March 2009
9 posts
Trying out JQuery
I’ve looked at JQuery before, but hadn’t really played around with it until recently.
I’m a prototypejs kind of guy, but jquery is so similar that it’s easy to switch.
There are a lot of small differences, but overall I would say that JQuery feels a lot like Prototype lite. That’s not necessarily a bad thing: JQuery is a lot faster to download than prototype,...
“Even the iPod shuffle clip gets the rock star treatment. Now forged in stainless...”
– Apple - iPod shuffle - VoiceOver. Multiple playlists. 4GB.
Apple isn’t afraid to be breathless in their marketing.
Mechanical Turk: Profitable or Not? ~~ (A Computer... →
Mechanical Turk only has $600k a month worth of jobs - I don’t understand why it’s not 10 times more.
McDonald's Business Strategy Amid the Recession -... →
It’s interesting how some companies prosper during a recession - people cutting back means that companies that help save people money do well.
McDonald’s here in China has stopped offering their neverending stream of new items in favor of slashing already low prices across the board: a standard combo meal is down from around 3 bucks to around 2 bucks.
Warren Buffett Explains How The Bailout Is... →
Not good.
Japanese Brazilian - Wikipedia, the free... →
Omoshiroi
“Google App Engine - Read the maximum request quota - 500 request per second.”
– Broken Promisms: The Google App Engine Hoax
Google never seems serious about App Engine in the way that Amazon is about AWS
Amazon.com: Digital Text Platform: Sign In →
This is very cool.
The kindle is really forward thinking by Amazon - they are really middlemen for a lot of sales, and middlemen tend to be eliminated over the long run.
Why can’t an author sell directly to readers? Why can’t a musician sell directly to fans? With the internet there is no reason why not.