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		<title>Links: Hacking, Music in Python, Rust &amp; unitaskimg</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My shared links for April 5th through April 6th: Why I still program &#8211; &#34;I believe that the rejection of programming as a lower activity can be explained by the Theory of the leisure class. In effect, we do not seek utility but prestige. There is no prestige in tool-making, cooking or farming. To maximize [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Links: Flattr, Haskell, Haskell QuickCheck, and Stuart Cheshire (of Bolo fame)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My shared links for April 4th: Stuart&#8217;s &#8220;Law of Networkdynamics&#8221; &#8211; Flattr &#8211; Social micropayments &#8211; An interesting model that I hadn&#039;t heard of. You set a monthly amount to spend and when you see a flattr button, you click on it. They then divide your monthly amount among the people you clicked on that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://michael-mccracken.net/2012/04/links-flattr-haskell-haskell-quickcheck-and-stuart-cheshire-of-bolo-fame/</link>
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		<title>Links: Haskell, Music OCD Tools, Terrorism, Probability for Ranking things</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My shared links for March 30th through April 3rd: Magic Maps: Now You See It. &#8211; Very cool app for working with maps and time series data How Not To Sort By Average Rating &#8211; Shows the best way to sort by positive/negative rankings that is robust to small sample sizes terrorism hardly existential threat. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://michael-mccracken.net/2012/04/links-haskell-music-ocd-tools-terrorism-probability-for-ranking-things/</link>
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		<title>Canonical design blog on Holistic UI</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Holistic UI is smarter UX &#8211; They use notifications as an example of why small pieces loosely joined might not be great UI. It&#8217;s really interesting to see how common UI devices such as notifications have evolved across various platforms. Someone should do a gallery of notifications over the years &#8211; bonus points if you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://michael-mccracken.net/2012/03/canonical-design-blog-on-where-small-pieces-loosely-joined-needs-some-tweaking/</link>
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		<title>Links for mid-March see scalable python around corners. And Future Spies on Facebook!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My shared links for March 18th through March 26th: 7 Years of YouTube Scalability Lessons in 30&#160;Minutes &#8211; Notes from a PyCon talk about the very pragmatic design philosophy at YouTube. bkad/discoball &#183; GitHub &#8211; shell tool to match and colorize lines of text The Pragmatic Bookshelf &#124; The Developer&#039;s Code &#8211; How to see [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://michael-mccracken.net/2012/03/links-for-mid-march-see-scalable-python-around-corners-and-future-spies-on-facebook/</link>
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		<title>Links: JS, LaTeX, Live drawing and sound.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My shared links for March 5th through March 17th: CodeMirror &#8211; &#34;CodeMirror is a JavaScript library that can be used to create a relatively pleasant editor interface for code-like content ― computer programs, HTML markup, and similar. If a mode has been written for the language you are editing, the code will be coloured, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Links: More PyPy, Academia, Censorship we Love, and Monads</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My shared links for March 1st through March 5th: python &#8211; Does PyPY translate itself? &#8211; Stack Overflow &#8211; An informative answer about how PyPy works On reviewing research papers &#171; Lars Bergstrom &#8211; So, PL has a culture of really useful reviews, huh? How to Do What You Love &#8211; &#34;If you think something&#039;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://michael-mccracken.net/2012/03/more-pypy-academia-censorship-we-love-and-monads/</link>
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		<title>Links: Structure editing, Unix History, OSS Legal Issues Primer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My shared links for February 27th through March 1st: Pretty Lisp &#124; Hacker News I don&#8217;t like this. Great comment thread though &#8211; lots of people agree with me. I think maybe enthusiasm for structure editors is a sign of youthful optimism and inexperience. 2004 Rob Pike Q&#38;A Interview &#8211; Slashdot &#8211; &#34;(And speaking of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://michael-mccracken.net/2012/03/links-structure-editing-unix-history-oss-legal-issues-primer/</link>
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		<title>Links: Cheap wardrobe, App Stores, Javascript &amp; Parsing.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My shared links for February 23rd: Strategic Frugality If you&#8217;re just starting to build a&#8230; &#8211; where you can skimp! Dealing with Crap apps in the catalog&#8230; &#8211; chuq on the tough problem of policing app stores. JSLint,The JavaScript Code Quality Tool &#8211; From Douglas Crockford JavaScript Lint &#8211; Jison &#8211; javascript bison with a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://michael-mccracken.net/2012/03/links-cheap-wardrobe-app-stores-javascript-parsing/</link>
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		<title>Skim Knockoff(s) on the Mac App Store</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometime in January, a Skim user asked the developers if we&#8217;d submitted it to the Mac App Store. We hadn&#8217;t. The app listed for sale for $29 on the store as &#8220;PDF Reader&#8221; is actually our free and open source Skim app, although no mention of the Skim Sourceforge project is made in the description, [...]]]></description>
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