July 2009
15 posts
Watch.Aaron the rocker. by gamagama, made at DoInk.com
I’m flattered that Gamagama animated this! Post technology-world, I hope my career takes me here…
Running Barefoot →
A month ago, at the suggestion of my friend Dan, I read the book “Born to Run”, a story about the Tarahumara indians, ultra-runners, the bio-mechanics of running, and why we are evolved (‘born’) to run.
After a few trials that were brutal to my underdeveloped calves and feet, I’ve transitioned all my running into ‘barefoot’ with my Vibrams. I intend to...
Summaries are not Conclusions
The linking culture of the Internet has a nasty habit of rewarding round-up posts that are nothing more than superficial tours of technologies and products. These ‘articles’ offer up hollow conclusions, regurgitating the body of text like 7th graders in english class.
Writers: take a stance. If your conclusion doesn’t include a recommendation, it’s a summary, and we have...
“Jake’s birthday is tomorrow FYI and he is helping me set up my own Standards...”
– Oats and Iron
(Creepily?) I’m sitting in your living room after admiring your standards print-out last night. I used one of my own for 6 months to great effect. Took a break after achieving my goals, and looking to re-start it very soon.
Oh, btw, thanks for allowing us to crash in your...
Facebook Events: You're Doing It Wrong
Fact: When we are uncertain, the actions of other people greatly influence our own actions, this is known as social proof.
Observation: The culture of Facebook is to post the reasons you can’t attend an event on that event’s wall.
Concern: We’re undermining event-turnout by unintentionally triggering social proof against attendance.
RSVPs suffice if you can’t make it,
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“I used to think that looking back and feeling like you’ve made so many mistakes...”
– http://larrycheng.com/2009/07/16/the-learning-test/ (via Hacker News)
Seaside: A Continuation-based Web Framework in... →
This is interesting stuff. (Though from practical experience the HTML generation via the programming language part doesn’t play well with web designers)
If anyone is interested, three years ago my friend Armaghan and I built this kind of web framework in Standard ML. It allows for extremely rapid creation of complex web-apps (it’s amazing what functional programming and static typing...
TechCrunch
So TechCrunch published Twitter’s stolen financial forecasts, and will soon publish their un-released product plans as well.
Ethical? No.
In the spirit of American startup culture? Nope.
Legal? I hope not.
If Twitter’s privacy has to be the kamikaze that burns Arrington’s enterprise, then so be it. I feel for Ev & Biz, however, what a distraction from building real...
What is the best programming language for web... →
marco:
Stack Overflow user sork in response to the linked question (via jonathan-deamer):
Gmail is written in Java.
Wikipedia is written in PHP.
Many parts of google.com are written in Python.
Slashdot is written in Perl.
Twitter is written in Ruby.
Stackoverflow is written in C#.
The list goes on…
As you can see, there is no best language, a language is only what you make of it.
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UP: Not Your Father's-Children's Story.
UP is children’s story about an introverted boy who meets an outgoing an adventurous young girl. The two grow up together and eventually marry. They share a love for kids; she works as a photographer, and he a balloonist, at the zoo. Their bond is carefree and loving.
When they try to conceive a child of their own, the wife is sadly diagnosed as infertile. Instead of adopting, they save...
