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My response to this question on reddit.com "There's one common denominator among us programmers; we've all been incredibly frustrated when learning to program but have found a way to overcome this frustration and solve the problem at hand. There...

Check out my latest creation: Wusic.NET. It's web-music w/ a social twist via faceboook... built using .NET's silverlight platform....

Preview it at services.radovici.com (will take over eldar.radovici.com when complete). The frontend is written in silverlight; the backend uses phpbb. Still under construction; need to fix dynamic-html compatibility w/ all browsers and rewrite the...

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Systemantics&diff=196989353&oldid=162948012 October wrote: It is written in the style of a serious academic work, and is often mistakenly cited as such. The content is similar in style to Murphy's Law...

An extension method is C# syntactic sugar that adds intellisense functionality to an encapsulated class. Let's look at an example to see how this works:public static class AlcoholicString{    public static bool IsDrunk(this string str)   ...

Having fun w/ XPath? Then try this tool: SketchPath....

Decisions, decisions... "The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity." Amelia Earhart "Make decisions from the heart and use your head to make it work out." - Sir Girad "Sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes...

McBallers versus Shake n' Bake: Two birds with one stone... NYCSSC dodgeball drop-in championship game 2/2: Team Shake n' Bake goes down quickly after Brandon and Yomer are taken down with one throw. Kindly produced by © Dwiddy productions. http://youtube.com/watch?v=HWlSW_GghU...

Why do I feel like I'm being screwed? Maybe because Apple's charging me $20 to upgrade my iTouch to stocked settings. See the link and chatter at Gizmodo's review: http://gizmodo.com/346760/lightning-review-ipod-touch-january-software-upgrad...

I  have a large concentration of my net worth in Apple stock [see Buffet on diversification] and in recent weeks, those shares went down 20%. This didn't put a smile on my face but maybe I should've. I'm a net-buyer of Apple stock so today's low...

Apple is reporting its first quarter earnings after the market-close tomorrow, January 22nd. Apple had a terrific holiday season and has stood out from the retail pack. Check out these eye-popping comparisons. The key ingredient to Apple's success this...

Caveat: These principles are - for the most part - satirical. Do not read too much into it... Peter Principle: "In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Similar observations on incompetence can be found in the Dilbert...

Paul Graham in this article discusses how technology startups were once started and how they will materialize in the not-so-distant future. Basically, technology startups are getting easier to start. "Instead of going to venture capitalists with...

A co-worker brought this article about compensation to my attention written by Charles Graham. If you don't know who Charles Graham is, think of a cross-over between Paul Graham and Maddox [from http://maddox.xmission.com]. :) Here are a few highlights......

In short, macros are often times misappropriated when there are better and more consistent means to accomplish this programming task. Also... having one less "preprocessor" step makes compilation faster and simpler. There's a lot of talk about this on...

In short, see http://wikitravel.org/en/Istanbul#Taksim_bar.2Fclub_scams "Tourists must be aware of aware of high-drink price scams encountered in so-called night-clubs mostly located in Aksaray, Beyazit and Taksim area. These clubs, usually charge overpriced...

Have you read Paul Graham's essays? There are two articles that I particularly connect with that I'd like to share with you... The first article describes how good developers work and the environments that best stimulate good development. This article...

Pretty cool......

This is one of my favorite investment concepts: "The strategy we've adopted precludes our following standard diversification dogma. Many pundits would therefore say the strategy must be riskier than that employed by more conventional investors. We disagree....

See Omar Shahine's post. Here is Omar's first method that I use: 1) Rename Notepad2.exe to Notepad.exe2) go to %windir%\system323) Rename Notepad.exe to NotepadX.exe4) go to %windir%\system32\Restore5) Turn off hide invisible files in Tools->Folder...

Buffett Talk to MBA Students at Florida University 1998. "But to make money they didn’t have and didn’t need, they risked what they did have and what they did need. That is just plain foolish; it doesn’t matter what your IQ is. If you risk something...

http://www.thestreet.com/_yahoo/newsanalysis/techtelecom/10392800.html"In exchange for exclusive iPhone selling rights, phone companies agreed to share a percentage of the monthly subscription revenue with Apple. It is estimated that Apple enjoys a 10%...

Interesting list of disclaimers at http://www-atdp.berkeley.edu/1toolbar/disclaimers.html. My favorites are: Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead is purely coincidental. Do not use while operating a motor vehicle or heavy equipment....

The following is taken - w/ a few minimizations - from Simon Guest's explanation of object oriented and service oriented architecutres: http://blogs.msdn.com/smguest/archive/2004/01/29/64871.aspx"Imagine two entities, A and B.  A wants...

Did anyone else catch Romney's semi-bushism at the recent republican debate? Apparently he did what he could as govenor of Massachusetts "to improve our crime". Then he continued [or corrected himself] w/ "-- our crime enforcement." Two very different...