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tipsy

Tipsy is a jQuery for creating a Facebook-like tooltips effect based on an anchor tag's title attribute. ^{link »}

Sci-Fi Hi-Fi: Weblog: Ambient Recommendation

I think the reasons these more casual recommendation and discovery methods work better for me are three-fold: They allow me to employ my fuzzy, intuitive perception of peoples’ broader personality and taste to determine how likely I am to like the things they like (I thought the person on Brightkite looked cool, so I trusted her taste; I think my Last.fm friends are cool, so I trust that new stuff I see them playing will be interesting to me). They aren’t explicitly recommendation systems, but rather allow people to implicitly recommend things just by going about their nor mal business (someone likes a web page so they post it to Delicious to remember it later, the hipsters at Frankies like Gene Clark so they play his music while they work and I hear it incidentally). I think people are more likely to participate in this kind of system than one where they are expected to formally recommend things. They don’t require me to narrow what I’m looking for by overly specific criteria (“I want something that sounds like The Beatles,” for example, or “Give me the nearest low-priced Mexican restaurant”), but rather allow me to say simply “Show me something I might like.” ^{link »}

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Introduction to lock-free/wait-free and the ABA problem < Came for the beer, stayed for the Freedom

Sci-Fi Hi-Fi: Weblog: The Long Tail of Humor

The idea came from the way Briana , my girlfriend, found almost everyone she follows on Twitter: by looking at the favorites of a few people she knew she liked, following some new people she found there, looking at their favorites, and so on. ^{link »}

I like Tweeteorites better than the Favrd leaderboard for the same reason I like Foursquare but not Yelp; or the reason I like the Last.fm page that shows what my friends are listening to, but not actual music recommendations; or the reason I like my Delicious network or Tumblr dashboard but not Digg. The latter services are usually only reliable ways to find the broadest possible stuff, because things have to appeal to the masses to bubble up to the top. ^{link »}

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Brad Fitzpatrick (of LiveJournal, now at Google) Talks About Programming

In practice, nothing works. There are all these beautiful abstractions that are backed by shit. The implementations of libraries that look like they could be beautiful are shit. ^{link »}

To check in you need three conditions met: You need someone to review it and say it looks good. You need to be certified in the language – basically, you’ve proven you know the style of this language – called “readability.” And then you also need the approval from somebody in the owner’s file in that directory. So in the case that you already are an owner of that directory and you have readability in that language, you just need someone to say, “Yeah, it looks good.” ^{link »}

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All in all it was a pretty exciting Christmas, what with the relatives and the presents and the fun and the cops and Aunt Hazel's dog blowing up in our living room

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