flakes of nuisance » Nerds http://mcneillfamily.com paying attention to distractions since 1958 Sat, 19 May 2012 17:09:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 phlegmhttp://mcneillfamily.com/2012/05/10/phlegm/ http://mcneillfamily.com/2012/05/10/phlegm/#comments Thu, 10 May 2012 17:39:15 +0000 admin http://mcneillfamily.com/?p=6706  

 

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]]> http://mcneillfamily.com/2012/05/10/phlegm/feed/ 0 Google Engineer: “Google+ is a Prime Example of Our Complete Failure to Understand Platforms”http://mcneillfamily.com/2011/10/15/google-engineer-%e2%80%9cgoogle-is-a-prime-example-of-our-complete-failure-to-understand-platforms%e2%80%9d/ http://mcneillfamily.com/2011/10/15/google-engineer-%e2%80%9cgoogle-is-a-prime-example-of-our-complete-failure-to-understand-platforms%e2%80%9d/#comments Sat, 15 Oct 2011 13:51:15 +0000 admin http://mcneillfamily.com/?p=6647 Last night, high-profile Google engineer Steve Yegge mistakenly posted a long rant about working at Amazon and Google’s own issues with creating platforms on Google+. Apparently, he only wanted to share it internally with everybody at Google, but mistaken shared it publicly. For the most part, Yegge’s post focusses on the horrors of working at Amazon, a company that is notorious for its political infighting. The most interesting part to me, though, is Yegge’s blunt assessment of what he perceives to be Google’s inability to understand platforms and how this could endanger the company in the long run.

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“We’re house-hunting. And for me, like most coders, house-hunting involves lots and lots and lots of screen-scraping.

As well as crawling Rightmove listings, I’ve been looking at transport and house-price data. [

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]]> http://mcneillfamily.com/2011/06/29/too-like-it/feed/ 0 those islands near to Europe explainedhttp://mcneillfamily.com/2011/03/08/those-islands-near-to-europe-explained/ http://mcneillfamily.com/2011/03/08/those-islands-near-to-europe-explained/#comments Tue, 08 Mar 2011 11:44:38 +0000 admin http://mcneillfamily.com/?p=6547

The United Kingdom Explained from C. G. P. Grey on Vimeo.

Have some problems with this – not least being Northern Ireland coloured orange

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We love the “RSS Is Dead” meme here at TechCrunch. Hell, we started it. And while RSS isn’t exactly dead as in gone, it is dead in that the vast majority of people who consume content on the web have absolutely no idea what it is and will never know what it is. But even that’s not necessarily bad news for RSS. What is bad news is that services that previously only relied on it are now moving beyond it.

Today, Pulse, the visual news-reading app for iPhone, iPad, and Android, is announcing that they’re moving beyond RSS, and [

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]]]> http://mcneillfamily.com/2011/02/16/with-rss-face-down-in-a-ditch-lifeless-pulse-finds-a-heartbeat-beyond-it/feed/ 0 Our Societyhttp://mcneillfamily.com/2011/02/09/our-society/ http://mcneillfamily.com/2011/02/09/our-society/#comments Wed, 09 Feb 2011 21:59:51 +0000 admin http://mcneillfamily.com/?p=6505

Our Society is:

a place to be inspired by possibilities and celebrate achievements a place to share your struggles and engage in honest, open discussion a support network where you can ask for advice, offer help, promote your activities a learning exchange where you tell your story, hear others’ experiences, and find resources

Our Society aims to connect people who are genuinely concerned to move power into communities and [

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]]]> http://mcneillfamily.com/2011/02/09/our-society/feed/ 0 Egypt’s Revolution: Coming to an Economy Near Youhttp://mcneillfamily.com/2011/02/03/egypts-revolution-coming-to-an-economy-near-you/ http://mcneillfamily.com/2011/02/03/egypts-revolution-coming-to-an-economy-near-you/#comments Thu, 03 Feb 2011 16:02:11 +0000 admin http://mcneillfamily.com/?p=6491 All of which brings me back to Egypt as the canary in a very large coal mine. It’s hard to overstate just how unexpected a transformation is occurring in Egypt. Death, taxes, and Hosni Mubarak — they were the three great certainties in modern Egyptian life.

But just underneath the surface, the tectonic pressure of dumb growth was steadily mounting. Bogus prosperity’s like magma, filling the volcanic chamber of a society: you can bottle it up for only so long before it erupts, and spectacularly. Today, the world’s gaze is fixed on the pyroclastic flow: never-ending demonstrations, protests, people [

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]]]> http://mcneillfamily.com/2011/02/03/egypts-revolution-coming-to-an-economy-near-you/feed/ 0 Harry Beck would be proud. ‘Linear diagram’ european travel map.http://mcneillfamily.com/2011/01/28/frank-beck-would-be-proud-topographic-european-travel-map/ http://mcneillfamily.com/2011/01/28/frank-beck-would-be-proud-topographic-european-travel-map/#comments Fri, 28 Jan 2011 11:19:57 +0000 admin http://mcneillfamily.com/?p=6477 Harry Beck’s map continues to inspire.

(CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» European E-Road System as a Subway Diagram | Cameron Booth: .)

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