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Jon Steward on O’Reilly

covertlyobvious — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:48:13 +0000

Funny exchange. O’Rielly is on a channel called “Fox News“, Stewart’s show is on a channel called “The Comedy Channel”. Riotously funny when O’Rielly asks Stewart if his audience knows that The Daily Show is not a “news” show. Stewart’s...

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TurboGears, IDE’s and Snow Leopard

admin — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:51:25 +0000

I just spent two weeks playing with the Wing Python IDE and while it’s nice and probably actually better for Python development (as it is expressly designed for Python Development) than Eclipse (which was more Java intended) it has three things I couldn’t get past: 1. Wing runs on X...

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Auto-tune the news: Pretty freaking cool

admin — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 01:07:28 +0000

So these are completely worth watching because a) these kids are more talented than Akon-Kanye-TI-the-same-R&B-dude-with-a-voice-syth and b) they’re actually pretty clever. I give you, Auto Tune The News:

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UI design limitations

admin — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:25:39 +0000

Steve Frank wrote a great piece on the state of UI design. Steve’s point about UI innovation mainly occuring in mobile devices got me thinking. Although I never was able to do much more that longingly look at the Newton, I was a loyal PalmOS user from the Palm Pilot 5000 through to the...

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Adventures in PostgreSQL

admin — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:38:54 +0000

We’re using PostgreSQL as our database at Klaggle. My respect for Postgres continues to build, this is the first project I’ve used Postgres with, so the respect may be more fear than anything. There seems to be a black art to Postgress, and the body of knowledge out there is far from...

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What happened?

admin — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:04:14 +0000

CovertlyObvious 1.0 has been taken down. The financial aspects have evolved to Think 20/20 Research which will be launched soon. The consumer and market research is moving to Klaggle.com which will be launched soon as well. The more random content will live on here, eventually.

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