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Using Parser Combinators by any chance? - Ray Cromwell

"Before starting Snaptalent we completely failed to evaluate what was going on in our market. We thought there was a problem that could be made better with technology and decided to tackle it without talking to *any* potential customers about if what we were doing was even useful or necessary. We did not have a deep understanding of what recruiters did on a day to day basis, none of us had ever recruited or even really talked to anyone who had. We decided to attack a market because it appeared to be inefficient, without gaining internal understanding of what was actually happening in the market and possible reasons for that inefficiency. We didn't understand what recruiters based their decisions on when making vendor purchasing decisions, we didn't even know who the decision makers and budget holders were within the organizations we were targeting. We were completely blind from a market perspective. This problem was not only limited to the recruiting side of the market. We also had... more... - Paul Buchheit from Bookmarklet

...this reads like it could have come from The Onion. - .LAG liked that

No matter how obvious, a useful reminder. - Nenad Nikolic

"Axum is a language that builds upon the architecture of the Web and principles of isolation, actors, and message-passing to increase application safety, responsiveness, scalability, and developer productivity. Other advanced concepts we are exploring are data flow networks, asynchronous methods, and type annotations for taming side-effects. Is Axum a Product? As an incubation project, Microsoft has made no commitment to ship Axum as a supported product. The form (i.e. syntax, runtime, features, and ecosystem) is subject to change to any degree and at any time. Should I Use Axum? Yes! We are incubating Axum to solicit feedback from our customers and validate Axum’s value propositions." - DeWitt Clinton from Bookmarklet

Looks like erlang.net :) It actually looks a lot like the C# extensions they built for Singularity (http://research.microsoft.com/en-us...). I particularly like the idea of explicit support for protocol state machines and safe, serializable data types. - Joel Webber

"Maybe there’s plenty of social capital around, but it’s just harder to find, and connect with, because it’s no longer tightly coupled to traditional clubs, leagues, and organizations. " - Jon Udell

This actually made me laugh out loud. Now I feel like a huge dork. - Jess Lee

haha.. so true.. - Kirb

Mine are iGoogle (browser homepage), Gmail (work mail), Gmail (personal mail), Google Reader, and then it depends on what I plan on spending time looking at first. - DeWitt Clinton

corp gmail, home gmail, news.yahoo.com/i/578, google reader, memeorandum - Paul Haahr

Great article on getting type to adhere to a vertical grid. - Nishant

"What's most peculiar about the canonical spline is that each segment is based not only on the start point and end point of the segment (in my example, pt1 and pt2) but also on the neighboring points (pt0 and pt2)." - Adam Kinney from Bookmarklet

"I want to focus in on some of “secrets” of Windows 7: the many little tweaks and enhancements that we’ve made in this release that I’ve discovered and collated over the last few months of using Windows 7 across my home and work machines." - Adam Kinney from Bookmarklet

That's my 9/7 guy! - Adam Kinney

Must read. Great little tips/details for power users :) - Jemm

Some of us like it hot! - Paul Whitaker

"Structure Synth is a simple language for writing recursive scripts that can generate complex structures. Think of it like Processing, but in 3D, although it's technically more of an L-system. Sunflow is a rendering engine that excels at realistic lighting. " -Ned Batchelder - DeWitt Clinton from Bookmarklet

M.C. Escher! - directeur

Oh wow. - Robert Konigsberg

"Most of the surveys that have attempted to study Twitter usage do so by scraping the public stream of tweets. This provides reasonable data about how people are publicly using Twitter but it suffers from sample bias insofar as only active Twitter accounts are counted while private accounts and accounts that go dormant are overlooked." - DeWitt Clinton from Bookmarklet

Alright! Let's try this again. I resampled the data to correct the problem -- the numbers for "following" are accurate now -- the results look even better. - DeWitt Clinton

Wow very thorough and informative research DeWitt. Good show! - EricaJoy