Link of the Day — Just click on it and you’ll be satisfied
We are all going to IPv6 sooner or later. Today, they are starting to roll out the changes. If you didn't notice anything wrong with the internet, then all is well. You should test out if you're ISP is ready. Or is this only for ISPs?http://test-ipv6.com/
Yesterday, I asked a question about Twitter/iOS integration. Today's link gives an idea of what it was all about. Again, will this mean more followers, especially, those who use facebook? Or will Apple in the next release include facebook? Currently, glad that my only true social network persona resides on Twitter thus Apple's plans validate my choice. I wonder why facebook didn't join in or if they were even asked.http://www.fastcompany.com/1757764/one-touch-tweets-twitters-deep-integration-with-ios-revealed
Go and wish for a third season of Haruhi Suzumiya.
The Lodsys story makes me sick. It (software patents) are stifling innovation. I think software shouldn’t be patentable. It’s like thought or music. Someone somewhere has thought about it already. You can’t patent an idea.
It's not just in game development, but is prevalent in the entire software community. "Crunch time" or, as the article calls it, "Death March" is plain foolishness. I don't doubt that there are times to put in overtime, but to make it S.O.P. is wrong. I think we need some explaining to do.http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/05/the-death-march-the-problem-of-crunch-time-in-game-development.ars
Software patents. They seem to be handed out like candy. They can be used like a nuclear bomb.As a software developer, I approach the idea of software patents cautiously. I wonder if they are a good or bad idea. My gut feeling is that they are a bad idea — stifling innovation, mainly. In-app upgrades?! Sometimes they seemingly obvious in their implementation that you believe a monkey could've come up with that. One-click shopping?! Software patents are around because the patent office is lazy. They can't be bothered to find a prior implementation of most pending patent submittals.Software is fuzzy. Patents on it seem to be too general to be of value. The patent system needs to be fixed.http://patentabsurdity.com/
Danny Choo went to Good Smile Company’s 10th anniversary party and photographed at least 100 nendoroids. I have a third of these…
Loved reading today’s link about issues with text editors for OS X.
I did recently take a look at TextMate and found it striking that it was released some time ago. I am surprised to see that it hasn’t been updated for a while.
As a software engineer, I live by the text editor. I did like BBEdit, but I can’t stand the small font it uses. I am an emacs kind of guy (the ctrl-k, ctrl-v comes from there! Try it in OS X as an alternative to open-apple-X, open-apple-C) so I am looking for something along the same lines. But no vi. No to vi.
It turns out I really like TextPad on Windows. Like it better than any text editor I’ve used. It’s because I know how to use it. Wish I can find one for OS X. I think I’ve done this post before.
http://chipotle.tumblr.com/post/5207966724/text-editor-intervention
If I could write a post as eloquently or live a life as full. RIP Mr. Miller.
I wonder what my end of days would be like. Will I be scared? Will I know it is coming? Will it be near? Will it be far in the future? Will I be alone? Death is coming. Will I be prepared?
