Sat 09 January 2010 | -- (permalink)
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Don't go to law school.
Fri 08 January 2010 | -- (permalink)
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6 wrong reasons to go to graduate school, with the possible exception of the last one.
Thu 07 January 2010 | -- (permalink)
And write LESS instead. LESS code is basically CSS with variables and some other sugar on top, that compiles down to vanilla CSS when you run it through the "lessc" program.
There are other programs out there that do this (I briefly considered the python-based CleverCSS), but the thing I …
Thu 24 December 2009 | -- (permalink)
Both Marginal Revolution and Slashdot today are pointing to one blogger's thoughts on why programmer pay doesn't vary more proportionally with programmer productivity. I'm not going to address that blog's points directly, but would just like to suggest that while paying one programmer ten times more than his teammate because …
Mon 16 November 2009 | -- (permalink)
Pixels and Policy criticizes Linden Labs' claim that developing the capability to "allow IP owners to request that Linden Lab search for and remove all copies of an identified item created by a particular resident . . . is one of the most complicated tasks they have ever undertaken":
The most complicated task …
Sat 14 November 2009 | -- (permalink)
What do Florida and Inner Mongolia have in common? Real estate speculation:
Via Marginal Revolution.
Wed 11 November 2009 | -- (permalink)
Jacob Kaplan-Moss, co-creator of Django and its awesome documentation, has the following to say regarding the use of auto-generated documentation:
It's really tempting to use an auto-documentation tool like Javadoc or RDoc for reference material.
Don't.
Auto-generated documentation is almost worthless. At best it's a slightly improved version of simply …
Sun 04 October 2009 | -- (permalink)
Yesterday I attended Silicon Valley Code Camp, a free two-day conference on a wide variety of tech topics, with about a dozen talks going on at any one time. Wanting to to improve my abilities on the user interface (UI) side of web programming, I chose mostly javascript-related talks:
Fri 02 October 2009 | -- (permalink)
Back in July a Michigan high school student sued Amazon for deleting George Orwell's book 1984 from his Kindle ebook reader, and simultaneously stripping away the context from the digital annotations he had made. This morning I saw in the ABA Journal that the case has now settled. According to …
Mon 28 September 2009 | -- (permalink)
The Economist puts out a quarterly lifestyle magazine called Intelligent Life. The latest has a thoughtful article on polymaths, people who excel in multiple, distinct areas of achievement.
I had never heard of Thomas Young before reading the article, but I probably should have, judging by the list of his …
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