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bwsd··on Ask HN: How have you been celebrating programmer's day?
I'm designing a card for next year.
bwsd··on Best Amazon review for Programming in C (non-affiliated link)
Sadly, while this review is probably fake, I've seen enough real world examples that make me sigh.
bwsd··on Fox News still makes awesome charts
Best. Pie. Chart. Ever. Period!
bwsd··on A better way to read HN on the iPad - Happy Thanksgiving From Onswipe
OnSwipe is a solution looking for a problem to solve and does not bring any additional functionality to a website using it.

There are lots of creative and attractive themes out there. Unfortunately, OnSwipe replaces that creativity with a renderer that makes every page look the same (i.e. boring).

One of the biggest advantages of the iPad is its full-featured web support on a mobile platform; OnSwipe wipes out this advantage. It removes built-in iPad features (e.g. scrolling, page zoom, etc.) making reading pages awkward and unnatural. And it introduces a cheesy, unnecessary bouncing effect.

For this and other reasons I find OnSwipe to be useless and a bane to my web browsing experience.

bwsd··on Is It Time for Hewlett-Packard to Go Back to the Garage?
I totally agree with you. The best part of the article was the thought-provoking title. :)

The HP I grew up with is (has been) gone and unless they get back to their innovative roots I don't believe they'll survive. Time will prove me right or wrong.

bwsd··on Ask HN: Is a 27" Screen Worth It?
From a highly buzzed stupor - which I will regret later - no. A dual or triple monitor setup makes more sense. Being able to maximize separate applications on individual scteens makes more sense to me.
bwsd··on Why don't rich people do more awesome things?
I feel the same way every time I see the advertisement for "The Film Foundation" before watching a movie on DVD.
bwsd··on Poll: Which version of Python are you using? [FIXED]
Currently using 2.6.5 for geoprocessing tasks in ArcGIS.