Back in my old Uni days I was studying economics, mainly because I was told that this was the best adjunct to my chosen career – Law (which never happened BTW). Economics should have been more interesting than it was, but it was one of those subjects that the life had been sucked out of. [...]
Entries from October 26th, 2006
O’Reilly Radar > Getting the Market to Tell the Truth
October 26th, 2006 · No Comments · Random
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Embracing braces: please don’t
October 25th, 2006 · No Comments · Programming
In Making Wrong Code Look Wrong Joel writes: Even more subtle: if (i != 0) foo(i); In this case the code is 100% correct; it conforms to most coding conventions and there’s nothing wrong with it, but the fact that the single-statement body of the ifstatement is not enclosed in braces may be bugging you, [...]
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VentureBlog: Chris Anderson Strikes Again: The Economy of Abundance
October 25th, 2006 · No Comments · Programming
What does it mean when the cost of supply (bandwidth, storage, processing speed) is effectively zero? Does this change how businesses work? It is easy to say yes, but I have an objection. The caveat is that software is not free. The problem is not even that software is expensive. The problem is that good [...]
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Streamlining CSS – Part II
October 9th, 2006 · No Comments · Programming
Eric Meyer‘s comments on Streamlining CSS sparked some further thoughts (always a good thing). Eric was (unsurprisingly) talking about changing the standard (and therefore browser behaviour), which I had (also unsurprisingly) considered to be way beyond the scope of what I could consider. My approach was therefore to focus on the build system, which was not [...]
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