January 2009
19 posts
White House Unbuttons Formal Dress Code →
“Even as he is sober about these challenges, I have never seen him happier,” Mr. Axelrod said. “The chance to be under the same roof with his kids, essentially to live over the store, to be able to see them whenever he wants, to wake up with them, have breakfast and dinner with them — that has made him a very happy man.”
A great read.
via zayile
Apple Gets Patent for Multi-Touch →
Very broad language — taken at face value, Apple effectively owns the IP rights to multi-touch in the U.S. This sucks.
What real life bad habits has programming given... →
marco:
I temporize way too much in conversation. Things that anyone else would say as fact, I will still throw a “probably” or “perhaps” on, because I know there could always be that one edge case where a meteor strikes my neighborhood and I wouldn’t after all be able to make it out that day to Thanksgiving dinner.
Check out the later pages, too.
I throw my important documents into a...
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall →
During the last week of the Bush administration, I asked the head photo editors of these news services — Vincent Amalvy (AFP), Santiago Lyon (AP) and Jim Bourg (Reuters) — to pick the photographs of the president that they believe captured the character of the man and of his administration.
via df
“Building a business exclusively on top of another service is irresponsible and...”
– Twitter is not public infrastructure
“The team members, accustomed to working on Macintoshes, found computers...”
– New staff find White House in tech Dark Ages
via df
“Because if you’re not asking what stuff means anything to you, then you’re a...”
– Fuck the Cloud
“Most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java...”
– Alan Kay (via marco)
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@foo = Pathname('file')
@bool = (@foo && @foo.exist?) ? true : false
Let me translate:
@bool = true && true ? true : false
N.B.: If the second variable were non-boolean and we wanted a strict boolean result, we would have to do something like the ternary above:
@foo = :foo
@bar = :bar
@foo && @bar #=> :bar
# use ternary as above
@foo && @bar ? true :...
HTCPCP
Remember HTTP 418? I just found the RFC for the Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0).
Whuffie in Action: the UPS story →
wikipedia:
Whuffie: the ephemeral, reputation-based currency of Cory Doctorow’s sci-fi novel, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom.
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“For iPhone apps that want to display a user’s Dashboard, Tumblr offers an...”
– API | Tumblr
Things I did not know…
DHH
montoya:
Leave it to Mr. Rails to tell us that it’s better to buy more hardware than optimize your architecture.
Is there a source of this complaint? Last I heard Merb was getting merged into Rails 3, along with many/most of the performance enhancements that make Merb so great. Not to mention the hundreds of tiny speed improvements that have been added to Rails recently.
Assuming that DHH did...
“Are you LinkedIn on Facebook and MySpace? If the thought of partnering
with MSN...”
– MSN Content 360 Brief (pdf)
It hurts!