Microsoft recently released their Windows Phone 7 and XBox App store licenses (seems all of the cool kids are getting into this app store model these days). Normally that wouldn't even register a blip on my radar, save for the veritable Internet shit-storm that followed when folks like Jan Wildeboer …
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Yay, you found the new server! Congratulations!
read morePython 3 Object Oriented Programming Review
This is a review for Python 3 Object Oriented Programming by Dusty Phillips.
First, the good: this is a fine place to get into the nitty gritty of object oriented programming in Python. The author really knows his stuff, and it's quite apparent in the book. This book would be …
read moreThe Diaspora that wasn't, and the way into the walled gardens.
About a year ago, I deleted my Facebook account. This was just after Facebook introduced the "like" button on other sites. It didn't take me long to figure out that what Facebook was doing was moving from beyond their little walled garden, and instead were moving into tracking my movements …
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Facebook just unveiled their new advertising that will turn your "check-ins" and "likes" into advertising. As always, Ars Technica shows a detailed analysis and discusses why this might not be what you, the user, may have intended.
I deleted my Facebook account right around when Facebook started littering the web …
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