Are You Experienced? Palin and Obama. A Comparison. (9)
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Y’all, circumstances have induced me to put my hand in the toilet. Now I'm posting about politics. I'm so disappointed in myself. :( So...Recently (and especially tonight) there'll be a lot of voices saying the Republican Vice-Presidential nominee has more relevant experience than the Democratic Presidential nominee regarding the executive offices they seek. Is this true? I wouldn't have thought so, but I've been very wrong about so many things that I realized I should ...
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Scott said:
These tables help visualize the experience argument between Palin and Obama. So Palin shouldn't be dismissed out of hand, but why is she (as VP candidate) being compared to Obama (P candidate)?This question of experience is a difficult one. In part, the question is relevant because McCain (God bless him) is not that far from death statistically. Palin may very well be the next President if McCain is elected.So whatever scrutiny Palin has received she well deserves. Personally, I thought her speech was full of punchlines (at Obama's expense) and no substance. Her history shows no solid positive from her few decisions -- well, besides personal wealth.Here, Massless.com makes an interesting point. When has education become a negative? It appears middle America and various strong-willed conservative independents value, above education and maybe even experience, wealth with little education plus social skills above a life dedicated to study and service.The wealthy God-blessed common man seems to be the Superman of the religious right and conservative middle. In other words, if you're moderately-educated and wealthy, you qualify for the Presidency more than a Harvard educated American-dream example?Granted, elitism is off-putting, and I've met plenty of elitist highly-educated graduates. But you can't deny those who exemplify it as intelligent and who have a handle on world affairs -- particularly above those who would make a good drinking buddy. If only Obama was a better bowler?Is there a sense of jealousy which will keep people from voting for a Harvard graduate? Is taking the privileges America offers for granted a parallel to not being American enough? I'd hate to think so, since we all take American values for granted every day -- right down to the freedom to believe in whatever religion you think justifies you to think less of another person.Are we, as Americans, losing our sense of meritocracy and the value of education? Is the new American dream to get rich and powerful by way of manipulation, backstabbing, win-at-whatever cost -- all under the shroud of Turin? If so, I fear for the future of America.
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Harper said:
I am sharing this again. because its super good and important.
There will be code (4)
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During the last three decades, several things about software development have changed, and several other things have not. The things that have changed are startling. The things that have not are even more startling. What has changed? Three decades have seen a 1000 fold increase in speed, another 1000 fold increase in memory. Yet another 1000 fold decrease in size (by volume), and yet another 1000 fold decrease in power consumption. Adding up all those ...
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Vitor Pellegrino said:
Muito boa a visão do Uncle Bob sobre o futuro da nossa área. Vale a pena dar uma olhada!
Debunking The Myth of Multitasking [Exclusive Lifehacker Interview] (64)
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In a fast-paced business culture of "get everything done yesterday," it's easy to admire and reward those busybusy people who always seem to be juggling 14 things at once. But business coach Dave Crenshaw argues that the most common kind of multitasking doesn't boost productivity—it slows you down. In his new book, The Myth of Multitasking: How "Doing It All" Gets Nothing Done, Crenshaw explains the difference between "background tasking"—like watching TV while exercising—and "switchtasking," ...
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Noah J said:
save me
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Steve M. said:
this is so f-ing true (and obvious) it hurts my head.
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Stephan said:
I still think that technologies (e.g. twitter) do not help in focusing on one task at a time because being always online is tempting.
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nonameplayer said:
going to email this to my dad.
How do we attract the next generation? (3)
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What are we doing to expose new users to Linux and Open Source solutions? My wife, after coming back from a visit to our local electronics store asked me why there were no “boxes” of Linux on the shelves, or PCs supporting the OS on display? read more
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codefin said:
Interesting questions. In my opinion it would be figuring out how to reduce what I'll call the Linux tax. How many times can you tell someone to read the manual before they jump to that which they already know?
HTML 5: The event loop, hashchange, and more (2)
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Mark Pilgrim continues to keep us up to date with news in HTML 5 land. This week he talks to us about the birth of the event loop, and the hashchange event. I saw this just after posting about the cross browser hashchange example by Zach Leatherman. In the future we will see a nice, standard way to do this work: The other major news this week is the addition of the hashchange event, which ...
JavaScript JIT: The Dream Gets Closer (in Firefox) (26)
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For years, many of us have been salivating over the idea of JIT’ed JavaScript in the browser. Adobe’s JIT’ing Flash VM showed a preview of tremendous speed gains to be had, but we’ve had to wait until SquirrelFish from WebKit to see anything dramatic happen in the browser. Until now. Mozilla just let the cat out of the bag on their new TraceMonkey project. Brendan Eich, Mozilla’s CTO, describes it thusly: I’m extremely pleased to ...
What Does Twitter Followers per Tweet Tell Us? (21)
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I had a chance to attend a Social Media Breakfast at Best Buy's corporate headquarters in Richfield, Minnesota this morning. The topics ranged from Twitter to, well, Twitter. There were some strong opinions expressed on how Twitter should be used. For example, some people seem to believe that Twitter is a conversational medium, so anyone using the service for 1-way communications is, in effect, using the service incorrectly. This seemed like an odd statement to ...
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qthrul said:
This does not account for massive Following binges followed by a purge of Following while retaining early Follow in kind behavior and auto follow settings.
Ubuntu? No thanks (1)
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It’s probably the most popular Linux distribution for home use now, but Ubuntu just isn’t my cup of tea. I’m sure it’s pretty nice if you only need desktop features, but it just doesn’t feel right when you want to use it as a server. I usually need a couple of server programs on each operating system I install: at least a web and database server with some PHP glue. Ubuntu aims to make your ...
The Million Dollar a Month Facebook Application (37)
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There’s a pretty well known secret among top Facebook application developers: one developer is generating over $1 million a month. Who is that developer exactly? Well, most people won’t talk about it and after some prodding around we’ve narrowed down the suspects. We aren’t going to post them though because ultimately it doesn’t matter who the individual is. All that matters is that a top application that is used for entertainment purposes is generating over ...
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Haidong said:
1M per month...
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junal said:
this is freaking crazy ! i knew that but still didnt want to believe....now its just making me more crazy and engaging with FB app more,,,,
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CtrlBreak said:
WTF!!! I call BS.
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Jean-Marie Moës said:
Quite inspirational for us 30-dc internet marketers wannabes :)
Google’s Swings and Misses (14)
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The Economist has an article looking at how Lively, Google’s attempt to establish a foothold in the virtual world market, has flopped. To be fair, it’s far too early to determine whether Lively is a failure given it was only launched last month but it did get me thinking about how some projects rolled out by Google have failed to resonate with the masses. Here are some of the leading candidates: 1. Froogle: the comparison-shopping ...
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Meromo said:
People still use hotmail?
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michael said:
Gmail is alot better than yahoo mail.
IntervalCalendar for Date-Range Selection (6)
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John Peloquin, a developer for W. Hardy Interactive, Inc., graciously contributed a new YUI Calendar implementation called IntervalCalendar that we’ve incorporated into the basic YUI Calendar example set. The IntervalCalendar class, defined in this example, allows users to select pairs of dates representing the start and end of a date interval. Applications which require interval selection, for example a hotel check-in/check-out date selector, frequently display separate calendar instances to select the beginning and ending dates ...
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The final version of Firebug 1.2 has been released. The release should be up on the Mozilla Add-ons site today, but it's also up on GetFirebug.com right now. John J Barton and Jan Odvarko put a ton of work into this release (you may have noticed the rapid-fire series of beta releases last week - just trying to smooth out the rough edges). There have been a number of improvements made (not to mention countless ...Shared by aemkei (3) ani625 (85) Christian (7) codefin (10) Compuwizard123 (34) Daisuke Murase (12) danilo (8) Dexter.Yy (8) dobata (366) DOCBook Howto (114) Dom Derrien (4) Edo (21) fatihturan (67) Glutnix (7) halans (24) Harold Neal (6) Ideas At Random (1) inamorix (56) jackysee (5) Jeff Daly (42) kiirpi (0) Klemo (20) Litrik (8) Maksim Berjoza (24) marchbox (21) markie (0) mattn (15) mca (13) met (25) Mrinal (1) nakajiman (10) Nathan Chase (2) Nick Smith (11) pablo (12) Peter N (4) Sandaruwan (16) Sebastian Werner (18) Standard Pixel (7) Tatsuhiko Miyagawa (53) Tim Disney (0) umbrae (1) vcamaral@gmail.com (22) VIjay (10)Contribute comment
