Links: 12-26-2007
i completed reading (26 December 2007, Interconnected)
Geez… and I thought I did pretty well this year. (categories: reading books 2007 )
i completed reading (26 December 2007, Interconnected)
Geez… and I thought I did pretty well this year. (categories: reading books 2007 )
Google Admits “Data is the Intel Inside”
Quote: “As the applications become apparent, the data will be valuable in new ways, and the company with the most data wins.” (categories: megadata data datamining google )
Coding style - a non-issue - fa.linux.kernel | Google Groups
Quote: “… don’t EVER make the mistake that you can design something better than what you get from ruthless massively parallel trial-and-error with a feedback cycle. That’s giving your intelligence _much_ too much credit.” (categories: evolution design [...]
Pimp My Safari: about
Quote: “Many excellent plugins for Safari have been developed, but because Safari doesn?t have an official ?extension architecture?, many don?t know of these extensions.” (categories: safari plugins extensions mac apple )
Babe, Bill, Jack and Del: 1916 | Shorpy Historical Photographs
Awesome [...]
Recording this for posterity: let’s say you’re working on a store and you’ve got a database table that stores orders and a database table that stores customers and that you want to get a count of all the customers who’ve ordered more than 10 times. You’re going to write a query that looks like [...]
In Clearspace we store dates using their millisecond representation rather than as a full fledged date in database tables because we don’t want to have to worry about how each database represents dates, but that means that whenever you’re looking at a Clearspace database table, you see values like this:
1172822399000
instead of something like this:
2007-03-01 23:59:59.000
which [...]
Paul Kedrosky: Defrag, Information Underload, etc.
A writeup of the last session at defragcon where ‘information underload’ came up. Pull quote: “The burning question of the near future will not be how much work a person can do safely, but how little.” (categories: informationunderload attentionstream feeds [...]
Shopping at Shelter Institute
Learn to draw a set of plans, engineer the structure, design a foundation, frame and enclose the house, wire and plumb it, install windows, design stairs, and create efficient ventilation, heating and cooling in 10 weeks. (categories: homebuilding maine )
A couple of quotes from the book “Better Off: Flipping The Switch On Technology” that I thought were important enough to note here:
… tricks like these remove much of the onus from manual labor and add to the sense of physical effort a much finer satisfaction: the magisterial feeling that comes with wielding means precisely [...]
It looks like it was almost 2 months ago that I wrote a blog post about the Clearspace plugin for Firefox (called Clearfox), promising that I would follow up with the details on the JavaScript side of the project. I guess time flies when you’re having fun.
Getting started on the JavaScript sidebar [...]
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