Dec 24, 2007
Sacha Chua

Sacha Chua

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Dec 23, 2007
Professional and business social networking sites will find it more difficult to compete if Facebook is able to successfully allow people to distinguish between their various social graphs.

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Dec 21, 2007
In Ruby if I decide that all string comparisons must become case-insensitive, I can do that. In python, there is no way I can do that. This dynamism makes Ruby much more suitable for “tinkering”, but Python equally more suitable for use in large production applications.

It’s funny, because both languages are so much more dynamic than most others, that in the end the key difference between them should hinge on this issue.

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Dec 21, 2007
The twentieth century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.

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Dec 21, 2007
Shorter code is better if it expresses underlying relationships better.

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Dec 20, 2007
Lomography emphasizes casual, snapshot photography. Characteristics such as over-saturated colors, off-kilter exposure, blurring, “happy accidents,” and alternative film processing are often considered part of lomographic technique.

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Dec 19, 2007
The Nobel Peace Prize is the only one that is awarded not for solving a problem but for merely trying to. Sometimes, the hope expressed by the Nobel committee is realized—as it was by Nelson Mandela and Frederik Willem de Klerk, for example, in 1993. Just as often, the prize ends up honoring an illusion—Yasir Arafat, Shimon Peres, and Yitzhak Rabin, in 1994—or a cause that’s as hopeless as it is noble: the Dalai Lama, in 1989; Aung San Suu Kyi, in 1991.

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Dec 19, 2007
New Yorkers are living longer than ever before, and longer than most people in the country. A New Yorker born in 2004 can now expect to live 78.6 years, nine months longer than the average American will. What’s more, their life expectancy is increasing at a rate faster than that of most of the rest of the country.

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Dec 19, 2007
My feed reader shows me what’s been updated. It can’t show me what’s new [to me].

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Dec 19, 2007
..men 18-34 are more likely than women to need extra thanks from the boss in order to be productive.

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