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Wow... I would so much rather just have (perhaps a subset of) the actual data always on my display. I don't have an iPhone, but there's some room on my little screen that could sho…

The USC loss highlights something to me: It was hard for me to tell what information was being displayed. I totally missed the news on that game (fail) so I saw USC in bold and ass…

And, by contrast, this is why computers are so slow at some decisions: no biases or heuristics, no input prioritization, etc.

I read a tip, I don't remember where anymore sadly, about taking a key word from the question, adding some password-like string to it and calling that your answer. So: "What is you…

I'm currently learning Flex, which I guess means I'm learning ActionScript? I have to say I'm not enjoying it as much as I enjoy Ruby.

That's hilarious. I think the best part is where it points out that since particles have positive and negative charges and 1 + -1 = 0, then the universe must have been made "from n…

Doesn't it say something specifically about not wanting marketing pitches?

I agree that this is the big decision point. I'm a Ruby guy and I've looked at Python several times and it never really stuck (I could work on a project that use Python, it just wo…

No kidding. Great reality hack.

I'd be interested in discussing it. If you (or anyone else) are, too, feel free to email me at the address in my bio. Thanks!

Is there--understand, here, that I don't have a blog and haven't blogged, so I have no idea--is there blog software that will do this for you already? Like, handle a different URL,…

Though the article was interesting, it's nothing that isn't said a lot: quality communication is necessary and also hard; quality communication between more people is commensuratel…

Seconded. The whole verb/noun discussion played into my Linguistics background nicely. Now I... get it.

Yeah. Way to fail completely at your job, Keyes. This is a guy who can't imagine anyone using his product in a way different from the way he uses it. Fail.

Concur. I think the most impressive thing on here was Fez. Other stuff either looked like it wouldn't be terribly useful to actually use, wasn't real or both.

Yeah. Functional programming. I "understood" it for a good while before, rather suddenly, something clicked and I realized what the big deal was all about.

"Most of the time when people use qualifiers like that it's to express some type of instinct - which seems to be what the author is against." Hah! Wonderful sentence. Love the iron…

I had a pretty horrible experience with an airline recently (I won't regale y'all) and it has had me thinking about ways to fix air travel in the US. I had a few ideas on how an ou…

The link broke for me, but I just went up-URL to see the post. So awesome. I just... this is amazing.

Similarly, have y'all seen mobaganda.com? It is doing the simple == better thing, as well. I notice you guys seem (I haven't actually used either site yet) to have a few more featu…

I think the assertion was not that they should get better treatment, but that they should get equal treatment. I may have misinterpreted, of course.

As the article points out... Or else they'll be more likely to be lured away and, while they're with you, give bad customer service, etc. I certainly know that's true. I worked in …

Do I really need to be as popular as YouTube (even in a different market) to be a success? Maybe this is what you meant by "different standards of 'getting somewhere.'" In many are…

We have a bus system that I love, so "Yes". The company that runs them tries a sort of service like you've described, but I have anecdotal evidence that the trick is no one wants t…