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The Evolution of a Haskell Programmer Terrence Dorsey10-Jan-12 11:13 Terrence Dorsey 10-Jan-12 11:13  Crawling slowly from the primordial ooze... Source: Fritz Ruehr How to name a web browser (by those who have) Terrence Dorsey10-Jan-12 11:13 Terrence Dorsey 10-Jan-12 11:13  Beh'moth, the Devourer of Webs. Source: Martin Beeby Why I Hate Android Terrence Dorsey10-Jan-12 11:12 Terrence Dorsey 10-Jan-12 11:12  One ringtone to rule them all... Source: parislemon Re: Why I Hate Android TheGreatAndPowerfulOz12-Jan-12 11:26 TheGreatAndPowerfulOz 12-Jan-12 11:26  Wow, dude tell us how you really feel!! Don't hold back!!! If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." - John Quincy Adams You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering” - Wernher von Braun BitTorrent takes on Dropbox with personal file sharing Terrence Dorsey10-Jan-12 11:12 Terrence Dorsey 10-Jan-12 11:12  Professor, what's another word for "pirate treasure"? Source: GigaOM Discoverability in Designing for Touch Terrence Dorsey10-Jan-12 11:11 Terrence Dorsey 10-Jan-12 11:11  Buttons are a hack, but gestures are invisible. Source: Josh Clark A .data Top-Level Internet Domain? Terrence Dorsey10-Jan-12 11:11 Terrence Dorsey 10-Jan-12 11:11  Creating a a parallel web for structured data. Source: Stephen Wolfram New glass for touchscreens Slacker00710-Jan-12 8:54 Slacker007 10-Jan-12 8:54  check it[^] Sounds good to me. Just along for the ride. "the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011) "No, that is just the earthly manifestation of the Great God Retardon." - Nagy Vilmos (2011) "It is the celestial scrotum of good luck!" - Nagy Vilmos (2011) Boo - syntactic sugar for object-oriented JavaScript Terrence Dorsey9-Jan-12 9:33 Terrence Dorsey 9-Jan-12 9:33  Yay for sugary JavaScript. Source: Sorella's Basement Unit Testing Myths and Practices Terrence Dorsey9-Jan-12 9:33 Terrence Dorsey 9-Jan-12 9:33  Once upon a time, in a codebase far, far away... Source: Simple-talk Syncing Visual Studio Extensions and Settings with Dropbox Terrence Dorsey9-Jan-12 9:32 Terrence Dorsey 9-Jan-12 9:32  File under: Cool IDE tricks. Source: Lars Wilhelmsen Insidious C behavior Terrence Dorsey9-Jan-12 9:32 Terrence Dorsey 9-Jan-12 9:32  And I would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for you meddling kids. Source: Adam Klein Duck Programming Terrence Dorsey9-Jan-12 9:32 Terrence Dorsey 9-Jan-12 9:32  If it runs like a duck, and compiles like a duck... Source: Unspace Microsoft Reinvents Wi-Fi for White Spaces Terrence Dorsey9-Jan-12 9:31 Terrence Dorsey 9-Jan-12 9:31  "Small moves, Ellie, small moves." Source: Technology Review NoSQL Definition Terrence Dorsey9-Jan-12 9:31 Terrence Dorsey 9-Jan-12 9:31  No SQL, or Not Only SQL? Source: Martin Fowler Make Your Cubicle a Better Place to Work Terrence Dorsey9-Jan-12 9:30 Terrence Dorsey 9-Jan-12 9:30  Sounds like someone's got a case of the Mondays. Source: Harvard Business Review In .NET, open source does not beget open source Terrence Dorsey9-Jan-12 9:30 Terrence Dorsey 9-Jan-12 9:30  Setting up a cross-platform open source .NET project is non-trivial. Here's how to do it. Source: Benjamin van der Veen Holographic code Terrence Dorsey9-Jan-12 9:30 Terrence Dorsey 9-Jan-12 9:30  Help me, DRY principles. You're my only hope. Source: The Endeavour Siri and Apple iPhone4S called serious data hogs atbennett9-Jan-12 7:23 atbennett 9-Jan-12 7:23  iPhone 4S users hog double the bandwidth of iPhone 4 users and triple that of iPhone 3 users, according to a study by NDP. Is Siri to blame? (from ITworld) SOPA sponsor Lamar Smith calls criticism 'completely hypothetical' atbennett9-Jan-12 7:07 atbennett 9-Jan-12 7:07  Dear anti-SOPA people: your concerns are unfounded, your groups are illegitimate, and you have no specific arguments. Signed, Rep. Lamar Smith. (from ITworld) What tomorrow's phones really need: smarter Wi-Fi atbennett9-Jan-12 3:16 atbennett 9-Jan-12 3:16  Mobile broadband is still pricey and has its limits. So why don't phones do a better job at switching to Wi-Fi? (from ITworld) Eager for Facebook's IPO? Take a look at what's happening to Groupon and Zynga shares atbennett6-Jan-12 9:40 atbennett 6-Jan-12 9:40  Shares of social media companies Groupon and Zynga continue to stumble in the few weeks since being offered to the public. Source: ITworld Will Apple tarnish brand with Target 'store-within-a-store' outlets? atbennett6-Jan-12 9:39 atbennett 6-Jan-12 9:39  Apple reportedly plans to begin putting smaller Apple Stores in Target retail outlets. Good or bad idea? Source: ITworld Rick Falkvinge says copyright laws are ridiculous atbennett6-Jan-12 8:04 atbennett 6-Jan-12 8:04  Many people ignore copyright laws, so Rick Falkvinge, Swedish Pirate Party leader, says we should stop pretending to follow them. Source: ITworld Why 37signals refuses to use interview 'parlor tricks' when hiring programmers atbennett6-Jan-12 7:23 atbennett 6-Jan-12 7:23  Hiring programmers is tough. Do whiteboard programming tests or logic riddles really help hiring managers make better choices? 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