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The Nerd Handbook - Rands In Repose - http://www.randsinrepose.com/archive...
I do not admit to all of these traits.
- Dave Beckett
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I'll admit to most of them. My preference for monospaced typography isn't anything to do with control issues though - I want my damn code to line up. There's a reason for this.
- Tom Morris
Also, I don't hate presenting to crowds. It's the same skill as writing really: you just figure out the one person it's intended for and do it. Easy. So long as you know your shit, no problem.
- Tom Morris
Murdoch to Block Google from Searching News Items? - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
Brook White, Glen Campbell, B.A. and roamin liked this
Murdoch: "There are no websites... anywhere in the world making any serious money. Some may be breaking even or maybe making a couple of million."
- Dave Beckett
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Pffft, Rupert.
- Glen Campbell, B.A.
The chat room/forum problem (& an apology to @Technosailor) - Robert Scoble - http://scobleizer.com/2009...
Over time, crave experts and need a pattern where the social form does not devolve (forums, digg, youtube comments). If anyone can comment, the signs are not good (friendfeed, facebook). Twitter doesn't yet others inject themselves into your feed. Ditto blogs with no comments or heavy moderation.
- Dave Beckett
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Caffe del Doge (5/5) - http://www.yelp.com/biz...
"I have found a new coffee love. How could I have walked past this so many times before. Great beans, skilled staff and great place to hang out."
- Dave Beckett
Roger's Deli (4/5) - http://www.yelp.com/biz...
"Local bagel and donut shop. Cheap as chips and covers the eggy breakfast and sandwich position with about 30 donut types. Mmmm!"
- Dave Beckett
What does "software architect" mean anyway? The software industry is not mature in it's roles. Maybe I'm just a coder with pretensions.
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It's an interesting question. Most states (all states, probably) have a certification and licensing program for "architects" and "engineers." When we use a term like "software engineer," we're being a bit deceptive in that they are *not* comparable with, say, a civil engineer or a mechanical engineer. There's no examination or apprenticeship requirements in the software arena, so the...
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- Glen Campbell, B.A.
On the other hand, "software architect" is a somewhat metaphorical attempt to understand a role that does, in fact exist and, as such, is a rather useful term.
- Glen Campbell, B.A.
That's the kind of thing - in our current society it is not seen as a professional role (compare to doctor, lawyer, building architect) with expectations of responsibility, legal framework to stand behind the work and a structured job. Maybe it'll never be, as more and more intellectual aspects of modern life moves to the information space of bits, there will always be a changing software engineer role, and it'll never be a "professional" job like the doctors etc. of the world of atoms.
- Dave Beckett
In the attempt to define it, it still means different things in different organizations.
- Eric @ CS Techcast
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Which supports Dave's original thesis that the software industry has not matured enough to clarify those roles. :-)
- Glen Campbell, B.A.
Maturity is a sliding scale. Take the medical profession just a hundred years ago. In fact have a look over at the Mütter Museum http://www.collphyphil.org/mutter... to round out your nightmares :) In another 100 years people will say 'Were 20th/21st century "doctors" really medical engineers?' Just because the apprenticing in the craft of software isn't consolidated in the way other practices are, it doesn't speak to the work being any less "architecting" or "engineering".
- Micah Wittman
GeoClue - LGPL desktop modular geoinformation service - http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki...
over lots of services for position, address, velocity, geocode and reverse-geocode
- Dave Beckett
BLOGIC and RDF Redux - ISWC 2009 Invited Talk - Pat Hayes - http://www.slideshare.net/PatHaye...
A graph is an RDF Graph + *surface*. A blank node is a mark on a surface. URI of a named graph identifies a graph. A surface can have more than one graph but a graph cannot be split over multiple surfaces. Each graph is on a single surface.
- Dave Beckett
Google Maps Navigation for Android 2.0 - http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009...
Looks great and a reason to get an Android 2.0 phone. I'm quite happy with the Verizon 3G network with my MiFI + iPod Touch. The dedicated GPS device market is probably on it's way out. Especially since this Google Maps navigation is free.
- Dave Beckett
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Introducing BERT and BERT-RPC - GitHub Blog - http://github.com/blog...
Binary encoded RPC spec based on an Erlang encoding. No IDLs.
- Dave Beckett
How We Made GitHub Fast - GitHub - http://github.com/blog...
Heap of layers, proxies, caches, k-v store, db, filesystems. hmm
- Dave Beckett
Enjoying hearing German spoken as I enjoy the Kaffe mit Kuchen at Esther's German Bakery. (pls excuse my bad German)
"Kaffee und Kuchen" it should have been
- Dave Beckett
Esther's German Bakery (4/5) - http://www.yelp.com/biz...
"Hard to find: it is next to Trader Joe's behind Sears. Tasty pastries, friendly Esther and staff. German in the air make me nostalgic for Deutschland."
- Dave Beckett
Nak's Oriental Market (3/5) - http://www.yelp.com/biz...
"My source of Dutch goods such as Stroopwafels when I get the craving over here in sillycon valley. There is an aisle of Dutch goods."
- Dave Beckett
Thai Spoons (4/5) - http://www.yelp.com/biz...
"Great for a fast lunch of tasty Thai comfort food. Never been disappointed here."
- Dave Beckett
Naan N Curry (2/5) - http://www.yelp.com/biz...
"I ordered ala carte - chicken biriani which was spicy enough and mound of rice. Good for cheap curry in a hurry, not great. Restroom was dirty."
- Dave Beckett
IT IS ON
Do you need someone to drop by and turn it off, or will it be ok?
- Glen Campbell, B.A.
LOL @Glen!
- Michelle Martinez
IT IS OFF. We abandoned after 20 unanswered USC points
- Dave Beckett
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250-Foot Long Hybrid Airship Will Spy Over Afghanistan Battlefields in 2011 - Gizmodo - http://gizmodo.com/5366082...
for @simonw
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Cupcake Obsession: In Search of Eternal Childhood - Newsweek - http://www.newsweek.com/id...
"Anti-cupcake graffiti (the iconic dome-topped silhouette X'd out) has appeared on stop signs and walls. " however "The new cupcake? Bacon. Unlike cupcakists, who seem to long for eternal childhood, baconists want the world to know they're not afraid to live fast and die young, most likely of coronary heart disease."
- Dave Beckett
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Yahoo! OpenID: Now more powerful and easier to use - Yahoo! Developer Network Blog - http://developer.yahoo.net/blog...
John McCrea and 'Mummi' Thorisson liked this
... support for the OpenID OAuth Hybrid Protocol, which combines OpenID authentication (sign in) with OAuth authorization (access control) in a single interface
- Dave Beckett
DO ANYBODY NO WHAT THIS GREEN STUF I KEEP COUGHING UP IS? - http://glencampbell.name/2009...
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snot
- chaz2b
soylent
- Dave Beckett
People!
- Chieze Okoye
liked for the soylent green reference, not because of your green stuff! that's no good at all.
- Alexis Hope
my social site histogram : twitter 488, linkedin 202, facebook 171, friendfeed 141, identi.ca 103, dopplr 85, github 16, plaxo 16, yahoo 12.
Are those cardinal or ordinal?
- Glen Campbell, B.A.
both - the sequence of tuples (service, number of stalkers) ordered by number of stalkers descending
- Dave Beckett
How Alan Turing Finally Got a Posthumous Apology - Jon Graham-Cumming, O'Reilly Radar - http://radar.oreilly.com/2009...
hacker news/reddit, twitter, LGBT media, local newspapers, mainstream media, more twitter, radio, tv, success
- Dave Beckett
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4store Tutorial - http://4store.org/present...
Steve Harris, Nick Lamb, Mischa Tuffield, Luke Wilson-Mawer
- Dave Beckett
GitHub is Moving to Rackspace! - GitHub - http://github.com/blog...
Ditching GFS because it is hard to scale/operate, my words. Engine Yard isn't a big enough company for their needs either.
- Dave Beckett
Harv's Car Wash (4/5) - http://www.yelp.com/biz...
"Been coming to Harvs for several years and always got a great clean car result. Friendly and efficient."
- Dave Beckett
Looking to the future with Cassandra - Digg the Blog - http://blog.digg.com/?p=966
"For this feature, the fully denormalized Cassandra dataset weighs in at 3 terabytes and 76 billion columns."
- Dave Beckett
Hubble. Is. Back! - Phil Plait, Bad Astronomy - http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastr...
"I’m not at all ashamed to say that when I saw this STIS graphic of Eta Car, I choked up, and there were — oh hell, there still are as I write this — tears in my eyes. I’m so proud of the team that built STIS, the hundreds of people who used it, the incredible people at NASA, and the men and women of our astronaut corps who risked their lives to make sure our eye on the sky is clear, clean, updated, and razor-focused."
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667 - the neighbor of the Beast
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I-666 - Highway of the Beast
- Carlos Cervantes
LOL
- Josh Haley
chmod 666 - the umask of the beast. It's evil too!
- Dave Beckett
The Kitchen Table Restaurant: Artisanal Kosher Cuisine (4/5) - http://www.yelp.com/biz...
"Deli hash (lamb bacon) with salad off summer brunch menu - tangy and tasty. The rest of the menu looks intriguing too."
- Dave Beckett
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