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Unless you're on a device, like an iPad or iPhone 3.2, that won't cache jQuery because of its size.

Why stop at geo-redundancy? Let's set up an online backup store on the moon and Mars, too - http://domaingang.com/short-news/nasa-secures-moon-and-mars-...

I love this mouse in Mac OS X, but it was a bit of a hassle getting it to work in Windows 7. It's also a headache to reconfigure the mouse after switching back and forth between Mac OS X and Windows. Hopefully, some updated drivers will fix this.

Whipped.

Talk to Pete LePage, a Microsoft Product Manager for Internet Explorer. He's working on the issue - http://blogs.msdn.com/petel/archive/2009/09/09/running-the-i....

3 out of 4 is not 4 out of 4 so it isn't totally pointless.

I'll definitely give Chrome OS a try when it comes out.

Working with people who are "strategically incompetent" is a nightmare. Don't do this.

Unfortunately, continuations are not supported in Ruby as of 1.9. They might come back in 2.0 though.

What is special about Python's yield statement compared to the ones in Ruby, C#, and other languages?

William's talk at TED - http://www.ted.com/talks/william_kamkwamba_how_i_harnessed_t...

Noteworthy that the "IE Tab" is a popular Firefox add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419

False dichotomy. Don't hire either. Keep looking.

Worst. Advice. Ever. She has confused overworking with working hard.

inode cache - http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/systems/index.jsp?t...

Your results should speak for themselves but not in the way an engineer might think. Your technical expertise or the virtuosity of your software is not relevant to the business at large (though it is relevant to the business at hand).

What matters is the value that your work delivers to the business. If you write software that consistently delivers value and has significantly positive impact, it should speak for you. If you work on unimportant projects with little or no benefit or impact to the company, it will not help you, and you should also wonder why you're wasting your time on it anyways. Certainly when it comes time for the business to execute cost-cutting measures like in times like these, they will wonder why.

Then there's politics which can render all of the above moot. It's unfortunate, but that's how humanity rolls. If you work in a large company and wonder how some totally useless and unimportant projects that cost the business money hand over fist manage to survive even during tough times like these, well, now you know why.

I don't think that our points are mutually exclusive (why "except").

Time is a global variable (and hence an implicit parameter) to any function that manages state.

The problem with implementation as design is that the implementation can be imperfect (underspecified, overspecified, or just plain broken) and thus can result in a difference between intent ("what you wanted to say") to reality ("what you actually said").

Then you get into the curious scenario where people trying to implement something whose design document is an implementation (e.g., the Ruby programming language, IE 7 "compatibility" mode) have to reproduce everything in the implementation, even the bugs, to be consistent with the design.

3 TB of disk is easy. 3 TB flowing quickly from disk to RAM to CPU cache and back out again is another story.

For reference's sake, Windows Web Server 2008 costs $469 and is likely the version of Windows you would use instead of Windows 7 to run IIS in production.

Scoble's got a new blog on Posterous: http://scobleizer.posterous.com/

No, you don't have to know machine code to appreciate parsimony or performance.

I thought Rich Hickey abandoned the .NET version of Clojure a couple years ago?

Anyone else notice the spam hack in the comments?

The actor who plays the Apple guy is Justin Long.

W3C spec - http://dev.w3.org/geo/api/

I love Scheme.

I ported Peter Norvig's JScheme to C#. I also ported JScheme to Python and Ruby to learn the basics of programming in those languages.

I wish Rich Hickey had kept working on the C# version of Clojure.

I would love to check out your port of Arc to .NET once it's ready.

I would retitle this to "Goodbye _why" so people don't get confused and think this is John Resig's eulogy to whytheluckystiff.