June 2011
14 posts
Deal on debt must end tax breaks for super-rich,... →
I want to believe President Obama is going to throw down on this issue such that even if a bill with the tax-cuts removed doesn’t pass, it’ll still cost the opposition a lot. That’s what I want to believe. That he’ll throw down. The gauntlet, even. That one.
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Google+
If Google+ allows you to understand, find and change your privacy settings, it deserves to win.
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iCloud Conflicts
According to what I can glean from a John Siracusa/Dan Benjamin “Hypercritical” podcast (at 5by5.tv), Apple’s iCloud sync strategy doesn’t resolve conflicts via a complicated merging scheme (such as are found in source code version control systems).
If you enter a contact from one device and enter it in differently on another device, you’ll no longer get a dialog box asking you to resolve the...
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Thoughts on Iterative Development
Developers seem to repeat to each other in an echo-chamber kind-of-way various methodologies and memes in what after enough repetition feels like an empty cargo-cult faith.
Because I’m not immune, I like to revisit basic ideas.
Whenever I feel that there’s a lack of clarity (maybe even just on my part) about what a project adds up to, the response from others is that we use...
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Documents in iCloud
From what I can figure out, the idea of documents in iCloud is that you start up an application on your Mac, select the document you want to edit from a list and then start working. All your changes are saved to the server and synced to other devices. Great stuff.
But doesn’t the notion that you get to your documents by opening Pages (say) seem like a step backwards?
My projects often consist...
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ORM is an anti-pattern →
Seems like all you have to do is use ORM once past the “implement a todo app” stage to get to these conclusions.
In summary (TL;DR)
ORM is initially simpler to understand and faster to write than SQL-based model code
Its efficiency in the early stages of any project is adequate
Unfortunately, these advantages disappear as the project increases in complexity: the...
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Rich Hickey Q&A by Michael Fogus →
This sort of thing always used to make me want to start a revolution, but, alas, I always ended up being a 19th Century anarchist among south-sea islanders: harping against dehumanizing factory conditions when everyone else sees the bloody floor as a special kind of comfortable beach, each new IDE plugin as welcome as a pretty girl.
When we drop down to the algorithm level, I think OO can...
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Urs Peter -- "Scala & Spring: Combine the best of... →
troutwine:
Maybe I’m a loon, but that’s an un-godly amount of code for one lonely table.
I know I’m a loon. I can’t for the life of me understand why anyone would, at any time, use Spring for anything. I understand all the sentences and paragraphs people say when they speak about it, but it still doesn’t add up, especially when you listen to your rapidly deteriorating psyche...
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Wire in the Blood
A week or so ago I watched all the episodes of Wire in the Blood, a British police procedural series running from around 2005 through 2009. The core of the show is a psychologist/profiler who is spooky-good at his job. Sometimes, though, it feels like he just states the obvious: “Your perpetrator is a white male control-freak between 18 and 54.” When you consider the show’s...