Meanwhile in Soviet Canuckistan...

Dec 18

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Jun 27

“That said, I don’t think the intent should be to support any old versions for any protracted amount of time. -00 has security vulnerabilities brought up by people on webkit-dev@ so from the Chrome side, we intend not to support -00 at all once we have -09 support available. All the makers of server-side code have already published versions compatibile with the latest draft, and IETF drafts are intended to expire after a fixed amount of time (-00 is already well past its expiration date).”

“It’s very dear to me, the issue of Gay Marriage, or as I like to call it, “Marriage”. You know, because I had lunch this afternoon, not Gay Lunch. I parked my car; I didn’t Gay Park it.”

Jun 21

“Socket.IO came out almost a year ago making the first solid steps in the cross-browser realtime space. Ever since then, a constant stream of feedback and support has made this release possible, the biggest yet, with dozens of improvements and bugfixes.” http://socket.io/index.html#announcement

Jun 20

“So, after several months of working on the project when I could—snatching minutes and hours between work, grad school, and making Cthulhus—I am very proud to announce that I have finished an eBook of The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft.”

Jun 3

10 CoffeeScript One Liners to Impress Your Friends

Nice:

11. Bonus

Most readable fizzbuzz version you’ll ever see:
"#{if i%3 is 0 then 'fizz' else ''}#{if i%5 is 0 then 'buzz' else ''}" or i for i in [1..100]

May 20

The Rise Of JSON

If only this was available in Mono / Unity:

Consider the following c# code, which downloads my Foursquare profile:

WebClient webClient = new WebClient();
dynamic result = JsonValue.Parse(webClient.DownloadString("https://api.foursquare.com/v2/users/self?oauth_token=XXXXXXX"));
Console.WriteLine(result.response.user.firstName);

Source

May 19

Neal Stephenson: In the Beginning was the Command Line

Awesome quote:

The Hole Hawg is dangerous because it does exactly what you tell it to. It is not bound by the physical limitations that are inherent in a cheap drill, and neither is it limited by safety interlocks that might be built into a homeowner’s product by a liability-conscious manufacturer. The danger lies not in the machine itself but in the user’s failure to envision the full consequences of the instructions he gives to it.

A smaller tool is dangerous too, but for a completely different reason: it tries to do what you tell it to, and fails in some way that is unpredictable and almost always undesirable. But the Hole Hawg is like the genie of the ancient fairy tales, who carries out his master’s instructions literally and precisely and with unlimited power, often with disastrous, unforeseen consequences.

Why Google’s hiring process is broken | Teambox Blog

Interesting review of Google’s recruiting process:

I’m not posting the full reply, but essentially he..

Asked me to rate my skills in a list of 14 programming languages.

Asked me to point my fields of expertise from a list of 30 skills.

I do code a lot of Ruby, serious JavaScript and CSS, but I replied marking everything as “I’m a product designer”, hoping they would ask about that.

May 18

Experimenting with Piracy – An Indie Mac Developer’s Perspective

Interesting war story from one indie developer looking into how to combat piracy of his apps:

I won’t go into the technical details of how I measured the number of pirated apps in use, but after a two month period I can say with high confidence that 83% of my users were running one of my apps with a fake serial number. Let that sink in.