technology
Will Faught
September 2010
I was just looking at my film collection and realized that I never want to own another film. I’ll eventually sell off most of them, except for my favorites that I can watch a hundred times and still love. If I want to watch a film, I can just queue it on Netflix and have it within days. If I have the urge to watch a film immediately, I can rent it on iTunes or Amazon for just a few dollars and start watching it immediately.
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Python And Ruby In Silverlight
This just blew my mind. The DLR is the shit.
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August 2010
I’ve come to love reading essays by Paul Graham and Joel Spolsky about programming and the business of programming. Their writing is excellent, their topics interesting and practical, their substance deep and intelligent, their style natural and accessible, their meaning clear and concise. I especially enjoy reading Graham because he demonstrates the practical advantages of functional programming, and Lisp in particular, through anecdotes of his own experience starting a software company and wiping the floor with his competitors.
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There are lots of great quotations from his essays. I’ll update here as I find new ones. From The Other Road Ahead: In the desktop software business, doing a release is a huge trauma, in which the whole company sweats and strains to push out a single, giant piece of code. Obvious comparisons suggest themselves, both to the process and the resulting product. and: When you release only one new version a year, you tend to deal with bugs wholesale.
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July 2010
If you use GoDaddy and have trouble using their Total DNS Control feature to configure your domains, try permitting all cookies, or permitting cookies from secureserver.net, or using another browser, like Firefox. I kept getting an error saying the feature was unavailable, so I couldn’t redirect my domain name to Blogger. I tried using Firefox instead of Safari and it magically worked.
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