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by blasdel 15y ago
I'm pretty sure Atwood cribbed that wholesale from Jakob Nielsen's ancient advise: http://www.useit.com/papers/webwriting/ But Atwood is truly inane in his own special way: http://secretgeek.net/jatwood_how_to.asp
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by blasdel 15y ago
Wow, he solely controls bash, binutils, build-essential, python, readline, etc: http://piuparts.debian.org/sid/maintainer/d/doko@debian.org....
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by blasdel 15y ago
But those aren't really from a design perspective either. There's little about what makes 'his' font work better, just potshots at the 'other' fonts that suck because they don't copy his closely enough (except where they do, then they're ri
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Refactoring examples: little steps and big smells(rethinktheworld.blogspot.com)
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by blasdel 15y ago
Did you not read the preceding paragraph? Maciej was mocking Paul's use of the same name-calling he professes to despise.
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by blasdel 15y ago
That's it — Windows comes with a crappy bitmap Helvetica, and most Linux distributions are even worse because X includes an abysmally bad tiny raster one. Macs ship with a good one, and Adobe Creative Suite installers usually bundle one whi
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What Self can teach us about the future of JavaScript(labnotes.org)
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The Two Most Dangerous Words in Technology Marketing(mobileopportunity.blogspot.com)
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by blasdel 15y ago
I don't think Steve's claims about OpenDoc were bullshit at all, he was totally right that any limited success in that market was Java's to take and that OpenDoc had no chance whatsoever: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udyy2gQyNso But he
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by blasdel 15y ago
More specifically, it's intended to help you find the date of manufacture of one of their globes . The dates and country names reflect when Replogle Globes changed their products, not politics on the ground. The map is not the territory!
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Superficial features affect style(arcanesentiment.blogspot.com)
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Deconstructing Amazon EC2 Spot Instance Pricing(cs.technion.ac.il)
2 points by blasdel 15y ago|1 comments
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Guido van Rossum: Compare-And-Set in Memcache(neopythonic.blogspot.com)
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Word Breaks For Nerds(red-sweater.com)
1 points by blasdel 15y ago|0 comments
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An unusual hardware architecture: APA (Associative Processing Array)(yosefk.com)
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by blasdel 15y ago
Indeed, and Jacques was reasonably close — Planck frequency is 1.855 × 10^43 hertz
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by blasdel 15y ago
Note that Woodward and Bernstein themselves weren't really any better — they did a good job sticking with the story, but were being spoonfed the acting head of the FBI was spoon feeding them everything!
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by blasdel 15y ago
That's ingenious — per-device permabanning!
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by blasdel 15y ago
Ur/Web hits every single one of your bullet points out of the park: http://www.impredicative.com/ur/
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Running an Open Source Project(pl.atyp.us)
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by blasdel 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Jewell
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by blasdel 15y ago
It's acting as a captcha — otherwise they'd have to deal with a shitton of automated replies and bounces from the customers and their crappy mailservers
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The opportunity cost of a broad skillset(rc3.org)
30 points by blasdel 15y ago|18 comments
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Chromium Notes: The zygote process and software updates(neugierig.org)
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by blasdel 15y ago
Even now this is probably the single worst essay PG has ever published, and he's written some stinkers. Nerds weren't unpopular in school because they were actually even cooler than everyone else , and didn't want to waste their time stoop
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What I meant to say...(daemonology.net)
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Executing my soup program with excellence(blog.andymatuschak.org)
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by blasdel 15y ago
By how much? When I switched to Chrome, Firefox 3 would crash on me at least once every 6 hours of use (10+ times a week), and take 15+ minutes to reopen with ~150 tabs. Chrome on the other hand has always handled 300+ tabs without blinking
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Duke TIP, 30 Years Later(perpetualbeta.com)
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by blasdel 15y ago
pageman has a [dead] reply below linking to http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_43/b3905109_... — claiming that the price disparity was IBM's doing, intended to drive the cross-platform CP/M out of the market while still 'supp

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