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Heh.  How to Suck Less.

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Heh.  How to Suck Less. Over the course of the past several months, it has come to my attention that the vast majority of you people suck. Most people suck, don’t get me wrong, I was just hoping kuro5hin would be exempt from the suck until, at the very least, the real world suck saturation slowed somewhat. Now, unfortunately, I have to deal with your suck on a day to day basis, and it’s pissing the unsucky people off. This is an obviously incomplete guide to sucking less, but it should be enough to get you started. [kuro5hin.org]

I’m sure it was the

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I’m sure it was the drug’s fault.  Jesus.  Suicide Pilot’s Parents Sue Acne Drug Manufacturer. In yet another example of the prevalence of “blame culture” in our society nowadays, the family of the fifteen-year old boy who flew a small private plane into a Florida office buiding in early January of this year has filed a US$70 million wrongful death suit (Yahoo! News) against the manufacturer of the anti-acne drug Accutane. [kuro5hin.org]

Some of my detractors say

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Some of my detractors say I have attention deficit disorder, and I’m sure it looks that way to them, but actually sometimes I figure out which way we’re going before most other people do. Then, the only thing to do is to wait. An example of this is the SOAP and XML-RPC interface for Manila, which we came out with in 1999, three years ago. Today I read that Google and Microsoft are the only ones with real world apps that support Internet scripting. See what I mean. If you’re not there at the right time, it doesn’t matter. This doesn’t trouble me. We need Google to get everyone looking at this stuff. And in the intervening three years we had time to figure out more stuff and get it implemented too.  [Scripting News]

I’m 28.  I think I’m

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I’m 28.  I think I’m way behind the crowd.  It’s people like this. Earl Vickers: Things Other People Accomplished When They Were Your Age. At my age (29), “American inventor Alexander Graham Bell transmitted the first complete sentence by telephone.” In the words of Tom Lehrer, “It’s people like this that make you realize how little you’ve accomplished. It is a sobering thought, for instance, that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.”  [diveintomark]