{"id":733,"date":"2003-12-07T15:35:30","date_gmt":"2003-12-07T20:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=733"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"miscellaneous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/07\/miscellaneous\/","title":{"rendered":"Miscellaneous"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"loose\">\n\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/11\/30\/magazine\/30IPOD.html?ei=5062&amp;en=6cc3b984324f9225&amp;ex=1070773200&amp;partner=GOOGLE&amp;pagewanted=print&amp;position=\">The New York Times Magazine<\/a> writes about the iPod. Jobs: &ldquo;And it&rsquo;s like&hellip;somebody who&rsquo;s not cool trying to be cool. It&rsquo;s painful to watch.&rdquo;\n<\/li>\n\n<li>\nD. Richard Hipp ponders how to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlite.org\/concurrency.html\">improve SQLite&rsquo;s concurrency<\/a>. (I would be happy if it could just maintain its cache between calls.)\n<\/li>\n\n<li>\nTim Bray: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tbray.org\/ongoing\/When\/200x\/2003\/11\/26\/PerfDBvsC\">Do Databases Suck?<\/a>\n<\/li>\n\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/joelonsoftware.com\/articles\/Craftsmanship.html\">Joel Spolsky<\/a>: &ldquo;For a shrinkwrapped software company&hellip;this level of craftsmanship is precisely what delights users and provides longstanding competitive advantage.&rdquo;\n<\/li>\n\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.retrophisch.com\/archives\/2003\/12\/03\/frontpage_coders_take_note.php\">Chris Turner<\/a> links to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danvine.com\/icapture\/\">iCapture<\/a>, a site that lets you see how Safari will render your Web page.\n<\/li>\n\n<li>\nMatz introduces <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rubyist.net\/~matz\/slides\/rc2003\/mgp00001.html\">Ruby2 and the Rite interpreter<\/a>.\n<\/li>\n\n<li>\nMartin Berger <a href=\"http:\/\/nick.dcs.qmul.ac.uk\/~martinb\/interviews\/milner\/\">interviews<\/a> the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acm.org\/awards\/turing_citations\/milner.html\">legendary<\/a> Robin Milner.\n<\/li>\n\n<li>\nDan Sugalski: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sidhe.org\/~dan\/blog\/archives\/000276.html\">What the heck is: A type<\/a>\n<\/li>\n\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.morganstanley.com\/GEFdata\/digests\/20031201-mon.html\">Stephen Roach<\/a>: &ldquo;Washington seems almost blas&eacute; in opting for both &lsquo;guns and butter.&rsquo;&hellip;In 2Q03, the US current-account deficit stood at 5.1% of GDP, more than three times the 1.6% gap prevailing in late 1993.&rdquo;\n<\/li>\n\n<li>\nWolfram&rsquo;s <a href=\"http:\/\/mathworld.wolfram.com\">MathWorld<\/a> has a great glossary of definitions and derivations, complete with references.\n<\/li>\n\n<li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelittleappfactory.com\/software\/netflixfreak.php\">Netflix Freak<\/a> is a new application that&rsquo;s similar to the discontinued <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelittleappfactory.com\/software\/netflixfreak.php\">Netflix Fanatic<\/a>.\n<\/li>\n\n<li>\nJohn Gruber wrote an AppleScript to make <a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2003\/12\/php_syntax_checking_in_bbedit\">BBEdit check the syntax of PHP<\/a>, the only language that I genuinely hate.\n<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times Magazine writes about the iPod. Jobs: &ldquo;And it&rsquo;s like&hellip;somebody who&rsquo;s not cool trying to be cool. It&rsquo;s painful to watch.&rdquo; D. Richard Hipp ponders how to improve SQLite&rsquo;s concurrency. (I would be happy if it could just maintain its cache between calls.) Tim Bray: Do Databases Suck? 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