their jobs for less pay than them. If there’s anything “unfair” about the world labor market, it’s the fact that there are millions of competent engineers who, due to the accident of birth and Western countries’ restrictive immigration policies, are not able to utilize their engineering talents to the fullest. It’s far more “unfair” to an Indian engineer to force him to stay in India, where programming jobs are few and far between, then it is to allow him into the United States and “force” an American engineer to compete with him on a level playing field.
— Tim Lee
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And the first person I’ll call for a job interview? The one who Googled the answer and e-mailed me a link to it. Because they proved they can find the shortest path from problem to solution, and they’re not afraid to use other people’s code.
— Assaf Arkin, on FizzBuzz
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I remember years ago when every project wasn’t a “rush” project. Those were the days.
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Jon presents the WS-* party line that REST is all well and good when you’re doing simple point-to-point stuff; but when you have sophisticated policy-based security that you need to manage across a network fabric rich with intermediaries, you need more, and that’s what WS-* is for.
Well yes, except for that kind of policy-driven intermediary-rich environment remains, more or less, science fiction; I personally have never observed such a thing actually working, and I have little faith that the WS-* theorists, meeting in their invitation-only back rooms, cooking up and superseding specs, are going to get it right first time based on zero real-world experience. Particularly with an abomination like WSDL in at the very core.
Hey Jon, our criticisms of WS-* are specific and have to do with issues of process and stability and technical quality and a demonstrated lack of interoperability. It is badly-engineered technology, using it will increase the likelihood that your project fails, and it is not suitable for use by conscientious IT professionals.
— Tim Bray (emphasis his)
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Crucially, good user-centered designers look at a problem from the point of view of the user, not the priorities of system, institution or organisation. You could say that user-centred design is a political standpoint in itself.
— Jennie Winhall (via Bokardo)
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Nowadays, security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally. I dare anybody to do that once a month on the Windows machine.
— Bill Gates, via Simon Willison
Maybe Bill isn’t smoking crack; perhaps someone installed Ubuntu Vista on his machine.
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There’s something magical about breathing new life into old hardware, hardware that you had given up on. I don’t know quite how to describe it. It’s very… tender.
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