June 2012

  22. @can:

    Facebook now builds iOS apps using Objective-C. Twitter now returns HTML when you visit a page. I wonder what new innovations wait ahead!

  29. Commentary - All this

    Dr. Drang:

    The stan­dard Amer­i­can way to heat water is to take a pot of water out to our pickup truck, open the hood (what the Brits call a “span­ner”), and lock the pot onto the engine block using a set of latches read­ily avail­able at any Wal-​Mart. Then we drive around at high speed, recit­ing the Gospels and fir­ing our shot­guns out the win­dow. After read­ing the Gospel of John for three min­utes and six­teen sec­onds, the water is ready. I hope this puts to rest any confusion.

  45. @briandrum:

    LinkedIn needs a companion site to list people you should never under any circumstances hire. LockedOut, perhaps?

  49. @briandrum:

    RT @markab: I can't state this enough: Programmers don't burn out on hard work, they burn out on change-with-the-wind directives and not ...

  64. @briandrum:

    Some people might say it's the howl of a lone wolf, but I think the saddest sound is the gloat of an Android user.