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Requiem For A Roommate
And, when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of Heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun. Wil…
Why we moved to Linode
We just moved
Canonical, Ltd. On Record: Seeking Open Core
I've written before about my deep skepticism regarding the true motives of Canonical, Ltd.'s advocacy and demand of for-profit corporate copyright assignment without promises to adhere to copyleft . I've often asked Canonical employees, including Jono Bacon , Amanda Brock , Jane Silber , Mark Shuttleworth himself, and…
Lua Doesn't Suck – Strange Loop 2010 20-minute talk video
At Strange Loop 2010 , I gave a 20 minute talk on Lua. The talk briefly covered six reasons ( why , not how) to choose Lua for embedded scripting. Lua is safe, fast, simple, easily learned, and more popular that you might expect.
Android
My father in law and sister in law were over last night. I am getting more and more bullish on Android every day. I starting carrying an Android phone about a year ago. I made it my one and only phone over the summer. I absolutely love it. My sister in law who is an […]
99 Out Of 100 Programmers Can’t Program – I Call BS
Why the claim that 99 in 100 programmers can't program says more about a company's job ads and interviews than about programmers.
jQuery 1.4.3 Released
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
Benoit Mandelbrot, RIP
Nothing in the news media yet, but many folks on Twitter and colleague Nassim Taleb are reporting that the father of fractal geometry is dead at age 85. We’re n
Every day I learn something new... and stupid.
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Wattvision (YC W09) Now Shipping
Exciting News! Wattvision is now shipping the Wattvision Energy Sensor for digital and analog meters. We've graduated from our beta hardware to what you see in
PyPy gets faster
Python, Linux, Bicycles, Books, Games, Etc.
ZestCash is Not Good.
A couple of days ago, TechCrunch featured a favorable story about a new startup called ZestCash, which provides an online lending alternative to existing payday loans (I'm not going to link to them directly, you can get to them on your own easily enough). The story regurgitates ZestCash's copy about the evils of the…
Stop Googling
Yesterday, one of my inter-web buddies IM’d me and asked if I had used Typhoeus before. I said yes, so he asked me if it was possible to follow redirects…