http://www.paralipsis.org paralipsis: suggesting by deliberately concise treatment that much of significance is omitted Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:24:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Jakob Nielson's Alertbox has been one of the best sites on web usability for many, many years. A recent post does a nice job of showing just how pointless it is to argue in a meeting about what design is probably the best. testing just 2 users per design reduced ... http://www.paralipsis.org/2009/06/data-trumps-guesses/ Last year Dave Weiner did a great job of defining what makes for good blogging. The criteria don't just apply to blogging, but any writing in general. People talking about things they know about, not just expressing opinions about things they are not experts in (nothing wrong with that, of ... http://www.paralipsis.org/2009/06/what-is-great-blogging/ It takes a while to read, but it's very much worth it. If you still think you should be writing your own crypto code, or even using native crypto libraries, you are DOING IT WRONG. P.S. Same goes for parsers! Learn to use ANTLR or any other of the ... http://www.paralipsis.org/2009/06/gpg-for-data-at-rest-tls-for-data-in-motion/ I was trying to get eclipse to install an update and it just wouldn't do it. Specifically the m2eclipse plugin. I kept getting errors about being unable to fix a dependency. "maven eclipse can not find a solution 3.4.2.M20090204-0800" Turns out several things help. 1) turn on every site ... http://www.paralipsis.org/2009/06/eclipse-upgrade/ So much truth in art Comic: If Architecture Was Like Software. http://www.paralipsis.org/2009/06/comic-if-architecture-was-like-software/ Anyone can do the lame robocop and a unicorn thing, but unicorns are so 90's when robocop is clearly a hardocore 80's icon. Therefore he is better associated with rap music. The video below manages to pack the entire movie into a single 10 minute rap music-video. http://www.paralipsis.org/2009/05/ill-buy-that-for-a-dollar/ Over the past years I've driven many, many miles on Los Angeles freeways in conditions of heavy to light traffic. In that time I've seen lots of different, interesting, and sometimes even scary things being done on the road. Today was something I've never, ever seen before. ... http://www.paralipsis.org/2009/05/talking-and-driving/ This just in, Fisting considered affectionate. P.S. Wikipedia has become the de-facto source of information for the 21st century. http://www.paralipsis.org/2009/01/obama-fisting/ Wow, I didn't know that you could enable multi-touch support using the synaptics driver in linux. I really need to try this out on my laptop. Out of the box running ubuntu 8.04 it does the edge scrolling but sometimes that kicks in when I don't want it ... http://www.paralipsis.org/2009/01/synaptics-multi-touch-support-in-linux/ Found on the internet as a Best of Craigslist post. A couple of weeks ago we decided to cruise out to Ryan's Steakhouse for dinner. It was a Wednesday night which means that macaroni and beef was on the hot bar, indeed the only night of the week that it ... http://www.paralipsis.org/2009/01/ryans-steak-house-macaroni-and-beef/