This appears to be superior to git reset --hard ORIG_HEAD because it avoids the occasional “Interactive rebase already started”. I don’t know all the reasons for this yet.

Shaun of the Dead

Undead

Return of the Living Dead

Bubba Ho-Tep

Anyway, today on penny-arcade, I saw that children’s edutainment maker Pop Cap is totally making fun of it. Click for the full pic:

Ha!

edit: nerd dyslexia

I love that everyone says this has to be pork-free—hoping that a 800-billion or 500-billion or trillion-dollar increase in government spending is going to be free of pork is like expecting that a ham sandwich is going to be free of pork. It’s not viable as a hope, expectation, or request; it’s a fantasy.

—Russ Roberts on Planet Money

1. Be a valuable employee. Check.


2. Talk to my boss about telecommuting. He’s cool with it.


3. Buy the land and start working. Work is started.

Right now, the “house” is just a patch of dirt, a set of plans, and a giant pipe in the ground I am assured is a well. Soon there will be many holes of varying descriptions, some of which I will create myself using a shovel.

I have been slowly creating a system by which I will be able to work from home. The most important consideration with working from home is maintaining consistent productivity and quality while away from the office. This is no mean feat; there are plenty of opinions on the matter.

We are moving to a tiny studio (I will call “The Studio”) closer to the construction, whence I can ride the bus to work. Obviously, commuting is not the goal; the first real step is to work from The Studio on Fridays, and add days as it becomes feasible.

I will have a list of techniques and tools I will use on a day-to-day basis to maintain productivity in my next post, entitled Working from Home Phase 1: A Few Good Tools.

1974 – Things changed significantly and are important to what we do now on the web.
The end of the 60’s – that is the philosophies made it into the mainstream.
Not trusting authority – Watergate
AT&T dismantled, Cerf+Kahn said internetwork, PONG
First comercially viable hard drive.

Managing tremendous amounts of data.
Metadata transforms pure data into something useful
Data visualization makes it even easier to use.

Classic real data visualization: Cholera and John Snow
Minard’s map of napoleon’s trip to russia
Harry Beck – original london tube map
Chris Jordan: Photo renderings of data visualizations

Find a story in the data
Remove everthing that doesn’t tell the story

The fundamental lack of control is hard to adjust to

Data as navigation

Giving tools for discovery
Visual tools becoming interactive tools
Editing bevomes filtering for self-control of users data

What really matters is not the cleanliness of the code, but the users experience
How long does it take a user to complete a task? That is a better representation of speed.
When your site makes them feel empowered, the more they will use it and the more they will be likely to tell their friends.
Flickr run on joy.

Install the Operator extension for Firefox. Picks out all the hCards on the page and allows for adding to various address books.

BarCamps: user-generated conferences.

Start Conference: great and inspiring for wanting to do a startup
stealth mode (graba domain name and plant a nice startup page)
hListing microformat for job postings
Sign up users using hCards (single field signups?)
beware 3rd party authorization! Most depend on an api that you call that redirects (myopenid.com) and redirects and redirects.
The user trustst your site, so the round trip LOOKS like a phishing attack.
CHI 2006: Why phishing works
Consider implementing OpenID in additon
Do not compromise user experience

If it doesn’t work effortlessly, there is something wrong with the device.

Beware anti-patterns!
Don’t spam your users’ contacts
Don’t collect passwords

launch party!
hCalendar

XtoB? Not just barcamp.org, get from barcamp.org#unitedstates