2 month ago
wearehugh : Call Me Fishmeal.: “The Mojave Experiment:” Bad Science, Bad Marketing - "Initially, people like having sex without condoms, too"
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Rod Begbie : Charlie Brooker: These days, I assume that everything I do is probed and examined by omnipotent corporations - "The way things are going, I half-expect to hear a quiet electric "peep" noise each time I flush the toilet; another bowel movement logged by Bumland Security." [via] #
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3 month ago
Rod Begbie : An epic Bill Gates e-mail rant - Even billg gets frustrated by the pain of Windows Update. [via] #
Khoi Vinh : Bill Gates on Windows Usability - An old message in which Gates details his experience trying to find, purchase, download and install his company’s own MovieMaker software.
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6 month ago
wearehugh : Luis Villa’s Blog / brief “CC-licensed specification” rant - i've never understood this either. first example i saw was microformats specs, but perhaps there were earlier examples. now it's spreading like a cancer.
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7 month ago
nelson : Vidal on Buckley - Righteous, nasty rant against the dead conservative. "o society so marinated in falsity can long survive in a real world"
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wearehugh : Nelson's Weblog: tech / bad / itunes-updates-2
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wearehugh : ASCII by Jason Scott: Subtitle Your Fucking Movie - unbelievably awesome rant, and a shout out to my favorite subtitling program
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8 month ago
nelson : Fine Arrington rant - He'd be an awesome Andy Rooney
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9 month ago
nelson : Shared hosting is a ghetto - Great post explaining why there's no point making Rails work well in shared environments
wearehugh : Shared Hosting is a Ghetto - "nobody but nerds (who don't pay for software anyway) install their own web applications anymore. People use hosted services."
Greg Storey : Shared hosting is ghetto. - That may be but it currently rules the school. Why does dedicated hosting still so expensive?
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gleuschk : Set Theory: Should You Believe? - fantastic rant
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13 month ago
nelson : fine iTunes rant - Great example of some of the disaster that is iTunes
gleuschk : fine iTunes rant - its library management really is hopeless. it's easy to forget until you need to help your mom deal with hers
Jeremy Zawodny : Dear Apple: Why does iTunes library management suck so bad? - Dear Apple: Why does iTunes library management suck so bad?: "I love my iPod but holy crap it's a pain to manage my library." You and me both, man...
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14 month ago
wearehugh : RussellBeattie.com - Java needs an overhaul - "It turns out I don't hate programming, I just hate programming in Java."
deusx : RussellBeattie.com - Java needs an overhaul - "I'd say that many of today's current hot trends in programming are a direct result of a backlash *against* everything that Java has come to represent"
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14 month ago
gleuschk : MoonshineMath » Blog Archive » the unbearable lightness of math-blogging - Lieven says, "What is the ratio of ‘link-posts’ to all? The lower the ratio, the better." Or, you know, accept that there are as many styles of blogs as of books.
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14 month ago
deusx : uncov / Nobody Gets Laid At BarCamp (barcamp) - "Basically you sign up to come pitch your useless startup to a bunch of other jerkoffs who are pitching their useless startups, and it doesn't stop until everyone gets a full release."
Linkorama : Nobody Gets Laid At BarCamp - BarCamp is a conference sort of thing that revolves around a Wiki. Basically you sign up to come pitch your useless startup to a bunch of other jerkoffs who are pitching their useless startups, and it doesn't stop until everyone gets a full release.
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15 month ago
nelson : I <3 JWZ - Lovely little jwz rant; beware if you comment on his blog
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16 month ago
wearehugh : uncov / Kevin Rose: YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG (pownce) - "The only thing that really irritates me about Pownce is that it has to exist on the same internet that I use."
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16 month ago
fastclemmy : YouTube - Pachelbel Rant - YouTube - Pachelbel Rant by fastclemmy A comedian rants about how much it sucks to play Pachelbel's Canon in D on a cello. Recorded live at Penn State, this piece by comedian/musician Rob Paravonian has been a favorite on the Dr. Demento Show. hotl
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17 month ago
nelson : Gadget bill of lights - Amusing rant against the stupid decorative LEDs on electronics.
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17 month ago
wearehugh : ASCII by Jason Scott: Bittorrent: Solitary. Fashionable. Ethereal. - "if someone wants the historically interesting first introduction of bittorrent, you have to go to one of my websites."
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18 month ago
wearehugh : O'Reilly Radar > Six Basic Truths of Free APIs
jimray : Six basic truths about free APIs - "Free APIs are not a god-given right"
deusx : O'Reilly Radar > Six Basic Truths of Free APIs - "Amazon and Google have recently shattered a common misconception: that free APIs are a commons of goodies to be built on top of for fun and profit, like open source software."
factoryjoe : O'Reilly Radar > Six Basic Truths of Free APIs - Nat debunks 6 myths of Free APIs. Tags: apis, business models, open apis
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18 month ago
jcgregorio : The Fishbowl: An Open Letter to Maven 2 - And he's still got the best subtitle of any blog ever.
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19 month ago
wearehugh : defective yeti: More Odorous Than A Flowering Gardenia - "I'm actually kind of impressed by how many ways this offends me."
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19 month ago
wearehugh : Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | Five things I hate about Python
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