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It's the TENTH anniversary of our blog, Backup Brain, which @negrino & I share. Yay us! http://www.backupbrain.com
Took cough to doctor today for its six week checkup. Cough doing very well and appears to be stronger than ever. Host: not so much.
Sublime objects of desire - http://www.facebook.com/note...
@shelleypowers - I'm not @medley, but you can get the basics at http://simonwillison.net/2009... (my 2¢: "oh no, not again...")
@lschmeiser After a few disasters, I now only buy luggage from Briggs & Riley. Pricey, but worth it. http://www.briggs-riley.com/ @BriggsandRiley
Now, only ~3 blocks away: RT @thumbprintloung The chocolate fountain is now flowing at the lounge until 6 pm today. http://twitpic.com/lwxa7
Now, only ~3 blocks away: RT @thumbprintloung The chocolate fountain is now flowing at the lounge until 6 pm today. http://twitpic.com/lwxa7
No, I can't really explain why I was so happy to receive a Bag of Crap™ in the mail today--but I was. #itsageekthing #woot
No, I can't explain why I was so happy to receive a
@Miraz It's the Southern hemisphere; everything's upside-down there, apparently! (tho the more I think about it, we're the upside-down ones)
@shelleypowers - the only thing worse than finding your work has been pirated is finding that no one thinks your work is worth pirating.
RT @lorener: Getting ready for MCE with presenters @negrino & @dori along w/@macgenie & @philipjg of @SmileOnMyMac. http://twitpic.com/k1axn
RT @lorener: Getting ready for MCE with presenters @negrino & @dori along w/@macgenie & @philipjg of @SmileOnMyMac. http://twitpic.com/k1axn
@macgenie - I assure you, it's a mutual admiration society all around.
@negrino Only the Hype-O-Tron 2000? Are you holding off using the Hype-O-Tron 2000 Power Pro Extreme until the truly big guns are required?
@ColemanPressley - just blocked you. Learn how to twitter BEFORE you start using it.
@LUGILLZ - just blocked you. Learn how to twitter BEFORE you start using it.
This weekend: MCE (Be there!) - http://www.facebook.com/note...
@stefsull - Yes, 1920x1200, and hell no! (does anyone with a large display surf with a full-size browser window? Yecccch)
Re: It's still not the language's fault. - http://www.bynkii.com/archive...
"that's application-specific scripting period. Javascript will no more avoid that than AppleScript. Keep in mind that "application-specific scripting" is what most first-time scripters are trying to do. That's why they get frustrated so quickly, because what they learned from trying to script app a doesn't apply when they try to learn to script app b. JavaScript, unlike AppleScript, does have some ways to avoid that. One way is what Adobe's got buried under the hood of the CS suite: a full JavaScript IDE and debugger. Another is that few people are trying to JavaScript applications as their first project; instead, they get comfortable using it inside the browser sandbox, and only then do they want to do more with it. Lastly, there are plenty solid free frameworks out there, and they make doing things cross-browser much simpler than it was just a few years ago. I suspect that if more apps were JavaScript-able, at least a few of the frameworks would be extended to cover apps darn quickly..." - Dori Smith
Re: It's still not the language's fault. - http://www.bynkii.com/archive...
"Ummm... my 2¢, from an entirely different angle: - I hate AppleScript. I hated AS long before JavaScript was invented. After way too much effort, I came to the conclusion that no one ever really learns AS; instead, you learn AS for a single application. And then you have to learn it again for another app. And then again for a third. And then when you go back to the first code you wrote, you can't remember which of the various dialects it uses, so you have to start all over again. - I like JavaScript. Over the last dozen-plus years, it's been very good to me. Some days, I even feel like it likes me back. - I've never learned Cocoa, 'cause I don't do that kind of programming. I'm sure I could learn it, but I'd need to either have someone paying me to do it or give me a promise of paying work at the end of it<sup>[1]</sup>—as it is, life is too short to learn everything I'd like to learn. Which gets me to: - JSTalk, from the little I've looked at it, ain't JavaScript. Or at least the..." - Dori Smith
@karaemurphy - Luckily, you know a JavaScript expert you can yell for help to... ;-)
@GlennF - Autism spectrum/Gender issues are a whole 'nother huge discussion, and that's w/o even getting into their intersections with tech.
A followup worth checking out: "Women in tech/women near tech" at the Geek Feminism Blog: http://geekfeminism.org/2009... (pinch me, I'm a tag! ☺)
Sounds like @negrino and @Malacandra just got the same robocall. I expect I'll be next.
@stefsull Scholarships & internships are when it really sucks to be a middle-class white boy (speaking from experience as the mom of one)
After several dry months, I got TWO too-darn-cool-to-skip opportunities today. Sadly, I think I'm going to have to pass on one of them.
③ restart Safari, paste reply in this time → Safari crashes ④ restart Safari, launch Firefox, try to remember to use FF for FB from now on
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