Damien Katz:
Static typing in OO languages isn’t the solution to software complexity, rather it’s an enabler of it. Static typing is like giving a drunk a bunch of breath mints and saying “Don’t drive drunk. But if you must, use these breath mints in case you get pulled over.”
I’m still trying to make sense of […]
Ted Koppel’s China work for Discovery is going to redefine television journalism. It’s just on another level…a very refreshing level.
Seriously.
Nimble, agile, less-mass businesses can quickly change their entire business model, product, feature set, and marketing message. They can make mistakes and fix them quickly. They can change their priorities, product mix, and focus. And, most importantly, they can change their minds. — Getting Real, 37Signals
The best advantage small organizations have over their larger counterparts […]
And for good measure, the cologne…
I’m with Cliff…
The Bipolar Lisp Programmer, an essay posted to comp.lang.lisp by Mark Tarver, brilliantly sums up many of my worst traits. Of course, I never realized quite how many BBMs there must be out there. If only one of us could work up the kind of sustained execution that would be required to organize […]
The second generation OLPC laptop was just announced — and I can unequivocally say I want one! I’ve always wanted one of these, for as long as I can remember. Who cares about the keyboard — you can always hook in additional interface devices, but for general use this shouldn’t be necessary. I’ve been rough […]
Jon Phillips has a great idea:
For anyone trying to offset your carbon footprint: Get a shovel, dig a hole, and bury yourself. I’ll take volunteers to do this first and I will document the whole process from start to near finish.
Plus, as noted by South Park, it has the added bonus of keeping you from […]
…than pointing out the shortcomings of others.
Now I can’t claim to know much about much, but John Resig’s port of Processing to 5,000 lines of javascript looks to me to be one of the most ridiculous, impressive feats I’ll ever witness. I don’t have the time to poke around with it yet, but from the demos, it looks like this could […]
Picking up on the Expelled Exposed meme…
According to Seth Finkelstein, I’m not a Googleterrorist:
I’d say this isn’t a “Google-bomb”, since the target site wants the high ranking itself. And Google’s algorithmic changes to defuse the bombs aren’t applicable here, since the words appear extensively on the site.
Tyler Cowen opened an interesting thread on the best country music — and laid out a big list of the kind of songs I have to get my hands on. I’m a sucker for the classic country blues material.
Sidenote: to round out the less-than-subtle racialism in the title, check out Stuff White People Like — […]
Hillary Clinton on her gas tax holiday…
The economists don’t like it, but there are no easy answers.
Megan McArdle on Hillary…
Yes, yes there are. There are easy answers. The easy answer is “Don’t do stupid things of no possible value to the electorate.” Just observe how easy this is. I look […]
Zeldman on lumbering corporate budgetary beasts.
I’ve been holding out hope that there is a better way. I hope I never lose that…
…from the everything-i-ever-needed-to-know-i-learned-from-the-internet dept.
Absolutely magnificent.
[via shauninman]
Bill Gates on free software…sorta:
“There’s free software and then there’s open source” he suggested, noting that Microsoft gives away its software in developing countries. With open source software, on the other hand, “there is this thing called the GPL, which we disagree with.”
Free Software advocates always seem to ascribe malicious intent Gate’s actions, but based […]
I honestly thought Expelled was a parody when I first saw the trailers. Is this the trailer for Stein’s next flick?
Frankly, it’s hard to tell what’s parody these days…
And hell, Ben Stein’s charisma is just what the abstinence movement needs.
[via HnR]
I hadn’t noticed (I avoid ‘em like the plague) — but apparently Starbucks has decided to return to its roots with it’s old topless, spread eagle mermaid logo. Boobies!
DMX on the future of democracy…
Wow, Barack! The nigga’s name is Barack. Barack? Nigga named Barack Obama. What the fuck, man?! Is he serious? That ain’t his fuckin’ name. Ima tell this nigga when I see him, “Stop that bullshit. Stop that bullshit” [laughs] “That ain’t your fuckin’ name.” Your momma ain’t name you no […]
Couldn’t be.
Holy shit. In case you were thinking traffic cameras aren’t just a money grab and really do make us safer — here’s your clue.
If only I’d been more of a geek and read up on graph theory in high school…