http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why%27s_(poignant)_Guide_to_Rub... Edit: Fixed URL
Nice! I posted a similar sentiment here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5108181 Perl or PHP, because why not?
She's also got a repo called "Kittydar" (Face detection for cats in JavaScript). This is someone who loves her language of choice and is just spinning out some fun projects with it. I think that's great. Rewriting sed…
> PHP will slowly phase out over the next decade. Wordpress. It's become a full blown CMS and its own platform. Half the media sites out there are running it, or hosting with Wordpress Pro. Then there's a horde of…
> We have server side JS (Node), Ruby, Python and Java -- Hey now. Let's not forget everyone's first love: Perl. :D It's still quietly running quite a few big sites out there, and is currently enjoying something of…
The most striking thing is the across the board drop from one age group to the next. That to me is the more interesting story here. Curious about Survata' methodology. Neither the author nor their website go into a…
Figures in similar communities were older (Larry released Perl in his early thirties, Guido was pushing forty before Python gained traction). They also didn't come up in the era of YouTube, twitter, and archive.org.…
Very cool. Thanks for the clarification. Also: I'm not an expert, or a lawyer, but it's my understanding that you can't copyright titles, but you can trademark them, or portions of them. The guys (IDW?) that publish the…
Love the idea, the context, and the execution. It's a great project. Not a fan of the name. Zed Shaw has a well-established series of "Learn $topic the Hard Way" online books, with Addison Wesley publishing a 3rd…
I downloaded a trial of PhpStorm last week, and loaded an old CodeIgniter project into it. The app flagged objects, methods, and variables that were created in other files as "undefined." I could see how that would be…
I think he buried the lede: Social login buttons can hurt brands. This'll date me, but I'm still amazed that so many companies eagerly slap other company's logos on everything they do. Even if it's just a blog post.…
This might be pedantic for this thread, I have to point out that Clerks wasn't really a "self financed" movie. At least in the sense that the final product you saw on theaters and on DVD was not paid for by Kevin Smith.…
My favorite example of this is Penny Arcade. First year: http://penny-arcade.com/comic/1998/11/18 Five years later: http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2003/11/18
The problem is that this space gets oversaturated easily and the fallout is quick and brutal. Remember the Jaguar? 3DO? Dreamcast? The Phantom? All of them had fan support and all of them failed in the marketplace (and…
It's more likely that some of these are defensive applications, to lock competitors from getting them (eg: blog, tunes). Winer is right, and I'm surprised nobody is writing about this or calling much attention to it.…
That's the part I don't get: Foxconn is the world's biggest manufacturer of electronic components. They count Amazon, Dell, Motorola, HP, Nokia, Microsoft, and Apple among their clients. Yet only Apple gets the notice.…
Congrats to Mr Veen et al, but ... Ugh. Typekit was a great service. I have little faith that Adobe won't completely screw it up.
twitter allows custom links/ buttons. These don't require on-loading JavaScript or any calls to their services.
Forget typewriters. I want a Bluetooth IBM model M keyboard for my iPad.
People don't read. They scan. http://www.useit.com/alertbox/reading_pattern.html Your scrolling js metric is clever, but that doesn't mean they've read a thing. All it means is they've scrolled to the bottom of the page.
I generally like Siegler's stuff but he's so far down the rabbit hole now he can't see the reasoning behind concepts like 'bias' and 'disclosure.' Worse, he seems to be fully believe these things don't, or shouldn't,…
Because they're desperately trying to protect the sales of hardcover books, and, in part, trade paperbacks. They don't want to risk cannibalizing sales. Consumers look at ebooks like another variation of the same…
Correction: It's any computer, not just Windows PCs, and you can recycle old phones, iPods, and iPads too.
No, trademarks began and continue as a way to protect creators and commercial operators. It's a way to put your stamp on something and say "This is mine, I created it, I own it." It began, and remains, very closely tied…
This story annoys me to no end, because it points once again to a seemingly pervasive online and generational sense of entitlement when it comes to things like trademarks and copyright. While C&D letters are never a…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why%27s_(poignant)_Guide_to_Rub... Edit: Fixed URL
Nice! I posted a similar sentiment here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5108181 Perl or PHP, because why not?
She's also got a repo called "Kittydar" (Face detection for cats in JavaScript). This is someone who loves her language of choice and is just spinning out some fun projects with it. I think that's great. Rewriting sed…
> PHP will slowly phase out over the next decade. Wordpress. It's become a full blown CMS and its own platform. Half the media sites out there are running it, or hosting with Wordpress Pro. Then there's a horde of…
> We have server side JS (Node), Ruby, Python and Java -- Hey now. Let's not forget everyone's first love: Perl. :D It's still quietly running quite a few big sites out there, and is currently enjoying something of…
The most striking thing is the across the board drop from one age group to the next. That to me is the more interesting story here. Curious about Survata' methodology. Neither the author nor their website go into a…
Figures in similar communities were older (Larry released Perl in his early thirties, Guido was pushing forty before Python gained traction). They also didn't come up in the era of YouTube, twitter, and archive.org.…
Very cool. Thanks for the clarification. Also: I'm not an expert, or a lawyer, but it's my understanding that you can't copyright titles, but you can trademark them, or portions of them. The guys (IDW?) that publish the…
Love the idea, the context, and the execution. It's a great project. Not a fan of the name. Zed Shaw has a well-established series of "Learn $topic the Hard Way" online books, with Addison Wesley publishing a 3rd…
I downloaded a trial of PhpStorm last week, and loaded an old CodeIgniter project into it. The app flagged objects, methods, and variables that were created in other files as "undefined." I could see how that would be…
I think he buried the lede: Social login buttons can hurt brands. This'll date me, but I'm still amazed that so many companies eagerly slap other company's logos on everything they do. Even if it's just a blog post.…
This might be pedantic for this thread, I have to point out that Clerks wasn't really a "self financed" movie. At least in the sense that the final product you saw on theaters and on DVD was not paid for by Kevin Smith.…
My favorite example of this is Penny Arcade. First year: http://penny-arcade.com/comic/1998/11/18 Five years later: http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2003/11/18
The problem is that this space gets oversaturated easily and the fallout is quick and brutal. Remember the Jaguar? 3DO? Dreamcast? The Phantom? All of them had fan support and all of them failed in the marketplace (and…
It's more likely that some of these are defensive applications, to lock competitors from getting them (eg: blog, tunes). Winer is right, and I'm surprised nobody is writing about this or calling much attention to it.…
That's the part I don't get: Foxconn is the world's biggest manufacturer of electronic components. They count Amazon, Dell, Motorola, HP, Nokia, Microsoft, and Apple among their clients. Yet only Apple gets the notice.…
Congrats to Mr Veen et al, but ... Ugh. Typekit was a great service. I have little faith that Adobe won't completely screw it up.
twitter allows custom links/ buttons. These don't require on-loading JavaScript or any calls to their services.
Forget typewriters. I want a Bluetooth IBM model M keyboard for my iPad.
People don't read. They scan. http://www.useit.com/alertbox/reading_pattern.html Your scrolling js metric is clever, but that doesn't mean they've read a thing. All it means is they've scrolled to the bottom of the page.
I generally like Siegler's stuff but he's so far down the rabbit hole now he can't see the reasoning behind concepts like 'bias' and 'disclosure.' Worse, he seems to be fully believe these things don't, or shouldn't,…
Because they're desperately trying to protect the sales of hardcover books, and, in part, trade paperbacks. They don't want to risk cannibalizing sales. Consumers look at ebooks like another variation of the same…
Correction: It's any computer, not just Windows PCs, and you can recycle old phones, iPods, and iPads too.
No, trademarks began and continue as a way to protect creators and commercial operators. It's a way to put your stamp on something and say "This is mine, I created it, I own it." It began, and remains, very closely tied…
This story annoys me to no end, because it points once again to a seemingly pervasive online and generational sense of entitlement when it comes to things like trademarks and copyright. While C&D letters are never a…