11 month ago
deusx : IT Conversations: Jeff Bonforte - "instead of a description of what he calls Telephone 3.0, he delivers an entertaining and typically forthright argument in favor of anger and its power to drive innovation."
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13 month ago
adamrg : New to a Sushi Bar? - Hillarious guide of things to avoid doing at a sushi bar.
deusx : customers_suck: You're new here, I know. Hush, baby, don - "Stop insulting my food and go eat oatmeal, you timid fuck. Only big kids get to play here."
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21 month ago
43folders : Playlist: Zune Diary: Final thoughts - "Welcome to the disgraceful." I get the feeling Chris wasn't so into his Zune.
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26 month ago
Philippe Janvier : .9999999... = 1 - "No, I'm Sorry, It Does." [via] #
deusx : Polymathematics: No, I'm Sorry, It Does. - "Okay, so there's my rant. .9 repeating equals one. No, I'm sorry, it does."
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29 month ago
kayodeok : How to Drive your Website Developer Insane: A Primer - Constantly bring up your expert programmer son/cousin/close family friend. Make one up if you don’t really have one! Be sure to give them the most annoying qualities possible and make sure they always give the opposite advice of the programmer actu
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30 month ago
kayodeok : The big DRM mistake - Digital Rights Managements hurts paying customers, destroys Fair Use rights, renders customers' investments worthless, and can always be defeated. Why are consumers and publishers being forced to use DRM?
deusx : The big DRM mistake - "Digital Rights Managements hurts paying customers, destroys Fair Use rights, renders customers' investments worthless, and can always be defeated. Why are consumers and publishers being forced to use DRM?"
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31 month ago
znarf : A pro-PHP Rant - So here’s some pro-PHP ranting… #
Simon Willison : A pro-PHP Rant - Harry Fuecks pulls one off in style.
Jeremy Zawodny : A pro-PHP Rant - A pro-PHP Rant: It’s the execution model
kayodeok : A pro-PHP Rant - To Read.
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31 month ago
Paul Hammond : The Joel on Software Discussion Group - Rails' Ridiculous Restrictions, a Rant - I only say all this because Rails is the first framework worth criticizing.
kayodeok : The Joel on Software Discussion Group - Rails' Ridiculous Restrictions, a Rant - As an entitled American who contributed not one line of code to Rails and has used it for all of one project, I am of course brilliantly qualified to bitch about it.
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31 month ago
jimray : The Joel on Software Discussion Group - Rails' Ridiculous Restrictions, a Rant - Some good points, DHH has his thoughts about midway down the comments section
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31 month ago
kayodeok : Hungry? Want another bullshit sandwich? - Stop it. Bad design harms business, it does not help it. Websites like Boingboing, Google and eBay are successful in spite of their poorly designed sites, not because of them
jkottke : This article on how Google and eBay are poorly designed seems really wrongheaded to me - This article on how Google and eBay are poorly designed seems really wrongheaded to me, although it may just be that essays that use the word "suckass" and mistake style for design will fail to convince me of anything.
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31 month ago
kayodeok : Darwinian Web: IE7's aggregator isn't impressive, but it is good enough - Microsoft long ago mastered the trick of calculating exactly the minimal feature set needed to suck the air out of a market it wants to enter. They do about half of this the first time around, and eventually reach the minimal set by about the third versio
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32 month ago
kayodeok : raving lunacy: Copyright, the Internet and Blogs - If you feel that your prose, is of such astonishing value, you should probably not post it on the internet. Because the dumbest thing you can put on your sites is: "Copyright All Rights Reserved No duplication without Expressed Written Authorization"
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32 month ago
Cameron Moll : ALA: Web 3.0 - A List Apart: "Web 3.0". Jeffrey speaks from the heart. At least that's how I read it. I found this to be highly motivational, surprisingly. "These problems and others will be solved, most likely by someone reading this page," says Zeldman. "One points to
Rod Begbie : A List Apart: Articles: Web 3.0 - I ♥ Zeldman. [via] #
Eric Meyer : A List Apart: Articles: Web 3.0 - Preach on, brutha.
jimray : A List Apart: Articles: Web 3.0 - "My discomfort with the hype surrounding an emerging genre of web development turned into a full-blown hate-on." Zeldman debunks all the Web2.0 inanity.
Simon Willison : Web 3.0 - A Zeldman classic.
kayodeok : A List Apart: Articles: Web 3.0 - "We have been down this road before"
Jeremy Zawodny : Web 3.0 - Web 3.0: "But ours is a medium in which, more often than not, big teams have slowly and expensively labored to produce overly complex web applications whose usability was near nil on behalf of clients with at best vague goals."
WillPate : Web 3.0 - "To you who feel like failures because you spent last year honing your web skills and serving clients, or running a business, or perhaps publishing content, you are special and lovely, so hold that pretty head high, and never let them see the tears."
François Nonnenmacher : Web 3.0 - Jeffrey Zeldman cuts to the chase
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32 month ago
kayodeok : 10 Web Trends That Should Die in 2006 - Here's a new years resolution for the web at large: stop doing silly things to users. Following are top trends that I just hope will not see 2007
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34 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : My Wishlist Wishlist - My Wishlist Wishlist: "Amazon's Wishlist feature is so lame." So I'm not the only one to notice?
kayodeok : My Wishlist Wishlist - Amazon's Wishlist feature is so lame. I wrote them a bunch of suggestions and thought I'd include them here, since it's never apparent to me that anything comes of sending suggestions to Amazon
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34 month ago
kayodeok : The Cover-Up Is the Crime - Sony BMG is facing a cacophony of criticism this week following the revelation that some of its CDs are packed with special copy-protection software that conceals itself with an advanced hacker cloaking technique. We think the company is getting off easy
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35 month ago
kayodeok : Where's The Ambition? - Umm, I like FireFox as much as the next geek. But if you're creating enhancements to a browser with a 7% marketshare, god knows what you or your investors are thinking
ricmac : Russell Beattie Notebook » Where’s The Ambition? - excellent post by Russ: "It just seems that no one is trying to change the world any more. No one is aiming to create “insanely great†products or do the impossible. Why not?"
Paul Hammond : Russell Beattie Notebook » Where’s The Ambition? - Are they going to change the world?
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35 month ago
kayodeok : The Fishbowl: What's Wrong with OPML - The reason for this is that OPML, as specified, is a non-format. It's the alluring vapor of a specification that isn't there
znarf : The Fishbowl: What's Wrong with OPML [via] #
Paul Hammond : The Fishbowl: What's Wrong with OPML - An outline is stuff nested inside other stuff. So's XML.
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36 month ago
kayodeok : Why do we have to fight? - Rant about clueless project managers
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36 month ago
kayodeok : Choke on a Mint - A review of Shaun Inman's new Mint web stats tracking application
deusx : Phoenixrealm - Choke on a Mint - "Do you really need a stats program that uses AJAX, just because it uses what is currently an "in" technology to use and is made by Shaun Inman. When there are hundreds of other stat tracking applications out there?"
Paul Hammond : Phoenixrealm » Choke on a Mint - Do you really need a stats program that uses AJAX, just because it uses what is currently an “in†technology to use and is made by Shaun Inman
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37 month ago
kayodeok : IE is teh 3v1l (IE Printing Bug) - We have a text area named "tags", which we use to allow users to edit the tags on their pages. IE handled it fine, right up until the time you tried to print, and then IE choked on it
Paul Hammond : IE is teh 3v1l - We have a text area named “tagsâ€, which we use to allow users to edit the tags on their pages.
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37 month ago
Eric Meyer : O'Reilly joins the search engine spam parade - Nothing to do but quote Phil: "This just sucks."
kayodeok : O'Reilly joins the search engine spam parade - "How horribly low have we sunk, that I'm not willing to link to O'Reilly sites without a rel="nofollow", because they are a bunch of low-life search engine spammers?"
Andy Baio : O'Reilly's search engine spam - read about this on my last day at Foo Camp, but couldn't get a quote from anyone there [via]
jkottke : O'Reilly spam advertising - It's sad to see O'Reilly selling PageRank to all these mortgage and hotel sites that have thoroughly polluted Google with their bad results. Much of the onus is on Google to clean that stuff out, but as Rogers notes in the thread, "if you're going to sell
Paul Hammond : phil ringnalda dot com: O'Reilly joins the search engine spam parade - So, how do you feel about this?
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37 month ago
kayodeok : Technorati aka Sorry there are too many requests... � - Technorati rarely, if ever, works and those times you are fortunate enough to get it to work it is really slow
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37 month ago
kayodeok : Paul Thurott's Acid Trip - Robert McLaws of Longhorn Blogs responds to Paul Thurrott;s rants about IE7 Beta
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