December 2010
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Dec 26th
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The progress bar illusion
Dec 26th
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Forget about Inception on Blu-ray, Get it on... →
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Dec 20th
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t.co Represents a Lost Opportunity
There are those who think short URLs are evil [1][2], a blight and plague on the internet. In the opposite corner are those who think that they are in fact gems of the inter web and unicorns use them to spread magical goodness. I have, at various points, been a member of both camps. Right now I’m kinda meh about them. I see many uses however outside of those few cases they’re...
Dec 20th
Dec 20th
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Impact Game Engine Running in Mobile Safari
Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
“Why don’t I believe in God? No, no no, why do YOU believe in God? Surely the...”
– A Holiday Message from Ricky Gervais: Why I’m An Atheist
Dec 20th
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“The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is...”
–  Seymour Cray / Top 50 Programming Quotes of All Time
Dec 18th
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Appeals Court Holds that Email Privacy Protected... →
“In a landmark decision issued today in the criminal appeal of U.S. v. Warshak, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the government must have a search warrant before it can secretly seize and search emails stored by email service providers” is it just me or does this suddenly make hacking gmail accounts for storage more attractive. as opposed to general cloud hosting...
Dec 16th
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Product Engineering - Wikipedia →
Product engineering refers to the process of designing and developing a device, assembly, or system such that it be produced as an item for sale through some production manufacturing process. Product engineering usually entails activity dealing with issues of cost, produce-ability, quality, performance, reliability, serviceability and user features. These product characteristics are generally all...
Dec 15th
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“$will_fail = true; if ($im_so_lucky) { $will_fail = false; }”
– According to some, I have a pessimistic coding style.
Dec 14th
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Dec 13th
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What does it mean to be Irish?
Dec 13th
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“By pretending it was a Silicon Valley start-up that needed to kill itself to...”
– The Atlantic Turns a Profit, With an Eye on the Web - NYTimes.com
Dec 13th
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“oEmbed is a format for allowing an embedded representation of a URL on third...”
– oEmbed
Dec 10th
“You can’t just sit and engineer your way into free use of the website,”...”
– NY Times Exec: You Won’t Be Able to Fool Our Paywall - Jeff Bercovici - Mixed Media - Forbes
Dec 8th
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Dec 7th
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Don't Meet Your Heros
I was going to write a post about what I love and hate when it comes to my Android phone. However when I thought about everything I hated I began to realize there was no way I could properly organize such a long list without appearing, or going, insane. When I thought about everything I loved about it I knew that portion was easier and more concise. Overall, it left me thinking about the...
Dec 4th
476 million Twitter tweets
476 million Twitter tweets 467 million Twitter posts from 20 million users covering a 7 month period from June 1 2009 to December 31 2009. We estimate this is about 20-30% of all public tweets published on Twitter during the particular time frame.
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“For example, the Levenshtein distance between “kitten” and...”
– Levenshtein distance - Wikipedia
Dec 3rd
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