madrox

In every technology stack, there's always some layer below which is unnecessary to understand and above which is essential to writing good code. Where you think that cutoff belongs is usually the laye…

This guy is top shelf.

This is pure speculation, but I wonder if google has photoelectric sensors that use light levels to send alerts to their administrators. I bet it's a clever way of handling physical security. If anybo…

You make interesting points here. What are we supposed to generalize from this dev's experience? That Android is doomed? It does say something about what some mobile devs have come to expect from a de…

I don't imagine this would be applied to news articles or blog posts. I could see this applied to, say, instructions or travel directions...

I believe this tweet by the author sums up his true feelings on the matter: https://twitter.com/#!/vibhu/status/164282933153239040 "Seeing Twitter Bootstrap is starting to annoy me, it is not that d…

If the headline was "world's youngest MSP" instead of "programming prodigy" would there be less hate in this thread?

I think, now that's she's passed, the real question to ask is "what would she have programmed, but now will never have the chance to?"

Great, FB-styled bootstrap. Naturally, the typography is terrible. =[

This. Very much this. I remember Rob Pardo reflecting on criticism World of Warcraft received before initial launch. A lot of the Everquest players thought getting to max level was too easy and didn't…

Nothing of what CNN says here sounds like spin control. It sounds like Arrington got caught saying something he didn't expect to be controversial and feels suckered somehow. I suspect CNN would be bac…

There are no bad programmers. Just bad programs.

The comic to go along with this argument: http://xkcd.com/927/

Agreed. Not taking joy in programming says more about you than the state of programming.