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Splendid, thanks a lot!

I would seriously pay for a universal plugin that lets me browse everything with j/k.

"Google Cred" sounds a lot like what Recorded Future is up to (a company which, it turns out, Google has invested in).

https://www.recordedfuture.com/

In case anyone else here also loves the Music compos, I created a YouTube playlist with all the entries: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=D5F4912EABFBA660

That's where I stopped reading.

I think the blog post should rather be named "How to tell journalism from blogging". Simply because you can be a journalist without devoting yourself to journalism (just like you can be a programmer without really doing any good programming).

As one that grew up knowing one of Sweden's most prominent journalists I can vouch for some extremely impressive skills that are needed in order to be a good journalist. It's very much about the amount of schooling and _continuous_ preparation you put into a column: a blogger may become successful merely venting his/her thoughts while a "true" journalist reads a book per hundred written words.

I bet you the money in my pocket that this lab was not called "Antenna design and test lab" prior to the press conference; part of the brilliance in this deflection of attention is most certainly found it the naming itself of this awesome place.

This could be either because:

1) Israel is pushing Twitter to censor these terms

2) Someone at Twitter HQ blindly supports Israel

Either way it completely destroys perhaps the most important usage for Twitter: a voice for those in the epicenter of something happening.

I must thoroughly disagree.

First off, I agree on the importance of culture. But equating a CS degree with coding is just plain wrong; Dijkstra has a nice quote on this. CS is and should be applied mathematics, and what more timeless topic is there than math?

Secondly, there are some serious doubts whether university teaches you to think independently. As a counter argument, read "The Disadvantage of an Elite Education"[1]. Summary of this article: university teaches you--if you're somewhat ambitious--to become an excellent sheep. In other words, it promotes you into being the same mediocre person as anyone else.

That said, I still believe there's a ton of things to be gained from spending four years in a university: network, culture, more-than-average-but-still-pretty-mediocre ability to think, fun, and being inside a solid recruitment base for cool companies.

[1] http://www.theamericanscholar.org/the-disadvantages-of-an-el...

Ah, perfect! Thanks :)

For reference, this is where I checked the versions: http://installed-gems.heroku.com/ But I guess all you RoR-gurus know that :)

EDIT: Also, http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2010/5/25/rails_2_3_6_depend...

I'm working through your tutorial, and I really -- really -- love it! Thanks for the work you put into it.

One thing though. Although it's great that you keep versions updated, perhaps you should mention that Heroku only supports rails version up to 2.3.5? As a total beginner, it took me a few hours to realize why I got strange errors when deploying...

Really? Old Persian?

I take it you saved a HTML file to PDF with PDFmyURL? Well, don't. If only to avoid the horizontal pages.

Also, make your profile one concise paragraph. I like the non-bullshit words in it right now, but trim it.

Thanks a lot!

Would love one. Email's also in my profile.

I wouldn't give them a dime, at this point. They don't even have a proof of concept, and giving them more money than they ask for is certainly counter-productive.

On a related note, it was refreshing to have a voice-over by a person who's actually competent. Sometimes it feels like the internet aggregate of videos is 70% silent/irrelevant music, and 29% average joe commentary.

IKEA desk.

MacBook.

Airport Extreme.

Mighty Mouse.

Steelpad.

Alessandro headphones.

Necessary Moleskine + rollerball pen.

Iomega UltraMax 1GB RAID.

Window for inspiration.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12637/IMG_0535.jpg

Yep, me too. Seems like a useful service though.

I must say you really sold the Musashi book to me. Definitely going to buy it next time I buy books. Thanks.

What happens when I copy and paste?

Do I copy the code points, or the encoded characters--the bytes--along with what encoding is used? Similarly, when I paste, is it the code points I paste which are instantaneously encoded using the application's encoding scheme?

The book's target audience is obviously "business people," so I'd say he really doesn't need to know details about 37signals specifically.

The review was wonderfully British -- "What is it about Americans that they think 10 years is a long time?" -- which probably is the main reason behind the criticism. Real business people according to the author are probably those with a degree from LSE.

The best note-taking app I've yet to find is Notational Velocity: http://notational.net/

Completely mouse-free and uncluttered. Also, it doesn't make the mistake to organize the notes, since this is usually impossible and a waste.

EDIT: web-page seems down, check Github instead: http://wiki.github.com/scrod/nv/.

I got Lego! Brilliant idea from my brother, and I must say that I enjoyed it just as much now (I'm 22) as I did ten years ago.

From my take on the article, he did that _and_ his regular work.

"It took only a few minutes, so it didn't keep him from his other work"

Cool, these guys study at my university (Chalmers)! I like how they effectively use the music as a component in the game.

This is, apparently, not likely to be stupid:

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Same here. We learned of them in 4th grade, in Sweden.

Water surface hacking?

Apple's iWork Pages has a fairly good outlining mode since version 09.

I would love to see the same kind of list, but for fiction books. I can't think of any fiction right now that have a clear connection to the spirit of entrepreneurship, but I'm fairly sure there must be. For example a book portraying determination within the central character, or overcoming great challenges.

Can anyone think of such books?