Jun 27, 2007
Airline chaos is the travel story of this year.

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Jun 27, 2007
Beverly Hills and the neighboring city of West Hollywood are together entirely surrounded by the city of Los Angeles. The area’s so-called “Golden Triangle” of wealthy neighborhoods is formed by Beverly Hills and the Los Angeles neighborhoods of Bel-Air and Holmby Hills.

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Jun 27, 2007
Good developers take ownership so you don’t have to.

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Jun 26, 2007
Once you are past your base set of code, the percentage dedicated to server side code starts to increase. This is primarily due to added complexity of features and other enhancements (spam protection, security, error handling, etc.) that do not necessarily have an interface element attached to them.

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Jun 26, 2007
Attention to detail. The humorous examples in ‘Magic Ink’ make a subtle meta-recursive point: thinking about how to make the reader’s life easier goes beyond just graphic design.

Attention to detail. The humorous examples in ‘Magic Ink’ make a subtle meta-recursive point: thinking about how to make the reader’s life easier goes beyond just graphic design.

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Jun 26, 2007
To imagine that Bret Victor spends a lot of his time collecting jokes for his examples (like you and me) does him a gross injustice.
— me

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Jun 26, 2007
The point of this Churchill quote: failures are point events, but success is a process.
— me

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Jun 26, 2007
Existential angst just happens when we don’t like what we are doing. Asking why we are here is a hard problem, but if the problem’s really just liking what you do, that is much easier. Just realizing that the problem is easier gave me a lift.
— me

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Jun 26, 2007
In the beginning don’t worry about how you will organize what you write. Write ideas down because writing them down is strictly better than not writing them down.

The only concern is to set things up to make writing easy, and so improve the odds you will sustain the habit.

— me

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Jun 26, 2007

Srikanth: It must be an old paper, the symbol for ‘computer display’ is a CRT monitor.

me: Not necessarily. The old symbols are more recognizeable than their modern counterparts.

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