January 2011
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I'm listed in Tumblweeds under web, ios,...
I’m listed in Tumblweeds, a user-generated community directory that rates Tumblr bloggers by their number of followers. Find me listed in #web, #ios, #technology
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Writing Microcopy →
The fastest way to improve your interface is to improve your copy-writing.
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My new email address
Hi guys,
I’m having some problems with my MobileMe account. So if you want to contact me, please send emails to long [at] webvampires.net
Thanks
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Eric Schmidt: On April 4th I Will Step Down, Larry... →
From a programmer nerd, Schmidt has the most enviable resume.
The entrepreneurs admire Jobs and Gates, but Schmidt worked his way through Bell labs, PARC, managed the release of Java, was CTO of Sun, CEO of Novell, and brought google from a well executed grad school project to dominate the internet. He turned down a job with the Obama administration to be the governments CTO.
He also...
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The Incredible Freedom Of A Facebook Engineer →
Facebook engineers decide what they want to work on and are allowed to make changes across the site without asking for permission.
Skype product Manager Yee Lee talked to a bunch of friends who work at Facebook, and his resulting post on how Facebook ships code makes it sound like the biggest startup in the world. Some of the points in the original post were later corrected on Quora and...
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If China and the United States had Facebook profiles, their relationship...
– CNNMoney
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Southwest Pilot Holds Plane For Murdered Child's... →
Beautiful read!
“Are you Mark? We held the plane for you and we’re so sorry about the loss of your grandson.”
The pilot held the plane that was supposed to take off at 11:50 until 12:02 when my husband got there.
As my husband walked down the Jetway with the pilot, he said, “I can’t thank you enough for this.”
The pilot responded with,...
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NASA Must Study Space Sex, Scientist Says →
Zero-G brings some nice ideas to mind but I guess we’ll have to wait Miss !
NASA has always been silent on the subject of sex in space — which makes people all the more curious. How would it work? Has anyone done it before? Can a child be conceived in zero-G? With few animal tests and (virtually no human testing), there’s been next to no scientific analysis of the issue. Until now.
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chi.mp →
A service that lets you aggregate your stuff from around the web in one place. You can use your http://username.mp URL for OpenID, too.
(via onethingwell)
Simple Questions for Google Regarding Chrome's... →
By John Gruber. ( via marco )
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An honest man is always a child.
– Socrates
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Why Gender is a Text Field on the Diaspora Social... →
quanganhdo:
From the comments:
Gender is identity, how you or society identifies you by preconceived notions of what role your sex plays in that society. (male, female, transgendered, lesbian, gay, x, alien)
Sex is biological. (male, female, unknown/other)
Working in the medical field, specifically as a programmer that works on a EMR system for a large medical center, we have both...
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The Best and Worst Jobs →
jennschiffer:
Surprise, surprise - software engineer is at number 1. And who can disagree? They all can pretty much throw a dart on a map and find a job (I’m in snark-mode right now as I work on launching a big project this stressful Sunday evening)…
Software engineer Jesse Severe says he can pretty much throw a dart on a map and find a job. The 41-year-old from San Diego says he’s contacted...
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Mac App Store exploit discovered on first day →
I haven’t tried it myself since doing that would be illegal, but apparently this is how it works:
Find paid version of any app on the net e.g. try looking for Angry Birds
Download/Install any free app from the Mac App Store
Free app: Copy to your desktop, right-click app, show package contents and navigate to /Contents/_MASReceipt
Paid app: Copy MASReceipt from free app...
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If people aren’t telling you that your idea is crazy, then it is likely not a...
– Francis Ford Coppola (via kevin)
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December 2010
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Happy New Year
I’m here at Hanoi wishing you all a happy New Year.