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Ten years ago, I wrote about Dan McKinley’s classic blog post Choose Boring Technology and its resonance with my own development philosophy. My conclusion then was simple: when spinning up a new project, I consider whether I’m using it as an excus...
C - So raw, so powerful, so easy to shoot yourself in foot. Scheme - It may have taken me a month and a half to grok Scheme, but the moment that I finally did, angels sang and the heavens opened up to me. Java - My introduction to OOP could h...
The Twitterati got all hot and bothered earlier today when they found out MINUTES BEFORE EVERYONE ELSE that Tiger Woods was in a car accident. This is seen as some sort of validation of the awesome amazingness of the “real-time web.” Scoble was, ...
AT&T regarding Verizon’s latest batch of TV ads: The image of the sad and wilting iPhone on an island of misfit toys falsely communicates that the iPhone is a broken device. </param></param></param></embed>
I was in Boston visiting my sisters with my mom. I was able to get into Apple’s Boston sales offices to watch the MacWorld Expo keynote via a remote link. I distinctly remember it, as it was my first Stevenote. Check it out. </param></param></par...
There’s a great thread on Hacker News right now talking about the myth of “I could make that in a weekend!” Of course, there’s always some truth to this. To my mind, any project that can be completed by a single developer in a ‘reasonable’ amount ...
The initial release exposes four types of data: a list of members for a given Congress and chamber, details of a specific roll-call vote, biographical and role information about a specific member of Congress, and a member’s most recent positions o...
Update: Steve Gillmor cracks me up. God, I love Steve Gillmor. Steve just wrote an article about how much Feedburner sucks now that Google bought them, and how FriendFeed might end up eating Google’s lunch in this area. Unfortunately, Steve write...
Erick Schonfeld of TechCrunch wrote this followup to a recent post on VentureBeat: VentureBeat’s Eric Eldon reports:Industry sources tell us that although Android will indeed start as a mobile OS, Google intends to expand it to be a sort of univer...
I’m still sitting in bed, reading through the news—or what passes for it for me—and decided to share some of my favorite stories from the day. Flush with Energy by Thomas Friedman - Friedman usually bugs the shit out of me, but he won me over thi...
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