Monthly Archives: July 2010

“What we say no to”

By david.humphrey | Published: July 26, 2010
Paul Graham has an interesting essay up about the Acceleration of Addictiveness, in which he argues that our ability to refine and improve things through technology is leaving us increasingly susceptible to addictions, many of which develop too quickly for cultural norms to temper: As far as I know there’s no word for something we like [...]
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On the possibility of expressing love online

By david.humphrey | Published: July 21, 2010
Today a colleague of mine used an abbreviation online that I needed to look up.  I never was able to locate it, but while I searched, I found this one: ly – love you I wondered aloud on twitter that I’d never encountered this, and this thought caused me to pause to ponder whether expressions of love [...]
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Restarting DXR Development

By david.humphrey | Published: July 13, 2010
It’s summer and with the change in weather, I’m going to take a holiday from much of my work on web media and audio/visual code for Mozilla.  I’ll still be working on the audio data api patch, but the rest of my work I’m going to put on ice for a few months so I [...]
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