Drbble

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Drbble··on Robert Scoble calls G+'s "ghost town" reputation "unfair ... simply wrong"

Did you see the new iOS and Android versions that launched last week?

Drbble··on Robert Scoble calls G+'s "ghost town" reputation "unfair ... simply wrong"

http://googleplus.wonderhowto.com/blog/new-google-12-tips-ma...

Item 2 there claims blockers can view public posts, which seems the intended behavior.

Drbble··on Robert Scoble calls G+'s "ghost town" reputation "unfair ... simply wrong"

Right.

Drbble··on The THX Sound

His next program probably did. Live and learn.

Drbble··on Why is Haskell used so little in the industry?

Immutable structures, yes. And you can get those without Haskell's other baggage. Haskell is great for research in persistent data structures because it is impossible to cheat. But then it is more industry-practical to port the algorithms than write an application in Haskell. check out Google's MapReduce and Flume papers, for example.

Drbble··on Why is Haskell used so little in the industry?

Clojure. But it's dynamically typed, not statically typed. And it is mostly eager not lazy, but is growing more laziness/fusion features.

OCaml, static and functional, but eager not lazy, but it lacks JVM compatibility (and FFI to non-functional C doesn't help very much) so it tends to only work for problems that don't need to third party libraries.

Drbble··on Why is Haskell used so little in the industry?

Haskell is hard because it is a very powerful and high level language, with a sophisticated compiler (type checker for highly exotic types) and runtime (lazy evaluation system, not merely a bytecode VM). Most popular languages aren't nearly as sophisticated. You can write sophisticated programs in them, but the languages aren't as sophisticated.

Drbble··on Why is Haskell used so little in the industry?

Check out Gall's Law, which I just learned about on HN. Big solutions come from iteration, not ejaculation.

Drbble··on Why is Haskell used so little in the industry?

Not less per capita, but far far less capita.

Drbble··on Wallpaper That Blocks Wi-Fi

No, it's just easier to obtain than chicken wire but has similar metal content for signal scrambling, and plastic insulation to avoid scratch damage to skin.

Drbble··on Wallpaper That Blocks Wi-Fi

Does the neighbor also block out all the harmful EM radiation that floods from sunrise to sunset? If you want to be cruel, mention that cordless phones and microwaves emit at similar frequencies as wifi.

Drbble··on Warren Buffet: Free news is unsustainable

Warren Buffet also freely admits he doesn't understand making money on the the Internet well enough to invest in it or short it.

Drbble··on How Can I Turn Small Talk Into a Conversation?

Indeed, smalltalk is object oriented.

Drbble··on How Can I Turn Small Talk Into a Conversation?

Poi?

Drbble··on How Can I Turn Small Talk Into a Conversation?

That's called the Five Whys in business school, root cause analysis in engineering, and life with a two year old.

Drbble··on How Can I Turn Small Talk Into a Conversation?

You just described the climax of the movie Independence Day.

Drbble··on How Can I Turn Small Talk Into a Conversation?

This is pretty well regarded advice in dating circles, where it is important not to waste your life chasing dead ends on dealbreakers.

Drbble··on Fit text of any length into image of fixed dimensions

The author of the script might know, since he is creating the text. But it's easy to imagine that some of his fortune messages have quote marks.

Drbble··on Curt Schilling’s dream died quite quickly at 38 Studios

Seems more like intentional corruption than failure. Did Curtis have any bona tides or anything to offer besides photo ops with starstruck officials? The failure was in electing or appointing the bureaucrats who spent public funds for personal entertainment.

Drbble··on Curt Schilling’s dream died quite quickly at 38 Studios

Which part of the hippocratic oath mentions working for free? It only talks about what behavior is appropriate when rendering service, and the life debt to teachers.

Car insurance is liability insurance. It is completely different. Doctors do carry liability insurance, for example.

Drbble··on Curt Schilling’s dream died quite quickly at 38 Studios

That's trivial to fix by restructuring the tax deduction to make it employee-side

Drbble··on Meet the tireless entrepreneur who squatted at AOL

I think AOL decided.

Drbble··on Meet the tireless entrepreneur who squatted at AOL

Sounds like Sherer is an accessory to trespassing and theft.

Drbble··on Meet the tireless entrepreneur who squatted at AOL

Didn't we just have a story about a successful lesson plan startup that had a $700k grossing participant? This new competitor seems to be lagging.

Drbble··on 'Fair and square' pricing? That'll never work, JC Penney. We like being shafted

I didn't see the ad campaign, but I would guess JCP's main problem is that JCP is still a junk store that I go to to by cheap junk I need for a short term, if they win on the Internet price search. Trader Joes never has sales, and they do great. The have. 99 prices though.

Drbble··on 'Fair and square' pricing? That'll never work, JC Penney. We like being shafted

I wrote a greasemonkey script to round up all the 99 prices on the Apple store. It made browsing much more relaxing and made the high prices more apparent. 1999 really does trick the subconscious.

Drbble··on If Money Doesn't Make You Happy, Consider Time

Buying consumables instead of durable isn't really having less, it's keeping less. It's not necessarily less expensive.

Drbble··on Pagination 101

This is in the Human Interface guidelines for GUI wizards (series of dialog boxes).

Drbble··on Meth Labs and Dead Dogs: How the Founder of McAfee Antivirus Went on the Run

We who?

Drbble··on How many Apple IDs should your family have?

Inconvenience of using non-Apple products is part of Apple's design philosophy. They have no interest in interoperability beyond what came accidentally when they used BSD/NEXTStep tech to replace OS 9.

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