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jongalloway on I’m Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. AMA - http://www.reddit.com/r...
"How important do you think programming (and general technical literacy) are as a tool in enabling less privileged youth worldwide? Could a dedicated effort help them to transition to well-paying jobs which can be performed locally, bringing wealth and educational opportunities to their communities? Are there some programs in this area you're excited about?"
- Jon Galloway
jongalloway on Why I Taught My Daughter To Code (A Little) - http://www.reddit.com/r...
"I think most people assume that the goal is proficiency, which is too high a bar. Scale it back to "having fun exploring how the internet works" and you've got something kids can grasp and enjoy."
- Jon Galloway
jongalloway on Why I Taught My Daughter To Code (A Little) - http://www.reddit.com/r...
"The point in my post is that computer and internet smarts are becomming more and more crucial, in the same way that basic literacy and math have been seen traditionally. The logical and systematic problem solving skills that are exercised in (very basic) programming are very important, and what better way to learn them than by working with Javascript and web pages - things they're familiar with and will be seeing a lot more of."
- Jon Galloway
reddit is offline in protest of PROTECT IP and SOPA - http://www.reddit.com/
"submitted by reddit to blog."
- Jon Galloway
jongalloway on Let's pick ONE Senator of voted for NDAA/SOPA and destroy him like we're doing for GoDaddy. Relentlessly investigate and find skeletons in his closet, money bomb is opponents, etc. - http://www.reddit.com/r...
"Top contributors to Lamar Smith (founder of SOPA) campaign: http://www.opensecrets.org/politic... Maybe notify them and tell them you're taking business elsewhere due to their support?"
- Jon Galloway
jongalloway on The future of Mono - Xamarin - http://www.reddit.com/r...
"> Mono does not run off the shelf .NET programs written on windows using Visual Studio. What do you mean? A DLL / EXE written in Visual Studio on Windows can be copied to a Linux machine and run under Mono without any recompile."
- Jon Galloway
jongalloway on Been asked to rewrite a project from SQL/PHP to MS SQL/ASP.NET and I have no knowledge of any MS studio's or how/what ASP.NET is. Where should I start? - http://www.reddit.com/r...
"I agree that rewrites from one computer language / system to another rarely make sense in the business world. For example, some have said that the Google Black Hole effect is largely due to rewriting working applications to the Google infrastructure (http://www.slate.com/id...). Any rewrite, even to a "better" platform, is fraught with peril. That said, there are plenty of reasons why you'd choose ASP.NET - especially ASP.NET MVC. While you can write fast websites on any platform, ASP.NET is really fast on minimal hardware. Benchmarks: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32q..., Most of the top results on http://www.google.com/search... explain some reasons (e.g. compiled code). StackOverflow has scaled really well running ASP.NET MVC on very few servers: http://highscalability.com/blog......"
- Jon Galloway
jongalloway on Been asked to rewrite a project from SQL/PHP to MS SQL/ASP.NET and I have no knowledge of any MS studio's or how/what ASP.NET is. Where should I start? - http://www.reddit.com/r...
"I agree that rewrites from one computer language / system to another rarely make sense in the business world. For example, some have said that the Google Black Hole effect is largely due to rewriting working applications to the Google infrastructure (http://www.slate.com/id...). Any rewrite, even to a "better" platform, is fraught with peril. That said, there are plenty of reasons why you'd choose ASP.NET - especially ASP.NET MVC. While you can write fast websites on any platform, ASP.NET is really fast on minimal hardware. Benchmarks: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32q..., Most of the top results on http://www.google.com/search... explain some reasons (e.g. compiled code). StackOverflow has scaled really well running ASP.NET MVC on very few servers: http://highscalability.com/blog......"
- Jon Galloway
jongalloway on Been asked to rewrite a project from SQL/PHP to MS SQL/ASP.NET and I have no knowledge of any MS studio's or how/what ASP.NET is. Where should I start? - http://www.reddit.com/r...
"Either ASP.NET MVC or WebMatrix will probably make more sense than ASP.NET Web Forms for a PHP dev. I just wrote up a list of free training / tutorials / etc. for MVC 3 here: http://weblogs.asp.net/jgallow... WebMatrix is a script focused approach that feels pretty similar to PHP. You can find info on that here: http://www.asp.net/webmatrix Honestly, even if you're going to end up at ASP.NET MVC, you might want to get started w/ WebMatrix since it'll be pretty similar to what you've used in the past."
- Jon Galloway
jongalloway on Been asked to rewrite a project from SQL/PHP to MS SQL/ASP.NET and I have no knowledge of any MS studio's or how/what ASP.NET is. Where should I start? - http://www.reddit.com/r...
"Either ASP.NET MVC or WebMatrix will probably make more sense than ASP.NET Web Forms for a PHP dev. I just wrote up a list of free training / tutorials / etc. for MVC 3 here: http://weblogs.asp.net/jgallow... WebMatrix is a script focused approach that feels pretty similar to PHP. You can find info on that here: http://www.asp.net/webmatrix Honestly, even if you're going to end up at ASP.NET MVC, you might want to get started w/ WebMatrix since it'll be pretty similar to what you've used in the past."
- Jon Galloway
The Future Sound of London – Papua New Guinea - http://www.last.fm/music...
Love that song - first heard it on the Cool World soundtrack
- Jon Galloway
@carnage4life "FriendFeed ... drowns you in content from people you don't know and never asked to get content from in the first place."
Loren Heiny, Scott Koon, Donald Townsend and 6 other people liked this
You're doing it wrong. Learn to turn off "Friend of a Friend" feature. I can show you how if you don't know how.
- Robert Scoble
You're doing it wrong #2. Learn how to use lists. You followed 310 people. That's too many and you shouldn't follow so many if you want a quiet life. Solution? Lists! Put your favorite people into one called "my favorite people." Put noisy assholes like me into another. Etc. Etc. Eventually you'll have a very useful system. But first learn how "friend of a friend" works. You probably will like life better if you turn it off for a while.
- Robert Scoble
Interesting. I just went through the "Wizard" at the beginning of the sign up project and in imported folks from lord knows where.
- Scott Hanselman
Scott: that's the problem with our current mentality. We think more=better. Not really true in this case. Luckily there are solutions!
- Robert Scoble
Thanks. I've tossed all but 80 or so friends, turned off friend of friend, made a room and I'll watch from here! :)
- Scott Hanselman
I would have just moved all the others over to a list and watched it to see who adds value to your life. Same thing with me. Watch http://www.friendfeed.com/scoblei... to see if I'm adding any value with my Likes. That's what'll show up in friend-of-a-friend stuff anyway (which you can still get to, even though you turned it off: it is at the bottom of your page in a "show hidden items" link).
- Robert Scoble
Hiding tons of stuff helps make Friendfeed managable, but the "Best Of" feature doesn't respect it. The Best Of view would probably be the best part of Friendfeed if it weren't full of FOAF pictures of their cats.
- Jon Galloway
One of the nice parts about have "friends of friends" show up is that this way I learn about interesting people I want to Subscribe to. If they have an interesting post that or comment, I'll check their feed, see if there's content I'd like to subscribe to and if so I will.
- Loren Heiny
Windows 7 can burn ISO images by default but can't mount it? Is this a Fail? What are you using to mount ISOs?
Mitchell Tsai, Ryan Versaw, Gavin and 5 other people liked this
I've heard PowerISO is the only one that works
- Jon Galloway
I use Daemon Tools on XP
- Rodfather
Daemon Tools installs spyware if you're not careful. I hate software companies that do that. Also it doesn't work in Win7
- Alan Le
thanks jon, I'll install PowerISO..
- Alan Le
I like Daemon Tools also. It is a fail though.
- Corvida
They want you to buy something to do the rest, like most Microsoft things. Can you believe that Windows still won't let you watch DVDs on your PC without 3rd party solutions? I didn't believe it myself til I sat down with my buddy and his brand new PC.
- Glenn Batuyong
@Alan re: Daemon Tools spyware: do you have a reference for that? I haven't seen it set off any triggers. Is the Lite version unaffected?
- Paul Whitaker
Paul, I blogged about Daemon Tools spyware 2 1/2 years ago when installing it for Vista. http://blogs.vertigosoftware.com/alanl...
- Alan Le
Thanks for the suggestions everyone! Social media rocks.
- Alan Le
@Glenn, Home Premium and Ultimate versions of Vista can watch DVDs without a 3rd party solution.
- Jordan Hofker
I use Daemon Tools Lite - Make sure you uncheck the option to set the homepage in the installer.
- Bwana ☠
FriendFeed seemed so promising, but they never added the obvious feature: cross-post to Twitter. I'm not one to yell FAIL!, but... NOTAWIN!
That's funny - they added it the week before I thought to complain...
- Jon Galloway
Everyone! Post your StackOverflow accounts!
Rahsheen?, Zu from AOD, Kol Tregaskes and 5 other people liked this
I'm here: http://stackoverflow.com/users...
- Yuvi
I don't really have much to say over there, though.
- James (@willia4)
Well, I do have quite a bit to ask though :)
- Yuvi
http://stackoverflow.com/users... <-- but I haven't done much there yet.
- Lindsay
By your command: http://stackoverflow.com/users...
- Roberto Bonini
Nothing there yet: http://stackoverflow.com/users...
- Jason Wehmhoener
Am I missing something: you can't add connections/contacts/friends in SO?
- Mark Trapp
@Mark - I don't think you are missing anything. Jeff wants SO to be something and *not* be something. It's not a SocNet.
- Yuvi
The highest rep in the list is Jon with 5000+. everyone else has less than 100?
- Alan Le
hey I have 173 last I checked.
- Roberto Bonini
http://stackoverflow.com/users... haven't found much to do with it yet, but I think this will be of great help when I'll get back to my programming projects.
- Zu from AOD
Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder - http://friendfeed.com/e...
Rakesh, Susan Beebe, Glenn Batuyong and 4 other people liked this
"Web-based programs like Google's Gmail will force people to buy into locked, proprietary systems that will cost more and more over time, according to the free software campaigner"
- Kevin Cearns
When I say this kind of stuff out loud, the torches and pitchforks come out.
- Bwana ☠
I wonder what this guy thinks of off-site backups? Does he expect everyone to be savvy enough to be able to ensure that their data is safe offline as well? And what about applications like Evernote that have an offline and online component? What about Google Gears where you can get to your data offline? This seems like a lot of FUD to me for people who don't know what their options are.
- Lindsay
IT'S A TRAP!
- Vincent X
Anything Grizzly Adams says about the internets, I believe!
- iTad
I agree with that too, to an extent, but what if what you want to do isn't available except through a "proprietary program"? We're all at the mercy of the file formats we use... Unless you're going to write your own software (which apparently this guy does) you're out of luck. Time to go back to paper and pencils.
- Lindsay
"Richard Stallman's beard is a trap" warns FriendFeed user willia4. "Don't stick your hand in there. I saw a bird fly in there once and a few days later all that came back out was little bits of beak. Don't do it."
- James (@willia4)
Your data is already hostage to [insert pricey data recovery service here]. Unless you're using a pen and paper, you've already lost this battle, long ago.
- abacab
Yeah, this is a guy who won't run a web browser on his own computer for "privacy concerns" http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog...
- Jon Galloway
am really liking the content on the engineering windows 7 blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/e7...
Jon Galloway, Chris Hollander, Robert Scoble and Alvin Ashcraft liked this
Thanks for the reminder about the Windows 7 blog. Interesting usability information. http://blogs.msdn.com/e7
- Jon Galloway
@jongalloway @kevindente Geoff and Jarrod have to take it from here: I'll fwd your suggestions
Possiblly related to SO hang? http://forums.msdn.microsoft.com/en-US...
- Jon Galloway
W00t! It's official, I'm speaking at PDC!
Congrats! I demand easter eggs in your PDC powerpoints. Nothing so obvious as a rickroll this time, though.
- Jon Galloway
w00t! When's the .NET crowd going to make it's way to FriendFeed from Twitter?
- Yuvi
@jongalloway, why are the DNC pages not using pure Silverlight, and using some extra tool for the doing the video?
Alan Le liked this
The Move Networks system requires the plugin to integrate with their CDN and adaptive streaming system. http://bit.ly/3JJuLI
- Jon Galloway
They break the live HD video stream into short segments at a variety of bitrates, sizes, etc. so no buffering is required.
- Jon Galloway
It'd be nice to see that integrated into Silverlight, and it sounds like it might be: http://bit.ly/5wmzQ
- Jon Galloway
Mike Ormond's Blog : MultiScaleTileSource Demo Source Code - http://blogs.msdn.com/mikeorm...
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Mandelbrot Set in Silverlight w/ source.
- Alan Le
from Bookmarklet
I'd been messing with that, too. Glad he finished it so I can stop tinkering with it.
- Jon Galloway
Why does VS2K8 SP1 require 5 gb free on my C drive when VS 2K8 is installed on my D drive?
abacab liked this
That's to encourage you to stop being such an individualist and just install on your C drive next time.
- Jon Galloway
Mirror's Edge looks INCREDIBLE. Holy friggin' crap. http://www.shacknews.com/onearti...
Mirror's Edge looks like the best HalfLife mod I've seen in a long time!
- Jon Galloway
SecondLife and Mono, Lang.NET presentation: http://download.microsoft.com/downloa...
Congrats on the SecondLive / Mono rollout!
- Jon Galloway
RSS ought to stand for "rape someone's server" because man, agents pull down RSS about 1,000 times more often than they need to
Can you use RSSCache (or at least their method)? http://www.rsscache.com/howwork...
- Jon Galloway
I realize you know a lot more about RSS bandwidth than me... but some of these tips may help: http://bit.ly/14j3Sx
- Jon Galloway
WTB Jeff some conditional get and expires tags!
- mjc
from NoiseRiver
I've always wondered why something which seemed like an obvious "push" service (content updates) was handled using a "pull" protocol. I guess when RSS was developed, the fallout from Marimba made any sort of push service unappealing.
- DGentry
We'll be talking to @codinghorror on #herdingcode tonight. Any questions for him?
Otto R. Radke and Roberto Bonini liked this
Does Jeff think that, had stackoverflow been avaliable, it would help him build stackoverflow? I first heard this from the Chandler dev that kept saying that the perfect app to organise the project would have been Chandler. I think its an intersting question in terms of the quality of the product. A product THAT useful is worth it.
- Roberto Bonini
Great question, Roberto. Writing it down.
- Jon Galloway
My pushups last night: 18, 10, 7, 4, 2
I was going to start that hundredpushups thing this week, but my wrists have been giving me trouble lately. hundredjumpingjacks!
- Jon Galloway
My wrists are bad so I did pushups on my knuckles. I failed the pushup per day challenge, but I really need to try the hundredpushups thing.
- Matt Casto
from bTT
@jongalloway And yet, I suspect you read Yegge's and not the Declaration Of Independence
I've read the Declaration of Independence. I rarely finish Yegge posts - I stopped reading this one after 3 pagedowns.
- Jon Galloway
"the Fine Art of Building Shit that Nobody Wants" http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008...
Yegge posts are created by a Markov generator on old Joel On Software posts and Reddit threads. 10 pagedowns and no images?
- Jon Galloway
TLDR. I tried. Would've preferred something with substance towards the top instead of a lame story about how the article came about. Get into it already!
- Paul Whitaker
Yeah, they're long, but I like Yegge's posts. There is a conversational humor to them.
- DGentry
I'd love to see a reblog site that just summarized Yegge's long posts. Maybe it could be automated, who knows. LucidYegge.com?
- Jon Galloway
@bakasan @kevindente you realize this is why the MacBook was the "fastest" Windows Vista laptop, right? Only 1 with clean no-crap install!!
Agree. PC Decrapifier does wonders, though - might not need the repave.
- Jon Galloway
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