Jul 28
From Paul Graham's latest essay,
"The Acceleration of Addictiveness"Several people have told me they like the iPad because it lets them bring the Internet into situations where a laptop would be too conspicuous. In other words, it's a hip flask.
The whole essay is worth a read, though that footnote is probably my favorite.
Jul 28
(Note, for non-programmers, this is not about shaving)
ASP.NET MVC has
shipped the first preview of version 3. This is a good thing, mostly. By default it will be using the brand spanking new
Razor view engine... and I'm having a hard time trying to figure out why it's even in there.
The raison d'être for Razor is to allow for less code in the Views. This too, is a good thing. But I just don't think it does enough. Here's one of the samples provided:
@inherits System.Web.Mvc.WebViewPage
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<title>@View.Title</title>
</head>
<body>
@RenderBody()
</body>
</html>
It is nice that you don't need a gigantic header any more, and I like that the masterpage syntax is a little slimmer, but in general all you're saving are a bunch of <%= %> tags. That's nice, but is that really that great of an improvement to warrant an entirely new ViewEngine? Am I missing something important here? Especially once you get into non-trivial pages with hundreds of tags and template syntax.
What I think would have been awesome would be to use the reduced <%= %> footprint but also incorporate something like NHaml, which would really minimize the code footprint.
Jul 27
On the latest episode of
The Pipeline. (And if you don't listen to the
5by5 podcasts, what's wrong with you?)
Adam Lisagor "You see guys all the time doing the, um, un-tucking the shirt gag, and because-"
Dan Benjamin "What is the un-tucking the shirt gag?"
Adam Lisagor "It's pretty much when you un-tuck your shirt."
Perfect.
Jul 26
I just like the simplicity of it. I definitely plan on stealing that design some day.
Jul 22
On people underestimating the power of exponential growth:
"If a uranium nucleus emits two neutrons, both of which collide with other uranium nuclei, causing them to emit two neutrons, and so forth—well, did I mention nuclear holocaust as a possible end to population growth?"
Jul 22
This pops up every time I sign into Meebo now. Hey, AIM, I don't use your crappy IM product for a reason. Harassing me further is only encouraging me to abandon my AIM account altogether.
Jul 21
I've always enjoyed
Thom Hogan's site. He's a great writer and shoots with Nikon cameras :-). I just found this neat little corner of his site, a few basic guides and tables for standard photography needs, and it is designed for the iPhone.
Jul 20
At long last someone has finally brought the plight of the
Sharktopus to life. Thank you Syfy.
