March 2009
15 posts
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“The video was also posted on Blip.tv, a U.S. video-sharing site that was also...”
– YouTube Says China Blocks Site - WSJ.com
Hopefully the PRC will listen to reason.
(via bliptv) (via mikehudack)
Now I need a “Blocked in China” T-Shirt
“The bottom line is, when you listen to your users, you get vanilla. feature...”
– No! Never Surrender To Your Users, Facebook.
Totally agree.
Facebook has set itself apart by pushing through unpopular features that people don’t think they want but actually do — again and again and again. I really hope they don’t stop.
(via superamit) (via mikehudack)
Uhh, I’m going to...
So I finally saw the Jim Cramer vs. Jon Stewart video tonight and I have to say that I’m a bit appalled. Let me preface this by saying I’m a huge Stewart fan, going way back to “You wrote it, You watch it”. I think Jon was totally wrong on this point, and I’m seriously disappointed with Cramer’s inability to stick up for himself.
The sheer fact that Cramer...
I love the New York bar scene on a Sunday night. It’s always interesting the characters you’ll meet. Tonight I met Harold, a Cuban who emigrated by speed boat to Miami eight years ago. He’s been unemployed and scraping by in NYC for the last 4 months. Harold’s a self-proclaimed political atheist, which seems strange to me for someone coming from a place embroiled in so...
How to fix a bug
I had a conversation with a developer today about proper debugging techniques. My approach is this:
1. Ensure that a bug has been filed with three sections: Steps to reproduce, expected behavior, and actual behavior.
2. Create an experiment that proves the issue. In situations where test-driven-development applies, create a new test case. In other cases, create a test page with two...
Write bad code now, improve it later?
mikehudack:
marco:
Jack Cheng quoted Adam Wiggins’ Order of Operations for writing code:
Make it work.
Make it elegant.
Make it fast.
Make it secure.
I disagree. The biggest problem is that this ignores reality: once it works, how likely are you to go back and make it elegant, fast, and secure? If it’s for personal use, how likely are you to care? If it’s for work, how likely is your...
A Conversation With…John Lee →
“What really struck me was that all of urban media’s secrets were being exposed. The things we talked about in bars at night over drinks. The things we whispered about in staff meetings. The juicy gossip: who was getting fired; who was sleeping with whom. Which magazines were being shut down. All of that was being published, on a website, using people’s real names.
It set off a...
Serious question here. I don’t want to be a doubter or a hater, but if water expands when it’s frozen why will melting polar ice caps cause sea rise? Won’t the sea contract instead? Can someone explain this, because google is no help.
