March 11, 2009
Coding Horror: Why Can't Error Messages Be Fun? - Chrome is a joy to use, and in my opinion at least, it's the first true advance in web browser technology since the heady days of Internet Explorer 4.0. Chrome is filled with so many thoughtful details, so many reimaginings of web browser functio...
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Vinny Carpenter
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February 18, 2009
I've had my fair share of public freak outs in my life. In fact, days before I left New York for Kansas City I lost my shit in the middle of the Port Authority Bus Terminal after I missed by bus and couldn't find anyone to help me then couldn't find the ticket counter then signs l...
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February 17, 2009
Red Hat and Microsoft will validate each other's virtualization technologies per an agreement announced yesterday. Each company will join the other's virtualization validation/certification program and will provide technical support for their mutual server virtualization customers. Hard to say what ...
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From the Kauffman Foundation : Given all the attention paid to business plans as precursor to business start-ups, you would think that there would be strong evidence that such plans lead to better business outcomes. Somewhat surprisingly, the linkages aren’t quite so clear. New research sponsored ...
Leveraging Ideas
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Sam
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February 12, 2009
Addiction: thousands of studies have been done claiming that it is a disease, often using rats in isolated cages with a bar-press system of delivery, showing they will repeatedly get high even if it means starving to death. Bruce Alexander was a skeptic, questioning the ecological validity of all su...
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January 14, 2009
Just returning from and event at the New America Foundation in Washington, DC in which Steve Clemons played host/inquisitor/moderator to a discussion with outgoing United States ambassador to the United Nations Zalmay Khalilzad. Khalilzad reflected that the United Nations was a "net positive" for th...
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Just returning from and event at the New America Foundation in Washington, DC in which Steve Clemons played host/inquisitor/moderator to a discussion with outgoing United States ambassador to the United Nations Zalmay Khalilzad. Khalilzad reflected that the United Nations was a "net positive" for th...
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January 13, 2009
RTFA: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7824939.stm The US National Security Agency has helped put together a list of the world’s most dangerous coding mistakes. The 25 entry list contains errors that can lead to security holes or vulnerable areas that can be targeted by cyber criminals. E...
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January 10, 2009
A recent paper by Microsoft research has discovered a concurrency bug in the .Net JIT. They used the F# theorem prover to analyze the JIT il->x86 transformations which were previously thought to comply with the .Net memory model. These bugs show that writing correct concurrent (multi-threaded) co...
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December 31, 2008
This is a good thing when there's nothing I can say. These are moments when I have no solution, no creative insights, no nothing. I grieve for both sides in this conflict and wonder if it will ever end. Having the Kassams hit areas they've never hit and where I have friends is awful - schools and ma...
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