Ryan Joy (atxryan)

atxryan: Cocktails and pâté. — at Parkside http://gowal.la/v/c/Pm6C/tw

atxryan: I’m certain that I’ve not written 56,574,693 lines of JavaScript code on this project, IE6 seems to think otherwise. http://flic.kr/p/85vev6

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I’m almost certain that I’ve not written 56,574,693 lines of JavaScript code on this project. IE6 seems to think otherwise.

In a way, gestural user interfaces are a step back, a throwback to the command line. Gestures are often not obvious and hard to discover; the user interface doesn’t tell you what you can do with an object. Instead, you have to remember which gestures…

Robert Johnson discusses Facebook’s approach to scalability issues resulting from a large growth of the user base. He talks about: why one needs to prepare for horizontal and not vertical scalability, very short release cycles which are better becaus…

atxryan: RT @fontosaurus: BP wants Twitter to shut down a fake account mocking the oil company. Twitter wants BP to shut down the oil leak that’s …

atxryan: The situation _under_ the surface of the Gulf looks bleak. Dispersants create oil/chemical/seawater emulsion. http://is.gd/crPxs

Open all the images from the series in Photoshop CS3 Extended. From the top menu, select File >Scripts > Statistics. In "Choose tacks Mode" dialogue, select "Median."

atxryan: Careful, @BaldMan. I was greeted with a $600 phone bill after returning from a trip to Vancouver. Pre-iPhone era. Turn data roaming off.