January 2012
2 posts
“It’s better to do things the wrong way rather than not doing them at all.”
– Commenter on HN
Weekend hackers; now on a tumblr near you
Me and @th3dz are live in my kitchen, trying to get some sort of rails app up and running in the next day or so.
Follow the progress on http://satsuncoding.tumblr.com/ where we will try to document the process and frustration.
August 2011
1 post
Anonymous asked: whats up
July 2011
2 posts
“Procrastinators - Leaders of tomorrow”
– T-Shirt on random guy
“A salesman has to deal with customers, and a developer has to deal with...”
– Paul Graham, Hackers & Painters
June 2011
1 post
It's official: developers get better with age. And... →
Datamining stackoverflow to provide some interesting statistics.
TL;DR version at the bottom of the post
Number of coders drops significantly with age. Top developer numbers, at age 27, drop by half every 6-7 years.
Developers in their 40s answer roughly twice as much and ask half the questions compared to colleagues in their 20s. It seems younger generation learns and older generation...
May 2011
8 posts
“Those things you have to write in school are not only not essays, they’re one of...”
– A Version 1.0 essay by Paul Graham
Raw Syntax: Importance of Side Projects →
rawsyntax:
Side projects are important for a few reasons. Programming is a creative process. Side projects allow programming without deadlines or restraints. Side projects allow programming in an exploratory way.
Explore new technologies
Every day there are more and more bleeding edge technologies coming…
The startup genome project - The first report is... →
And so the wait for the backlash from scholars of scientific method begins.
Interesting read, can’t wait to see what they produce later on.
"The Best of edw519" is now free. Reverse Happy... →
Ed Weissman built a book out of his HN comments.
It made me think about how much you actually write during a lifetime that could be compiled into a book with minimal editing.
The free “book” consist of answers to all those questions we all know and love. I call these kinds of questions productivity-porn and procrastination enablers.
It also reminds me that I have to start a new blog...
First Twitter-Based Hedge Fund Opens in London →
Take “first” with a grain of salt, it’s been around for a while. Perhaps this is the first hedgefund that is upfront about it?
But the idea that you can predict the stock market by analyzing the general populations state of mind is really really interesting to me.
For a description read Bollen, Mao and Zeng’s paper “Twitter mood predicts the stock market”.
...
On TermKit | Steven Wittens - Acko.net →
The terminal has remained the same since the 70’s. Is it because it’s so good or because no decent replacement has surfaced?
TermKit tries to bring the terminal to the next level/into this decade.
This went right into my watched section on GitHub
99 Percent Of Android Devices Are Vulnerable To... →
Researchers at Germany’s University of Ulm have made some unsettling discoveries about the security of the Android platform. According to an article from The Register, the research group…
Why Startups Could Use .NET, But Don’t →
This is an interesting article and something I have been pondering for a while.
TL;DR version: Get experience in several different technologies to become better.
April 2011
2 posts
Announcements: Just-In-Time Business Cards →
As you may have noticed, I am a big fan of souvenirs, trinkets, and tchotchkes. And I know I’m not alone. Whenever I go to a conference, at least half of my fellow attendees join me in the…
Lady Gaga goes gaga over Ubuntu →
After enthralling the techies at Google last week, Lady Gaga has given her geek fans another reason to smile. In a press conference this Monday, the Grammy award-winning singer confessed that she is…
March 2011
4 posts
CodeSOD: No Letters Allowed! →
“The data validation requirements for a telephone number are dead simple,” writes Chris M., “Just the numbers and that’s it. The user can enter their numbers with dashes, brackets, parens,…
In Silicon Valley, a Lack of Engineers -... →
Times are changing..
This Bacteria is Violating Copyright →
What would have been science fiction twenty years ago is now so mundane that it’s caught in the frustrating labyrinth of copyright law.
Back in May 2010, geneticist J. Craig Venter announced the…
Inkling makes deals for e-textbooks with key... →
While many companies are talking about making the iPad the platform for electronic textbooks, one San Francisco startup appears to be moving boldly into making the dream a reality.
Inkling…
February 2011
1 post
Google Gets 75,000 Job Applications in One Week,... →
Crazy.
I heard a rep from 3 (swedish cell provider) on the radio a few years ago talking about how he threw away half of the applications before digging in due to the load.
Google being Google they probably use some serious data-mining to weed out applicants in the first rounds. But still. 75k.
January 2011
16 posts
Breakthrough promises $1.50 per gallon synthetic... →
CO2-neutral artificial gas? Yes please.
Facebook turns on HTTPS to block WiFi hijacking →
Facebook announced Wednesday it would begin supporting a feature to protect users from having their accounts hijacked over WiFi connections or snooped on by schools and businesses.
Type 241543903 in Google Image Search →
Comments
“It’s not my problem. The hole is in their side of the boat.”
– —John Brewer
Agile development is more culture than process and... →
The coolest thing about a waterfall process is that it allows me personally to succeed, to demonstrate skill and competence, while the end result of the process is a dismal failure. Cleverly built into a waterfall process are a variety of scapegoating mechanisms that allow us to blame other people, or outside influences for failure. Given that important value of demonstrating personal competence,...
Spotify - coming soon to a Squeezebox near you →
We’re delighted to announce that we’ve joined forces with Logitech to bring Spotify to your Squeezebox Touch and Squeezebox Radio. For those unfamiliar with Squeezebox, we highly recommend…
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A typical sunday
Woke up
Went to uni
Studied for a few hours, prepared speech for the seminars tomorrow
Went home
Ate / watched one episode of family guy
Worked on the mobile applications project for a few hours, trying to wrap up the current state of things and prepare for meeting tomorrow.
Launched spork, autotest and vim. Time for rails.
Sleep
#tragic
VLC for iOS Pulled From The App Store, Now on... →
Just like we expected in October, VLC for iOS has been removed from the App Store. But this time, the removal of one of the most popular free apps for iPhone and iPad has nothing to do with…
Ok so I will just write 5 lines of code, then I...
Best motivational speech I ever gave myself three hours ago.
When I write my book it will be called “Just fn do it you lazy slob - Motivational techniques for highly skilled procrastinators”.
Now if I could just get around to writing that first paragraph…
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Why drag and drop is sweet in Tweetie 2
Drag tweets over to Things!
Beats starring.
Corner Office | 2Modern Blog →
Now this would be an awesome “Friggebod”
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Subscribers
Wow I actually have subscribers.
How fascinating. Maybe I should stop posting links and write more real stuff. Im a very opinionated person, but perhaps thats at a disadvantage. Hmm.
Seeing as I have two subscribers according to google reader and 26 according to feedburner (which is probably _way_ off). Lets believe feedburner.
Anyways. Time to relax and go find a neater tumblr client than...
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Visualization of stock market performance over... →
Visualization of the stockmarket. Pretty sweet, but as far as I can see there is no graph for how continous investing at fixed intervals (monthly saving) or reinvestment of dividends affect the outcome.
Xpert Financial offers an SEC-approved way to sell... →
Updated
As interest in secondary markets for shares in hot private companies like Facebook and Twitter grows (among both investors and regulators), a new startup called Xpert Financial is…
Google reader to Tumblr broken?
It appears that Tumblr no longer imports the shared items from my google reader stream. Annoying.
Tumblr is like a teen that just hit puberty lately.
November 2010
13 posts
Google Launches Plugin That Fuses Microsoft Office... →
For years, we’ve been hearing that the future of productivity is in the cloud. But while visions of real-time collaboration leave technophiles like me starry-eyed, it’s a prospect that means one…
Grab Up to 768 MB Free Dropbox Space Through... →
Need a little more space in your free Dropbox file syncing account? Already run through the “Getting Started,” .EDU referrals, and all your friends? If you hook Dropbox up to…
Google Docs Editing Finally Comes to iPhone and... →
Finally, Google has announced that they’ll roll out Docs editing for mobile devices in the next few days. The feature, first announced several weeks ago but never actually deployed, is…
Diablo III Coming to Consoles [Updated] →
Blizzard’s upcoming PC game Diablo III appears to be headed to consoles, if recent job postings by the company are accurate.
According to the company’s Jobs Directory (as discovered by …
Proof of extra dimensions possible next year: CERN →
GENEVA (Reuters) - Scientists at the CERN research center say their “Big Bang” project is going beyond all expectations and the first proof of the existence of dimensions beyond the known four could…
RSS Is Dead, But Reeder For Mac Makes It A... →
Shared by Patrik
Can’t wait for this. Reeder is my goto app on iPhone/iPad
For a long time after the launch of the iPhone, despite thousands of apps for just about everything you can…
Designing rewards: Carrots dressed as sticks | The... →
Interesting article about how we value posession more then the prospect of ownership.
Amazon Defends Sale Of Pedophile How-To Guide →
Earlier today we reported that Amazon is selling a book titled The Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure. The book itself is a disgrace – a how-to guide for pedophiles. It includes, among…
Install Android 2.2 Over the Air on a Jailbroken... →
Shared by Patrik
This is pretty cool. Can’t wait for a fully functional version.
Got an older iPhone or iPod touch kicking around? Already jailbreak it for unofficial goodies? You…
Google Confirms Gmail Speed Issue, Says It’s Now... →
Yesterday, we posted about horrible latency issues many Gmail users have been experiencing over the past couple of weeks. When I reached out to Google about the issue a few days ago, they…
Geek Optimism →
This is a wonderful way to look at the world. I just wish I knew who the original artist is. -via The Daily What
Update: The artist is Selin Jessa. Link -Thanks, Andy!
How To Try 4.2 On Your iPad Right Now →
The iOS 4.2 Gold Master for all iOS devices is floating around along with iTunes 10.1, the only version of iTunes that supports the new version. What does this mean? It means you can try the…
Finally, a use for that bad plural form of octopus →
This is probably the nerdiest thing I’ve been sent in oh, two or three days. Read the comments on this post…