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resnamen | 14 years ago | on: Google's Anti-SOPA & PIPA Page

Is FB going to do something similar? If not, why not? I imagine the tag-team of Google and FB would do wonders for educating the entire public on this crucial issue.

resnamen | 14 years ago | on: Google's Anti-SOPA & PIPA Page

I'm taking the opportunity to spam my friends and family with this news. "Check out the Google logo today! Wonder why it's a big black bar?" It's jarring and it piques people's curiosity. I think it'll do good things for educating the public.

resnamen | 14 years ago | on: Startups: Don't Host Your Blog on Tumblr

Somewhat related gripe: does anybody like the admin UI in Tumblr? It seems like important settings are scattered all over the place. I don't understand why the site view and admin views are two discrete locations, either. Has the core service received much love since David Karp's first cut?

resnamen | 14 years ago | on: Login to your Google account by scanning a QR code

It raises an approval screen on the phone. It says

By proceeding, you give another computer access to the following accounts: * [email protected]

STOP! Only proceed if you arrived at this page by scanning a login barcode at google.co. Otherwise, do not proceed!

(start with GMail) (start with iGoogle)

resnamen | 14 years ago | on: Harvard Statistics 110: Introduction to Probability, on iTunes

Podcasting distribution and aggregation is a problem that is already solved really well in the OSS space; there doesn't seem to be a compelling need to adopt proprietary solutions. Harvard isn't a strappy startup with no funds available to it. I'm pretty sure they have oodles of bandwidth and compute power at their disposal.

I don't think they shouldn't use iTunes U, that's fine, but I wish they made it available through alternate channels as well.

resnamen | 14 years ago | on: The Big List of Game Postmortems - from indie to AAA

Here's a good developer's postmortem from Secret of Evermore. I am including the web archive link because the original site is now hijacked by online casino spam.

There are lots of interesting nuggets about the scripting language developed for the game, banging against hard limits with cartridge sizes, multiple domain-specific compression schemes, etc...

He also talks about the making of the soundtrack, which was the first project done by the then-19 year old Jeremy Soule, who has gone on to developing the soundtracks for big games like Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim, etc.

http://web.archive.org/web/20080701132130/http://www.super-n...

resnamen | 14 years ago | on: The Elephant in the Room: Google Monoculture

I don't think it's a matter of data access. I would argue that Bing has parity with Google in most respects (they have the same Internet to crawl, partnerships with some data providers for things like flight search, etc.), and they even have decisive advantages in other areas, like access to huge piles of social data. So why aren't they as good or better?

resnamen | 14 years ago | on: Android Design

I despise it. One of my Gmail labels is set to sync content for 365 days. I nearly got RSI spinning that damn thing with my thumb until it hit 365.

resnamen | 14 years ago | on: Why Resumes and Code Screenings Are Obsolete with GitHire

Such saucer-eyed bullshit. Many employers have moonlighting clauses that prevent employees from contributing to OSS projects. All of the companies I've worked for have. If you only go by Github commits, you'll probably be getting only a certain type of applicant and excluding most others.

Github commits might be good supplemental data to have, but if I am to do a fair apples to apples comparison between candidates who might be encumbered by moonlighting clauses, then I'll let the whiteboard coding do the talking.

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