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1.) Since Sept. 2009 (Working on other things as far back as Feb. 2008.) 2.) No. (I usually apply, though.) 3.) No. (Doesn't seem like a good use of time to try.) 4.) http://www.fa…

Thanks for your comment. I agree with you (and roundsquare) that the first point has problems. To give you some idea of what I was getting at: The way I, and I suspect most gamers,…

Nice to see that the http://bikeshed.com/ is alive and well.

"They want unions to cut them a break" Sort of. It would be at least as accurate to say that the UAW wants the US gov't to hand over $25B (or $50B, or $75B) to the big 3 s.t. all 4…

As a hacker friend put it: "Programmers are paid to think, and occasionally type". Not the other way 'round.

I recently looked at the bandwidth costs of S3 vs. traditional hosting, and found them less than compelling; in particular, they seemed much higher than those of shared hosting pro…

it is taxed much higher than passive income Could you elaborate on this a little bit? The passive/active divide is a little fuzzy to me, especially since you apparently include "su…

(oops! I mean "37Signals") I'm pretty sure you mean "37signals".

But doesn't this "fact of life" just mean that developers should spend some time learning to market? Not getting great at it, but at least competent?

Ok, I guess I'm officially grumpy. "The routines in your code should be treated like tiny, highly polished diamonds, each one more exquisitely polished and finely cut than the next…

In my view, if you're going to do a business on your own, you have to be focused. Between the other parts of life that need some attention, the care-and-feeding of the business, sa…

Bray's conclusion, as I understand it, is that there is no "Web OS". I think he's wrong, because he's not looking in the right place. "OS"es started as collections of low-level uti…

Mesh abstracts devices and operating systems into objects that can be coordinated and orchestrated to deliver the appearance of a single or composite device. That’s the guiding pri…

10,000? 10,000 is a large number. For instance, 10,000 days is about 27 years, 5 months.

I've had good results with Tkinter. The widgets look native enough on Win32, and it's supposedly pretty portable.

I didn't much agree with this guy's post, but here's where he really lost me: "Javascript is on the verge of becoming part of the assembly language family, and toolkits like GWT ar…

"This is so big, it's tough to imagine our memristor based future. Please speculate wildly about humanity in the Memristor Age." Not since the inductor was discovered has there bee…

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/views/web/libraryview.jsp?... Particularly tutorial 5. It's a pretty good/quick overview of how all the bits of Ajax (JS, the DOM, XHR, Markup, et…

FWIW, the smallest US infantry unit is the fireteam, comprised of 4 men. I think it's 2 fireteams to a squad. Sounds like a 2-pizza outfit to me.