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by cdr 19y ago
The direct-edit is new as of last week ( http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2007/11/think-globally-ma... ), although there was a buried form to submit inaccurate data before. Much-needed feature - the lack of accurate "last hundred yards" i
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by cdr 19y ago
Interesting product (Plaxo). I've been looking for a web-based contact manager/address book. Plaxo is probably the best I've seen, but it still has major usability problems - trying to prune/combine contacts after importing was a nightmare.
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by cdr 19y ago
Cyber-despair is a sure winner. "Cyber" sounds trendy and "despair" accurately captures the feeling, unlike some of the more mild descriptors.
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by cdr 19y ago
Yep, classic. Joel's also ( http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html ), which has a slightly different focus. I prefer Tim's, it's clearer.
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by cdr 19y ago
Sounds more like Twitter.
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by cdr 19y ago
On "kept a scorecard on which he graded himself on how well he realized [self-improvement exercises]", I'm reminded of Personal Unit Tests: http://hober.backpackit.com/pub/1233865
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by cdr 19y ago
Having ads attached seems like a potentially pretty high cost to me.
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by cdr 19y ago
How much you get out of a class depends a lot upon the professor, I think. I got the most out of my Software Engineering courses - Testing, Usability, Systems, etc. They are usually team-based, are reasonably rigorous, and have generally go
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by cdr 19y ago
Caffiene doesn't do it for me anymore, so I've been experimenting with energy drinks. They seem to work better, but generally taste awful (Red Bull is the prime offender).
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by cdr 19y ago
I'm not sure I'd call two sentences an article.
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by cdr 19y ago
I've been using mod_wsgi for some time (I think trac recommended it). Interesting that this blog post is getting so much attention. For apache (and I'm a fan of apache) it doesn't get any better.
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by cdr 19y ago
DokuWiki is great for documentation. That's the only type of wiki I've built so far, and I definitely have to recommend it.
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by cdr 19y ago
About the only time I read it anymore is when something else links to a post there. The editors are Slashdot's twist on tech news, but the editors are almost uniformly awful. The stories they break are consistently days behind Digg/Reddit,