- The Romney Report ∞
Fascinating and detailed 200 page analysis of Mitt Romney, purportedly from John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign.
Video tribute to the now defuct “Jaws” ride at Universal Studios
January 14th, 2012
via Justin Blanton →
And one more thing…
January 11th, 2012
I have a land line that was included in my super cheap, super good deal Comcast cable/internet package. Even I don’t know the number. At least twice during the infrequent time of when I do watch TV (usually a recorded episode of The Daily Show or Colbert Report), my viewing will be interrupted with a phone call on this digital line.
Only the phone doesn’t ring. I don’t have a phone.
A pop-up window interrupts my TV viewing. A window which I must acknowledge to close. Caller ID is displayed in the window and it’s usually a bank or Verizon. I don’t get it.
The Hole
January 11th, 2012
There is a hole inside of me, I never knew existed.
Small, it has been my constant companion waiting for time’s erosion to take hold and open it in an exponential deluge. Why did I just notice it now? Why is it there in the first place? Why me?
I don’t know. I never know.
But isn’t that what life is?
I’m getting sucked in and it hurts…
- Don’t Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice ∞
Pure gold from Patrick McKenzie. I recommend reading the whole article.
Working in a startup is a career path but, more than that, it is a lifestyle choice. This is similar to working in investment banking or academia. Those are three very different lifestyles. Many people will attempt to sell you those lifestyles as being in your interests, for their own reasons. If you genuinely would enjoy that lifestyle, go nuts. If you only enjoy certain bits of it, remember that many things are available a la carte if you really want them. For example, if you want to work on cutting-edge technology but also want to see your kids at 5:30 PM, you can work on cutting-edge technology at many, many, many megacorps.
So, so good.
At the end of the day, your life happiness will not be dominated by your career. Either talk to older people or trust the social scientists who have: family, faith, hobbies, etc etc generally swamp career achievements and money in terms of things which actually produce happiness. Optimize appropriately. Your career is important, and right now it might seem like the most important thing in your life, but odds are that is not what you’ll believe forever. Work to live, don’t live to work.
- J. R. R. Tolkien’s Response to his German Publishers on the Question of his Descent ∞
…if I am to understand that you are enquiring whether I am of Jewish origin, I can only reply that I regret that I appear to have no ancestors of that gifted people. My great-great-grandfather came to England in the eighteenth century from Germany: the main part of my descent is therefore purely English, and I am an English subject—which should be sufficient. I have been accustomed, nonetheless, to regard my German name with pride, and continued to do so throughout the period of the late regrettable war, in which I served in the English army. I cannot, however, forbear to comment that if impertinent and irrelevant inquiries of this sort are to become the rule in matters of literature, then the time is not far distant when a German name will no longer be a source of pride.
- Keygen Jukebox ∞
I am happy to have grown up in the late 80′s, early 90′s where my love for computers and software blossomed. Now, I have the soundtrack accessible and free for all time.
- Apps are the new channels. ∞
This is what I’ve been saying all along, high-lighted by John Gruber:
Why not the same thing for TV sized displays? Imagine watching a baseball game on a TV where ESPN is a smart app, not a dumb channel. When you’re watching a game, you could tell the TV to show you the career statistics for the current batter. You could ask the HBO app which other movies this actress has been in. Point is: it’d be better for both viewers and the networks1 if a TV “channel” were an interactive app rather than a mere single stream of video.
Collect them in a Newsstand-like folder on iPhones and iPads, and make them the “home screen” of a future Apple TV.
Boom.
- “This Occupy Wall Street Stuff” ∞
Ben Brooks:
At the end of the day, my biggest complaint here, is that the Occupy Wall Street movement is targeting the wrong people. The fat cats on Wall Street aren’t the problem — they just saw a shorter check-out line and stood in it — the real problem is the government agencies made to protect us from these situations and their failures to do just that: protect those that elected them, preferring instead to protect those that paid to elect them.
The last sentence makes my head hurt, but I think Ben is correct – we have a bought Congress.
My web development workflow
October 16th, 2011
Call me lazy, but I probably have the worst web development workflow and ethic of anyone I know.
I am in the process of enacting multiple revisions to the site. I handle my edits (aka, the wrong way to do it) in WordPress’s dashboard editor. I make one small change to CSS, save the file, then hit ‘reload’ in Chrome. I make the edits in Safari but view the page in Chrome using Chrome’s development tools. (Which are an amazing life saver for someone who is still wrapping their head around proper cascading in CSS.) A lot of times I’ll make a change and I wont see my expected result. This is not an efficient workflow at all. Ideally, I want my syntax to be perfect – validated HTML5 and validated CSS3. I also want the syntax to make sense when reading it. I’m off by about a mile right now but I’m inching closer.
Ideally, I would want to create a sandbox development environment on my computer locally. I would finish development, debug, and then deploy in one fell swoop. However, I was never formally trained on development practices and find that they way I do it works best for me. Having a sandboxed development also allows me to properly track revisions have version control. I write a tech website and I don’t even know what ‘Git’ is.
The next step is applying all the above for iOS devices.
- How to install APC on your server ∞
Alternative PHP Cache
- This is the future I want to live in. ∞
Matt Mullenweg on the what the future could hold for Apple:
Now imagine Apple has a shining 55″ monolith smack dab in the middle of your house. How big of a wifi antenna could they put in there? Could they crush all that lame Cisco teleconference stuff with TV FaceTime? Is there room for a few disk drives that don’t need to worry about skipping plus a SSD to make it fast? If you look at the direction Apple has been heading with Time Capsule locally caching software updates it’s not hard for something similar to work in the other direction, a digital hub that’s your media server for the house, a large-format display, a time capsule, and an Airplay target all in one. Imagine just one power cable coming out of it, and everything else wireless, just like the iMac, and a few killer apps we can’t even imagine yet.
