Last day at Optaros. New world awaits on Monday. Exciting times!
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One of the most fascinating aspects of http://data.mint.com/ is that it’s public. CC companies have had similar data, but never shared it.
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Postalicious still regularly posting 500 Errors on my WordPress blog. Any alternatives for creating blog entries from del.icio.us feeds?
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Insufficient focus on User Experience and design cost Wasabe their company: http://blog.precipice.org/why-wesabe-lost-to-mint
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So how do we vote ‘no’on this wiretapping proposal?
For more on why you want to vote ‘no’, see Wiretapping the Internet, by Bruce Schneier.
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JavaScript in JavaScript for language hacking: “Zaphod 1.0 Released” Still need to look at the parser’s source to see how hackable it is.
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Another reason not to expect privacy on Facebook http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/14/damning-zuckerberg-i.html
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Gymkhana 3, pt.2 is awesome, but looks more like rally practice than previous shenanigans http://www.youtube.com/user/DCshoesFILM#p/u/0/4TshFWSsrn8
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Corn industry hopes to rename High Fructose Corn Syrup to “corn sugar”. New name, same product to avoid. “Goodbye High Fructose Corn Syrup, Hello Corn Sugar (Signed, Corn Industry)“.
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Dear Gran Turismo 5. Please please please please please include the Austin F1 track
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I had started writing a JavaScript style-guide conformance tool. Might not be needed now: http://code.google.com/p/closure-linter/
Note that I’m currently partial to running it like this:
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New Firefox builds offer JavaScript parse tree API: “An API for parsing JavaScript” Neat for tool devs. No word on whether you can modify/write to it.
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Would be nice if my Apple bluetooth keyboard had a backup USB port for the mornings when it refuses to pair with my MacBook.
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So can I get an “iris-scan block” coating for my glasses? And at what point will such coatings become illegal? (Remember, it’s illegal to put a shiny coating on a vehicle’s license plate for the same reason — interfering with automatic plate scanners.)
“Iris Scanners Create the Most Secure City in the World. Welcome, Big Brother“
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Using satellite surveillance of parking-lot traffic to estimate retail profits http://classic.cnbc.com/id/38722872/ #bigbrother #bigdata
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Made me laugh (old guy with a beard style) to see a “small code” contest where 10k is considered small http://10k.aneventapart.com/
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OmniFocus is nice, but $40 more to get an iPad-specific build? That’s not an impulse-buy price. That’s a “reevaluate the competitors” price.
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If you disrupt a large enough industry, expect lawsuits, lobbying, and gov. protection for the incumbent (re: short rental vs. hotels in NY)
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I really hope iOS 4.1 improves the experience on the 3G device. It’s *terrible* with iOS 4. Buggy and painfully slow.
This video seems to be about right: “OS 4.0 on 3G iPhone (parody)“.
[Update Jul 30 2010]
I tried this tip “Disable Spotlight Searches to Improve iPhone 3G Performance on iOS 4” combined with the “double hard reset“… Not sure that it helped yet. Opening the Messages/SMS app still takes ~5 seconds, but some actions feel a little better. (Related note, I do the same, disable as much Spotlight as possible, on all my desktop machines as well, for the same reason — the daemon is a painful hit to performance for a feature I don’t use.)