• everystockphoto – searching free photos
  Easy access to license info, too.
  Via the Code Project.
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• Abstruse Goose » Computer Programming 101
  Via the Code Project.
  Tags: humor programming comic computerscience
• Synergy/DE ls class gets array conversion and deep mapping — Chip’s Tips for Developers
  Go deeper, my son.
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• Life is upstream
  And then someone builds a dam.
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  Nick Carr responds to the responses to the UCLA study
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• Molecular computer runs calculations inside living cell
  Hopefully they won't introduce any inheritance problems.
  (via the Code Project)
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• DeviceGuru – Stanford offers free CS, robotics courses
  Besides being free, you don't have to get up early for class after a night of heavy partying.
  (via the Code Project)
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• techPresident – BREAKING: Sarah Palin Yahoo! email account hacked
  Do we really want someone who uses yahoo mail for government business to be one 72-year-old heartbeat away from the presidency? She'd fit in better at Homeland Security.
  Thanks, Stu.
  Tags: security email sarahpalin anonymous
• Preston L. Bannister { random memes } >> design for standard screen sizes
  How wide screens are making us waste space, and how we can remedy that.
  Subscribed. Thanks for the recommendation, Kiltak.
  Tags: design gui windows

• Lucky to be a Programmer : Gustavo Duarte
  “Under the right conditions, writing software is so intensely pleasurable it should be illegal.”
  Don’t tell my wife, OK?
  (tags: programming inspiration computerscience elegance algorithms)

• Chad Perrin: SOB » confusing correlations
  Is there a “strong correlation” between a desire for universal health care and the belief that calculus is an important requirement for computer science?
  (tags: healthcare calculus computerscience libertarianism liberalism)
• Coding Horror: Death Threats, Intimidation, and Blogging
  1. Author starts blog
  2. Blog becomes wildly popular
  3. Popularity causes problem for author
  4. Author stops writing
  5. Everyone loses
  (tags: blogging death socialsoftware privacy popularity trolls)
• Blog comments are destroying the Internet | Geekend | TechRepublic.com
  “Simply throwing up your hands and giving up on comments is the easy way out, for sure, but it’s not intrinsically better.”
  (tags: blogging comments trolls moderation techrepublic)

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Assaf’s license plate spells XMLHTTP. But he doesn’t like computers.

Shelley wants to overhaul computer science programs in order to humanize the tech culture. Focus on problem domains rather than the tools for solving them. Not having learned IT the traditional way myself, I’ve always valued my different perspective in the industry. And back when I was hiring people, I often observed that new CS graduates had no clue about solving real business application problems. There’s something to be said for the general purpose programmer, whose art extends across specific disciplines. But as the tools become more accessible and automated, and computing becomes more ubiquitous, the title of “developer” may one day become as obsolete as “scribe”.

According to this test for programmer personality (thanks, TDavid), I’m an ENTP (Extroverted iNtuitive Thinking Perceiving). “Very freedom-oriented, they need a career which allows them to act independent and express their creativity and insight.” Sounds about right, FWIW.

Vaspers the Grate predicts that paid posting will destroy blogging if it isn’t stopped — and he intimates that he has “a plan”. Doc seems to miss the point: Vaspers is clearly discussing paid content, not advertising. IMHO, It seems to me that as long as paid content is plainly disclosed (in a way that can’t be missed), it poses no threat to authenticity. But I’m willing to hear arguments. Echoing Vaspers, “What say you?”