[T]he kind of people who choose to immigrate are really people who look a lot like the American ideals. They’re ambitious. They’re fairly self-confident. They’re risk-takers. They’re kind of strong, hearty people. They’re usually driven because they want to protect their families, which are on the borderline of really falling apart because there’s actually no [...] [Posted: 23 May 2010]
Money matters, but less than we think and not in the way we think. Family is important. So are friends. Envy is toxic. So is excessive thinking. Beaches are optional. Trust is not. Neither is gratitude. That’s from the epilogue of Eric Weiner’s tremendously fun book The Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s Search for the [...] [Posted: 18 May 2010]
Two web development links for your enjoyment. FormData interface coming to Firefox An overview of the FormData object of XMLHttpRequest, and how you will soon be able to use it in Firefox. From Hacks.Mozilla.Org. Dealing With the Dreaded ‘Flash of Unstyled Text‘ Tips for mitigating, even eliminating the appearance of unstyled text when using @font-face. [...] [Posted: 17 May 2010]
The battle that is underway is not a battle over the future of privacy and publicity. It’s a battle over choice and informed consent. It’s unfolding because people are being duped, tricked, coerced, and confused into doing things where they don’t understand the consequences. Facebook keeps saying that it gives users choices, but that is [...] [Posted: 14 May 2010]
Photo by aresauburn™ I just stumbled across this 2006 post, but Rob Walling hit it out of the park. Here’s the short version of his post about what developers really want. Being Set Up to Succeed Having Excellent Management Learning New Things Exercising Creativity and Solving the Right Kind of Problems Having a Voice Being [...] [Posted: 14 May 2010]
The points that resonated with me from Renee Philips piece over at Art Calendar Set goals, and make the commitment. Accept money as Green Energy, not the enemy of creativity. Take responsibility. Follow your passion, not the market. Avoid procrastination. Add pleasure to your tasks. Phillips’ post is geared towards professional artists, but I think [...] [Posted: 14 May 2010]
If you hate your job, stop doing the parts you don’t like and spend more time doing the parts you do like. The worst that can happen is that you get fired from a job you hate, and is that really a loss? The best that can happen is that you start producing much better [...] [Posted: 14 May 2010]
Our player doesn’t just simply stream video, it must also secure the content, handle reporting for our advertisers, render the video using a high performance codec to ensure premium visual quality, communicate back with the server to determine how long to buffer and what bitrate to stream, and dozens of other things that aren’t necessarily [...] [Posted: 14 May 2010]
Recovery.gov, the government website where Americans have access to data related to Recovery Act spending has officially moved to a cloud computing infrastructure. … The immediate cost savings will be more than $330,000 in fiscal year 2010 and $420,000 in fiscal year. But there will also be other savings too, the agency said, noting that [...] [Posted: 14 May 2010]
The complaint has over 150 numbered paragraphs, runs 38 pages, and includes a lot of legalese. But the basic claim is simple: Facebook pulled a “privacy bait and switch.” They told users to sign up and provide personal information under one set of privacy policies, and then they changed the policies. It’s like if someone [...] [Posted: 14 May 2010]