bhiggins

what if you like the experience of buying a possession?

this amounts to a bunch of whining over the fact that "at present, on various platforms, it’s true that the full capabilities of the platform are not exposed to web technology based applications, particularly via the browser"

will you have to write different code to make the best app for different platforms? yes, you most likely will. especially if you want to use platform-specific features. just get over it and get to work.

Who cares what Sean Parker thinks, what's Shawn Fanning up to?

Smalltalk is like Libertarianism. It allows for those who find reality too difficult or hard to understand an escape to an ideology that is simple, elegant, and wrong.

Did you know that only two, maybe three of those datastores are any good? And did you know that of those three, they're not designed for every workload?

Alan Kay and Steve Jobs go way back...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Alto http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective-C http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynabook

That said, Smalltalk is overrated.

And how would you recommend that the US tell Ireland to change its laws?

See also: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/57f8d7e0-daf4-11df-a5bb-00144feabd...

Right, we should all be so grateful to Google that they're paying any taxes at all. Thank you, Google, for the 2.4%! Thank you! In return, let's have all the corporate-friendly policies that the government funds be paid for by individual tax payers and smaller, non-international companies. What a great plan! Everyone else can hide behind "fiduciary responsibility" (possibly the smallest fig-leaf there ever was) and a quote from some random judge.

arc doesn't even pass its own challenge. "link unknown or expired"... great.

whoa, dark art alert!!

but... doesn't EC2 use Xen? :)

PHP Dark Arts: doing something beyond <p>hi there <?php echo $username ?></p>

he wants to start a cargo cult, apparently.

Looks like I just haven't been paying attention. Thanks for pointing that out.

Here's a better site for checking out some demos: http://vis.stanford.edu/protovis/

This vis library looks really interesting to me because of its flexibility. My main concern is that it's based on SVG. I wonder how easily it could be modified to be canvas based instead. The only reason I say that is because canvas seems to be getting a lot of attention from browser vendors while SVG is languishing...

a table is just a set of tuples.

this is like saying 32 bits are more fundamental to computer science than the abstract idea of an integer.

cargo culting

That's understandable. I'm sure the bulk of the work goes toward the new language characters. I just wonder who lobbied for roasted sweet potatoes...

No copyleft symbol, no public domain symbol (although this was just announced). Too bad! Glad to see that roasted sweet potatoes made the cut though...

Linode has multiple datacenters, so I'm guessing this will only apply if you're using their Dallas, TX datacenter... right?

this is offensively not usable. just as an example, I can't grep the whole document now. I think this is the wrong target market for fake usability.

These days, to me "cover letter" means what's in the body of the email, and the resume is attached, ideally as a PDF. I prefer "cover letters" that are short (one paragraph) and don't read like it was copy-pasted. Honestly, I've grown tired of reading that a person is a "hard worker" or a "great problem solver", stuff like that... just tell me why you find the company interesting enough to ask for a job there, to put 40+ hours per week of your life into indefinitely. Perhaps this doesn't work for emails that are going to an HR person or destined for a database but I know this is what I look for personally, as a software engineer interested in hiring quality software engineers.

Also, the resume should be concrete about experience. I don't like reading about what your team did, instead talk about what you did. I don't like reading that a project that "made stuff better", I want to know by how much exactly. I don't like reading projects that sound like they were accomplished with magic fairy dust, I like to see specific tools, techniques, programming languages, and so on. My resume in fact used to be more generic, but the feedback I got on it from my friends made it a lot better (they were also former coworkers so they knew some of the stuff and even remembered some projects I'd worked on that I had forgotten). I said what I did, what tools I used, what goals I hit personally.

It's not just a remake. This is interactive and has more physics to it, from what I can see. Reminds me of Ski Stunt.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-QA2rkpBSY really demonstrates the elegance of bolo ties.

Both will be irrelevant soon enough anyway.

Microsoft is also great at dodging taxes.

reminds me of MoviePeg (which does not have an iPhone 4 version available yet, but they do have an iPad version): http://www.movie-peg.com/

"Since lobbying is a profession and not a person, it can be neither good nor bad" is almost as absurd as saying "Since nuclear weapons are a tool and not a weapon, it can be neither good nor bad".

More like failed entrepreneur who turned bitter. First blamed Microsoft, now Apple. Maybe he should blame himself.