coding in flow, part I & part II
Some intresting ideas about writing software.
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Novice vs. Expert Users (Alertbox
Novice vs. Expert Users (Alertbox Feb. 2000)
Sounds like the problem with the current Mac OS and Windows, they forgot about the power user. Unix/Linux remembers the power user at the expense of the novice. Hmm, hopefully Mac OS X makes us all happy.
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Thresh’s Firing Squad: John Carmack
Thresh’s Firing Squad: John Carmack Interview – Part 1
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UPDATED: Richard Stallman — Why
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Be Unveils BeIA, New Software
Be Unveils BeIA, New Software Platform for Internet Appliances and Entertainment Devices
Hopefully Be makes some money off the Internet Appliance market. I want to see them succed but don’t know how they are going to do it given the current situation in the Operating System world. Good luck Jean-Louis Gass�e.
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dictionary.com fraternity A body of
dictionary.com fraternity
- A body of people associated for a common purpose or interest, such as a guild.
- A group of people joined by similar backgrounds, occupations, interests, or tastes: the fraternity of bird watchers.
- A chiefly social organization of men students at a college or university, usually designated by Greek letters.
- The quality or condition of being brothers; brotherliness.
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Umberto Eco in Davos “In
“In the opening plenary of the Annual Meeting 2000, Italian historian and philosopher Umberto Eco provided his ‘vision of the future’. Time constraints meant the vision was necessarily abbreviated, but here is the full text of his intended remarks, exclusively for Davos Newbies.”
Dictionary.com pundit
- “A Brahman scholar or learned man.”
- “A source of opinion; a critic: a political pundit.”
- “A learned person.”
- “someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field”
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Amazon, Alexa unit face privacy
Amazon, Alexa unit face privacy lawsuits, FTC inquiry
“Online retailing giant Amazon.Com Inc. (AMZN.O) and its Alexa Internet software subsidiary face two privacy invasion lawsuits and an informal inquiry by the Federal Trade Commission…”
Amazon is being a bad company. Jeff get it right, if you are really in the game for the long term pissing your customers and potential customers off for current gains is not the name of the game.
The Cross-Site Scripting Scam
Dvorak has a good conspiracy theory that ties the recent CERT Advisory Malicious HTML Tags Embedded in Client Web Requests and Microsoft.