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Ouch. Sucks to be these guys. http://bit.ly/cSUSgp - Alex Hillman

Lots and lots of auto sites don't work on iPad, either. - Toby DiPasquale

Woah I still have a friend feed account? - Alex Hillman from email

Looks awesome! - Toby DiPasquale

I guess it's a true fact, coffee is better 24 hours apres roasting. I still went too dark, but it's much smoother and less hideous today - Todd Hoff

Made a roast that was milk chocolate brown. The worst swill I've ever tasted. It could dissolve iron. So it seems a certain level of roast is required to transform a bean into magical goodness. - Todd Hoff

Hit a good roast. It was black but not charcoal black. The problem is I don't think it's reproducible in the oven. The bigger problem is I'm not a picky person so I don't have a particular bean roast combination that I just have to have. So it's not worth it. I imagine Steve Jobs doing this. Steve would have a particular taste he was going for and he would never stop harassing people... more... - Todd Hoff

Interesting that some people said this article was provocative. That really wasn't my intent. I was just writing down a trend I noticed. Strange. - Todd Hoff

MySQL is a sacred cow for lots of people. You're implying in the article it might finally be time for them to learn something else and that's scary for people not in the habit of updating their skills. - Toby DiPasquale

I suppose you are right Toby. It's something that happens a lot in our biz though. - Todd Hoff

I wouldn't want to do this, though... - Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)

I've been to Sam's Club... I figure that's pretty similar - Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)

When there's money to be made we can't let that old style thinking limit us. Nobody puts Baby in a corner. So here's a card that you can carry with you and pop pup during conversations. Every 2 minutes simply and nonchalantly flash this card. Of course there's an iPhone app for tracking impressions, getting paid, and managing your ad inventory. Notice that this is an example of a Super Card. There's meta data at the bottom of the card indicating general causes that are financially sponsorable. You may feel silly at first, but why feel silly about this if you don't feel silly in Twitter? That's just silly. - Todd Hoff

I tried this a few times today and it didn't work at all. People looked at me strangely. Though I guess it could have been the earrings, blouse, and shoes. The coffee seemed to go unnoticed. - Todd Hoff

Totally agree. I don't want to be a sharecropper on Microsoft's farm, let alone Novell's. - Toby DiPasquale

I'd prefer for the idea of "desktop applications" to largely become an anachronism, so we no longer have to ask such questions. This dichotomy looks sillier to me every day. - Joel Webber

"I shudder to think about the large number of man-years that were devoted during the 1970's and 1980's to "optimizing" relational databases to the point where they could remotely compete in the marketplace. It is also a tribute to the power of the universities, that by teaching only relational databases, they could convince an entire generation of computer scientists that relational databases were more appropriate than "ad hoc" databases such as flat files and Bills of Materials." - Todd Hoff

I'm very confused by the why now of all this. We've had OO databases for a very long time. They are very nosqlish, yet they wen't no where, which kind of tanked my OO database teaching opportunities :-) For a very long time they have advanced features. Fast lookups, reliability, graph based query languages, replication, partitioning, distribution, etc etc. - Todd Hoff

Live and die by the API - Todd Hoff

This is the perfect commentary for America. - James Ferguson

Pea - even thinking of her as a talk-show host makes me think of the saying 'couldn't organize a piss-up in a brewery' :) - Patrick Jordan

"With the rumors swirling that Michelle Obama is a big fan of former FDA Commissioner David Kessler’s new book The End of Overeating, it seems reasonable to check in on the science behind an “addiction model” for salty, sweet, and fatty processed food (an assertion at the core of the book). As it happens, a group of researchers from the independent, not-for-profit Scripps Research Institute has just released a new peer-reviewed study on the subject. The conclusion: the brain responds to junk food the same way it does to heroin:" - chaz2b from Bookmarklet

Yo-yo dieters 'suffer drug withdrawal symptoms' http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health... - chaz2b

In-fucking-deed, my friend. - Toby DiPasquale

I also attached a few NoSQL links I've been saving up. - Todd Hoff

"Apparently, the fog near a plaza in Ukraine was so utterly intense, advertisements were reflected in the sky. This one, for a church or a house or a vacation or maybe just some Lysol ran into a little Windows XP oopsie. I'm almost sad they didn't just leave the Windows XP error up there, making at least somebody think that God was one of us, cursing his crashing computer." - Alex Scrivener from Bookmarklet

I guess that explains the swine flue then... - Todd Hoff

He said the same strategy worked with horse and buggies vs the horseless carriage and will work with the internet too. - Todd Hoff

This is excellent news. More money for the rest of us :) - Toby DiPasquale

I wonder if this works out for him if he will consider hiding his "news" channels from satellite and cable networks. just thinkin... - Ed Millard