Yostivanich

Always going for a pun, that’s a geek.

“If you’re doing a tele­phone poll and want to over­sam­ple Democ­rats, you can just call states and area codes where more Democ­rats live. Call New York, LA, Chicago, etc. You can even call peo­ple in Democratic-leaning white areas if you want to mix things up a bit. That’ll do the trick. Bury it deep enough in the sam­pling algo­rithm and maybe nobody will notice!” Cause all blacks blacks vote for Obama.

Are you a bot.

“One of the many casu­al­ties of the Bloomberg lay­offs at Busi­ness­Week last Thurs­day was our library staff. The mag­a­zine will do with­out their ser­vices (and I don’t know what Bloomberg will do with their archives. Will Six Apart house those, too?) In any case, below is the mes­sage for BW staffers at the library.” The library requests you to check Google.

“Lab­o­ra­tory tests sug­gest mor­phine could in fact encour­age the spread of can­cer, for which it is rou­tinely pre­scribed to relieve pain from surgery and tumours. US sci­en­tists say the opi­ate pro­motes the growth of new blood ves­sels which deliver tumours oxy­gen and nutri­ents. Speak­ing at a meet­ing of the Amer­i­can Asso­ci­a­tion for Can­cer Research in Boston, they also claim to have found a drug which coun­ters this effect.”

“Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Patrick Kennedy has been barred from tak­ing com­mu­nion by the Catholic church. This is a polit­i­cally moti­vated action to intim­i­date a politi­cian into sup­port­ing a posi­tion on a polit­i­cal issue opposed by the church, abor­tion rights. Hmmm…using reli­gion to com­mit extor­tion. How unusual.”

“That’s right: sim­ply add a double-star (“**”) to your name when log­ging in, and you’d have full admin access, includ­ing pay­ment records with com­plete credit card num­bers. While you’d think this issue would be Adam’s top pri­or­ity to fix, it turns out that there were even more press­ing issues to address, such as being able to enter “/admin/payments” as the URL’s path and see those com­plete pay­ment records with­out even log­ging in.” Who needs security.

“CSS3 can do some seri­ously neat stuff. Just check out some of the crazy 3D stuff you can do in WebKit. But as we all know, we need to be care­ful with what we choose to do with it. The most cut­ting edge tech­niques are fun to play with, but since since only a sliver of browsers sup­port them fully, we can only use them in cir­cum­stances where they fall back to oth­er­wise per­fectly accept­able styling. Let’s look at a cou­ple of quick, sim­ple, cheezy examples.”

“Busi­ness foes of health care over­haul leg­is­la­tion are out­spend­ing sup­port­ers at a rate of 2-to-1 for TV ads as they grow increas­ingly ner­vous over a final bill. Led by the giant U.S. Cham­ber of Com­merce, oppo­nents of the Demo­c­ra­tic health care drive have spent $24 mil­lion on TV com­mer­cials over the past month to $12 mil­lion spent by labor unions and other back­ers. That’s an abrupt rever­sal from the vast spend­ing advan­tage sup­port­ers enjoyed most of this year, accord­ing to Evan Tracey, pres­i­dent of Cam­paign Media Analy­sis Group, which tracks polit­i­cal ads.”

“But the best proof is what I pointed out above: Apple itself cre­ated almost no iPhone web apps. Suc­cess­ful iPhone devel­op­ers don’t just want to write soft­ware that works on the iPhone. They want to write soft­ware for the iPhone that’s just as good as Apple’s. Today that means using Cocoa­Touch and the native SDK. When you write a Cocoa­Touch app for the iPhone, you’re not start­ing from scratch. You’re start­ing with the Cocoa­Touch frame­work. As Faruk Ateş astutely points out in his response to Koch, to dis­count the frame­work is to dis­count every­thing that sets the iPhone apart as a devel­op­ment plat­form. Not only are native iPhone apps faster and more capa­ble than their web-app equiv­a­lents, but they’re eas­ier to write. This may change.”

“But we can all agree that — no mat­ter where it comes from — rub­bing the sore has become a lucra­tive busi­ness. The mutual con­tempt of the Amer­i­can extremes draws crowds and fat­tens wal­lets at book­stores, cable-news depart­ments, AM radio sta­tions and doc­u­men­tary film fests. Wilson’s cam­paign kitty is just one exam­ple, and a fairly mod­est one at that. (His oppo­nent, Demo­c­rat Rob Miller, also raked in $1 mil­lion in new dona­tions thanks to the out­burst.) Michael Moore makes far more than that with his capitalist-bashing movies. The new Sen­a­tor from Min­nesota, Al Franken, cashed in hand­somely with his conservative-taunting books. Or check out Beck Inc. to see how loud­mouthing can earn you a river of cash.”

“Rupert Mur­doch says that Glenn Beck was right when he called Pres­i­dent Obama a “racist” with a “deep-seated hatred for white peo­ple or the white culture.” ”

“Dur­ing the last few months, our team has been work­ing hard to sup­port exten­sions in Google Chrome’s beta chan­nel. Today, we are get­ting one step closer to this goal; devel­op­ers can now upload their exten­sions to Google Chrome’s exten­sion gallery. We are mak­ing the upload flow avail­able early to make sure that devel­op­ers have the time to pub­lish their exten­sions ahead of our full launch.” One more step along the way.

Prank­ing a skeptic.

Ven­dors hope you are a sociopath.