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by Mike Levin on November 15, 2009
The Google Chrome browser set off a performance war centered around JavaScript and will soon support native code and 3D graphics, meaning in-browser Halo-like performance. The Google Chrome OS is due out any day, which is likely to let you boot in seconds on a broad diversity of hardware. On this Chrome OS/Browser platform, if [...]
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by Mike Levin on November 6, 2009
http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=5220 If Google actually liked JavaScript so much, they would support it server-side by supporting one of the many endeavors going on, or creating their own. But they don’t. Almost none of their Google Data API’s are offered in JavaScript. Google’s love is for Python, and their official support is for Java and .NET because [...]
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by Mike Levin on August 28, 2009
I’m currently using OS X and Linux for my development work, and was curious about the origins. I found this long post on faqs.org and thought I’d sum up Unix’s history in a few paragraphs. Unix was invented at Bell Laboratories between 1969 and 1971 by Ken Thompson on an already obsolete DEC PDP-7, before [...]
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by Mike Levin on August 17, 2009
Sherlock Holmes was always characterized by Watson as being like a hound in pursuit of his quarry, determinedly following the scent. I get that feeling every time I’m programming and DOING THE RIGHT THINGS. Programming is most satisfying when you’re right at the edge of your comfort-level, and you’re starting to challenge yourself, but not [...]
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by Mike Levin on August 12, 2009
My “something big’s” seem to come in 5-year intervals, because the result of that big something appears to have about 5-years of life in it before I feel the world has changed sufficiently to warrent a large overhaul of my methodologies and workflow. Now is such a time. In 2000, it was a generalized system [...]
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by Mike Levin on July 9, 2009
There’s an interesting article in The Register today by Ted Dziuba that puts down TechCrunch’s coverage of Google Chrome OS and rebutes the predicted impact by techwriter pundits—basically, doubting that the installed Microsoft base will ever switch off of Excel because of years invested in macros. The point that he’s missing is that Google’s actual [...]
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by Mike Levin on June 22, 2009
I recently had to collaborate with 2 individuals, and we were all on chat programs, but we couldn’t spike it to a chat-room (HUGE short-coming of today’s chat software). So thinking back to all the research I’ve been doing on server-push, I remembered the EtherPad app, from which they’re going to be extracting the AppJet [...]
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by Mike Levin on June 15, 2009
Sam and Joe were on a 2AM McDonalds run on a rainy night in Camden Maine and were pulled over by a cop for going 5MPH UNDER the speed limit. Now, they were fine except for the Garmin GPS that was set to the Halloween voice and said “ignore the noise in the trunk” which [...]
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by Mike Levin on June 8, 2009
I don’t know if I’d go as far as saying that, but here’s an article that does. In short, it equates the walls-of-data and charts to passive “oh, isn’t that nice” TV watching, as opposed to “here’s what you should do to improve things” the way other software, such as, ohhhhh, I don’t know… HitTail [...]
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by Mike Levin on June 3, 2009
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I am Mike Levin+, an Earned Media Optimizer, husband, daddy & Linux / Python hacker living on top of the hill on top of the island on top of the world. I put my stream-of-consciousness here in order to create greater commitment and consistency in pursuit of my goals.
