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Friday, May 10, 2013, 03:59
- Editor ecumenism≈20 words
- Jamie Zawinski explains Debian≈20 words
- A short review of Apple’s new headphones≈400 words
- Alan Cox on spanning political divides with libre software≈30 words
- David Hill on black≈20 words
- Twitter says Goodbye≈340 words
- Tom DeMarco on how a project’s need for metrics and its value relate≈30 words
- Fred Brooks on the act of programming≈250 words
- A merge-less Git release process≈940 words
- A shell one-liner courtesy of GNU≈190 words
- GCC web services, beware!≈20 words
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- Linux network sound on the very cheap≈420 words
- Paul Graham on spotting valuable problems≈20 words
- A very brief primer to thinking in XPath≈750 words
- MG Siegler on the inherent quality problem of comments≈20 words
- Maciej Ceglowski on sustainable business≈50 words
- A farewell to del.icio.us≈220 words
- Google’s and Apple’s lasting impact, contrasted≈260 words
- Patrick Rhone on iPad vs the PC≈60 words
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- Robert O’Callahan on software patent locusts≈30 words
- A quote from Edsger Dijkstra about measuring code≈20 words
- A quote from Nick Carr about the transformation of Facebook≈20 words
- Murray Gell-Mann’s amnesia theory≈150 words
- A graphic illustration of 0.999…=1≈170 words
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- Martin Fowler on the shortsightedness of shortchanging architectural quality≈20 words
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- Animated ads will not vanish if Flash does≈150 words
- The future of Linux on the desktop≈20 words
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- Joel Spolsky on unlearning centralised VCS≈20 words
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- In which a pessimist meets the iPad≈130 words
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- A note in response to Rafe Colburn on ETL≈140 words
- A simple preforking echo server in Perl≈90 words
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- Two well-known quotes on computing seen side by side≈50 words
- Dag Ågren rants about Photoshop’s native image format≈20 words
- Solutions for publisher control of link shortening are based on a misguided premise≈420 words
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- Bill de hÓra on how to make technology bets≈30 words
- Why Git’s commit rewriting features are good≈310 words
- In which I can’t get enough of staring at my own website≈130 words
- Assaf Arkin speaks out against ugliness in utilitarianism≈30 words
- John Siracusa on the nature of progress≈20 words
- Felix von Leitner on the only approach to manageable systems≈40 words
- Larry Wall on language design≈20 words
- Cancelling changes backward while rebasing beats carrying changes forward≈360 words
- Stefan Tilkov makes the case≈20 words
- A Firefox extension greatly speeds up browsing≈40 words
- Mark Pilgrim on recent W3C specs≈20 words
- Yves Orton on the simplicity of Git≈20 words
- Ian Bicking on the role of URI design in REST≈20 words
- A quote on conception, in commentary to a short essay from John Gruber≈120 words
- Subversion imposes high mental overhead on repository creation≈260 words
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- Roy Fielding sums up the purpose of REST≈20 words
- An anecdote from Callum McKenzie on the non-existence of trivial patches≈50 words
- An appropriate definition for “software patent”≈20 words
- Replacing PHP will take more than a programming language≈550 words
- Perl 6 compiler error detection is receiving great attention≈360 words
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- On iPhone GPL software and John Gruber’s dismissal of the FSF’s claims about the App Store≈200 words
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- A thought on abstractions and polymorphic behaviour≈30 words
- Fixing malformed markup in one easy step≈50 words
- Help get Perl onto Google App Engine≈20 words
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- A half-baked (or less) idea for solving Wikipedia’s worst problem≈230 words
- Why advice on choosing strong passwords is useless≈400 words
- A quote from Larry Wall≈20 words
- Joel Spolsky does not understand the web≈450 words
- Encyclopædiæ are permeating the web/print membrane≈50 words
- Misunderstanding REST≈30 words
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- Internet Explorer 8 and the mercy of Microsoft≈160 words
- Forget Markup Barbie≈30 words
- On Joe Gregorio’s proposal for partial updates in Atompub≈510 words
- On Arc, Paul Graham, and Unicode support as an exercise for the programmer≈360 words
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- Cognitive accessibility of user interfaces summarised in an oversimplified rule≈250 words
- Reginald Braithwaite on one man’s beauty≈20 words
- The risk in outsourcing to web applications is real≈110 words
- The Atom Publishing Protocol is finally an RFC: 5023≈30 words
- jQuery trick to reduce code duplication when initialising dynamic effects≈350 words
- A note on Cédric Beust’s Erlang scepticism, concurrency, Java, and abstractions≈150 words
- Patch for “mixer-oss.c:105: error: subscripted value is neither array nor pointer” compile error in volume.app 1.1a≈220 words
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- The urge to comment as a sign of danger≈440 words
- On Jeffrey Zeldman failing to see a crisis≈130 words
- See you aboard the Haskell train≈200 words
- Bill de hÓra on the potential impact of Atompub≈20 words
- Complexity management is easy with hindsight≈410 words
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- Tim Bray on Microsoft’s patent nonsense≈20 words
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- Why you should ignore Joel Spolsky’s opinions about Ruby and Perl≈300 words
- On the respective breaking points of statically and dynamically typed languages≈520 words
- Paul Ingevaldson on the hidden cost of off-the-shelf software≈340 words
- At long last, Blogger has upgraded to Atom 1.0≈30 words
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- Continuations for the web are not the answer; a quick note≈160 words
- Jeremy Keith explains the value of adding Ajax as pure interface sugar≈100 words
- Chris Anderson on search engines and archives combining to make value≈30 words
- Derek Denny-Brown on storing state in a proliferation of boolean flags≈20 words
- On Tim Bray’s claim that knowing Java makes one a better programmer≈170 words
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- Introducing Bencode, a Perl implementation of the BitTorrent bencode serialisation format≈170 words
- Tim Bray on the learned lack of attention span≈90 words
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- Mark Hurst says sometimes the best option is less technology≈30 words
- Dave Shea pleads for grid-based CSS design support≈60 words
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- Danny Ayers on the dirtiness of successful technologies≈20 words
- Sheila Lennon on owning ideas≈90 words
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- Joe Gregorio on SQLite taking over from MySQL; and why that’s good news≈90 words
- Robert O’Callahan asserts you should not work for Microsoft≈20 words
- I, programmer≈840 words
- On Ben Hammersley’s justification of his switch to iWeb≈220 words
- A quick note on Google’s mission≈40 words
- Dave Winer goes on record to say that RSS is unfixably broken≈20 words
- Why PHP is good but bad≈840 words
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- Shelley Powers on the stuff of legends, that is, the RSS 2.0 saga≈70 words
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- What will Oracle’s all-out buy-in to open source mean?≈80 words
- One thing from Firefox 1.0 that I dearly miss in 1.5≈290 words
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- Rod Begbie on Internet Explorer 7 beta 2≈30 words
- James Robertson and Cory Doctorow on PVP-OPM≈40 words
- Mark Nottingham on web framework design≈30 words
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- Mark Pilgrim on the absurdly abysmal level of standards compliance in iPhoto’s “photocasting”≈50 words
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- Namespace droppings and bozotic aggregator developers≈1080 words
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- Nat Torkington on crowd mentality in the purported new age of the web≈30 words
- On very deep implicit linking in a massive corpus of documents≈590 words
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- Perl 6 can’t get here fast enough≈90 words
- Tim O’Reilly on free software as effect rather than cause≈20 words
- Scalability is just like any other optimisation≈460 words
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- Chris Fralic on the vagueness of “Web 2.0”≈20 words
- Performance art in the web age≈30 words
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- The Atom Syndication Format is finally an RFC: 4287≈30 words
- Rick Jelliffe on the stunting effect of software patents≈20 words
- Tabinta lets you enter tabs in textareas in Firefox≈220 words
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- Sony’s malware trumps Blizzard Entertainment’s spyware≈110 words
- Kellan Elliott-McCrea on why open source projects struggle with usability≈20 words
- Mark Williamson on overly detail-enamored, useless documentation≈20 words
- Unheard-of company asserts patents as broad as a canyon, says they apply to XML≈90 words
- Quotes about the replaying Google Web Accelerator fiasco≈40 words
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- Interview with a 419 scammer≈100 words
- Efficient, effective email handling for needs like mine≈1040 words
- Meg Fowler on the Google Print lawsuit≈30 words
- How some design pattern terminology might be obviated≈310 words
- Do infrequent webloggers lose readers?≈360 words
- Design pattern terminology bordering on hype≈300 words
- Charles Eicher on OPML≈30 words
- Charles Miller on programming≈20 words
- Reinventing the wheel requires good justification≈540 words
- Livejournal has adopted Atom 1.0≈90 words
- Titling articles both clearly and pithily≈420 words
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- Weblog conversation requires archives≈370 words
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- Perl 6 and the alleged dynamic typing performance penalty≈160 words
- On the alleged performance penalty of dynamic typing≈180 words
- Google Talk could liberate instant messaging≈320 words
- Tags suck (only) at the global scale≈220 words
- Monospace XML source view with Firefox≈50 words
- I have finally upgraded to Atom 1.0≈530 words
- Tim Berners-Lee’s lucid take on Postel’s Law≈60 words
- Joel Spolsky is confused about Extreme Programming≈190 words
- Soft skills are more important than experience with a technology≈100 words
- David Heinemeier Hanson on XML-based configuration formats≈20 words
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- My Internet Explorer predictions seem on the mark≈60 words
- Company reactions to a security vulnerability report≈550 words
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- Christopher Diggins on the software developer experience≈180 words
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- Victory in a decisive battle against software patents in Europe≈130 words
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- Clearlooks is a beautiful, unobtrusive gtk+ theme≈100 words
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- Dan Sugalsky on stupidity as exemplified by mail server configuration≈20 words
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- Brian McCallister on the goodness of concise languages≈120 words
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- Maciej Cegłowski on Paul Graham’s essay “Hackers and Painters”≈50 words
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- Fusion fuses the load progress bar into the Location bar of Firefox≈100 words
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- bmp-rootvis is a lovely visualisation plugin for Beep Media Player≈80 words
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