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Where Lisp Fails: at Turning People into Fungible Cogs
A favorite conundrum of many Lisp aficionados is why the language appears to languish in disuse. Talk of cultural problems , "the library question" (which usually boils down to nonsensical circular reasoning), too many parentheses, and other absurdities simply dances around the blindingly obvious explanation - one…
If You’re Nervous About Quitting Your Boring Job, Don’t Do It
The Courage Fallacy In 2005, Lisa Feuer quit her marketing job. She had held this same position throughout her 30s before deciding, at the age of ... Read more
Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition
In the many thousands of articles advising entrepreneurs on what they have to focus on to build successful startups, much has been written about three key factors: team, product and market, with particular focus on the importance of product/market fit. Failure to get product/market fit right is very likely the number…
The Rails 3 router: Rack it up
In my previous post about generic actions in Rails 3, I made reference to significant improvements in the router. Some of those have been covered on other blogs [http://rizwanreza.com/2009/12/20/revamped-routes-in-rails-3], but the full scope of the improvements hasn't yet been
Phil Greenspun debunks Malcolm Gladwell on airline safety
This article explores an alternative explanation: foreign airlines do comparatively poorly because their first officers have almost no pilot-in-command experience.
Trust Science
Well, of course we all do trust science. We trust Bernoulli's Principle every time we get on a plane; we trust celestial mechanics when we take the kids outside to watch a scheduled lunar eclipse ; we trust subatomic physics when we relax with an iPod; we trust the laws of chemistry every time we strike a match; we…
LLVM Blog: Clang Builds LLVM
Just in time for the Christmas holiday, the Clang project has hit a major milestone: Clang can now build all of LLVM and Clang! The resulting Clang-built-Clang is not yet functional, so this "
Intercepting Predator Video
Sometimes mediocre encryption is better than strong encryption, and sometimes no encryption is better still. The Wall Street Journal reported this week that Iraqi, and possibly also Afghan, militants are using commercial software to eavesdrop on U.S. Predators, other unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, and even piloted…
The disappointingly ongoing success of WvDial
In Farmington, CT, in fact, the town my cat was named after. Oh yes. That's how much we love that place. Lukasz, Ashok, and Matt will be...
Google’s ‘Meaning of Open’
Link to: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/meaning-of-open.html
Google should open source what actually matters: their search ranking algorithm
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Why the HTML5 ‘Video’ Element Is Effectively Unusable
Web browsers should only buffer HTML5 media content when the `autobuffer` attribute has been explicitly turned on in the markup.
Tell HN: Cinch, W7-like window management for OSX
Cinch allows you to resize your windows simply by dragging them to a screen edge
2009: The Year in Haskell
Spend some time to catch up on what’s been happening in Haskell this year. In this edition of the Web News, we look back on the major Haskell news of 2009. You can also read this edition in P…
Startup Therapy: Questions to ask yourself every month
Therapists don't tell you what to do. Rather, they ask probing questions that get you to discover for yourself what is true for you, your situation, and what you want. Similarly, these ten questions will force you to make the important decisions about your business. Ask them of yourself every month instead of writing…