February 2009
19 posts
Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places
Aaron: What happened to our server the other day? Site went nuts. Any clues?
Kevin: Looks like somebody searching for 'love' really brought down the database.
Aaron: Well, it is a hard thing to come by.
The Kindle Swindle? Really?
mokoyfman:
As far as literature is concerned, I would posit that there should be one price for a digital copy of a book and a slightly higher price for a printed one to compensate for the cost of printing and publishing. With either purchase, one should get access to a digital copy as well as an audio copy so it can be enjoyed anytime, anywhere, anyhow. And the industry should price...
WatchA funny look at our rapid acclimation to the modern miracles.
“Wall Street is gone because its firms did a terrible job assessing the risks of...”
– Bloomberg.com Opinion: Harvard Narcissists With MBAs Killed Wall Street.
I’m sure it’s not this simple. However, I’m willing to believe Ohio State has a beef with Harvard…
Feature Request for Twitter, Tumblr, and Facebook
Often I find myself trying to rediscover why I followed someone on Twitter or Tumblr. Did they post something original & interesting? Did I follow them because I was curious about what they were up to? Several weeks or months after the decision to follow, I have no easy record of why I made that choice.
Facebook has a “friendship details” option, which is interesting, but fails in...
Belated Valentine's Gift for Programmers
These days I’m about as deep into the web world as it gets, but I have some nuggets of C/C++ awesomeness still trapped in my head. If you program with these languages, and you’re looking to snag a job, I’ve absolutely turned heads during Microsoft & Google interviews by describing the following technique:
It’s possible to maintain a doubly linked list using only one...
WatchScared of Ladybugs by LizardLizard, made at DoInk.com
“Fail often, succeed once.”
“Facebook has made it easier to set a user’s status. Get ready for streaming...”
– Facebook Opens Status API, Say Goodbye to Twitter (via somewhatfrank)
I’d hesitate to call this a step towards ‘killing Twitter’. Fundamentally, Facebook and Twitter enable ideologically opposed connections: mutual-friendship, or one-way pick-your-peers. Unless you suspect that...
The Internet: My Extended Family
I grew up in a small, stable, and loving family: father & mother, brother, my grandparents, aunt & uncle (two cousins added ‘recently’) and a few more family members here and there. Thankfully, we never had any big squabbles, so I never understood the “geez, family” jokes.
Until now.
DoInk.com has many thousands of users… and that means many thousands...
