Linkdump for July 6th
¶ by Rob Friesel-
On Chris Eppstein's Coderwall:
A software architect lives to serve the engineering team — not the other way around.
And ten more aphorisms just like that.
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At io9:
There is another, albeit more radical possibility — and one that has likely not been considered in the scientific literature. The Boötes void could be the result of an expanding Kardashev III scale civilization. As the colonization bubble expands outward from its home system, the civilization dims each star (and subsequently each galaxy) it encounters by blanketing it in a Dyson shell. This might also explain why the void has such a nice, spherical shape. Given that the void is about 700 million light-years from Earth, and that intelligent life could have emerged in the Universe about 4 billion years ago, this ancient civilization may have had enough time to perform this astonishing feat of cosmological engineering. Now, this is pure speculation, but it's worth throwing it out there as a possibility given the strangeness of the phenomenon.
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Nicholas Zakas chases down an elusive problem with :hover selectors and unintentional double-taps on iOS.
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Sounds a bit like the aliens that Carl Sagan proposes (in Cosmos) as living in Jovian planetary atmospheres.
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Francis Hwang talk, "The Front-End Future" at Gotham Ruby Conference.
Hwang is speaking about "thick-clients" (i.e., using client-side templates and JSON payloads etc.) and you don't have to wait long (about 5 minutes) before it gets really good. Like… really good. This is a cogent and sane discussion of this subject. (Side note: some of his comments about Backbone.js are reminiscent of that post by Rebecca Murphey from back in March.)
Plus, Hwang is a great speaker.
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This is an epic story.
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By John Graham-Cumming, at the CloudFlare blog. To be fair, I've really only ever read one other post about TTFB, and I haven't heard anyone "worrying" about it–though I suppose there's an element to that in every performance post out there. That being said, they raise an interesting question about the usefulness of the TTFB metric.
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Seth Shostak writing for HuffPo Science:
In other words, there's a three-way horse race to discover extraterrestrial life. For your consideration and contemplation, I list this trio of trotters below…
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Haruki Murakami:
If I’m asked what the next most important quality is for a novelist, that’s easy too: focus—the ability to concentrate all your limited talents on whatever’s critical at the moment. Without that you can’t accomplish anything of value…
Quoted in The 99 Percent. I'm a little shocked that this didn't show up in Jonah Lehrer's "Imagine".
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By Paddy Donnelly. (Via Lea Verou.) Outstanding and viscerally visual example.
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