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Review: Facebook, open but to the public but still closed
I wrote up my initial impressions on Facebook now that it went live here:
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Awesome Apple Pascal ad
Come on... you know this is funny stuff...
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The best dating sites for nerds
Off-topic, I know, but I know some of you developer types are still single. I wrote up this little summary on the dating sites out there:
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I f'ing shipped something!
I've been in a coding slump for quite awhile. It seemed like I couldn't finish anything. Then, in a burst of inspiration, I made a bunch of changes to my blog app, and I launched NerdLifestyle. I had been sitting on that domain for almost a year with the intention of writing about nerd stuff, and never did anything with it.
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Nerd Lifestyle, blogged
Some time ago I realized that I like to write about nerdy stuff that isn't really programming and it's not really personal stuff either. It's stuff that is more lifestyle-oriented.
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What makes a developer happy with their life?
Over the past few years, I've written about career and happiness a great many times. (And honestly, if you're one of those people who thinks I care about your dislike for posts like this, just stop reading and move on.) It's interesting how many time things have changed since I started this blog more than two years ago, and how I'm still not entirely able to answer the question: What makes a developer happy in life?
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Apple really gets it
The Apple announcements today were more or less what people expected, but there were some really nice twists.
New iPods, yeah, that was an obvious move. Selling movies was expected, but I don't think anyone really knew they'd move up to 640x480 resolution for those and the TV shows, which is essentially standard definition resolution. They just hooked me, because that's about as good as a DVD, only without the piece of plastic. It's the quantum shift that music made a few years ago.
Even more impressive is the "iTV" box that they previewed, and will ship early next year. People have been wondering for awhile if they'd introduce a DVR kind of device, and they've totally looked beyond that. A DVR is a broadcast-centric device, that has to do with the old distribution of content, on a schedule, via broadcast and cable. That's old news, and the a la carte pricing of content seems to be working. Let's face it, the best TV shows are like commercials for me to buy the DVD's. And if that new box really does support HD the way the demo did, the whole BlueRay vs. HD-DVD argument is even more pointless than it already is.
There certainly is some danger for Apple. I mean, they have to accept some outside influence now and then. They were smart to work podcasts into the store. They support video of the same as well. As long as they don't close that out, the entire platform is looking positive. -
I wish I could play with Facebook
I have a lot of younger friends, some of them in college. I don't know what that says about me personally, outside of my reluctance to really grow up, but it is what it is.
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Vista pricing: no thanks
Microsoft announced pricing for Vista. I'm laughing at them.