by Peter Seibel
-- A fantastic collection of interviews with 15 famous programmers. Contains some great history and insights on the field of "computer science."
-- Geeks, drugs, and deception. An entertaining look into the (fictional) lives of techno con artists, and how a recently-fired comic book artist get pulled into their inner circle.
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-- Particularly useful reference when trying to eek out a few extra milliseconds of load times in older browsers.
-- Interesting tech, and somewhat engaging, but disappointing ending (or lack thereof.)
, by Neil Strauss
-- An engaging, first-person account on transforming from an urban writer into "Jason Bourne."
, by Cory Doctrow
-- A high school hacker fights the 'Department of Homeland Security' to reclaim American civil liberties after anti-terror tactics are taken to a new level.
-- Techniques-for, and the value-of sketching interactivity before developing products. Good ideas. OK book.
" -- About finding untapped opportunities in your market and repositioning yourself to capitalize on them. Easy to grasp; Longer then it needed to be.
" -- A thin book with some good best-practices, but a little disappointing. Perhaps it's JavaScript's fault, not the author's ;-)
" -- Good overview of usability issues in designing HTML forms, backed by examples and eye-tracking research. I bought the 
" by Marshall Goldsmith
-- Discusses interpersonal skills (and how to identify and fix them) that most commonly hold executives back in their career advancement.
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-- Lesson: Cut the corporate B.S. and stop wasting your time. Focus only on what matters most.
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-- Lessons on handling tough conversations: firing people, relationship problems, hostage negotiations (well, maybe not that last one.) Wasn't an exciting read, but I've been paying more attention to "turning points" in conversations since reading it.
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-- Lessons in building reusable ("pluggable") Django applications. Assumes you know the basics of Django and Python.
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-- I really enjoyed this one. Lots of suggestions and strategies for negotiating.
new PyPy release. Much faster than CPython running some of my tools http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2010/03/introducing-pypy-12-release.html
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Every time I hear stories about runaway cars, I’m reminded of the eX-Driver anime series http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89X-Driver
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glad my pre-”drive by wire” car only “suddenly accelerates” when I ask it to. Mechanical controls FTW!
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Really interesting UI for an IDE:
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careful out there — it’s hailing downtown!
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I expect future cars to have location-aware speedometers that display your current speed relative to the speed limit of the road you’re on
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enjoying the surprisingly heavy snow — almost doesn’t look like Texas outside
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Bummer, the iPad SDK is for paid developers only.
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OS X tip/FYI/learned-the-hard-way: Installer packages hang on “processing” if you have the iPhone Simulator running
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Thought writing a Lisp interpreter in JavaScript would be fun. Beat me to it: http://code.google.com/p/javascript-lisp-interpreter/
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If the CEO of Facebook doesn’t think your info should be private, you should really question what you’re posting there: “Facebook’s Zuckerberg Says The Age of Privacy is Over“
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well done concept video for tablet-based magazines. Amazing how much traction there is for a non-existent device! http://vimeo.com/8217311
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quite surprised that the nook’s OS is on removable microSD card http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/12/nook-torn-open-hacked-and-rooted/
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Hosted CouchDB with 1GB free storage. Could be a nice way to get more people playing with CouchDB: http://cloudant.com/
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wondering why the Boxee Box is designed to be non-stackable http://www.dlink.com/boxeebox How about an AppleTV-shaped one please?
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is ready for decentralized microblogging. Twitter downtime should just be a network hiccup from “one of the microblogging providers”
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“Practical Common Lisp” http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/ made for some nice holiday reading
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If installing Ubuntu on an Xbox 360 were easier, one of those banned consoles would be a cheap and interesting platform to hack on.
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“clever” code is fun to write, study, and discuss… but not to maintain.
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nice use of crowdsourcing to improve the google earth experience: Google Building Maker