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Using SCORE!'s new Smart Track system, tutors assess students, see how they're progressing and adapt the curriculum according to each child's needs. Parents can also log on and review real-time progress reports. The new programs, which start at $29/month, are:
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Plinky provides inspiration for content creators of all sizes. Our launch date is so close we can almost taste it. (It tastes like excitement and gumdrops.) Enter your email below and we'll let you know when we're ready.
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YAF4AJN is a javascript file used by a browser to embed asynchronously received values into a page. Unlike jsp YAF4AJN doesn't use serverside computations. It constitutes RIAs with completely seperated static content and dynamicly computed values.
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Sears Holdings Corp. plans to open a warehouse-style concept store in Joliet called MyGofer that will allow shoppers to order online and pick up their purchases in the store or at a drive-through portal.
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A user-contributed collection of ready-to-use UI components and design patterns built using Balsamiq Mockups.
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Test Pilot is sort of a distributed usability lab. It uses simple crowdsourcing mechanisms to gather data from volunteers all over the world as they interact with web apps and desktop software. The collected data remains transparent and openly available, so the data sets can be used by anyone.
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TweepSearch was created to allow people on Twitter to search their followers bio and location information. Twitter doesn't currently have a bio search and as your Twitter network grows, it's nice to be able to look through your tweeps.
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Above: Robert Scoble is the second zombie on the left.
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“Why build yet another video player?” you ask. Pyro only integrates the core logic of playing video using flash. Yea, sure, you can build your own thing using NetStream/NetConnection, hey , that’s basically what Pyro does and that’s what professionnals do. They do it over and over again. So why waste time with all the same problems over and over again like size handling, duration, bandwidth detection, etc? It’s from this question that Pyro was born.
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BEIJING (AP) — Chinese translations of President Obama's inauguration speech posted Wednesday on popular online portals were missing his references to communism and dissent.
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PHP is one of the most widely used open-source server-side scripting languages that exist today. With over 20 million indexed domains using PHP, including major websites like Facebook, Digg and WordPress, there are good reasons why many Web developers prefer it to other server-side scripting languages, such as Python and Ruby.
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Tweepler Is an easy, more enjoyable way of processing your New Twitter Followers. View a list of New Followers and classify them in one of two "Buckets" Follow (meaning you wish to follow them back) and Ignore (meaning you don't wish to follow them and want to archive them out of the way, reducing clutter).
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A few days ago, Ryan Anderson (@ryananderson) posed a question about how to create a stream of only those items on Twitter with a URL. Within minutes — literally minutes (thanks to @kaziel) — Ryan got the answer and shared that too! Yahoo Pipes.
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A much cleaner and prettier view of the Chicago tech newsletter.
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To celebrate the release of our new O’Reilly book, “Designing Web Interfaces: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interactions”, I wanted to share the full set of principles and patterns I use for RIA design. These concepts are central to enterprise application and web productivity application design.
Archive | January, 2009
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January 22, 2009
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links for 2009-01-21
January 21, 2009
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Chef is a systems integration framework, built to bring the benefits of configuration management to your entire infrastructure. With Chef, you can:
* Manage your servers by writing code, not by running commands. (via Cookbooks)
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The big advantage chef has over puppet is that the codebase is 1/10th the size and it is pure ruby, including the recipe DSL. Puppet’s biggest flaw is its configuration language that is not quite ruby and not quite turing complete. So you end up wrestling with it to get it to do anything.
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This particular Twitter posting came back to bite the agency person from Ketchum (New York office) who made some unflattering remarks about Memphis this morning before he presented on digital media to the worldwide communications group at FedEx (150+) people. Not only did an employee find it, they were totally offended by it and responded to the agency person.
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Flash Player 10 and Adobe AIR 1.5 introduce a new communications protocol called the Real-Time Media Flow Protocol (RTMFP). The most important features of RTMFP include low latency, end-to-end peering capability, security and scalability. These properties make RTMFP especially well suited for developing real-time collaboration applications by not only providing superior user experience but also reducing cost for operators.
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Get several million people on Blogger, a large contingent of content producers. Get a couple of million more on Google Reader, and then sit back for about five years while they share data like no one’s business.
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Today Adobe launched a new Peer connection service called Adobe Stratus into beta. The service allows 2+ Flash Player 10 clients (or AIR 1.5 clients or mixed) connect directly to one another using a new protocol in Flash Player 10 and AIR 1.5 called RTMFP (UDP based). With a Stratus developer key you can now write peer-peer audio/video apps leveraging this new Adobe service.
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Outpost allows people to manage their projects with Basecamp®, an online project management app from 37signals. Basecamp is widely acclaimed for its simplicity and effectiveness in organizing teams.
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A collaborative tool that enables you to create online surveys with simplicity and elegance. You can cooperate with your teammates through the journey of building, deploying and analyzing your surveys. You can even share your surveys results, templates and themes online.
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Barack Obama's inauguration speech … crafted by 27-year-old in Starbucks | World news | The GuardianFavreau then went away and spent weeks on research. His team interviewed historians and speech writers, studied periods of crisis, and listened to past inaugural orations. When ready, he took up residence in Starbucks in Washington and wrote the first draft. The end result will be uttered on the steps of the Capitol.
Obama's mind reader has crashed his way through yet another deadline.
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Let’s make this part very clear: you are not 37signals (well, I mean, unless you are, in which case, hi guys). For everyone else: your application isn’t the same, your market isn’t the same, and your branding isn’t the same. That means every time they extract their experience with their applications in their market and their branding, and try to transfer it to you, it may be completely and utterly terrible advice given your situation.
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The stats released, as of noon ET:
1. There were 200,000+ status updates through the Facebook integration on CNN.com
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Great speech – and a great day. Pretty awesome to load up Whitehouse.gov and see jQuery on there as well.
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January 20, 2009
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Just as an aside, to give you an interesting benchmark—on roughly the same system, roughly optimized the same way, a benchmark from 1979 at Xerox PARC runs only 50 times faster today. Moore’s law has given us somewhere between 40,000 and 60,000 times improvement in that time. So there’s approximately a factor of 1,000 in efficiency that has been lost by bad CPU architectures.
The myth that it doesn’t matter what your processor architecture is—that Moore’s law will take care of you—is totally false.
SF It also has something to do with why some languages succeed at certain times.
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Imagine if you had access to all your stuff, everywhere…
That’s what ZumoDrive does. Just install ZumoDrive on each device, and it’s like all your stuff is on all of them. Plus it’s all backed up. Laptop stolen? Don't worry, just install ZumoDrive, and your files will be restored in minutes. -
More important for the paid acquisition model is to do the LTV calculation not for paying users, but for all registered users (paying or free). Doing this then lets you figure out if you can profitably arbitrage traffic via ad buying. This is done using the same method detailed in the above paragraph, but using total user numbers rather than just paying users. Then you compare this LTV number with the effective LTV that you get from buying users and then factoring in their viral effects (as shown in the Funnel tab).
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eStara Click to Call and Click to Chat engage visitors proactively and selectively offer them the opportunity to contact a live agent from any page on any Web site, whether powered by the ATG platform or not.
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Like previously reviewed KidZui, KidRocket is a hybrid activity center and browser. KidRocket can be locked to the desktop to prevent your kids from unwittingly wrecking havoc on your computer. It includes a web browser that operates off a pre-selected white list of kid-friendly sites.
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Hulu/Fox: Fox.com, Fox News, and Hulu will offer the same stream via Hulu's Obama video page starting at noon EST, then "on-demand" video from there on out. Hulu generally has top-notch video quality, even in full-screen mode—unless it gets jammed, as it did during some presidential debates. The site likely learned a few lessons in scaling, though, so it's definitely worth checking out.
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If you click on any of the names in this list you can see what information I’ve got so far and can help me out by adding to it if you want. As I mentioned on the front page, at this point the best way to make a case for someone you really think I should interview is to add information about them so I have the best chance to realize why they’d be interesting to talk to. If you want to add a more general comment feel free, as always, to send me email or to leave a comment on the comments page.
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The Sexy Curls jQuery Plugin!
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Feedstomper is Metamucil for your RSS feeds. Turn an overactive feed that clutters up your RSS reader into a regular, once-a-day summary feed.
links for 2009-01-17
January 17, 2009
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The following inspiration is focused on Logins/Signups in Web Design. I was doing research on login forms and thought the community could put this to good use and seek tips / design from these examples. My absolute favorites are Big Cartel, Vimeo, Gist & Status for it’s sleek design and beautiful interface.
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There have been plenty of posts on the number of awesome jQuery plugins and where to find them. However, sometimes it is best not to rely on third party plugins and resources. Do it yourself the old fashioned way! Today, we will have a look at 20+ creative uses of jQuery in modern day websites and applications; sure to inspire you for your next project.
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This will cause your and David's sessions to be joined together in the holy Linux shell. You can type or he can type, but you'll both see what the other is doing. This saves you from walking to the other floor and lets you both have equal control. The benefit is that David can watch your troubleshooting skills and see exactly how you solve problems.
links for 2009-01-16
January 16, 2009
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The jQuery SWFObject plugin is an addon for jQuery that offers SWFObject's unique functionality of embedding Flash content using the internal jQuery API.
What is SWFObject?SWFObject is an easy-to-use and standards-friendly method to embed Flash content reliably within all major browsers. You can learn more about SWFObject here.
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WikiJava is an open on line community of Java developers.
The community is a meeting place for all Java developers providing code examples and tutorials to speed up the process of mastering the many techniques and technologies that are indispensable to all modern developers.
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Compact lightweight JavaScript library which extends DOM element by adding animation methods. Facilitates CSS properties and other parameters alteration along timeline. Supports parallel effects sets and effects chains. Has extended set of callbacks to adjust behavior.
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A young employee came up with an idea that added a million dollars to our bottom line. How do we reward him for the contribution? Do we even have to?
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January 15, 2009
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iPhone Savior reports, "For an app to reach number one and remain there, some 10,000 plus downloads per day are required. That's roughly $21,000 a day for this $2.99 app after Apple takes its 30-percent stake… 'I'm still in shock,' Nicholas said, 'I've given my two week notice at Sun Microsystems. I'm gonna do this full time now.'"
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Game Based Learning builds on this success whilst providing more depth by creating stimulating, challenging and provocative dialogue spaces at the intersection between the education, gaming, social media and consumer electronics sectors. Here, policy makers, thought leaders, innovators and key practitioners meet to exchange ideas, knowledge and experiences as part of a unique ongoing conversation.
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The aptly named Pingdom iPhone app lets you easily connect to Pingdom and view the current status of the monitoring you have set up.
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So, the big news here is that we are pushing and not pulling. Ordinarily, you would request a webpage using your browser and a some data would be returned. The only way that you would then subsequently see any changes to that data, would be if you requested it again, or if something on that page requested it for you, maybe via polling.
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WireframeSketcher is an Eclipse plugin for creating wireframes, screen mockups and UI prototypes.
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It is used at LinkedIn for certain high-scalability storage problems where simple functional partitioning is not sufficient. It is still a new system which has rough edges, bad error messages, and probably plenty of uncaught bugs. Let us know if you find one of these, so we can fix it.
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Phoney baloney sites like hosting-review.com are skidmarks on the underpants of the hosting industry and we want to expose them for what they are – totally biased money-making fronts. They may all swear up and down that they provide a helpful and fair service, but when you’re getting kickbacks from every single company that you recommend it’s hard to take that claim sitting down.
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ActiveRecord.js makes it easy to begin working with databases in JavaScript on the client or server, with Google Gears & Chrome, Aptana Jaxer, Adobe AIR or any platform supporting the W3C HTML5 SQL Specification (currently Webkit and iPhone).
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“To put it simply, we will be moving our users into the driver’s seat to let them decide how to interact with our brands, to consume the content they want and even to be a participant in content creation,” Scothon continued. “Through it all, we also recognize that the digital space requires us to iterate and optimize forever – we will never be done nor satisfied. So, when the Mattel Digital Network launches, we will almost immediately start changing the experience and then learn every day how to keep improving it.”
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At the API launch, ffwd announced that Boxee, the “social media center” that runs on Mac OS X or Linux and interfaces with HDTVs, plans to use the ffwd API in forthcoming product releases (more at our boxee mashup profile).
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iSteam has been downloaded over 1 million times so far in two-weeks, compared to 250,000 copies of iFart divulged by its creator. iSteam is among top 10 paid entertainment applications in over 40 countries and #1 free application in over 22 App Store markets. With an average 14 percent daily growth, the iSteam developer estimates monthly revenues at $100,000. Not too shabby considering the paid version has been on the market just under two weeks and certainly not too shabby a salary for a bunch of 22-year olds.
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Membership includes monthly newsletters, admittance to monthly meetings, introductions to both key members of the business community and other entrepreneurs. It also affords you the opportunity to work as a volunteer with other entrepreneurs and some key business leaders in Chicago. Most importantly, your membership entitles you to learn the how’s and why’s of starting and managing a business from entrepreneurs who have already started their own businesses.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission this week issued a formal cease and desist order against peer-to-peer lender Prosper Marketplace Inc.
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January 14, 2009
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The Securities and Exchange Commission this week issued a formal cease and desist order against peer-to-peer lender Prosper Marketplace Inc.
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Introducing uBoost – the online, research-based rewards system designed to enhance the way you inspire and motivate your students!
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Easy management for multiple Twitter accounts and brand monitor
links for 2009-01-13
January 13, 2009
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You already know that NYTimes.com is an unparalleled source of news and information. But now it's a premier source of data, too — why just read the news when you can hack it?
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Marten, I wouldn’t use default_scope for this. Anchoring off the current account makes it explicit that there’s a security scope in place.
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Simply add the Userfly code to your site, and you'll soon be a fly-on-the-wall as users walk through your pages. That one line of code allows Userfly to record a screencast of your users' behavior, providing some very interesting feedback on how they are interacting with your site, from simple mouse tracking to complex interactions with AJAX elements.
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Recently, a new mechanism for adding semantics to (X)HTML pages called RDF-EASE (short for RDF Extracted Attributes from Styled Elements) has been getting some attention. Although it’s very early yet, RDF-EASE, which can be mixed with CSS, has some intriguing characteristics that may give us a glimpse into the future of semantic Web technologies.
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MyCleenr is a unique way to sort your friends by their last tweets. It allows you to get rid off all the inactive and useless accounts that you are following!
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Dubbed TweetSuite, the plugin builds on TweetBacks utility of displaying all of the tweets that link back to a blog post by throwing a few extra goodies in the mix.
TweetSuite adds a server side fully-featured TweetBacks service, complete with a Digg-style “Tweet This” button at the top of each post, a “Retweet This” button for each TweetBack, widgets for your sidebar, and the ability to automatically update Twitter with your latest blog entries.
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MiniMtg is a simple conference call collaborative note-taking service, developed by Brent Sordyl.
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Chosen Security is offering code signing certificates for individual developers. Previously, the only way to sign your AIR applications was to start a corporation and provide proof of your corporation. Now all you need to do is to provide a government issued ID. There are more details on the process in this PDF document.
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MixedInk takes a fresh approach to collaborative writing. It's a fun, democratic and elegant way for people to weave their best ideas together. (Plus, it's free!)
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Facebook has over 600 employees and has raised over $400 million in capital (and is reportedly still looking for another big capital infusion). Digg has over 70 employees and has raised $40 million in capital. Twitter has somewhere around 25 employees and has raised $20 million in capital.
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Flickr Photo Download: Disney Rejection Letter, 1938
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# In general, start-ups are not the source of our economic vitality or job creation.
# The typical entrepreneur is very bad at picking industries and chooses the ones that are easiest to enter, not the ones that are best for start-ups. -
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help you have a more professional look for your Twitter presence. These backgrounds aren't for everyone. In fact, you may hate them.
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Elegant in its simplicity, Jing's minimal feature set keeps the focus on instant sharing. We think it's the perfect companion to the casual, fast-paced online conversations we all have every day.
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101: Strive to provide value in every tweet. Think before you tweet!
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TV.com has a leg up on Hulu when it comes to CBS content, because TV.com already has Hulu content and Hulu has no reciprocal deal for CBS shows.
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being technically dead on is utterly irrelevant.
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January 12, 2009
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Ever felt like slapping someone with a google search, while in an IM conversation, chatrooms, or on Twitter? simply write http://gog.is and put the keywords in the url, like this: http://gog.is/clerks. This will redirect them to the google search for clerks.
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Create a tweetup. Invite your tweeple!
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The catch, though, is that the game looks at your playing field and determines which piece you will probably want most and then …. denies it to you. Pressing R will restart the game. Score keeping is not implemented. If you see any text it is probably debug text.
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This second version will form the foundation of our commercial offering (the commercial version will still accommodate free usage). You will be hearing more about this over the next couple of months as we bring it out of private beta.
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Ever since we deployed scarling in production, its name has progressed from being a stale joke to an annoyance. It started out as a test of porting starling to scala, but as features have been added and it's been hardened by the real world, it has needed its own identity. I wanted to stay with the bird theme, because I think it's cute, so after spending several days mulling over possible new names, I've settled on "kestrel".
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January 10, 2009
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Here we'll list your replies:
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But Tim runs around telling people who have lots of relationships competing for their time how to think about work/not work, forgetting that in the real world, where people are not assholes, time management is not an equation or a semantic game because relationships really matter. And figuring out how to judge time in terms of competing values is the hardest thing of all.
