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The Manhattan apartment rental market is unique, as anyone who has experienced it will tell you.

I was at the PIPA/SOPA protest in front of the offices of Senators Schumer and Gillibrand today.

Having learned that both the Chamber of Commerce and the AFL-CIO support SOPA, it’s becoming clearer to me just how much of our economy is based on extracting rents from friction.

Every time I get out of NYC, I am reminded at what we put up with to live here.

I agree with Clay Johnson that the our industry’s ignorance of Congress might be greater than Congress’ ignorance of the Internet.

Watch the original first.

Dave Winer laments that mobile apps are not universally addressable via a locator like a URL.

It’s easy to see the web as sets of advances that come in waves.

In recent comments on Hacker News, I suggested, with some snark, that the definition of net neutrality is slippery and ad-hoc, and therefore exploitable.

I haven’t tried Google+ (pronounced ploo, the French way), but I note that there hasn’t been the dismissive pile-on that greeted Buzz and Wave.

It may be intemperate of me, but why do geeks respond in such a…Pavlovian way when given the opportunity to assume another person’s stupidity?

Every business, if it’s smart, should realize that the Internet has the ability to drop out its pricing floor, or more precisely, to eliminate the scarcity on which price depends.

There are two kinds of social graphs in the world, explicit and implicit.

It seems to me the companies with the greatest customer loyalty are those where design has a strong presence in the corporate culture.

…can be entirely described in these four dimensions: Cache: The browser is a cache for a web page, whose canonical version lives on a server.

You may notice in some situations, when using jQuery’s slideDown(), that the last little bit of the animation “jumps”.

Gogo, which offers in-flight Wi-fi on a bunch of airlines, is now offering Facebook at no charge — but access to other sites will cost $$.

I am quite partial to ASP.net MVC and C#.

The headline say most of it.

Computer screens have not changed much over the last 20 years, relative to other technologies like processing power and bandwidth.

There are some stories making the rounds that “the Internet” is a public commons built on private property.

I received a pair of earmuffs today via Amazon Prime.

I am not a religious person.

Bernanke: “The Federal Reserve cannot solve all the economy’s problems on its own.

Fred Wilson, whom I admire, comments on a recent dust-up where a content provider blocked their programming from customers of a specific ISP.

I was lucky enough to watch a great talk by SQL expert Brent Ozar courtesy of Fog Creek.

Much of the commentary I’ve seen for today’s announcement of Windows Phone 7 revolves around whether Microsoft can catch up with Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android.

The longer I program, the less tolerance I have for “magic strings”.

Thought I would write a few posts to reflect on what I’ve learned with my startup, Alikewise, day jobs, and NYC.

“When a disaster happens, large or small, there is a 100% chance that a headline will be written claiming ignored warnings.”

…are the ones planning the hardware recall.

Mashable offers an “infographic” describing Google’s history in social networking.

It’s cool that the EFF is offering a Firefox extension to use SSL where it’s available.

I am happy to announce that I’ve taken a job over at Stack Overflow.

I find it is so funny and ironic when a person has to tell you they are telling the truth before they tell you the true thing that is truthful.

Contra many smart people, I am going to make a contrarian request: please do not attempt to optimize your CSS for performance.

A while back I mentioned the idea that some content sites would offer free shipping for their bits.

There has been some fun stuff today following Steve Jobs missive on Flash and standards.

I feel like I’ve been hearing about Flash 10.1 forever.

I wanted to randomize the display of a List on my site — meaning I would retrieve (say) 20 records, but display only 5, chosen at random.

In school, (cough) years ago, I did a bit of epistemology.

San Mateo county police, presumably at the bidding of Apple, broke open the front the door of the home of the editor of a technology blog and seized his property.

We’ve begun implementing some of Facebook’s Open Graph on Alikewise, my dating startup.

I can’t imagine why Congress is involved in this, but apparently it’s an outrage that airlines are charging fees for carry-on bags.

I’ve seen it argued that a measure of a good programmer is the amount of “stuff” they can keep in their head at one time.

Some folks are putting forward theories that the new health bill will increase entrepreneurship in the US, as individuals are freed from reliance on large employers for health care.

In the arguments over net neutrality, the discussion is often around “content” vs “delivery”.

It would appear that jQuery (1.4.2) is not compatible with the new IE9 preview:

This article asks if programming is the new literacy: …we have in a sense returned to the Middle Ages or ancient Egypt, or even before.

Here’s an idiom that I think would be useful in C#: “property methods” in the style of jQuery.