I wanted to cover a nifty-looking service that’s just launched — Gnip.
It’s a simple premise: instead of asking every social networking service what’s going on, Gnip will tell you what’s up (they’ll even POST it to your website). They’re going to be — Atlas-style — lifting a huge weight off of social networking providers. I […]
I came across an article on BBC talking about advances in health care in the past 60 years. Honestly, 60 years isn’t that long, considering the changes that have occurred were previously unknown to humanity. So, a lot of assumptions about things have to change. Getting in a car accident; getting shot; damage to organs; […]
In my eyes, this is a good article about Bill Gates. It’s a little suck-up-y to Gates in a lot of areas, but I really enjoyed one particular quote about halfway through.
Then I met Warren, and I thought, “Oh, wow, this guy isn’t just about buying and selling stocks and businesses. He is thinking about […]
Ran across this story about sending email via snail.
I hope everyone can find some humor in this, but the Computer Scientist in me finds it awesome. It’s non-deterministic email, via snail — almost a Rube Goldberg machine. This system would give total plausible deniability, “but I sent it last month!”
If you’re talking to someone, you have to pay attention to make sure they’re understanding you. This goes one-on-one, as well as speaking to a group. Communication is two-way.
Saw a nifty feature of meetup.com, a site that gets helps manage group meetings, from programmers to political rallies. I go to a PHP meetup in Orlando […]
lol.
But oh no. Show them one bullshit-laden presentation and the entire Rails community is champing at the bit and selling both kidneys to ditch all previous Ruby implementations and everything they thought they knew about the persistence layer and embrace some questionable closed-source vapourware, from the guys who brought you that previous world-storming web […]
OK. Because this was confusing the hell out of me, I had to post about figuring it out.
Let’s say you’re a developer writing a Mozilla Firefox Extension that searches for text on a page (or rather, in a browser window). If you have a button that has the following functionality attached onclick:
var webBrowserFind = getBrowser().selectedBrowser.webBrowserFind;
webBrowserFind.searchString […]
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Found at: http://www.feld.com/blog/archives/2008/05/all_decisions_o.html
Turns out all patent decisions since 2000 might be invalid. Patent judges have been appointed by an agency with no constitutional rights to do so. So, everything they’ve decided isn’t legally binding.
There’s going to be some bill passed by Congress to uphold these decisions. How many billions of dollars have traded hands since […]
I’ve had a MacBook Pro for about 3 days now, and I’m loving it. One really sweet program is Quicksilver, which is like the Windows Run dialog on steroids. There’s a great script I’ve just started using that lets you send Adium IMs from Quicksilver
It’d be even sweeter if as you type the username, it […]
I read an article about a Checkers fast food restaurant being cited for keeping bread in the men’s bathroom, and they were nice enough to link out to a site — myfloridalicense.com
I checked out the site and found a fantastic search engine. Florida keeps records online of all restaurant inspections, and what the restaurants were […]
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