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"Don’t be evil, except…"—the new Google 24 Mar 2013 | 02:00 pm
Last week Chris Mountford called me out on Twitter for making what must have seemed like a sensationalistic statement about the future of Google. @chromosundrift This is much bigger than Reader. The p...
The Poker Fountain 23 Mar 2013 | 03:15 pm
Modern poker markets depend on a steady influx of new money. Money flows into the system at the bottom, in the form of new-player deposits, and flows out of the system at the top, in the form of rake....
Could Digg Replace Google Reader? 14 Mar 2013 | 06:00 pm
It’s a longshot, but in my dream scenario, Google, engorged on its own success, kills Reader. Digg, which never properly recovered from its 2010 tailspin, steps up to the plate and provides a Google R...
Online Poker: Signs of Life? 14 Mar 2013 | 05:00 am
Yesterday the PokerTracker team announced the release of PokerTracker 4 for Mac OS X. ITS HERE!POKERTRACKER 4 for MAC OS X IS NOW AVAILABLE!pokertracker.com/products/PT4/d…— PokerTracker (@PokerTracke...
Florida: A New Poker Mecca? 6 Mar 2013 | 11:00 am
Far from the proving grounds of Vegas and California there's a place where the games are as soft as the waters are warm, where recreational players are as common as palm trees, and where even straight...
Defensive Programming Example #1 3 Jul 2012 | 02:00 am
The other day I stumbled across this bit of code, intended to randomly return one of four messages. Few programmers would have trouble grokking what this code does. It's intelligible and, in its curr...
Defensive Programming Example #1 2 Jul 2012 | 04:00 pm
The other day I stumbled across this bit of code, intended to randomly return one of four messages. // Choose one of 4 messages to display randomly string theMsg = ""; Random r = new Random(); switch(...
More Poker Advertising Fail 2 Jul 2012 | 02:00 am
Following our last episode of poker advertising fail, the inscrutable plsntvll sent over a copy of the late Amarillo Slim's Play Poker To Win. As a poker book, it's outdated. But as an object lesson i...
More Poker Advertising Fail 1 Jul 2012 | 04:00 pm
Following our last episode of poker advertising fail, the inscrutable plsntvll sent over a copy of the late Amarillo Slim’s Play Poker To Win. As a poker book, it’s outdated. But as an object lesson i...
Improving the Coding Horror Logo 1 Jul 2012 | 04:00 am
Well, "improving" is a bit of a leap. But everytime I look at the Coding Horror logo, this is what I see: Whatever he's looking at is so horrifying it's actually blowing his hair back. What could it ...
