http://metastatic.org/text/Concern In Which We Worry and Complain Out Loud in Our Outside Voice Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:00:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en jwz - linux video The audio-cock analogy thing, against skin-based UI designs (first comment in the thread). ... http://metastatic.org/text/Concern/2008/08/19/links-for-2008-08-20/ Imagining the Tenth Dimension by tenthdimension -- Revver Online Video Sharing Network ... http://metastatic.org/text/Concern/2008/08/17/links-for-2008-08-17/ I'm not a popular blogger by any stretch of the imagination, but some of you do read this and a few of you are damn good hackers, so it's prudent that I try. The company I work for, Pacific Biosciences, is hiring software engineers at our headquarters in Menlo Park, ... http://metastatic.org/text/Concern/2008/08/13/forgive-me-while-i-cast-this-net/ Black Hat 2008: FasTrak toll system completely broken - Hack a Day I very recently got a FasTrak account, ... http://metastatic.org/text/Concern/2008/08/10/links-for-2008-08-10-deliciouscom/ Julbo Micropores PT The sunglasses I ordered. Nice and comfortable; MythBuster approved. Side shields may not be a good ... http://metastatic.org/text/Concern/2008/08/09/links-for-2008-08-09-deliciouscom/ David Byrne & Brian Eno - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today The track "Strange Overtones" was released for ... http://metastatic.org/text/Concern/2008/08/04/links-for-2008-08-04-deliciouscom-2/ At work today, I wrote: "Bikeshed" kind of became shorthand on some GNU mailing lists for "I don't really care that much, because this issue is so unimportant, but realize that I have OCD, and I'm going to explain why [this approach|you|your patch] is [wrong|ugly|stupid] anyway." http://metastatic.org/text/Concern/2008/08/04/i-am-too-pleased-with-how-funny-i-think-i-am/ Patch Review Great advice. Patch review is, I think, one of the more trying things about contributing to free ... http://metastatic.org/text/Concern/2008/08/02/links-for-2008-08-02-deliciouscom/ Prompted by this post on the poor usability of free software, I got to thinking about this a little. First, I'm hardly convinced that the usability of free software is all that mediocre, even though the article linked to does point out some reasonably-considered flaws. Lots of free Mac OS X ... http://metastatic.org/text/Concern/2008/08/02/but-plenty-will-complain-free-of-charge/ I noticed that Seagate finally released the Central Axis, which was the last product I worked on while I was there. It's an update of various things in the Shared Storage II line, and adds some rather neat features, like the remote access and sharing capability, which is the part ... http://metastatic.org/text/Concern/2008/07/22/real-artists-ship-by-proxy/