I was somewhat bummed to read on Coding Horror that Jeff Atwood is leaving the Stack Exchange. As many of you know, we are pretty religious readers of Coding Horror and Joel on Software . Jeff’s blog had come up quite a bit recently as we are in the process of coming up with new coding standards here at work. More specifically, his <a href="http://www.codinghorror.com/bl
I don't know if this has been widely reported yet but... http://www.impulsedriven.com/publisher/valve
There’s been a lot of talk about the New York Times article on why Iphones are made in china. If you haven’t read it, you can find the article here . I was reading comments on Slashdot and it was apparent that most of them didn’t read the article. They as
Mashable Business has a good article today on starting a business. They list 6 things which are very useful. It’s missing a few items that I think should be added or emphasized more. Here are 7 through 10 that I would have added: 7. Get used to failing often. The article talks about not b
Victor Davis Hanson has a very lengthy and interesting article today on the various Republican candidates. I can’t say I’m terribly excited about any of them. You’ve got Newt who is all over the place on issues and frankly, makes me think it’s more about him and his love of power than any thought of public service. You’ve got Romney who I can’t even understand why he’s running in the first pla
I am just baffled that the President is blocking the Keystone pipeline. It’s such a win-win on all fronts. Powerline article:
Penny Arcade today: So who has a Kinect? What do you think of it?
I have MacOS X Lion running on a 30 inch Cinema Display. If you have the latest Xcode, you can use Quartz Debugger to enable it. What it does is allow you to run in a sort of retinal display. In my case, it turns my 2560x1440 to 1280x720 but with very high DPI. It looks absolutely gorgeous and is exactly what I think most people have wanted out of their high resolution displays all along. Apparently, new Macs coming out this year are going to have screens that do cra
Because of the way the media treats those of us who are right of center politically, when we get into social situations, we are used to just keeping our mouths shut. But it turns out that a lot, perhaps even most, people are right of center (in the United States anyway) but we often don’t realize it because we get so beaten down that our opinions on liberty and freedom are so “unfair”. So usually a discussion will slowly unwind where a person stands bit by by. First, yo
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This past year my wife and I finally got the solar array we had planned in. The questions I usually get asked are how much it cost, how much does it produce and what level of subsidy is there for it. First, here's what it looks like: The idea was to have something that produced enough power to offset our family's daily
…but don’t take pride in it. For Tireless Rebutter there is no such thing as a trivial dispute. He regards all challenges as barbarians at the gates. His unflagging tenacity in making his points numbs and eventually wears down the opposition. Confident that his arguments are sound, Tireless Rebutter can't understand why he is universally loathed. Source:
I admit, my guy is pretty boring looking. <p
[quote] Is this a shot across the bow or is the naughty list already compiled?[/quote] No, I'd say our community is the healthiest I've seen it in years. A big part of that is the even handed moderation of people like Jafo and Kyro. People know they have no "dog in the hunt", they just ask that people not stalk others across threads/forums.
We lost a lot of people due to LW and her group. After LW, we still had people leave due to a different type of problem and that is people who don't break the rules but are still very opinionated. JU became very right wing over time because of that which in turn took away a lot of diversity. A lot of people were surprised LW got banned because she was so right wing and there was a belief that we had some bias for right-wingers simply because I am a right-winger. But
The situation there is the case where the owner stepped away and the Entitled group took over and when the owner came back and took action it tends to get very messy since you have not just the Entitled group but those who just get caught in the cross fire. In a few months, if history is a guide, most of them will be able to come back (assuming the owner wants them). The Entitled group in question are the quintessential "We decide who deserves to be attacked bas
All this has
In “real life” I’m not particularly political. I don’t donate to candidates or political causes, I don’t put signs on my lawn. I’m interested in the discussion of politics in the same way that other people are interested in the discussion of sports. If you’re come here from a link claiming I’m some sort of political lunatic, a few things to bear in mind: When JoeUser.com started in 2001, I posted intentionally provocative articles. The idea was to get a
Tom Chick, owner of QuarterToThree.com just finished a controlled clean up of his forums where several prominent users were shown the door. Moderation is a very delicate and thankless art. A community can easily be taken over by cliques of griefers without careful moderation. I think JoeUser.com users can remember a certain user by the acronym of LW who was a very prolific and interesting poster but yet couldn’t keep herself from griefing those she disliked. <
For those of you who really like video journals, here are some quickie videos I’ve done this week. Part 1: Around my fledgling Kingdom http://screencast.com/t/Zi0XvYku0pWP more to come.
I’m working a lot of hours right now. But why? At some point I think I should do some research on this. It’s been years since I’ve “needed” to work from a financial perspective. So what is the motivator? Heck, I don’t even have a salary anymore but yet I love to work. Clearly, I’m insane.
I’m getting so smoked on BF3 it’s sad. I used to be good at this. I used to be a player, man! What the hell happened?
People have been ragging on the Chevy Volt over some extremely unlikely issues that one could theoretically have with one. Of course, none of the people complaining actually have one. I do. I love it. It’s the best car I’ve ever owned.
Over the last decade we’ve presented a bit of a mixed message regarding customer care. On the one hand, we have broad customer-friendly policies such as very liberal refunds, long-term software support and post-purchase support. We learned the above lesson from OS/2: Treat your customers as gods because customer loyalty really matters. I’ve written the details of why we do this <a href="https://www.stardock.com/stardock/articles/article_customersare
I must confess, there is something…gratifying about debating with a global warming alarmist (specifically people who are certain mankind is causing global warming and specifically it’s caused by CO2) who gets in my face about their superior belief system and being able to pull out the fact that I drive an electric car that is powered by my 20KW solar array that also powers my house which is also heated via geo thermal. Match that buddy. <img style="border-bottom-style: none; bo
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